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Robey ☠️

@robey@messydesk.social

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A wizard appears. He looks grumpy.

I was the guy behind eggdrop, paramiko, the sidekick ssh client, kestrel, and many smaller projects. I've been in 3 unsuccessful bands and I'm one of the 23 people who finished reading "Gravity's Rainbow". But I'm primarily known for making a dumb Fibonacci joke online in 2011.

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#programming #retrocomputing #firmware #leftist #content

Location	San José, California
Disposition	gay (they/he), pale, quiet, antifa
Nerd topics	distsys, firmware, retro computing
Blog	https://robey.lag.net/

Robey ☠️1h ago

Kee Hinckley 21h ago

Someone spent months "generating a book" in ChatGPT and then discovered it hadn't actually created anything.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/nhLwG2Idrt

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Andrew 14h ago

Cool to see how much progress California has made defeating the "duck curve". same day 5 years apart, and the spike at sunset is almost completely supplied by batteries

Robey ☠️1h ago

Peter Cohen 1d ago

how I started versus how I'm feeling, Gen X edition

Robey ☠️12h ago

this video on the history of nutmeg is nothing short of amazing. I won't spoil it for you

https://youtu.be/9mqerkFWjKU?si=YyDzLlDfUl_5kbc-

NUTMEG: The Horrible History Behind The Popular Spice

YouTube

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Ericka Simone 2d ago

So an alliance of 20+ tow truck operators have come together in #LosAngeles. They’re having people follow ICE vehicles around, actively reporting their locations.

As soon as ICE parks their car ANYWHERE, usually improperly… the tow trucks quickly swoop in, tag the ICE vehicle for illegal parking, and tow their cars away as quickly as possible. LAPD is letting it happen, unchallenged.

They’re estimating over 30+ ICE vehicles being towed in the last week alone.

I love LA.
I really do.

Robey ☠️1d ago

Danielle Foré 1d ago

I keep seeing this sentiment that desktop Linux has become woke and gay.

Desktop Linux has been woke and gay the whole time. Y’all just for some reason decided you suddenly have a problem with it. We didn’t change, you did. Okay some of us came out of the closet. But we’ve been talking about diversity and inclusion for decades and equity has been the entire focal point of the free software movement since like the 70s! It’s woke gay anarcho-communism and you fucking loved it until 2016

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Robey ☠️1d ago

@ceejbot extra gold star from me if every "utilize" becomes "use" :)

Robey ☠️1d ago

this cool news also answers the question "if california wore pants, which way would it wear them?"

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/14/in-historic-first-california-powered-by-two-thirds-clean-energy-becoming-largest-economy-in-the-world-to-achieve-milestone/