samir, a terminally deprecated method

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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably.

A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza.

Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out.

Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off.

PM me for my Signal handle.

This profile is searchable.

Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

pronounshe/him; they/them
locationZürich, Switzerland
bloghttps://functional.computer/
samir, a terminally deprecated method1h ago
Eric Schultz1d ago

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

US government in 1996: strong encryption is a munition and you can go to prison for years if you export

FOSS engineers: hey so only use this if you're in the US but we'll give instructions for how to do it otherwise 😉

California in 2026: we're passing a law that allows the AG to sue OS providers in civil court if they don't implement age verification in order to restrict Apple, Google, Facebook and the worst companies in the world.

FOSS Engineers: OMG THEY MIGHT COME AFTER OUR LINUX LAPTOP VENDORS WHO HAVE LIKE 3 TOTAL CUSTOMERS WE SHOULD HAVE IMPLEMENTED AGE GATING YESTERDAY I PROMISE WE'RE NOT CHALLENGING YOUR AUTHORITY GOVERNOR NEWSOM

samir, a terminally deprecated method4h ago
This is happening. Would you use a free DNS server with ad-blocking hosted by me? https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/116039850155010936
yes, sign me up
not interested (and maybe I will tell you why)
I want to/already do it myself
a fourth thing which I will tell you
Poll ends at .
samir, a terminally deprecated method (@[email protected])

At home, I use [Blocky](https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/) to proxy [DNS4EU](https://www.joindns4.eu/), with the addition of [Steven Black’s hosts file](https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts) to deny known adware and malware domains. I’m very tempted to turn this into a public service for people who don’t know how to do this themselves. Anyone interested?

Lambdadon
samir, a terminally deprecated method6h ago
qdotFeb 4

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

Show threadsamir, a terminally deprecated method15h ago

I am playing with deploying this to Hetzner. Just getting familiar with it right now by migrating existing stuff from DigitalOcean, but it’s going well so far.

Looks like nixos-infect works pretty well for replacing Debian with NixOS, so I’ll be going with that.

samir, a terminally deprecated method19h ago
Heading to Berlin for a few days on Monday for work. Monday night’s free, so if anyone feels like a beer and/or dinner, give me a yell!
samir, a terminally deprecated method19h ago
Nova 1d ago
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samir, a terminally deprecated method1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116267546180191373

NixOS query, folks. Anyone know?

samir, a terminally deprecated method1d ago
Show threadhazelnot 1d ago

"One dev who wished to remain anonymous told Kotaku, “People debate if video games are ‘art,’ but I prefer to see video games as galleries. Every game has many different forms of art within. Animation and sound design are separate yet complementary pieces of art. Although separate, every piece works together to create a full, cohesive product. [DLSS 5] deconstructs the gallery. It breaks away one piece of the full experience and returns a game into segmented elements. It won’t ruin a game, but it does destroy its purest expression, and to that, all I have to ask is, what is the point?”"

💯💯💯

samir, a terminally deprecated method1d ago
ploum2d ago

Making the #smolnet social with share/reply in #offpunk

https://ploum.net/2026-03-20-social-smolnet.html

#smallweb #gemini #geminiprotocol

The Social Smolnet

The Social Smolnet par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

samir, a terminally deprecated method1d ago
Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

My new name doesn't have a middle name yet, so I'm accepting suggestions on what I could adopt that'd break as many systems as possible.

Obvious answers:
* null
* an emoji
* U+FFFD �
* half of a unicode surrogate pair
* EICAR
* some kind of prompt injection
* the entirety of DOOM, base64 encoded
* an illegal prime
* the source to decss
* 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0