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Computer scientist & firewall dragon. Did a PhD on making web browsers less broken. Into browser innards, niche programming languages, reverse-engineering, unfiction, 3D printing & fabrication, โ€ฆ

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homepagehttps://spinda.net
bloghttps://spindas.dreamwidth.org
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locationSan Francisco, CA
This typeface is so cute, I wish I had a use for it!
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Beth Mathews Design โ€” Parts List Typeface

A typeface inspired by vintage forms, lists and gas station ephemera.

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You like FOSS for ideological reasons.

I like FOSS because all of the mascots are furries.

We are not the same.

Google is so broken now. I searched "balena update lock" (looking for info about a balenaOS feature), and by the second page of results I was getting ads for purses, weather forecasts for Montreal, and far-right propaganda.
Last snap from Denver. The botanic gardens a day after snowfall.
Open road, open sky
View over San Jose
GAY SALE
Should've saved my $15 and just watched Yuri on Ice again.

Made the mistake of shelling out for a month of Peacock to watch the Winter Olympics. What they don't tell you:

1. paying extra for the ad-free package is a waste of money because it excludes Olympics content

2. replays of figure skating events (what I want to see) vanish forever after 24 hours

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A neighbor in our building installed a Ring camera pointed at the building entryway, and now I can't go in or out of my own home without being logged by a corporate mass surveillance system. As far as I can tell, there's no legal recourse because it's a "public space". ๐Ÿ˜ฃ
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0
No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare

Amazon Ringโ€™s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the companyโ€™s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reunite the lost dogs of the country with their innocent owners, the company...

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