Freddie Weaselshit

@weaselshit
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I name things and invalidate caches. Also talk to rubber ducks. I choose not to quit Vim.

A linux geek for almost 30 years now. Self-hosting enthusiast. All things federated.

At some point a chef. Getting back into tech again.

Not good at this whole "social" thing. Lazy poster, too.

Nerd power! Geek pride. 🖖

LocationBangkok, Thailand
Freddie WeaselshitMay 23

RE: https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/116621916605622731

We need to talk more about the fact that this is not dickensian greed. Billionaires are not Scrooges clinging to every penny they have just because. They don't want you to have any. It threatens their business.

When you're poor, you have to buy shit in bulk at a discount only mega-corporations can afford to offer. But if your basic needs are met, you might have an option to spend money at a local vendor instead. They just can't let that happen.

Community is resistance.

Freddie WeaselshitMay 9

As an excercise, made #opencode slop together a basic #SvelteKit frontend (and #golang middleware) for miniflux.

Lost interest as soon as it got to somewhat usable state. Wondering if it's a me problem.

Annoyed that I haven't learnt anything through this experience. Delighted by how base scaffolding kinda just appeared.

Terrified by a thought that eventually we (the people) will start talking to each other the way we have to talk to LLMs.

At least I gave it a cool name, huh?

Freddie WeaselshitMay 9

When people say AI-generated content is weird, I think it is different from people saying Björk is weird, or Mr Bungle is weird, or Primus.

Is this where the line is? Is it going to be crossed eventually?

Freddie WeaselshitMay 5

RE: https://mastodon.social/@weaselshit/116520547728387919

Seriously, though. I work with observability and alerting a lot, and script as in "series of steps for a person to follow expressed in natural language" does get mixed up a lot with what we the tech geeks normally refer to as scripts.

I would genuinely enjoy reading about others' struggles in the "naming things" area.

Freddie WeaselshitMay 5
I wonder if there are online communities of people obsessed with naming and classifying things and sharing war stories about how they've been calling computer programs "scripts" for years, but now they are in sales and it means a different thing and how it completely broke taxonomy in their note keeping system and how they dealt with that.
Freddie WeaselshitMar 30, 2025

Sort of a shower thought.

If one uses "AI" to compose a (portion of the) message, should they make recipients aware of that? Like that "dictated but not read" bit from 90s TV shows. Is it a matter of etiquette? Ethics? Accountability?

Is there a difference between "AI" composing and sending a message autonomously and a user actively sending a message that was composed for them?

Freddie WeaselshitJan 8, 2025
> "Skillet & experience required"
Dear Hiring manager. I am writing to beg for mercy. I've had enough of chef misery, I want to go back to tech.
Show threadFreddie WeaselshitDec 24, 2024
Huh. With the most basic "shoot for 30s with .1s sleep using 100 threads" test, there were virtually no difference in request rate between that old https in docker and a full RedHat Linux 6.0 system running in qemu-system-i386.
Show threadFreddie WeaselshitDec 24, 2024
docker run -ti rh60-bash -c "httpd -v"
Server version: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux)
Server built: Apr 7 1999 17:17:41
Freddie WeaselshitDec 24, 2024

Did not expect to be able to run apache 1.3.6 compiled for i386 in 1999 in a chroot on a Fedora 41 host. Of course, ps fails, because /proc on kernel 6.12 is very different from that of 2.2, but httpd just starts like it doesn't care.

(Cooking a project to celebrate 25 years of me being a Linux geek)