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Dave W
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big queer infra overlord. 
devops, infosec, politics, shitposts.
collaboration not competition.

may contain gender.

If you're defending trans people because someone you know is trans, great! Keep doing it! We need you.

It does make me sad on a systemic level that people require personal impact to have empathy. If it's the other way round of course you would mention someone you know. But that's not everyone.

GUNSHIP’s TECH NOIR is just the MOONRAKER theme

Change my mind

https://youtu.be/RQdtUvfjP8A?si=aSpaKT92ESLuln6W

This might be commonplace as I don’t get out much, but apparently we have reached the point in the Future where charity boxes take contactless. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/546a4f290ebbd9818ce5cd6d9e4ad59ed49ab392fa70f673d0cbf6b5e452d387.webp

Well, colour me absolutely stunned. The speakers on the Apple 27in display are not only great, they're better than my existing DAC/soundbar/subwoofer setup.

Not looking forward to tomorrow. Other than that I have to run around two hospitals when my legs don't work, one of the tests I have to have involves enticing my body to dump all the cortisol it has at once. That'll be shit, plus anything that encourages inflammation is a risk of setting off my MS.

Regardless of your opinion on AI - and mine is nuanced - surely we can agree that the Ghiblifier is indefensible. Miyazaki has been extremely vocal about his distaste for AI. Stepping on those toes to this degree is unambiguously childish and vicious.

It might be my natural inclination, but it sure is difficult to justify being welcoming to people who have left MAGA because they personally were burned, when so many of us were warning them about it beforehand.

Live in the terminal? Use 1Password? Make sure you check out its shell integration, it’s a superb secret manager too. If you don’t use it, consider switching. If you self-host and have strong opinions about it that’s fine too, don’t flinch at me.

I have no shame - admittedly probably less than I should have - about writing the core logic for a script, and getting AI to pretty it up. Wouldn't trrust it for a minute with the core functionality, but I'm more than happy to let it add visual bells and whistles.

Microsoft pushing passkey by default and replacing passwords on new accounts with a magic link flow until a passkey is configured.

Objectively good for security. But it will also promote browser lock-in; few will be using their password manager’s passkey support - if they have one. That’s an issue.

Do you think today's kids will believe us when we tell them about Dashcon?

I’ve written up my latest project to get answers about gender and sexuality into the hands of curious people, replacing bullshit artists with agendas. Get involved!

https://blog.dave.io/genderbase

Call someone a thumb. Go for it. Feels good.

Looking for a derogatory term but don’t want to be *ist about it? I’m always a fan of ‘peanut’ and particularly ‘thumb’.

Good lord it’s easy to forget how good Montalban’s Khan was.