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by thaumaturgy 7mo ago
I wonder what happened to the person that wrote "Coding as Creative Expression" ( https://build.ms/2022/5/21/coding-as-creative-expression/ )? I'm not (just) being glib. That earlier article
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by thaumaturgy 7mo ago
That's all true, but juggling connections based on key fingerprints would also require users to have different keys for different containers -- which is good practice, but I've found that it's equally difficult for users unfa
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by thaumaturgy 7mo ago
Yeah, I ran into this problem too. I tried a few different hacky solutions and then settled on using port knocking to sort inbound ssh connections into their intended destinations. Works great. I have an architecture with a single IP hostin
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by thaumaturgy 8mo ago
-12 is what was queued up for the vote up until 2:30 pm that afternoon: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/Downloads/Prop... -14 materialized, Prozanski called for a vote on -12, Senator Braodman v
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by thaumaturgy 8mo ago
We need more good people getting involved to be able to change the way this all works. And, in less than a year, we've developed a ton of political capital and we're still gaining ground. So, I would sincerely encourage anyone to
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by thaumaturgy 8mo ago
We've got lots of local resources! I've been in the capitol about half of the last two weeks, my partner is there right now, we've been working closely with ACLU Oregon and National, a couple of other legal firms are keepin
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by thaumaturgy 8mo ago
I think at this point getting doxed is an inevitability. ;-) I worked most closely with Senator Floyd Prozanski. He's my local senator, and was in many ways an ideal fit for this. After we successfully kicked Flock out of Eugene, Sprin
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by thaumaturgy 8mo ago
Here in Oregon, I very nearly managed to get some decent legislation drafted that would have required a number of strong data protections from ALPR vendors. Axon interfered heavily with that process and -- after the legislative workgroup
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by thaumaturgy 9mo ago
People are experiencing wildly different Americas depending on their circumstances and level of political involvement. If you're a tech worker and you still have a job and you think AI is pretty cool and you don't follow news very
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by thaumaturgy 9mo ago
Email me at contact@eyesoffeugene.org. Things are a bit busy the next few days, but we can discuss what's worked for us. Getting a win in one meeting is a long shot, but you never know -- Bend, Oregon also got theirs canceled just the
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by thaumaturgy 9mo ago
I was one of the main organizers of a community group that successfully got Flock contracts canceled in Eugene and Springfield, Oregon. I have also presented several times to city officials in and around Portland, am currently helping group
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by thaumaturgy 10mo ago
Yeah, I've been running Plasma as a daily driver (and without a fallback OS) for around 8 years now without this kind of trouble. I routinely run for months between reboots, and when a reboot happens, it's usually because I did a
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by thaumaturgy 10mo ago
Because, something that a lot of tech-obsessed Trek fans never seem to really come to terms with, is that Trek didn't fetishize technology. In the Trek universe, LCARS wasn't getting continuous UI updates because they would have a
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by thaumaturgy 11mo ago
raises hand Been daily driving desktop Debian for dang-near a decade now (heh). I've also maintained a gradually-evolving app hosting service for clients for even longer, covering all kinds of stuff. Current architecture includes LXC
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by thaumaturgy 11mo ago
https://eyesoffeugene.org/contact or contact@eyesoffeugene.org.
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by thaumaturgy 11mo ago
> Would you be open to consulting for a group that's trying to do the same in west Wyoming? Absolutely! Re: Strategies - Public records requests (aka FOIAs, though FOIA is technically for federal stuff): this has been a big one fo
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by thaumaturgy 11mo ago
I have been able to get them deactivated in two cities. They have not yet been physically removed but that is looking like a likely near-term outcome. Flock has been a "side project" that's been eating about as many hours as
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by thaumaturgy 11mo ago
You're not alone. I've been on the web since around 1997, something like that. I remember it as a fun distraction, but also as a place that had recognizable handles, behind which sat a real person somewhere else in the world. Unre
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
OpenAI announced $10 billion ARR in June of this year ( https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/openai-hits-10-billion-in-an... ). Agriculture in California hit $61 billion in annual receipts in 2024 ( https:/&#x2
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
I was really hoping this would at last be a treatment of the most realistic risk for AI, but no. The real risk -- and all indicators are that this is already underway -- is that OpenAI and a few others are going to position themselves to be
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
The best you can get is https://deflock.me/map , which is crowd-sourced, and therefore both incomplete and inaccurate. Cities tend to resist public records requests for camera locations. But Flock is currently in ~5,000 comm
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
Interesting, I was under the impression this was more common than maybe it is. I know the hosting market has gotten pretty bad. So, I'm currently building pretty much this. After doing it on the side for clients for years, it's no
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
Oh! That didn't even occur to me. Yeah, I could pump that into ipset. Got one in particular that you think is reliable?
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
That would be nice! This doesn't work reliably enough for WP sites. Whether it's devs making changes and testing them in prod, or dynamic content loaded in identical URLs, my past attempts to cache html have caused questions and c
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
The post-AI web is already a huge mess. I'd prefer solutions that don't make it worse. I myself browse with cookies off, sort of, most of the time, and the number of times per day that I have to click a Cloudflare checkbox or help
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
The Cathedral and the Bazaar meets The Tragedy of the Commons . Let's say there's two competing options in some market. One option is fully commercialized, the other option holds to open-source ideals (whatever those are). The
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
Yeah, that's where IP intelligence comes in. They're using pretty big IP pools, so, either you're manually adding individual IPs to a list all day (and updating that list as ASNs get continuously shuffled around), or you&#x27
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
People outside of a really small sysadmin niche really don't grasp the scale of this problem. I run a small-but-growing boutique hosting infrastructure for agency clients. The AI bot crawler problem recently got severe enough that I co
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
The idea of " a fall" is a universal bug in our thinking, I believe. Most of what we learn has been from dramatization. There is, maybe, slightly less now, offset by more technical text, but that's a really recent change in
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
I mean, can I not just spend the money to buy a better society in which to live? Museums. I love museums. They all need more support. Kids need more places to do field trips. Libraries ... they are experiencing budget cuts everywhere now as

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