@gsuberland if DOS is so good why didn't they make TRES
Good evening Mastodon, may I present for your delight and delectation my latest work, a personal and evocative piece titled Underachieving Monday (with bonus bee) :dancing_bee:
Wrote this in '23. People mocked me for it when lots of us set up on BlueSky but I stand by it.
Mastodon is my favourite social network, people here *share* - they recognise the value of word of mouth to a free and open internet. Plus: no algorithms. That is what I want. Cool people I chose to follow posting awesome stuff and sharing recommendations. YES.
https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/mastodon/
Trans pride Brighton today with @Snipsel @reality404 @TinaStormcaller
Another incredible year, I am loud and proud to be trans
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!
This lemur was posing beautifully for a photo until the second before I snapped and it turned away. It wanted a boop, obviously.
(all pending pictures now dealt with & I have no excuse to not get a few weekend chores done before looking through the next batch of photos - boooo)
General reminder:
The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.
Looks like the "Verify your fedi account" scam is gaining pace, & evolving to look more real.
Your server admin will not ask you to click a link to verify your account. And no other admin from any other server will either, even if they do look like they could be part of the main Mastodon team. It's a scam.
Please report any post or DM that urges you to click any link to verify your account.
If you've any doubts about your account, now or on any other day, contact your server admin or mod team.
I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it
The "Weird Old Book Finder"
Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just *start readin'*
Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are
A longer essay on how/why I developed it: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4
This was a search for "mastodon"
I got laid off today. Eek!
I am looking for a role as a staff software engineer (backend focus) working on high-volume large-scale distributed systems.
Some keywords: backend / Ruby / Ruby on Rails / Go (Golang) / AWS / Terraform / frontend / TypeScript / React / full-time / remote-first
Some more details on what I offer here: https://denisdefreyne.com/notes/get-me-a-job-2025/
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IT'S (checks notes) FRIDAY!!!
*waves hello*
Still offline for a few more days, and only remembered to bring one dancer with me.
Back soon with more photos and nonsense, but as ever, have a good weekend if you possible can
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.