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💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org

me: bi gen x computer toucher and healthcare worker.

posts/boosts: memes, computer stuff, pol memes with cw, gender equality, climate change, socialism, people's art.

if i block you, its probably because: bigoted; uspol-boosting-without-cw; vibe coder; or darwin award contender.

assassination coordinates: -33.93148, 150.92321

follow requests on to screen out bots, uspol and to vibe check. if ur posts are all private there may not be enough to vibe.

server: openbsd
tablet: postmarketos
phone: android 😞
mediacenter: arch btw
laptop: openbsd

interests:
◘ memes ◘ tai chi ◘ tcm/acupuncture ◘ shiatsu ◘ music ◘ foss ◘ scifi ◘ recreational programming ◘ geopolitics ◘ history ◘ weather/climate change ◘ hugs/headpats

header based on image:
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/fischl-bisexual-icon--142918988168575327/
then cropped and processed with graphicsmagick.

posts self-destruct after one week. snac too slow to chug through more.

#noai #noindex #nobot #nobridge
Joined: 2026-07-18 18:34:36
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Reply to @lynn@smol.ch
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 22:07:06)
@lynn@smol.ch and the sugary sauces!

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 21:42:32)
"China aims to raise its average life expectancy to 80 years by 2030, from 79.25 years in 2025, under a national health plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030)"

https://english.news.cn/20260713/11eccbe0479a407ebff376824ceecdad/c.html

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 21:37:23)
Cai Fang's prescription for AI job disruption in China

(Cai Fang, Academician and former Vice President -meaning Vice Minister - of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), made the case in an article published on the front page of Study Times on 19 June 2026. Study Times is published by the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the country’s leading institution for training senior Party and government officials)

https://www.pekingnology.com/p/cai-fangs-prescription-for-ai-job

Reply to @0x6e6174@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 20:51:37)
natalie for president!

CC: @0x6e6174@catgirl.cloud

Reply to @Misofist@girlcock.club
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 18:11:37)
The PID perhaps is its secret name that must never be spoken to strangers or those outside the cult

CC: @Misofist@girlcock.club

Reply to @iam@foolisholivia.gay
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 17:58:19)
omg! happy birthday!!

CC: @iam@foolisholivia.gay

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 17:57:03)
"As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name" Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 17:16:08)
"pop the yak stack"

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 16:25:28)
going through the list of ppl i'm following and approx 10% of accounts so far no longer exist, another 5 or 10% have not posted at all this year, no wonder some of these account names do not look familiar

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 16:14:48)
Exported list of ppl I'm following from Snac ... 1900 people omg. If I unfollow you that is why. Going manually through and screening out the questionable accounts.

Later will also check the ppl following me (as I did not used to have confimation turned on, anyone could follow).

Its only possible to check all these accounts thanks to Emacs and Vimium. I would die from RSI doing this task otherwise.

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 15:49:31)
once again wondering how i can see most recent post by particular user via cli or script? this shouldn't be difficult however search engines dysfunctional. 'tut' and 'toot' don't have this functionality. does anything?

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 15:17:27)
rtoot: Interact with the mastodon API from R

https://gesistsa.github.io/rtoot/

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 15:02:46)
Drew DeVault's blog: AI in Linux

"There are a lot of smart, passionate people who care about these kinds of questions. Where is the technical excellence in refusing to do this moral calculus, refusing to allow anyone else to do so, and driving away the talented Linux contributors who care about these problems? Linus Torvalds, the Linux community, and all of our communities should have the courage and insight to address these dimensions of the AI question honestly and in good faith"

https://drewdevault.com/blog/AI-in-Linux/

Reply to @brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 13:09:26)
a.k.a. 'bimbo mode'

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 12:55:30)
purposely installing systemd on my robot companion so it computes more slowly, call that 'the lights are on but nobodys home' mode

Reply to @b@mrrp.place
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 12:52:54)
@b@mrrp.place when goingbto work i found best combo was duffle bag over shoulder (across body) for clothes/food plus small laptop bag for water bottle/coffee flask/umbrella/phone. too much weight on shoulder hurt neck/back, too much weight in arm hurt wrist. sp spreading the weight best option. the laptop bag has a 'flat handle' made from stiffened fabric, not a loose floppy handle which also helps the wrist

Reply to @APBBlue@thepit.social
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 12:19:37)
@APBBlue@thepit.social some u.s. reporter tried to a story about 'where does the blood come from' and got serious death threats, its a big business

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 12:05:55)
Two Chinese mathematicians win 2026 Fields Medal (only the third-ever win for a female mathematician too)

http://www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/2026-07-24/detail-ihfhqwkz8169787.shtml

Reply to @brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 12:00:01)
new one from https://codeberg.org/voron/snac-style/raw/branch/master/paper-dark.css

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 11:55:29)
re-theming my Snac's style.css mreow

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 11:46:04)
Everyone knows two wrongs don't make a right but Bjarne Stroustrup asks us "what if two plusses made a minus?"

Reply to @aly@arcanekittens.xyz
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 10:13:18)
That's not a bad idea. The original ad has the ISBN of the new book however I'm not sure if the seller even has that book on their shelves!

CC: @aly@arcanekittens.xyz

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 09:57:57)
Wrong book in pakig woes. I have messaged the seller directly. Will this work 🤭

"Hi Ergodebooks,
In order # 7951004 I ordered:

"When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies) by Glantz, David M. University Press of Kansas, 2015-10-16.Expanded. paperback"

However I received the 1995 version, which is suboptimal as that version is neither expanded nor revised. I specifically ordered the new version even though it cost more, as from what I have read in reviews it contains a lot of revisions.

What is the process for getting the actual book I ordered? I did contact Biblio direrctly to ask but their suggestion was ridiculous "Here is a UPS return-paid sticker. You have seven days to travel two hours in each direction to the only UPS warehouse in Sydney and post it back. If/when we get the book we will send the money back." Not even a mention of the book I actually ordered. Contacting you directly in the hopes that your process for rectifying this and overall customer service is not so shit.

Please tell me the next steps to get a proper resolution.

Yours faithfully,
Brett"

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 08:34:57)
shoutout to the gotosocial web frontend, its such a refreshing experience to click on someone's profile and get a clearly-laid-out and speedy gotosocial page not a misskey fork taking 30 seconds to load anything or the mastodon quagmire

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 08:19:45)
fun fact: on linux, btrfs and reiserfs¹ are the only two linux filesystems that have never corrupted my data and caused the harddrive to have to be wiped.

 ¹ i stopped using reiserfs long ago, upon discovering he murdered his wife

Reply to @0x6e6174@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 08:10:15)
@0x6e6174@catgirl.cloud i use btrfs and have found it to be amazingly stable and reliable. it has different types of compression available
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs
On my orange pi5 ultra sbc, I didn't even know the installer had set it up with compression till your question prompted me to look it up. it has zstd compression on 30% of files. idk which ones. its an ssd and is super fast.

Reply to @2something@transfem.social
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 07:59:30)
@2something@transfem.social there's also 'stainless steel bank common lisp'

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 07:55:01)
TIL no LLM in Clojure

https://clojure.org/dev/contributor_agreement#_no_generated_code

Reply to @Venefilyn@snug.moe
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 07:48:19)
@Venefilyn@snug.moe because of the way you warm my heart

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 07:47:45)
if i was ceo of mozilla i would start by deleting 2/3 of the features, for example sorry 'tab context menu' its in the sewer for you, then my attention would turn to each dev who put a double or triple negative in an about:config setting, or a cryptic setting whose function cannot be known from its name, ceo brett would switch to stalin mode for them and i don't mean send them to siberia. 'senior distinguished engineer' promotion for 2026 goes to whoever deletes the most about:config settings.

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