Tasmanian dev often writing networking-related Rust. Mostly opinions about computers. AKA thombles and VK7XT. https://octet-stream.net/ https://site-validator.fly.dev/ https://social.octet-stream.net/@thomaskhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.nethttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mpdtmdonh22yBlog: Getting ready for local inference https://octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-06-28-getting-ready-for-local-inference.html28 Jun 2026 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpdtmdonh22yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mp5dzd7dxs2xOld Mac owners 🤝 Recent Mac owners "it's worth more than when it was new!"25 Jun 2026 21:15 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp5dzd7dxs2xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3molyhbjigk26I’ve been playing with an open source tool that’s coded with heavy AI assistance (dirge) and it’s an interesting dynamic. Usually if I found a bug I’d try to make a PR. Here it’s better if I just write a good issue and the maintainer can quickly generate a fix in exactly the way that suits them.18 Jun 2026 23:33 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3molyhbjigk26https://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3moi4spz3sk2kBlog: No more Standard Search for standard.site https://octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-06-17-no-more-standard-search-for-standard-site.html17 Jun 2026 10:40 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3moi4spz3sk2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3moaeujl5hk27netwatcher 0.7.1 is out, adding BSD support (https://crates.io/crates/netwatcher). The obvious platform gap now is Redox OS. I've looked into it and I believe all the primitives are there. I just need to build a convincing integration test.14 Jun 2026 08:43 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3moaeujl5hk27https://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mo5m5febik2zTIL it’s called a flag day because Multics once used Flag Day (the US holiday) for a coordinated incompatible change to ASCII values on 14 June 1966.13 Jun 2026 06:15 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5m5febik2zhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mo2y5y5zks2r90s kids12 Jun 2026 05:13 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo2y5y5zks2rhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mnxxv5bjy22oOver the years I’ve seen various links to blog posts by @dbushell.com and shamefully it was only today I realised the domain is a name and not a grumpy linux blog11 Jun 2026 00:30 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnxxv5bjy22ohttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mn56yldvxk2m#standard.site appview tip: save a lot of time catching up from a jetstream gap by skipping repos where documents exist but to your knowledge they have all failed verification. The odds that a verified one appeared in the meantime are negligible and this skips 98% of repos.31 May 2026 08:55 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn56yldvxk2mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mn4hp4apvc2mTurns out that operating a search engine offers an endless supply of tinkering, especially when Bluesky suddenly goes and encourages everybody to add to the dataset. Hoping to stay mostly ahead of people doing Weird Stuff, but atproto offers many exciting ways to do Weird Stuff so we will see.31 May 2026 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn4hp4apvc2mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mkkf26ucls2lAt this point I could probably write most of an O'Reilly book about automating CI for physical Apple hardware. I doubt there are enough masochists to make it economically viable however.28 Apr 2026 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkf26ucls2lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mkjoxhd33227The 70s disco is strong in this one https://youtu.be/TEDAKLTIwOE?si=l9NPkNebnZG9DRkS28 Apr 2026 03:57 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkjoxhd33227https://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mkdxylcogk2kNextcloud is shutting down their HackerOne bug bounty programme because of too much AI nonsense. Interesting times. > [we] will not award any financial rewards for any submissions, regardless of severity25 Apr 2026 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdxylcogk2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mkbqvltaj22wMirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the most absolutely right of them all?25 Apr 2026 00:10 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkbqvltaj22whttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mk7kddab5k2i"Restart to install update" 2025: Ugh 2026: Y'know what, that's a great idea. I accept your update, thank you.24 Apr 2026 03:08 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7kddab5k2ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mk7bq5md5c25All righty I'm now on team jetstream. Tap is wonderful but 5 TB/mo of downloads is too many TB for a toy project24 Apr 2026 00:34 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7bq5md5c25https://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mk3cucdb5c2nJust published v0.5.0 of netwatcher, now with async, plus regular blocking if you want to dedicate a thread to the job. It was a bit of a job trying to make it runtime-agnostic (especially since most people will be using tokio anyway...) but I did my best. https://crates.io/crates/netwatcher22 Apr 2026 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3cucdb5c2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mk2bodbrik22If your PR hasn't been reviewed since you created it in 2017 is it time to close it, or just leave it be?22 Apr 2026 00:49 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk2bodbrik22https://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mjztzrqvls2mWith the assistance of Mythos, Firefox 150 fixes 271 vulnerabilities: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/ai-security-zero-day-vulnerabilities/21 Apr 2026 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjztzrqvls2mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mjxfawexx22mDating myself by saying “video card” instead of “GPU”20 Apr 2026 21:15 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxfawexx22mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mjtlmftlu22mWhat we need is more LAN parties19 Apr 2026 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjtlmftlu22mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mjt5qxwvqs2mA normal week using Microsoft for Business™19 Apr 2026 04:51 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjt5qxwvqs2mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mjmaefxfzc2tFirehose is a little spiky right now16 Apr 2026 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmaefxfzc2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mjm6b25hac26I heard there's a company that sells load balancers for this specifically [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Apr 2026 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjm6b25hac26