Tasmanian programmer often writing networking-related Rust. Likes music but mostly posts opinions about computers. Also known as thombles and VK7XT. https://octet-stream.net/ https://standard-search.octet-stream.net/ https://site-validator.fly.dev/https://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.nethttps://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/3mjm6b25hac26https://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mjejzreh4s2vIf anyone would like to make the standard.site community collectively roll their eyes try setting up one (1) verifiable record that has its publishedAt updated to now() every 5 minutes. Ideally a rickroll.13 Apr 2026 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjejzreh4s2vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mj7cmz75sk2rFree app idea: voice control so you can say “computer, set deflector shields to 20%” and your laptop constrains windows defender to 20% cpu11 Apr 2026 07:25 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj7cmz75sk2rhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mixd6nycl227Cooked mode: terminal is showing implausible output Non-canonical mode: terminal is running on a distro without snaps08 Apr 2026 03:13 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mixd6nycl227https://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mix35nauls2sOpenBSD must be doing a pretty good job if a remote crash is the worst thing Mythos could find08 Apr 2026 00:49 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mix35nauls2shttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3miwv5xni3s22I like that Anthropic has enough sense of humour to link Mickens' "The Night Watch" in the middle of explaining the unfolding vulnerability apocalypse07 Apr 2026 23:02 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwv5xni3s22https://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mismrurzlc2uI sometimes wonder if Bluesky would be more vibrant if For You didn’t exist. It’s way easier to start a conversation in the replies of an existing busy thread than direct posting.06 Apr 2026 06:22 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mismrurzlc2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3miplgb7mds2kIt's nice when some library I published and ignored for years suddenly has someone come along and add a feature05 Apr 2026 01:19 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3miplgb7mds2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mhxfmcqg2c2kOne way you could handle shared mutable access to a single data structure by multiple #atproto users via their own PDSes is to represent it as a CRDT. If the appview knows _which_ users are trusted editors, then it can merge each user's published version to get the current state.26 Mar 2026 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxfmcqg2c2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mhuwhusu2s2nStill feeling pretty good about this decision. My potential blast radius is pretty small now. It baffles me that GitHub lets you use a user-wide SSH key freely but if you want to _narrow_ your permissions with a repo-scoped token or SSH key then you need approval from repos where you're not admin. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Mar 2026 10:55 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhuwhusu2s2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/octet-stream.net/post/3mhtygu6tlk2rTired of looking at bad ESP32, can't wait to get home and look at good ESP3225 Mar 2026 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:txurc6ueald5d7462bpvzdby/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhtygu6tlk2r