- pronouns
- he or they
I first used BSD 4.3 at UC Berkeley in 1986, and have been dabbling at various levels ever since.
Mostly OpenBSD now, but I have (old!) Thinkpads running both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Joined Aug 2021
Karl T.
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To the FSF:
Remove Stallman. Replace the FSF board. Make the Free Software movement and culture safe for women to participate.
To Everyone:
Stop harboring assholes and start shouting down "reply guys". Make it clear to women that "Yes. You belong here" - not just with words but with actions. Take safety seriously. If you can't be kind to you fellow humans, then no amount of software will benefit the world, no matter its license.
Karl T.
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Normal authors: release book to the public early in the week, with much fanfare.
Me, late Friday afternoon, from a dark alley: "psst! Hey, you! Yeah, you! #sysadmin! Buddy! You ever wanted to Run Your Own Mail Server?" #ryoms
https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms-ebook/
(boosts appreciated! 
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Karl T.
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@Genderqueerwolf Congratulations on getting through another week. 💜💙💜 to you and yours.
Not quite ready to start posting walking updates yet, but here's a sunset from the balcony in the new place.
It's a nice view.
uspol, an #introduction of sorts
Ok, here's the thing. If you're a white man, don't assume I'm going to agree with you because of what you can see of me when I appear on the Zoom call. If you're not a white man, I already expect that you will rightfully ignore any "statements of allyship" and pay attention to what I do and who it benefits; I don't have to tell you how all this works.
"My people" are not all people who look like me. And not all people that I recognise as "my people" recognise me as theirs. That's ok.
I shouldn't have to disclose to you which communities are "most" important to me. I shouldn't have to disclose to you what my mother did for a living when I was a teenager to "justify" my feelings about cops. I shouldn't have to refer to any religious basis when I tell you that my people are the widow, the orphan, and the stranger.
If your space is visibly dominated by white men with beards, it won't be welcoming to me even though I am, in fact, a white man with a beard. Yes, even if most of them are queer.
If your space isn't welcoming to GNC folks (non-binary people or anyone else who doesn't perform gender "appropriately"), it won't be welcoming to me, even though my gender presentation is about as Silicon Valley-typical as you can get.
If your space isn't welcoming to Black trans women, it won't be welcoming to me. And if your organization is claiming to want to do good in the world and you don't have a single Black woman in leadership, I am going to side-eye you and your organization forever. This is table stakes, people.
These all apply whether your space is online or off.
I have always felt most comfortable, most welcomed, most valued as a colleague, when in the company of furries, queer and trans folk, and self-described freaks with their own self-described 'freak flags.'
And finally, though I can't believe I actually have to say this: I am not interested in "winning hearts and minds" of people who want my people and me out of their sight or dead. This includes the vast majority of US Republicans and right-wing Europeans. The rich and selfish are not my people; they mean harm to me and mine.
Karl T.
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Move over, Big Mac Index. The XLB price index is here
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/31/din-tai-fung-soup-dumplings
Karl T.
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Karl T.
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love the idea of telling the NYT to step aside for a younger, fitter, more coherent newspaper
Karl T.
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Your options are to merge the PR that changes your habitual he to they, or become a nazi bar.
There's nothing in between. Either you have a space where tiny little gestures of welcome toward marginalized people pass without comment, or you throw up a banner that says white supremacists welcome.
Karl T.
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i gotta say, even with microsoft and all, nothing has turned me off of github more than techbros treating it like a linkedin
Karl T.
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Read this at my funeral.
For nearly all of my life, I've known how I was going to die. Not from cancer, or diet, or drink, but by being crushed under a car. I will be mangled and bleed out painfully. The driver, distracted on their phone, will say that I "came out of nowhere". The police and the DA will call it an "accident". There will be no consequences of any kind. Except for my death, of course. [...]
https://jwz.org/b/ykV3
Longest day of the year. How in the world did it get to be Solstice already? I've been out of my depth all year.
Holy carp, 500 words for the first time in six months. Maybe my brain is actually starting to recover from all the trauma since January of 2020.
Damn, this process is slow. And there's just no end in sight.
Meanwhile, I get by with a little help from my friends. Thanks, y'all.
I am, in fact, still alive: https://mastodon.social/@dubious_dragon/112633940409961317
A disruption in routine: https://mastodon.social/@dubious_dragon/112256164287575936
Karl T.
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death, sad
@craigmaloney was one of the best of us, and for me the fediverse will forever be smaller and dimmer without him here.
fuck cancer, now and always.
Karl T.
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Thank you for all the nice posts and conversations on here, @craigmaloney. I was just thinking of you yesterday. All the love to your family. You were, as far as I ever gathered, a wonderful person who made this space better for being here. <3
- pronouns
- he or they
I first used BSD 4.3 at UC Berkeley in 1986, and have been dabbling at various levels ever since.
Mostly OpenBSD now, but I have (old!) Thinkpads running both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Joined Aug 2021
