Notices by Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop), page 2

@corbet @LWN sounds like you need an AI poisoner like Nerpenthes or iocaine.

If you are actively hiring for positions in a company that is friendly to transgender people, in a country that is safe for transgender people, and you are willing to sponsor visas for people seeking to emigrate for these positions, I would like to hear from you. https://werd.io/2025/seeking-trans-friendly-employers-who-sponsor-visas

@bencomp I had a run of getting a toothpaste stain on my shirt every day, and then I realized I had accidentally bought a slightly different toothpaste with a slightly less goopy texture. Switched from Sensodyne Fresh Mint back to Sensodyne Cool Mint and no more toothpaste stains. Debugging for the win!

@offgrid_dreamer I'm married to someone who gets compliments from strangers when he has a beard, but your beard is next level 🤌🏼 I hope you will post woodworking pics too!

@MissConstrue of course! I am planning to add it to my website and LinkedIn, but I was having too much fun writing benchmarks today :)

@becha haha I was about to forward this post you because I thought you would like it! :)

@blmt 😂 because I didn't realize the software defined storage track existed until after the submission deadline had passed. Fortunately they are on different days so I plan to go to both

@wingo just one more parameter, bro, I swear just one more parameter and it'll fix it, bro

I'm enjoying working on ngnfs and there's more work on it than I can do, but I also really like having a variety of short-term systems and software contracts—especially weird bugs no one can fix even after months of trying.

That's why I'm offering 3 hours of free consulting in the areas of networking, file systems, or systems. You can read about cool things I've programmed or debugged here:

https://bowshock.nl/

No obligation, no NDAs, restrictions apply, etc.

#GetFediHired

At FOSDEM, my co-worker Zach Brown will be presenting ngnfs, the cool new distributed file system he designed and I am helping to implement!

10am in the Kernel devroom on Sunday:

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5471-ngnfs-a-distributed-file-system-using-block-granular-consistency/

I'll be there too, wearing a mask and elbow-bumping instead of shaking hands

#FOSDEM

@exchgr camo corsets! Thigh high camo boots! Purple camo is good too. All in favor?

@exchgr I used to have a strict no-military-fashion-elements rule but I've reconsidered now that world war seems to be coming back into fashion

i dislike some of the censorious tendencies of the last decade, even the ones those very billionaires complain about. but “free speech unless you piss off a billionaire” strikes me as imposing a far worse chill than any excesses of wokeness or public health overcaution. /fin

@janl I'm trying to share documents for review with other people via URL and it cannot do a readable format on a phone without their app installed no matter what I try. Really kinda stunning

@preya I saw a presentation by Collabora in June saying they had dramatically sped up input lag, but also I am also not entirely sure how to buy Collabora as an individual... I click on the partners page and then I get lost in a maze of twisty little pricing options with no details

@bookwar I just want someone ELSE watching the alerts and applying the updates :)

@Merovius yeah, I really don't want to go back to the days of export/scp to my webserver :(

So I am moving off ProtonMail to Fastmail and I still need a Google Docs replacement, and I see so many people self hosting their NextCloud... are you not putting any sensitive docs on that or are you confident you won't get hacked or what? My experience of self-hosting is that someone is actively trying to hack you all the time and I hate dealing with that stress

@janl I just migrated to proton a month ago and I'm going to migrate off to fastmail. Their docs are barely functional so nothing lost there.

@checkervest the chunky hematite frog is 🤩