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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 06:06:57 JST 
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I'm guessing this Synapse: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse ?
/me looks forward to another write up/blog post.
I guess you can file a bug? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/me looks at project 1.8k issues, 117 open Pull Requests.
That, doesn't look promising.
Just seeing if said bug has already been found and reported, looks as if it might take a while!
/me notes: MacPorts' currently has 71 open Pull Requests: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pulls
(MacPorts has IIRC, over 40,000 ports, and attempts to support the current version of macOS going back to OS X Leopard on PPC. [yes, I realize, this does gloss over MacPorts' Trac; but some of those Trac issues are pretty inconsequential, like: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/67457 will I ever get around to finishing the Portfile for SmallTalk-80 to make a Pull Request? Meh, the work in progress Portfile works and I shared it there as a means of documenting things outside of local systems, and I don't think upstream has tagged a release and I sort of got distracted. Someday, maybe. In the meantime: no one is impacted, so, I don't lose sleep.])
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 22-Feb-2026 07:03:32 JST
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Oh that Jollibee on Market which used to be a Payless shoes or whatever?
I saw that and wasn't sure if a Jollibee had opened and closed (I never would have noticed since I don't tend to eat at fast food places, being vegan and all) or what was going on with that.
Five YEARS?! Yikes. How does corporate justify bleeding that much money? Seems sus. -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 02:22:48 JST
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Horrible, but hilarious!
Less effort, probably not as funny: using JerkCity/Bonequest methods for something similar?
Admittedly, long ago I used Microsoft Comic Chat with BitlBee as an experiment. The BitlBee side of things was A OK, Micro$oft's Comic Chat was a pain to get running as that code had been abandoned. If I recall correctly, I probably did that nearly two decades ago; it's probably more annoying now. -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 16:17:16 JST
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Enjoying the hot springs at Esalen is a wonderful experience (not the only hot springs in the area, but maybe the best known and I think the only ones overlooking the ocean from a cliff). Admittedly, the one time I was blessed with such an experience I took advantage of their $10 after hours soak (not sure if it is still a thing, but probably? This was back around 2010/2011 IIRC) and it was a rainy night so I basically had the place to myself. (There was one other couple, but they kept their distance in another pool entirely.)
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 21:05:55 JST
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Ah wow:
"Where we deem it desirable, we will add new APIs that are only on LibreSSL/BoringSSL/AWS-LC. Concretely, we expect to add ML-KEM and ML-DSA APIs that are only available with LibreSSL/BoringSSL/AWS-LC, and not with OpenSSL."
As one of MacPorts' LibreSSL maintainers, this is vaguely heartening, but also, stresses me out a bit more, since I think there are around 600-800 Portfiles that can probably be modified to use the dylib approach (something similar to adding this line to the Portfile:
depends_lib path:lib/libssl.dylib:openssl \
which facilitates MacPorts to defaulting to whatever TLS library is installed, and if that is LibreSSL as I do from a fresh MacPorts install, great!) but I haven't gotten around to modifying and testing those hundreds of Portfiles, let alone submitting Pull Requests which have gotten merged, even though it's been in the back of my mind for years and AFAIK, there are Trac issues for MacPorts that predate my helping out as a maintainer which express similar desires for more harmonious and widespread LibreSSL coexistence.
As it stands, I already feel as if I am burning the candle at both ends while contending with homelessness, over $12,000 USD in debt on my credit card and a paucity of income relative to my living expenses.
I'm also really not a fan of Python (though I admit, the last time it was dragged in as some dependency during an installation of something, at least it didn't try to install OpenSSL, as sometimes happens with some MacPorts), to understate it.
But y'know, cool! I think? Maybe?
I'm also, more or less certain that rpki-client prefers LibreSSL (no surprise, I think more or less all OpenBSD related projects do), but in the release notes for 9.7 (for which I recently submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' version to, so they're sort of fresh in my memory) there was mention of OpenSSL 4, which I guess is looming? Clemens also recently posted something to macports-dev about OpenSSL 3.6, and I admit, I pay less close attention to OpenSSL, but at least got the sense that other TLS library efforts are ongoing.
I probably don't want to know the answer to how many are using AWS-LC; I'd be vaguely curious how widely used BoringSSL is these days. Apple switched to LibreSSL an awfully long time ago now, but they seem as if they drag their feet on updating it and at the moment on macOS 26.2 it looks as if Apple are still shipping LibreSSL 3.3.6 (from March 15, 2022) whereas I'm running 4.2.1 (from October 30th, 2025, only three years and change more recent!) via MacPorts.
Having written as much, last year I think I saw yet another fork of OpenSSL and I may have even created a Trac issue to begin exploring it, but I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head at the moment and even after reading the slide deck from the conference where it was presented I think I had more questions than answers as to why it even came into existence. -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 10:32:45 JST
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Once upon a time, there was some article with an interview with Robert Morris (former NSA and Bell Labs d00d, author of UNIX crypt among other things, also: the guy who fathered Robert Tappan Morris, of Morris worm infamy) where he said something like: "email can never be secured" alas, I can't remember the quote verbatim and trying to search for anything in 2026 is a fool's errand because A"I" bros broke web crawling with slop.
Similarly, I remember the feelings of cringe I had in Berlin circa 2014 where they had key signing parties, and seemed oblivious that Phil Zimmermann gave up on PGP (also used to be easier to cite, no longer).
There were the "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt" (2005, PDF: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Why_Johnny_Cant_Encrypt/OReilly.pdf) and "Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt" (2011, PDF: https://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2006/posters/sheng-poster_abstract.pdf) papers.
There were the private, HILARIOUS conversations I had with coworkers at iSEC Partners circa 2011 particularly after we got acquired by NCC Group (which used PGP Keyserver, which AMAZINGLY sometimes would only function to decrypt messages after I ... sigh "did things" to reuse old keys, because as their IT Admin: I needed to make things function more than I needed to pretend that their overpaid bullshit was anything more than bullshit).
Alas, that kind of humor, is reserved for a very limited audience. Such lulz though!
Anyway, folks still need reminders I guess!
I wouldn't mention Signal in such reminders, it is its own can of worms and not in good standing.
That said, I miss the days when the S in SMTP was acknowledged as Simple.
The oligopoly of spam havens (e.g. Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc.), keeps fucking things up and over-complicating it. SPF, DKIM, DMARC, etc. are just making it worse (if you want an eyeful: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/today-in-google-broke-email-2/#comments) -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 15:18:56 JST
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lmao.
When I finally met Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick in person?
And I learned that he had wanted to write his doctoral dissertation on something more related to the BSD stuff he had been working on (e.g. the BSD TCP/IP stack) as a grad student, but instead was told that doctoral thesis stuff needed to be more 'theoretical'. So I guess he ended up writing something about MC68000 register optimizations? He made some offhand remark about "probably only six people read it." I heard that and was like, "wait a second, that sounds familiar." I later looked up the doctoral thesis and was like, "oh yeah, I definitely read this decades ago when I was trying to improve my MC68k asm skillz".
So humbling.
Also, apparently I am a huge nerd. Just, not one with any renown or impact on the level of McKusick.
The exasperated sighs I exhale when I encounter some really promising code, that is totally PhD "research grade" and full of Linuxisms is a bane of my existence! I suppose the blow is somewhat softened given that most of them have at least leveled up to Linuxisms from ye olde SunOS and IRIXisms or (pick your $proprietaryOSBSflavorhere) of yesterdecades that I had to trudge through. I have an enormous distaste for academia to the point where I am not sure how to feel when I get cited in others' Masters' and PhD' theses.
Like, I don't want to go through that level of work (I am not a masochist, I only have a B.A.) but I kind of respect the grind for those who have gone that far?
It would probably hurt less if I didn't feel as if a lot of my past efforts were appropriated by postdocs without attribution (and apparently those kinds of abuses are not uncommon within the hierarchies of academia).
But please I thought I had bad skillz with Makefiles! How do you [the "royal" you, not you personally] have published RFCs (PLURAL) and I can't fucking build your code from source on a real UNIX® system?! Why do you hate me/us/the world that much!? Why do I suffer through such things to try to make your code function on something mere mortals might encounter in the real world? Meanwhile, nmap apparently builds on Amigas and Fyodor doesn't even seem to have ever owned an Amiga! Be more like Fyodor! Please PhDs, please! (OK though really how many of us can claim our code has had cameos in multiple movies? nmap is way beyond 1337, no wonder Fyodor has a vibrant volunteer dev community)
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 10:12:17 JST
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I found it vaguely hilarious (mostly ironic) that some of the most heated online discourse about "real" vs "emulation" has been within Amiga communities.
It's as if they missed that when the Commodore Amiga was demonstrated at that black tie gala event with Blondie and Warhol? It was also shown emulating IBMPC software.
Like, before you could even BUY one, one of the apparently selling points was emulation.
For a while, Amax II blew my mind, because it ran the Macintosh software from my parents' computers on my friend's Amiga faster and in color.
I've read from some (though never owned one myself) that the fastest MC68k era Macintosh was an Amiga (presumably one of those 1337 A4000 systems which shipped with MC68060s), with an Emplant board. I have no reason to doubt that.
I mean, I get it, I want a "real" Amiga (and I will not part with my Amiga 1200 and wonder what happened to my Amiga 2000). I have tried MorphOS on PPC G4 PowerBooks and it is not the same.
But, I would also be totally into a CPU upgrade. Sure there are MC68060 upgrades for my Amiga 1200. There are even vintage PPC upgrades (that cost an arm and a leg) that I would probably enjoy! But, in more recent years folks have come up with all sorts of FPGA Amiga CPU accelerators (what is a 68080? I don't know, but it's apparently FAST) and even more recently some ARM based CPU accelerators. Alas, I am not made of money, but a hot rodded Amiga, even if not "period" to me, still seems as if it would be friggin awesome, regardless of how "real" it is? Also, presumably such after market things are removable and it can be returned to stock.
These are microcomputers after all, swapping engine blocks in cars is a lot more effort based on the mass and tooling required; with price points to reflect it.
Similarly, if someone, someday, comes out with an Amiga laptop? I would be ALL OVER THAT! Even if it were "emulating" some things. Well, if I could afford one. Which, is dubious.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 06:52:03 JST
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That's the thing about feral cat girls, you can open the door to let them in, offer treats and pets, but whether they stay? Such whimsical creatures! It's anyone's guess what such futures entail. =^.-=
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 16:17:42 JST
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There are so many (decades) of excellent demos!
The "blending adjacent frames together for YouTube is definitely cheating" reminds me of the quip from a Razor1911 prod, "Insert No Coins" (https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55991):
"Our intro looks better in realtime than on YouTube"
Some relatively recent (within the last decade or so) favs of mine:
Neonsky by Ephidrena (Amiga, AGA): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=67789
subside by Unique (Amiga, AGA) I dig mostly because it takes a sample, "Computers aren't the thing; they're the thing that gets us to the thing." from Halt & Catch Fire (which I mostly hated as a show) and puts it to good use: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=67140
"another one"/"Number One" by CNCD & Fairlight (this was ostensibly made in @notchvfx@graphics.social [as were some other more recent CNCD & FLT prods like ziphead maybe?] It inspired me to get a laptop with an RTX1080 to take a class back in 2019 which was a fun couple of days! Now, if only I could figure out how to do that sort of stuff for income instead of a happy money sink? I sold that laptop in 2020 though, so I would need something newer [hopefully lighter?] with a decent [presumably now better?] GPU for such fun. ;) : https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=77399
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 03:26:57 JST
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I think when I looked it up, it was only 3% too.
At a time when boats were the fastest way to get things from overseas.
I can't think of any tax as low as 3% anymore.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 04:14:47 JST
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I was having some vegan chilaquiles the other day for brunch and the thought crossed my mind: "this is more of a savory breakfast and while not terribly 'spicy' to my palate is at least closer, I wonder if skinnylatte is into such things?" -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 01:28:16 JST
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Do you like Tartine in SF? I had a friend who did, and I remember accompanying her and the scent of butter assaulting my olfactory senses when walking through the door. Definitely not my cup of tea, but it might be to your liking. -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 03:32:04 JST
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I wonder how he would enjoy Eritrean/Ethiopian coffee ceremony?
It's the best way to enjoy coffee in my experience. Albeit, I'm not a coffee person, but it seems pretty reasonable to me that the place where coffee originated would have the best coffee culture.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:21:15 JST
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Haha, get thee to alt.sysadmin.recovery stat! ;) -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:20:39 JST
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(curse words) g.f.d. CloudFlare.
There are SO MANY OTHER CDNs! I wish people/orgs would stop using the terrible ones.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:44:21 JST
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As an aside, when I browse to https://comam.es/snac I can't help but notice a lot of repeats of your 2.69 boost announcement.
Also, it seems as if all the repeated boosts have the same username? I am guessing, whomever last boosted it (it was Jay Hannah previously I think, but now since I boosted the release announcement toot, I see my handle on all the repeat boosts). I don't remember observing behavior like that before, so I thought I would mention it. -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 11:13:56 JST
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“vast majority of people who have studied both cognitive science and modern linguistics would concur”
Having studied an awful lot of Linguistics as an undergraduate, I do concur. It was vaguely fascinating how grammatically correct nonsensical sentences could be generated.
Another undergraduate professor I had in computer science was renowned for some earlier “AI” iterations (before the 1990s when I was his student) and as one of my fellow classmates “joked” about that professor’a lectures, it was as if he had internalized his own “AI” routines, spouting off words which all seemed correct syntactically, but were completely meaningless.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 18:26:17 JST
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Thank you (and to others such as nowster, hb9hnt and dheadshot) for the continued improvements to snac!
I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.68 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27332
GitHub Continuous Integration checks are running (two out of three completed successfully, which is a good sign, here's hoping the last one has no issues as well).
As usual, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 18:57:22 JST
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Believe me, as someone who had two devices pocket "smart" phones die on me this year, so-called "device instability" is a real problem.
But educating me? I'm only on a first name basis with a handful of PhDs in cryptography.
Good thing I am also still a student and open to education.
But might I ask: have you ever been incarcerated or had all of your physical possessions forcibly removed from you?
Because I have and I was still able to regain access to accounts despite that.
Some authentication choices are chosen deliberately for threat models that I don't think passkeys are even beginning to try to comprehend.
There are a lot of authentication mechanisms I avoid because they have extremely bad failure modes.
But I am not here to teach lessons in those to people who think that I need more education, unless you're paying my tuition for me because I already am in debt and homeless.
Meanwhile, to borrow a phrase from a past coworker: "we now have more people [developers] creating problems than we have people [ops] capable of fixing them."
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