Erik Ableson
erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social
<p>I like solving interesting problems and understanding how things work.</p><p>Dual citizenship <a href="https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canada</span></a>/#France.</p><p>Independent IT <a href="https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/tags/consultant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>consultant</span></a> focused on <a href="https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infrastructure</span></a>, with an ongoing hobby horse of <a href="https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/tags/backups" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>backups</span></a>, data protection and availability.</p><p>Either a dilettante or a polymath - it's hard to tell some days.</p><p>Core skills: troubleshoo
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Stupid question: can someone tell me the name of this type of graph? And maybe point me towards a tool for creating them?
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Join a union, join a neighborhood group, join an association, whatever it takes to unify decent people to shift the momentum towards purging the parasites from modern society. Not a uniquely American problem, but further along the curve (not counting Russia) so please show the world it can be done https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold
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More of this please: https://www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/
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@letsencrypt@infosec.exchange Hmmm - 3.5M/day and most people are on a 90-day renewal cycle so that’s ~315M sites that are using Let’s Encrypt. Wow. (That’s close to 1/3 of a billion) Hat’s off to the team. Also: Validating and generating 3.5M certificates per day!!!
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@reverseics@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange I laughed
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@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe This has these vibes all over it. And I feel your pain seeing clients try to apply solutions suitable for Google and Meta scale infrastructures to the most basic problems. Schools aren't helping either. It's one curriculum for everyone and little or no attempt to contextualize when to use which tool
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@amanda@social.spejset.org @vaurora@mstdn.social Also adding Blindsight to me reading list...
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Fascinating review of a new study on the effect of LLM use on cognitive behavior https://overcast.fm/+AACuhuf2I6Y
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More talk about stuff like this and less about AI please https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/the-invisible-engineering-behind-lambdas-network.html?utm_campaign=inbound&amp;utm_source=rss
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@adhdjesse And then you move and rediscover all of those boxes and start the cycle anew (hopefully minus the purchasing part)
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@Wen @quixoticgeek None of this running aroung and barking stuff. Act like the leader of the herd and everyone will follow nicely
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116354480071471219 🧵Must read for USians (and others too, but slightly less urgently)
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Huh, I just listened to the latest Science Vs podcast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Vs) about finding ways to cut down on doom scrolling etc. and one of the recommendations was using an accessibility setting to set the phone to greyscale. It actually works! (for me, YMMV)
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JFC. These trucks simply don’t fit on the roads here. Maybe a simple regulation with the basic maximum dimensions would do the trick? Not to mention some basic calculations about the visibility of small persons in front of the vehicle? https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/
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The good life https://leisureguy.ca/2026/04/08/gemma-napping/
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Baby steps towards the general commercialisation of the Earth Suits from Termination Shock… https://www.theverge.com/tech/907802/dyson-hushjet-mini-cool-handheld-personal-fan-specs-availability
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Sigh. The disease of the MBA is not understanding the business and optimizing for the wrong metric.
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It’s about understanding how things work most of all for me https://zy.bearblog.dev/self-hosting/
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At this point, I’m no longer going to use any external libraries and just write everything old school https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/supply-chain-attack-using-invisible-code-hits-github-and-other-repositories/
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Many feels here. https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
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A voté
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Just posting this link so I can pin it until the current LLM craze dies down https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf
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Just bringing this one back up again. On the nose. Edit to add the original source: http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia