all these patches and reboots have been hell on my updog

I regret to announce that the latest frontier models have discovered yet another critical vulnerability in deez nuts

Reading Mary Butts' "Armed With Madness." Absolutely loving this book.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mary-butts/armed-with-madness

Is peertube mbone

Fun fact: CVE is an abbreviation of CVRSE

This Saturday, October 24th, 2026, we have a class on making wands and bracelets that make you look like one of the sorcerers that help the wizard that isn't Saruman from Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in case if that's your thing and still remember anything that happened on that show. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wire-wrapping-make-your-own-wand-or-bracelet-tickets-2002479922353 #jewelry #diy #nyc #halloween

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@fbz/117478619017435667

my blankets have more entropy than some commercial certificate authorities.

(each of these is individually generated, not just the colors change, each one is provably unique)

PHP stands for Pretty Halfassed Privacy

see, if you'd all been accessing my website through basic HTTP like I fucking configured it, you wouldn't have to worry about this TLS bullshit

Time for a new unix like OS called beaunix

It takes some wrestling, but sometimes FreeCAD is Good, Actually

vibration coding

The next Permacomputing NYC meetup

DEMOSCENE

Nov 10, 2026 @ 6pm at Ridgewood Commons in Queens

This presentation will overview one of the oldest computer art subcultures. The demoscene is composed of musicians, visual artists, and coders pushing the bounds of what's thought possible on a computer through non-interactive audiovisual productions ("demos"). This presentation will cover the scene and its overlap in permacomputing topics like sizeocoding, retrocomputing, cracking, and creative coding.
Speaker: Bryce Wilson

Today Cornell's president gave a very nice speech about how seriously he takes sexual abuse, and how he's taking absolutely no action. What a shitshow.

https://president.cornell.edu/public-remarks/2026-october-state-of-the-university-address/

I'm particularly galled by the implication that abuse in the Greek systemis a recent phenomenon. When I was there in the 90s a pledge was found literally stuffed down a chimney. No action was taken.

My website is finally at the point where I can start thinking of it as "my website" instead of a placeholder or skeleton.

https://phooky.name/

(You can also reach it via http, but I am sympathetic to people with browsers that refuse to do this.)

Math is amazing! Those brackets worked on the first try and the 900mm cross braces make the geocentric orrery look like clockwork alchemy diagram.

Between 1905 and 1911, the sheet music covers of Gotham-Attucks Co. — a song-publisher managed by some of the most famous Black writers and performers of the day — revolutionised how Black popular music was shown to the public: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gotham-attucks/ #BlackHistoryMonth

I wish more people were content with being, like, 95% in alignment with another person

If you are in London in late November, you will have the opportunity to see a screening of WAX. On VHS. And you will also apparently have the opportunity to buy a new VHS copy in PAL format.

https://www.ica.art/films/lost-futures-wax-or-the-discovery-of-television-among-the-bees

I just remembered that

A) years ago I had created a tilde.club account, and
B) I posted a writeup there of why I couldn't log wall.

It's still a fun read, especially if you have an interest (necromantic or otherwise) in plumbing the dustier funerary vaults of UNIX.

https://tilde.club/~phooky/logging_wall.html