Gabe Ortiz

Gabe Ortiz

@g4be.net

bay area new mexican expat, botmaker, hobbyist, computer person

153 followers216 following97 posts

I heard there was a secret code That IT pushed in panic mode, But you don't really care for safety, do ya? It goes like this: one special sign, An uppercase on every line, The baffled worker typing Ha!!3lujaH

HOLY SHIT NEW PETER WATTS

Tachyon Publications@tachyonpub.bsky.social

Coming out on Tuesday, there are now two ways to win the long awaited new Peter Watts short collection FOLD CATASTROPHES #goodreads buff.ly/V3ZIeQr #thestorygraph buff.ly/QnYKRPu “Peter Watts: Never cheerful. Always brilliant.” @scalzi.com @quellist1.bsky.social #giveaways

Hiked an open space preserve just south of Cupertino and saw this coyote hunt, kill and eat a pretty good-sized snake. Felt like a metaphor for something.

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Replying to @hikikomorphism.bsky.social

I really didn't care for booktok doing a reading group on K&R and replacing malloc and free with mark-and-sweep garbage collection, just felt disrespectful to the source material

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The Sun Dreamstation was Sun Microsystems' brief and deeply confusing attempt to answer the question: What if a Sparcstation was also really good at Crazy Taxi?

I should get a job at Apple and push an Airpods feature that disables Conversation Awareness when it detects you're singing along to music, except if you're out of tune in which case it should turn the volume down and enable transparency mode.

I used to work in executive tech support for T-Mobile in the early 2000s and I once helped Tom Cruise with a cell phone problem by which I mean I spoke to his personal assistant while he screamed at him from across the room

Pall Omen@paulowengames.bsky.social

Please quote this from the time you didn't interact with someone famous. I was visiting with family in New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the same time that Mother Theresa was there visiting her Missionaries of Charity. The bishop held a Mass for her at the church where I was baptized. I didn't go.

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Philip K. Dick would have had a field day with this. People gambling on everyday things, trying to influence them in order to win, while the sitting president puts his thumb on and off scales to fuck everyone over and mint more money for himself, chaos ensues. The Running Man but everyone plays.

mfjeeb.bsky.social@mfjeeb.bsky.social

"Truth Social users will be able to trade prediction contracts related to major events and milestones, such as political elections, interest and inflation rate changes, commodity prices on gold and crude oil, events across all major sports leagues" What the bloody hell? crypto.com/us/company-n...

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Question, is Violent J available to run for Senator of Maine

Internet Dad@whatahellofawaytodad.com

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

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have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

Being in office is a mixed bag but at least I get to repair my vintage eggbeater drill chuck with springs scavenged from BIC mechanical pencils stolen from the supply cabinet

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Replying to @jay.bsky.team

Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later.

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🚨🚨🚨 LISTEN UP, something is afoot NOW. Call your US Representatives. Ask them to OPPOSE the motion to table (kill) the articles, and, when the articles come to the floor, to vote YES to impeach US Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Local offices: www.house.gov/representati... RT's appreciated!

The speaker has called for a vote on the impeachment of Donald John Trump to take place now. Tune in to @CSPAN live on www.cspan.org

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RIP Francis. American trad-cath converts are going to 100% convince themselves that some guy named Fr. Terry Dallas "the January 6th Padre" is going to be pope and they're going to absolutely lose their shit when it's a European they've never heard of

this apple tv+ ad encouraging me to spend my time wisely does not especially make me want to spend the precious time i have remaining on apple tv+ shows

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It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk. (They are not complimentary)

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Replying to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

"Those folks did not have notice or an opportunity to challenge things at all," Millett says. "Nazis got better treatment" in removals under the AEA — with review boards — than Trump has laid out here. Ensign argues that, because the five initial plaintiffs got their TRO, anyone could have done so.

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Yeah I have a caucus, you wouldn't know her, she goes to a different school

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Schumer: "My caucus and I are in sync. Everyone knew what I was doing and respected it."

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i'm not going to laugh about the CEO Of Human Suffering getting assassinated, but i think it's because i've been trying to get medical treatment for years to treat being unable to laugh and my claims keep getting denied