Justin Presley

Where all the network engineers at 👀

I'm starting to think that once again, I need to be done with social media. As much as I want to see the posts from select friends and whatnot, I'm just not disciplined enough. The doomscrolling needs to stop, and the signal to noise ratio on all platforms fucking suuucks at this point.

Updated to #openbsd 8.0 release on the 2015 Macbook. Runs great :D

The most depressing ad this year depicts a content creator saying how it can be kinda lonely, but not after they've "hired" N Grok Bots. We can't be letting people who are already socially isolated fall deeper into this shit, and the "hiring" wording is so problematic. How do we fix this?

So ICE agents are getting fired before their probationary periods are up and are having to repay the $50,000 signing bonus. I love this for them.

When I gave my keynote last week about community defense in Minnesota, someone from Ukraine came up to me afterward and said thank you for talking about what it’s like to be under attack and fight back, because most people can’t relate. I wish we couldn’t, but hey Ukrainian friends: we see you.

I'm pleased with the sticker placement

“Chinga la migra, which for the non-Spanish speakers in the audience, means ‘we find ICE’s activities to be problematic’”

For reasons known only to myself, I have created a single web page with links to privately hosted copies of a whole bunch of documents related to police oversight and reform in Somerville. dwan.org/index.php/po... 1/?

Kinda love being a night owl

That sound you hear is Minnesota loudly saying FUCK ICE

Hello from a ~12yr old Macbook Pro, though it's not running MacOS. Still does everything I need - 6hrs of battery, browser apps, development, screen recording at 1080 without dropped frames. You don't need new hardware every 1-5 years. You are lazy and purchasing things makes you feel good. Why?

Here's how to deal with incompetent AI chatbots; a live example, taken from my recent chat with Ally's bot: Bot: "I got my wires crossed. Can you try asking me in a different way?" Me: "No" Bot: "I'll pass the chat to a human associate who can help you." This is the way.

When's the last time you left your phone at home? Went on a relaxed walk? Or just like, sat under a tree for a while? Go do that

Threw openSUSE back on the desktop Man, KDE is so pretty

may I offer you a loaf in this trying time (one week until Election Day)

All this OS age verification nonsense is helping ensure I remain on FreeBSD for a very long time

Cambridge has public toilets. Somerville doesn't. Here's why. medium.com/@fdmts/publi...

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Slop is the perfect word to describe the low-quality, high-volume, AI-generated content being thrown around. If you don't have time to write it, I don't have time to read it.

"Bad thing existed before I made it easier to do bad thing" isn't the argument you think it is.

Important heads up: The feds have -publicly- subpoenaed Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta for information (names, phone numbers, email addresses) associated with accounts that are either critical of ICE or that are tracking ICE activities. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... 1/?

Re-posting this because I saw a headline today where some tech oligarch was bloviating about whether the chatbots are conscious or not. Wrong question. The correct question is ‘why do we need tech oligarchs?’

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I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

I know this is the wrong crowd for this but, I have an important test that I apply to new technologies that people think are going to fix everything. I ask "how does this help with the housing crisis?" Invariably (so far) it does not.

CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

Our industry loves to create problems in the name of innovation only to turn around and sell you a solution to the problem we just created.

But I'm losing my edge To better-looking people With better ideas and more talent And they're actually really, really nice

Why did none of y'all tell me about Emacs org mode? I'm really, really liking it

Decided to give Google Search another try just now. LMAO I'll be sticking with Kagi for a while, I think.

True as ever: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynvg...

This week's word: Foment

I wish this level of outrage Trump is displaying was the reaction of any sitting US President when any school shooting happened.

Trump Announces Seal Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid

I still think many Americans have no idea how bad this is going to get. I saw President Obama reposting a tepid, mealy-mouthed analysis by Ezra Klein—who's never seen a phenomenon he couldn't be 5 years late in incompetently circumscribing—and I felt like we don't have what it takes to survive this.

We live in a horrifying time

This video captures perfectly some of the problems I've encountered over the years www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjSW...

New keyboard time! github.com/futo-org/and...