Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
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- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
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Half the Work Is Done: The Clear-Cut Case for a Subway in the I-94 Trench: https://streets.mn/2026/04/28/half-the-work-is-done-the-clear-cut-case-for-a-subway-in-the-i-94-trench/
The I-94 trench is an open cut waiting to be covered. Before we fill it, build a subway that merges Minneapolis and St. Paul into one downtown.
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the solution to having created a world you think is too toxic for children is not to ban children from the world
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What ever happened to that star trek red shirt fedi server admin guy. I've been trying to find his profile. I think it was an academia related server
Just deleted 237 Application Load Balancers from AWS, saving my employer ~$7.5k USD per month 
, wish I got paid that much
am i going to have to hear news casters explain that random access memory is used inside "ai" datacenters the same # of times I have heard them explain that a qubit is just like a digital bit, except it can be in a super position of states both 0 and 1
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One by one I am going to replace every corpo app with something that I either run, make or personally know the maker of. I am doing pretty good so far. Socials, feeds, photos, bookmarks, music, notes. I guess I need someone to invent a phone OS.
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the discord age verifier thing going round actually works: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/
obviously standard disclaimer applies, don't copy paste shit from this website into the dev console unless you understand it; in this case it does just pass the k-id verification URL from discord to their fancy server (well, after some modifications I made to make safari happy), and that server does whatever to satisfy the check
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i wrote a little bit about minneapolis today: https://abyss.fish/all_eyes_on_minneapolis
cw: graphic images, upsetting themes
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The name “JPEG XL” implies the existence of other next-generation file formats such as:
• Big PDF
• MP3 Pro Max
• SVG Deluxe
• 7Zip 7Furious
• DOCX-treme
• GIF Supreme
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forgejo's mascot, Forge Joe
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12 drummers drumming, 11 pipers piping, 10 lords a-leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids a-milking, 7 swans a-swimming, 6 geese a-laying, 5 golden rings, 4 calling birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree? in this economy??
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I just donated to the fediverse instance I use, mastoart.social. In an otherwise rapidly enshittifing online space decentralized social media needs your support. If you are able, please consider donating to your instance! Thanks so much @bestiaexmachina & @Kitty for allowing me to use your instance & happy whatever y'all celebrate at this time of year!
#Nonprofit #Donation #Fediverse #Mastodon #Holidays #NewYear #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Photography #Darktable #Christmas
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*whispering to a date while watching RoboCop when the RoboCop first appears on the screen* That's the RoboCop.
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#Oops: The seminal (strongly influencing later developments) paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings in the context of misrepresentation of the contributions by the authors and the study sponsor and potential conflicts of interest of the authors. "
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715
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There's still this widespread misconception that the EU mandates cookie banners on all websites, and that is just plainly untrue.
Most websites do need a few cookies to function properly. And those are perfectly fine according to EU legislation. It is only the malicious cookies for tracking purposes that require consent.
All those cookie banners you see on the web are examples of malicious compliance with EU law. The operators of these websites want to track everything you do because they want to earn money off of that. That's why they implemented technically unnecessary cookies, and that's why they have to ask your consent when you visit their website.
The important takeaway is: the EU regulation isn't the problem. The profit motive is. And the shitty things it makes profit-oriented companies do.
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Linux/BSD Fix-It Clinic
<p>Layer Zero, Saturday, November 22 at 01:00 PM CST</p><h1>Linux/BSD Fix-it Clinic</h1><p></p><p>Bring your Linux/BSD desktop or server questions or woes to Layer Zero, and we'll work them out together! </p><p>Saturday, November 22, 2025</p><p>1 - 4 PM</p><p>Ping zico for questions</p>
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
