Tom H
@tomhodson.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
Baker, Runner, Programmer, Physics PhD
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I spent all morning trying to make Jupyter lab work with systemd socket activation. That’s this thing where can have a socket that systemd listens on (forwarded to for example Jupyter.example.com) and when systemd here’s something it will starts up a process on demand, in this case jupyter lab […]
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tech.lgbt
January 19, 2026 at 12:38 PM
I spent all morning trying to make Jupyter lab work with systemd socket activation. That’s this thing where can have a socket that systemd listens on (forwarded to for example Jupyter.example.com) and when systemd here’s something it will starts up a process on demand, in this case jupyter lab […]
Why in the world would a TV have a blue only mode?
January 19, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Why in the world would a TV have a blue only mode?
I haven’t seen this pattern in a long time! Reminds me of that opener from Neuromancer https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163304/what-color-was-the-sky-above-the-port-in-neuromancer#163310
January 18, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I haven’t seen this pattern in a long time! Reminds me of that opener from Neuromancer https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163304/what-color-was-the-sky-above-the-port-in-neuromancer#163310
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Anyone know if there's an "Anna's Archive"-type free repository for standards documents, like from UL, CSA, IEC, ISO, etc? You know, the ones that are mostly developed with public subsidies but then are paywalled at absolutely ludicrous prices that mean only big companies can actually get access […]
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mindly.social
January 14, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Anyone know if there's an "Anna's Archive"-type free repository for standards documents, like from UL, CSA, IEC, ISO, etc? You know, the ones that are mostly developed with public subsidies but then are paywalled at absolutely ludicrous prices that mean only big companies can actually get access […]
“Threat model gerrymandering” is an excellent turn of phrase!
https://www.dlp.rip/decorative-cryptography
https://www.dlp.rip/decorative-cryptography
Decorative Cryptography
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www.dlp.rip
January 6, 2026 at 10:41 AM
“Threat model gerrymandering” is an excellent turn of phrase!
https://www.dlp.rip/decorative-cryptography
https://www.dlp.rip/decorative-cryptography
After a thread on here about classic literature that people genuinely enjoyed, I decided to try reading Paradise Lost, a 17th century epic poem by John Milton.
I got an edition with a foreword by Philip Pullman, I don’t normally read the front matter to things but I really enjoyed this one […]
I got an edition with a foreword by Philip Pullman, I don’t normally read the front matter to things but I really enjoyed this one […]
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tech.lgbt
January 5, 2026 at 9:55 AM
After a thread on here about classic literature that people genuinely enjoyed, I decided to try reading Paradise Lost, a 17th century epic poem by John Milton.
I got an edition with a foreword by Philip Pullman, I don’t normally read the front matter to things but I really enjoyed this one […]
I got an edition with a foreword by Philip Pullman, I don’t normally read the front matter to things but I really enjoyed this one […]
May the temperature of your showers always be perfectly adequate but never quite hot enough to truly warm your weary bones. (A curse I would wish on no one)
January 4, 2026 at 7:23 AM
May the temperature of your showers always be perfectly adequate but never quite hot enough to truly warm your weary bones. (A curse I would wish on no one)
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it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]
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mastodon.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]
lol PCBWay read my blog and offered to sponsor a project in exchange for a review, do I do it? What do you people think about the whole industry of companies that sponsor maker YouTubers and such?
December 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
lol PCBWay read my blog and offered to sponsor a project in exchange for a review, do I do it? What do you people think about the whole industry of companies that sponsor maker YouTubers and such?
TIL about the concept of a grid aware website (grid = electricity grid not CSS grid). The idea is you check based on the users location how dirty their current electricity supply is and enable or disable website features like videos and heavy media based on that. I guess it’s kind of a […]
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tech.lgbt
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
TIL about the concept of a grid aware website (grid = electricity grid not CSS grid). The idea is you check based on the users location how dirty their current electricity supply is and enable or disable website features like videos and heavy media based on that. I guess it’s kind of a […]
Some open water fish have a very clever form of camouflage. It relies on the strange fact that underwater, once you get more than a few tens of meters down, the light is so scattered and smeared out that you can no longer tell the direction of the sun. The only determining factor in the light […]
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tech.lgbt
December 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Some open water fish have a very clever form of camouflage. It relies on the strange fact that underwater, once you get more than a few tens of meters down, the light is so scattered and smeared out that you can no longer tell the direction of the sun. The only determining factor in the light […]
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Right now teens go off into the wild to find a place on social media and adults are rightly alarmed. Companies like Facebook, Instagram, X etc. have no interest in "modeling a healthy online environment" or "teaching young people to use social media constructively" -- instead everyone is acting […]
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sauropods.win
December 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Right now teens go off into the wild to find a place on social media and adults are rightly alarmed. Companies like Facebook, Instagram, X etc. have no interest in "modeling a healthy online environment" or "teaching young people to use social media constructively" -- instead everyone is acting […]
Will there come a time when “tired prefab” becomes a nostalgic style the way that “seedy neon” did?
December 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Will there come a time when “tired prefab” becomes a nostalgic style the way that “seedy neon” did?
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I support:
* this server
* other servers
* the wikipedia
* Karamu House Theatre
* people who sell ant art
* a ton of people who tiny youTube channels
* Pregones Theatre
* community gardens
* xerces society
* new SF authors selling their first book(it's aspirational)
* building food and supplies […]
* this server
* other servers
* the wikipedia
* Karamu House Theatre
* people who sell ant art
* a ton of people who tiny youTube channels
* Pregones Theatre
* community gardens
* xerces society
* new SF authors selling their first book(it's aspirational)
* building food and supplies […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
December 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I support:
* this server
* other servers
* the wikipedia
* Karamu House Theatre
* people who sell ant art
* a ton of people who tiny youTube channels
* Pregones Theatre
* community gardens
* xerces society
* new SF authors selling their first book(it's aspirational)
* building food and supplies […]
* this server
* other servers
* the wikipedia
* Karamu House Theatre
* people who sell ant art
* a ton of people who tiny youTube channels
* Pregones Theatre
* community gardens
* xerces society
* new SF authors selling their first book(it's aspirational)
* building food and supplies […]
I enjoyed learning today that the blue whale is both the largest animal alive and _to have ever lived_. Thanks Neal! https://neal.fun/size-of-life/
生命的尺寸
Size of Life (neal.fun)
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neal.fun
December 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I enjoyed learning today that the blue whale is both the largest animal alive and _to have ever lived_. Thanks Neal! https://neal.fun/size-of-life/
I’m embarrassed to say that today I spent an hour trying to get chat gpt to help me do a thing (mildly complex caddy config) before eventually realising it just doesn’t know how to. Another hour spent reading the docs and I had done it myself. That first hour seems so much more wasted knowing […]
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tech.lgbt
December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I’m embarrassed to say that today I spent an hour trying to get chat gpt to help me do a thing (mildly complex caddy config) before eventually realising it just doesn’t know how to. Another hour spent reading the docs and I had done it myself. That first hour seems so much more wasted knowing […]
So I’m currently traveling and I made a little blog for my friends and family complete with a little map libre gl globe and icon of me that moves around. I’ve got it behind caddy/authelia so to access it you have to have credentials. However I would quite like it […]
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[Original post on tech.lgbt]
December 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
So I’m currently traveling and I made a little blog for my friends and family complete with a little map libre gl globe and icon of me that moves around. I’ve got it behind caddy/authelia so to access it you have to have credentials. However I would quite like it […]
[Original post on tech.lgbt]
[Original post on tech.lgbt]
Did you know the pottery wheel was invented before, y’know, the *other* wheel?
December 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Did you know the pottery wheel was invented before, y’know, the *other* wheel?
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I'd love some advice from #pottery folk. I've switched from a brush-on glaze to dipped. It's working well, except for two problems:
#1: The glaze doesn't seem to stick to the rim of the cups very well.
#2: The glaze cracks as it cools, rendering the cups […]
[Original post on howse.social]
#1: The glaze doesn't seem to stick to the rim of the cups very well.
#2: The glaze cracks as it cools, rendering the cups […]
[Original post on howse.social]
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I'd love some advice from #pottery folk. I've switched from a brush-on glaze to dipped. It's working well, except for two problems:
#1: The glaze doesn't seem to stick to the rim of the cups very well.
#2: The glaze cracks as it cools, rendering the cups […]
[Original post on howse.social]
#1: The glaze doesn't seem to stick to the rim of the cups very well.
#2: The glaze cracks as it cools, rendering the cups […]
[Original post on howse.social]
Reposted by Tom H
Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website […]
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mastodon.social
December 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website […]
Today I went to the remains of a 9000 year old Neolithic proto-city in Turkey called Çatalhöyük, if you’re ever in the area I would highly recommend it.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today I went to the remains of a 9000 year old Neolithic proto-city in Turkey called Çatalhöyük, if you’re ever in the area I would highly recommend it.
If you built a galaxy sized camera above the galaxy and used it to image planets would you be doing microscopy?
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you built a galaxy sized camera above the galaxy and used it to image planets would you be doing microscopy?
Dreaming of a modded e-reader with all of Wikipedia locally on it and reasonable local search.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Dreaming of a modded e-reader with all of Wikipedia locally on it and reasonable local search.