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Ted Mielczarek

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Hack of all trades. (he/him)

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@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 13, 2026, 8:15 AM

@jonny sorry to reply to your old thread but I guess I hadn’t read through this one previously–do you know if ptrace and similar mechanisms are locked down in the container? If not, the ā€œrun a special binary as a user with privileges to the socketā€ doesn’t provide much real protection anyway.

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 13, 2026, 3:56 AM

There’s a Fortnite section at Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights. Don’t forget to thank the bus driver!

A selfie of me in front of the Fortnite battle bus, pointing up as the battle bus sign on the front.
@tomgauld.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:47 AMReposted by @tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"
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@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 5:28 PM

@fasterthanlime I was just wondering the other day what you had been up to. Hope you’re well!

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 12:17 PM

@skinnylatte love this for you

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 1:47 AM

@whitequark fun fact: Alex Faaborg worked at Mozilla before going to Google to work on Android. He was part of at least one Android redesign.

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 2, 2026, 7:21 PM

@jonny I assume that this filing paints their financial situation in the best possible light, right? Pretty cool that the argument is "this technology is the inevitable future" but also it's impossible to make a profit running it.

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 7:00 PM

@bodil people have been mad about Firefox UI changes since the dawn of its existence.

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 10:36 AM

@Rairii @0xabad1dea browsers also use delta compression for their updates and they apply pretty quickly.

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 4:51 AM

@skinnylatte WHAT

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 29, 2026, 9:01 AM

@aphyr sure, here you go! I followed this plan: https://web.archive.org/web/20230328052326/https://www.thisoldhouse.com/walls/21016667/how-to-build-a-mirror-from-case-molding

Total cost of materials was maybe $250? The bare mirror was $115 (72ā€ x 30ā€) from a […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

A selfie of me reflected in a full-length mirror that I framed myself. The frame is fluted case moulding with rosette blocks at the corners. Light shines from behind the mirror. My cat is looking at the mirror suspiciously.
@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 29, 2026, 2:43 AM

@aphyr beautiful! I built myself a custom full-length mirror with back lighting for my bedroom a few years ago, I love it so much.

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 28, 2026, 10:28 AM

@0xabad1dea corporations were a mistake.

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 24, 2026, 9:45 PM

@mhoye Firewater dropped a new single this week: https://youtu.be/fnTgZzgk110

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 23, 2026, 3:16 AM

@sarahjeong.bsky.social a few years ago I was on a flight home from Orlando with my kids after a few days at Universal. The flight made it to our home airport but then couldn’t land due to weather so it turned around and we landed back in Dulles at like 2am. At least I had my luggage, though. I […]

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 22, 2026, 10:44 PM

@sarahjeong.bsky.social not even a hot dog to be found???

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 16, 2026, 5:53 PM

@jasonkoebler I assume that your list of conditions precludes using an external display? I have a 16:10 display connected to my MacBook Pro which is rotated in portrait mode so it's 10:16 in practice.

The macOS system display settings panel showing three displays:
DELL U2410
DELL U3219Q
Built-in Display

The U2410 is selected and the default resolution is 1200x1920.
@mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gySep 15, 2026, 8:40 PMReposted by @tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

I didn't expect that congress would hold hearings on the optimal level of FBI beastiality, but 2026 has been full of surprises.

@bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 15, 2026, 3:22 PMReposted by @tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Fastly reports they see requests with #curl in the user-agent at roughly 7 million requests/sec.

@tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 14, 2026, 4:30 PM

@fluffy I get annoyed with login forms that don't play well with 1Password, but there's no excuse for a form that doesn't work with the built-in capabilities of *Safari on iPhone*.

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