Toots for bpettis@benpettis.ninja account

Shared by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-31 at 21:42 (original by God :verified:)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-29 at 18:08

Big Monty Python energy from the constant stream of confusing and conflicting information coming out of the OMB regarding the federal funding freeze/pause/whatever the fuck is happening

[#]uspol

=> View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-28 at 22:27

Will writing to Congress do anything? Perhaps not. (Even less likely since I'm represented, in part, by Ron Johnson)

But it's still worth directing the frustration and anger at the people who are supposed to do something about it. Don't let them get away with just calling this a "pause on grants" - let them know how actual people will be hurt in specific ways.

Two versions of the poster - 1 local to Madison, WI and 1 with a generic "Find my Reps" link. DM me if you want PDFs.

[#]uspol

=> View attached media | View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-28 at 21:47 (original by jonathan w. y. gray 🐨)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-22 at 00:11 (original by kottke.org)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-21 at 21:55

"Democracy isn't just a system of government - it's a collective act of faith. It works because we believe it works. It survives because we believe it will survive. When we stop believing, we stop participating. When we stop participating, democracy starts dying. Not because it was destined to fail but because we talked ourselves into letting it fail." -- @Daojoan

https://www.theindex.media/democracy-isnt-dead-stop-writing-its-obituary/

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-21 at 20:24 (original by Nora Reed)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-21 at 17:50 (original by MBR)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-20 at 01:30 (original by Qasim Rashid, Esq.)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-20 at 03:00

If you don't do this, when your NAS disconnects and the filesystem unmounts, your web app may write to the /mnt/mountpoint directory on your root drive and then fill up all the remaining space.

Ask me how I know this. 🙃

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-20 at 21:21

In case you saw just the still frame of Elon Muk's sieg heil and thought "okay yeah, that's pretty bad" just know that if you watch the whole video it's so so so much worse...

[#]uspol

=> View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-20 at 21:23

The Musk/Muk typo stays

[#]uspol #pokemon #musk #muk

=> View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-20 at 23:51

I took some of my initial thoughts and reactions to the whole TikTok ban situation and tried to put them into semi-coherent words.

The whole thing is stupid and blatant political theater. But it unfortunately still matters—not because of the app itself, but because of what it represents about the current state of the country and the relationship between technology companies, billionaires, and our institutions of government.

https://benpettis.com/blog/tiktok-ban

[#]uspol #tiktok

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-20 at 02:59

Putting this out into the world because it helped me solve my own "Mystery of Where All The Disk Space Went" and maybe it will help someone else:

Make your mountpoint directories immutable to prevent processes from writing to it if the drive/network/whatever device is ever disconnected:

chattr +i /mnt/mountpoint

(With the device unmounted)

[#]selfhosting #selfhosted #linux

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-17 at 16:36 (original by Electronic Frontier Foundation)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-16 at 03:41 (original by Nora Reed)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-14 at 17:35

Woohoo! Very proud to be a part of the team that just received this NEH grant for our work examining text and image re-use from Hollywood studios' publicity materials throughout US newspapers. We're very excited to hit the ground running to see what insights we can learn!

https://hcommons.social/@wcftr/113827726139858368

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-14 at 17:34 (original by Fedi.Tips)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-14 at 16:25 (original by Rebecca Watson)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Ben Pettis on 2025-01-14 at 07:37

Students writing their AP exams in the future will get to write a DBQ which analyzes the end of Jack Smith’s report alongside Trump’s statement that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and get away with it.

[#]uspol

=> View attached media | View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

=> This profile without reblog | Go to bpettis@benpettis.ninja account