Anthony Sorace

I do systems architecture (and sometimes implementation) when not playing with food or getting lost in the woods. Looking to use my powers for good. He/him.
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Location: Columbia County, Oregon, US
Homepage: http://a.9srv.net
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2026-10-23 16:10:38 UTC

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This whole thread is great, thank you for doing this work and sharing about it. But also: notifications from PDF apps? WTH?

2026-10-06 05:02:45 UTC

Apparently the libera.chat folks have banned omarchy chans from their network. Good on them.

2026-09-21 01:29:05 UTC

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Still working on that one. ~3 weeks ago, I got a notification that a domain I bought years ago & never used expired in a month. I agonized over it for a bit, but eventually decided to just let it go. It felt like significant personal growth.
About a week ago, I logged into my registrar’s site for something unrelated, saw that it was about to expire, panicked, and renewed it without thinking. It was an hour later before I realized what I had done. “Wait…” 🤦🏻

2026-09-15 00:54:23 UTC

A good sign I’m living my life right: someone just got a dozen cannoli, filling still separate, decided they couldn’t eat them all, and I was the first person they thought to call.

2026-09-07 18:09:43 UTC

I’m currently installing a operating system onto a spinning disc hard drive that is at least 15 years old, and I’m so used to SSDs now that every sound it makes sounds like imminent failure.

2026-09-03 20:13:27 UTC

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You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, "Gotta Hand It To Them"

2026-08-26 16:12:12 UTC

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This is a little simplistic (but only a little): I do think it’s genuinely significant that the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and (ahem) Plan 9 Foundations are 501(c)(3) organizations (and OpenBSD is whatever the Canadian equivalent is) while the Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6). They’re literally a trade org that exists for the benefit of their corporate members. Does exactly what it says on the tin.

2026-08-20 17:52:35 UTC

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Ban all Ray Bans from schools. The whole brand, just to be safe. Make working with Meta a poison pill.

2026-07-29 18:36:04 UTC

I'm in a weird situation at home where we currently have *three* internet connections (which is between 2 and 3 too many), each of which sucks, and one sucks in very different ways than the other two.
Are there any home options (e.g. OpenWRT?) that can do anything clever with multiple upstream connections, beyond just fallback/warm spare? Can you split traffic meaningfully without the upstream provider's help?

2026-06-04 17:03:50 UTC

The Plan 9 Foundation has announced that we will not be accepting AI submissions for IWP9 2027.
https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T457223967f7e60a2-Md481fa7774176bb0e7840c33/no-ai-at-iwp9-2027
#plan9 #iwp9

2026-05-26 05:23:05 UTC

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45 years ago? Bull, this looks like it was just the ‘80s oh shit damnit.

2026-05-24 17:20:22 UTC

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She wants a number.

2026-05-24 16:58:54 UTC

My partner is going to Spain; I’m trying to help her get an eSIM for the trip. It looks like most options for getting a voice number give you a UK voice number (even from Spanish providers?). It’s been a long time since I’ve looked at this. Will that work reasonably there? I know it’s all GSM, but will there be extra fees for the “international” call?

2026-02-24 15:06:50 UTC

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Excellent names both, but I think you should continue to call it the chaos fortnight and if questioned about it just say “it’s the *chaos* fortnight.”

2026-01-24 02:52:41 UTC

Baby’s first home-made pasta (I helped). A lovely pappardelle.
https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/media_attachments/files/115/947/796/192/140/533/original/ea4f745390e03903.jpeg

2025-12-24 18:53:46 UTC

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I’d like to take a look at some point, but I almost certainly can’t use the patch directly (my mail system is a somewhat poorly integrated mash of erik’s nupas from 9atom and whatever patches made it into 9legacy) and likely won’t have time to really sit with it until the school year starts up again.

2025-12-24 18:25:05 UTC

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imap should sync to upas/fs. This has been frustrating for years, especially since my imap status gets messed up periodically but my upas/fs status never does. A good longer-term goal would be reducing or eliminating the need for the .imp.

2025-12-16 17:21:52 UTC

Is anyone aware of a 10th Edition Research Unix qemu image?

2025-11-04 16:26:40 UTC

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“Average person commits 6 war crimes a year” factoid is actually just a statistical error. Dick Cheney was an outlier and should not have been counted.

2025-10-25 02:18:46 UTC

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What’s with Morgan and Hewitt? They look like they’re about 14 and neither are listed on the seating chart.
(And I think your alt text is great. Sorry about the weirdos on the internet!)

2025-08-04 17:07:38 UTC

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Uh, this whataboutism is not helping your argument look better. You don’t need to convince me Israel is behaving badly. I’m 100% on board. But the original suggestion was still antisemitic (“how can we get at the jews?”) and the “but they’re the real antisemites!” is… not the way.

2025-08-04 16:28:55 UTC

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It makes exactly as much sense as how seemingly every Arab or Muslim with a public identity was expected to spend all their time condemning Al-Qaeda for years following 9/11.
His “it wasn’t just Jews but they get all the attention” line is pretty troubling, too. Not only does it undercut his own rationale, but if’s a mighty close rhyme with what we hear from some pretty awful folks.
If you know the guy, I might advise suggesting a little reflection.

2025-08-04 16:28:55 UTC

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I don’t know the guy and the block request sure seems to be reactionary BS, but also: the take he’s being dragged for is hella antisemitic. It conflates all Jews with the current Israeli government. The victims of the holocaust were not “Israel”, so arguing we should shut down memorials because the Israeli government is acting like they didn’t learn the lessons those memorials are intended to teach (a position I agree with!) makes no sense.

2025-08-02 06:44:44 UTC

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Depends on the level of understanding (current and target), but the understanding derivatives of position relative to time helped me. Position->velocity->acceleration (and to a lesser extent, ->jerk) made intuitive sense based on physical experience that was helpful in a different way. If you’ve driven in a car, you’ve *felt* those.
It also gives you the opportunity to introduce the fun fact that the 4th, 5th, and 6th derivatives of position are snap, crackle, and pop. :-)

2025-07-18 17:35:18 UTC

If you have personally used a django-like web framework in Go, and especially if you've migrated an existing database-based django app that way, I would really appreciate hearing about your experience.
For context, I have ~5k lines of python and ~5k lines of templates in an existing app. I like django quite a bit, but continue to be only "eh" on python. The app is in Python 2 (yes, still, I know) and if I have to do the conversion, I'd like to know if there's a better option.
#django #golang

2025-06-30 03:46:18 UTC

System says I’m low on memory. Let’s see what Activity Monitor says…
I’m sorry, my *wallpaper* is using *how much* RAM?!? WTAF?!?
https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/media_attachments/files/114/770/254/436/639/495/original/9a1b279a4ee7bfb7.png

2025-06-30 02:06:02 UTC

In ~3 weeks, 5yo and I are taking a trip to New York City (my partner has an unrelated work trip elsewhere at the same time). I grew up nearby, my father grew up in the city and worked his whole career there, I’ve spent a lot of time there and feel like I know the city well, but (A) it’s been a while, and (B) I’ve never thought about it in terms of showing a five-year-old around.
Given her interests, Liberty Island and the Natural History Museum are high on my list. Anyone have any other tips?

2025-06-24 16:28:09 UTC

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This is not a race I can vote in, but I love how you’ve done this. The explicitly excited sources and level of detail for rationale reader choices feels like exactly what I want for more of these.

2025-03-17 04:12:18 UTC

tl;dr: if you're looking for a Firefox alternative, try Waterfox.
Safari's my primary browser, but I've used Firefox beside it forever. Given their current trajectory, I've been trying out alternatives. Chromium-based things are out for me (not interested in trading one set of problems for a worse set). The main contenders which run on macOS I've found seem to be LibreWolf, SeaMonkey, Pale Moon, and Waterfox.
If you care about broad compatibility, Waterfox seems to be the best choice so far.

2025-03-06 16:52:54 UTC

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And as if this isn't evidence enough of my addled brain, taking that led to this.
https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/media_attachments/files/114/116/520/199/846/012/original/171ec319de1dbca9.png

2025-03-06 16:48:05 UTC

When your text editor is telling you you're going down too many rabbit holes at once.
https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/media_attachments/files/114/116/499/240/717/005/original/a5ef6f75726d4272.png

2025-03-06 15:00:28 UTC

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It’s amazing how many graphs this works for. :-(

2024-12-20 19:03:13 UTC

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New card from the same financial institution? If so, they don’t have your new card number. I can explain if that would be welcome.

2024-12-03 15:45:09 UTC

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The best verses are the ones fewest people know. Those lines really resonate with me, as well.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think of his “power” thing as being inherently in conflict with this. “Power to the people“ is about spreading that power around, making it diffuse and distributed. I think it’s a little reductive, but it doesn’t (inherently) undermine the ideas of democracy and constitutional law.

2024-10-14 18:59:21 UTC

RMS’s history of bad, gross behavior is making the rounds again, with a lot of apologists rehashing very tired arguments. Two points:
1) The bar for leadership in community organizations should be a hell of a lot higher than “probably not indictable“.
2) “Free speech” does not mean “speech free from consequences”. Yes, RMS is free to espouse his gross-ass positions… and everyone else is free to say “ew, gross, gtfo“.

2024-10-14 17:27:58 UTC

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The urge to come up with *some* version of what he *might* have said which *could* plausibly be *somewhat* defensible — as opposed to just reading what the jerk *actually* said — is real strong with some RMS fans. :-/

2024-09-22 20:16:31 UTC

If you need something to do with your afternoon, I just spend a few hours at the Portland Zine Symposium, and it was a lot of fun. More makers and more varied than i’d expected. Highly recommended. #pdx #zine
https://www.portlandzinesymposium.org/

2024-09-12 18:57:28 UTC

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…is James Marriott an AI?

2024-08-20 16:29:24 UTC

Niche #pdx request: anyone know of an all-ages place with a coin-operated jukebox?
4yo and especially 6yo are obsessed with Joan Jett’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, but neither has ever seen a real jukebox. I think it’ll blow their minds.