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  "If you cannot consistently type your passphrase correctly twice in a row, consider a simpler passphrase. If you can consistently type your passphrase correctly any number of times in a row, get a more complex one." #openzfsmastery #footnote I'd appreciate help finishing this book. mwl.io/sponsor

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  I'll believe an AI agent can actually go rogue when it deletes all the data for student loans, credit reports, or pending foreclosures. Until then, "rogue AI agents" are pure marketing.

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  If you're not going to let a franchise die honorably, do something batshit insane with it. Like have Grant Morrison write James Bond. https://comicbookclublive.com/2026/10/09/grant-morrison-is-your-new-james-bond-writer-for-idw/

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  It's #Raturday, and the thumb-beast has stolen the poo again! Our world will never be the same again! #petRats #rats

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  Today in #openZFSmastery: "Lucas can now manage his own mistakes. Jude, of course, must manage the mistake of giving Lucas a jail." I'd appreciate your support writing this book. https://mwl.io/sponsor

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  Today, I have been a full-time "pay the bills with my words" writer for 12 years. I am clearly a special kind of stupid.

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  The #twistedPresents #kickstarter backer survey is out! If you were kind enough to support this book, please fill it out so I can send your rewards.

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  The annoying thing about IPv6? Doing the math. My static subnet was 2603:3015:2a05:d600::/59, and suddenly 2603:3015:2a05:d6c0 is appearing on my network. Is that part of my /59, or did comcast fubar me? I don't know, let's do MATH! :flan_dance:

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  "Magic and Stupidity are the exact same thing viewed from opposite directions." My new #FreeBSDJournal column is out! "Choice of Agonies." If you need a splash of righteous vitriol to get your blood flowing, here you go. https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/production-deployments/

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  "Self-Publishing Success Stories" panel, 15 October 2026, 2PM, Ann Arbor Public Library https://mwl.io/archives/25000

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  In Ann Arbor on 15 November? Want to see me talk #writing and #selfpub https://aadl.org/node/673512

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  @nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe In 1995, one of my Clarion classmates had to drive from Lansing to Detroit to pick up his girl at the train station. I told him to be careful, Detroit drivers are special. He sneered that he was from Boston, he'd be fine. Upon his return, he was still pale and shaking. Looked at me with haunted eyes and said "What the hell is wrong with Detroit drivers?" I doubled over laughing, because I'm a bad person.

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  #Raturday Ratstack! #petRats #rats

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  The #TwistedPresents #kickstarter ends TONIGHT. If you've been thinking you'll back it later, there is no later. https://mwl.io/ks Another $178 and all backers will get THREE books! Unsure? Read a sample story at https://mwl.io/archives/24991

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  Look. We both know you're doing social media at work. That's what you do. You'll take the weekend off. Which means today is your last day to back #twistedPresents. Grab it now, or lament missing your chance when you come back Monday. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/twisted-presents

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  IT'S HERE IT'S HERE IT'S HERE The new @zzclaybourne@wandering.shop has arrived! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidiansky/khumalo-tales

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  The new @zzclaybourne@wandering.shop book is at 68 backers? You know what to do. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidiansky/khumalo-tales

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaste/117366006994694048 A vital lesson. One day I hope to internalize it.

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  Today's #60SecondsOfWIP is out! From #OpenZFSMastery: "Lucas is Incompetent or Evil." At https://mwl.io/archives/24997 or wherever mediocre podcasts are sold.

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  Respect goes to people's labor, never their products. I like BSD, but I respect the developers because they have done the work to develop the expertise that merits the respect. There is no reason to offer that respect to people who haven't done the work. I have more respect for people who spent a Saturday evening failing to get code to compile, or trying to write a story that doesn't work, or struggling to get perspective right on a watercolor, than to anyone prompting an LLM.

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  Writing about containers and jails today for #openzfsmastery. Language management is a big part of writing a tech book. Techies are both notoriously bad at language, and notoriously picky about it. Containers and jails are types of lightweight virtual machines. I don't want to keep repeating "lightweight virtual machines" multiple times in a paragraph, so I need a good short punchy word. I could abbreviate and call them LVMs, but Linux folks have different associations for that...

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  Truffle at the Treat Puzzle #petRats #rats

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  Three days left until I can shut up about my Christmas story collection on #kickstarter! Until then, I gotta keep shouting "look at my book!" So, uh... please look at my book? It comes with bonuses? https://mwl.io/ks

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  Got the #openzfsmastery section on privilege delegation completed. Tomorrow, I figure out delegating datasets to containers. Seems there's little integration, everything gets delegated by hand? Sponsorships are still open on this silly thing: https://mwl.io/sponsor

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  My Gumroad stores are now shut down. https://mwl.io/archives/24995 Time to investigate alternatives that support EU VAT, sigh.

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  Four days left on the #TwistedPresents #Kickstarter! #Christmas stories for folks who don't like Christmas. Backers get two books and a bonus story. If it hits the next stretch goal, there'll be a third book. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/twisted-presents

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  "Don't worry, brudder. We're here to bust ya out of the joint." #petRats #rats

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  When They say that the death of AI will "kill the Internet," they're wrong. It'll cut off the flow of algorithmic sewage. It'll cripple Meta, X, Google, and so on. Those of us who have our own web sites, who communicate independently? We'll be fine. Welcome to 1995. Here's your modem. Can't wait!

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  okay, I got the #openzfsmastery boot loader chapter fixed. Definitely done now. Calling it for the day. Take a few hours off this evening to read to the rodents. :flan_book:

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  The #TwistedPresents #Kickstarter broke another stretch goal! All backers get my book of Christmas tales, another story, and another whole bonus book. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/twisted-presents It's passing the point where I can publish the book and turning into a good deal for backers, which is always cool.