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Random Geek

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50-something artsy he/him nerd in Tucson. On Fedi since 2017. Not tall. 25y FOSS-powered dev -> low-level cog in prison-industrial complex, so self-censoring & occasionally cranky.

Follow requests: mainly I look for a bio in the profile, a little bit of visible post history, with the overall vibe not feeling too manufactured or confrontational. Shitposters ok, trolls not so much.

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town

50-something artsy he/him nerd in Tucson. On Fedi since 2017. Not tall. 25y FOSS-powered dev -> low-level cog in prison-industrial complex, so self-censoring & occasionally cranky. Follow requests: mainly I look for a bio in the profile, a little bit of visible post history, with the overall vibe not feeling too manufactured or confrontational. Shitposters ok, trolls not so much.

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town

50-something artsy he/him nerd in Tucson. On Fedi since 2017. Not tall. 25y FOSS-powered dev -> low-level cog in prison-industrial complex, so self-censoring & occasionally cranky. Follow requests: mainly I look for a bio in the profile, a little bit of visible post history, with the overall vibe not feeling too manufactured or confrontational. Shitposters ok, trolls not so much.

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town · 1d ago

this

> if he were given the Ring, he would soon forget it, or most likely throw it away. Such things have no hold on his mind. He would be a most unsafe guardian; and that alone is answer enough.

but also this

> He appeared already to know much about them and all their families, and indeed to know much of all the history and doings of the Shire down from days hardly remembered among the hobbits themselves.

I posit that Tom Bombadil was JRR Tokien's depiction of auDHD. In this essay I will—

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town

50-something artsy he/him nerd in Tucson. On Fedi since 2017. Not tall. 25y FOSS-powered dev -> low-level cog in prison-industrial complex, so self-censoring & occasionally cranky. Follow requests: mainly I look for a bio in the profile, a little bit of visible post history, with the overall vibe not feeling too manufactured or confrontational. Shitposters ok, trolls not so much.

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Random Geek
@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town

50-something artsy he/him nerd in Tucson. On Fedi since 2017. Not tall. 25y FOSS-powered dev -> low-level cog in prison-industrial complex, so self-censoring & occasionally cranky. Follow requests: mainly I look for a bio in the profile, a little bit of visible post history, with the overall vibe not feeling too manufactured or confrontational. Shitposters ok, trolls not so much.

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town · Feb 20, 2026

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE BLAMING AN AGENT WILL NEVER BE FOUND ACCEPTABLE

I’m calling it the No Digital Scapegoats Axiom.

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town

50-something artsy he/him nerd in Tucson. On Fedi since 2017. Not tall. 25y FOSS-powered dev -> low-level cog in prison-industrial complex, so self-censoring & occasionally cranky. Follow requests: mainly I look for a bio in the profile, a little bit of visible post history, with the overall vibe not feeling too manufactured or confrontational. Shitposters ok, trolls not so much.

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town

50-something artsy he/him nerd in Tucson. On Fedi since 2017. Not tall. 25y FOSS-powered dev -> low-level cog in prison-industrial complex, so self-censoring & occasionally cranky. Follow requests: mainly I look for a bio in the profile, a little bit of visible post history, with the overall vibe not feeling too manufactured or confrontational. Shitposters ok, trolls not so much.

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town · Feb 17, 2026

RE: @noboilerplate@namtao.com

Oh that’s handy.

For all my grumbles about use and cost of LLMs etc, I am genuinely disappointed how consistently the presence of an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md file in a repo indicates poorly thought architecture and unmaintainable code.

I’d rather my low expectations of the world be proven wrong, you know?

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town

50-something artsy he/him nerd in Tucson. On Fedi since 2017. Not tall. 25y FOSS-powered dev -> low-level cog in prison-industrial complex, so self-censoring & occasionally cranky. Follow requests: mainly I look for a bio in the profile, a little bit of visible post history, with the overall vibe not feeling too manufactured or confrontational. Shitposters ok, trolls not so much.

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town

50-something artsy he/him nerd in Tucson. On Fedi since 2017. Not tall. 25y FOSS-powered dev -> low-level cog in prison-industrial complex, so self-censoring & occasionally cranky. Follow requests: mainly I look for a bio in the profile, a little bit of visible post history, with the overall vibe not feeling too manufactured or confrontational. Shitposters ok, trolls not so much.

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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town · Dec 30, 2025

Probably should unsubscribe from a chunk of professional devs in my feed eventually. Especially if I want to continue enjoying code.

Too much AI, which annoys for all the standard reasons. The big one right now: they seem at peace that pay-to-play development is a shut door for so many.

"Subscription's not much, and usage is pennies!"

"Not much" on dev pay, sure. How many subscriptions do you have for this flow anyways?

"But VS cost even more in the 1990s!"

Yes. That's why I got into Linux.

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