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Pete Gontier

@integerpoet@sfba.social

mastodon 4.7.3

He emits dangerous cognitive radiation.

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Joined June 04, 2023

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@drahardja@sfba.social I wanted to ask how they thought attempting anything like this could possibly be a good idea even if it had been implemented perfectly. But of course they didn’t think that. They weren’t trying to make their product better. They were trying to differentiate it.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 2mo ago

#bloomscrolling #sweden

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 2mo ago

#bloomscrolling #sweden

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

On Mastodon, 41 likes is “doing numbers”. I’m famous!

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jamesthomson @Cdespinosa I not only got my old employee number back (orders of magnitude higher than CDE’s but still comparatively low) but also my directory services ID, which is so low that I keep getting told it must be a typo or a system account.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@DGI@graeber.social If you start with the petulant juvenile axiom that all taxation is theft, your destination is likely to be even stupider.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

#mendonoma #searanch #thesearanch #bloomscrolling #bloom #blooms #SilentSunday

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

RE: https://mas.to/@assaf/116496349308068105

Why does this amuse me so?

The interactive demo is a delight.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Remittancegirl Also, they are wrong about it being useless. We are hearing from Hungary that Orbán conceded peacefully in part because the people had demonstrated they would not tolerate shenanigans. The shit-for-brains in the White House needs to see that too, and not just in 2028.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@justkwin @jamesthomson @Cdespinosa When it comes to you, though, “alphabetical” isn’t as predictable as it is for others. Like did they sort you under Q or E? Because back then there were systems which did not know your government name. I bet there still are.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@JeffGrigg @Thain @tante @drahardja My favorite is when I tell a model to resolve a pathname starting with ‘~’, expecting it will be passed to the system for transformation into the path to the home directory of the current user, and the model sometimes replaces that itself with the path to the home directory of an account name of which I’ve never heard and isn’t on my system.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social The geese would have been frightened away if the sign had said REAL COYOTE. Duh.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social international plastic ale

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@arstechnica And they want us to believe they aren’t fascist.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party @catsalad@infosec.exchange @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu @drahardja@sfba.social prettier now, too

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@gparker @Cdespinosa @_the_cloud @justkwin @jamesthomson "A cardboard box? You were lucky! We lived for three months in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank."

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@avirr @justkwin @jamesthomson @Cdespinosa I have tried! Its defiance of reality haunts my frequent nightmares! O, sweet slumber, why dost thou forsake me?

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@justkwin @jamesthomson @Cdespinosa I assumed mine was simply due to alphabetically ordered names of employees at the moment we all got IDs.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@jamesthomson …said the man as he did the thing he was claiming he could have done.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@avirr@sfba.social @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social I hope @jamesthomson@mastodon.social is OK.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy. Donny can simply be a fanboy. And from all appearances he is.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@arstechnica@mastodon.social OK, but when you get there is it broken?

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@scooter @dedicto …hence my use of “needs to be made clear” and your use of “yet”. In other words, voting is necessary but insufficient.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Sonikku @rmondello Aparently not a lot of oil bound for the US passes through the strait. Donny has probably been told Iran is making money letting a few ships through, and this is his response. Because he apparently still does not understand oil is sold on a worldwide market. And admitting this war was a stupid idea is literally impossible for him.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@DieWalis Is there a German word for “I don’t even read German but I can still tell I should love/hate this post”?

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Cdespinosa For what, 25A? Way past, IMO. General strike? That too.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@MicroSFF Groundhog Life

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 2mo ago

"Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right? Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden – just a few – let us have a few. From Denmark – do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people, do you mind? But we always take people from Somalia. Places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

[CNN, Dec. 10, 2025](https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/politics/donald-trump-shithole-countries-phrase)

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@UKFilmNerd@mastodon.me.uk Why do I feel like Sir David would have mixed feelings about being saluted by means of plastic?

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@jenniferplusplus OpenSSL is important to the world. Software for which a CTO might be held responsible is important to that CTO. There should be more overlap, but there isn’t.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@scooter @dedicto It’s the answer if the people who are voted into power have the gonads for it. There are any number of things which can be done in the US to curb overt fascists while they are out of power. It just needs to be made clear to Democrats that their jobs depend on actually doing those things.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@Nonilex@masto.ai @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social Come on. It’s taking a long time. That’s evidence! If it had taken a short time, that too would be evidence. If it had taken a medium amount of time? Evidence! I don’t think you understand how evidence works.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@SeanCasten@mastodon.social @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social “We don’t demand loyalty to the president. We demand loyalty to me, and I will handle the loyalty to the president.”

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@rmondello@hachyderm.io It isn’t a safety plea. It’s a fertility totem.

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@clintruin @maccruiskeen @Remittancegirl so purity… such strong virtue signal…

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Pete Gontier @integerpoet@sfba.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Remittancegirl puritanism

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