Thomas Karpiniec

Tasmanian programmer often writing networking-related Rust. Likes music but mostly posts opinions about computers. Also known as thombles and VK7XT. https://octet-stream.net/ https://standard-search.octet-stream.net/ https://site-validator.fly.dev/

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Mythos and Legends

May 12·1 min read·3 words

Yes, yes, I'm one of those AI users now

May 8·1 min read·9 words

Promoting use of fine-grained PATs

Apr 11·1 min read·5 words

High CPU reading epubs and PDFs in Linux

Feb 10·1 min read·8 words

Standard Search: a search engine for standard.site posts

Jan 31·1 min read·8 words

MIE Soft Mode

Jan 29·1 min read·3 words

Adventures in Rust borrowing deserialisation

Jan 25·1 min read·5 words

tapped: a Rust crate for building ATProto appviews with tap

Jan 16·1 min read·10 words

Difficulty enabling Apple's MIE

Jan 14·1 min read·4 words

Progress in standard.site validation

Jan 12·1 min read·4 words

This blog is on ATProto

Jan 5·1 min read·5 words

Including Rust in an Xcode project with Pointer Authentication (arm64e)

Jan 3·1 min read·10 words

Experiments with Memory Integrity Enforcement

Dec 16·1 min read·5 words

Getting YOLO mode in GitHub Copilot with VS Code

Nov 12·1 min read·9 words

Protect your keys with the Secure Enclave

Sep 20·1 min read·7 words

IdleRPG at a LAN party

Sep 1·1 min read·5 words

Injecting Java from native libraries on Android

Aug 3·1 min read·7 words

Digirig reporting incorrect channel count on Windows

Jul 11·1 min read·7 words

They paved paradise and put up a bunch of slop

Apr 30·1 min read·10 words

AI: a fork in the road for open source

Apr 21·1 min read·9 words

Giving up the dylib dream

Mar 31·1 min read·5 words

No route to host - Debian testing firewall

Feb 26·1 min read·8 words

Introducing the M17 Rust Toolkit

Jan 31·1 min read·5 words

Disabling the LED on a new Razer Cobra

Jan 14·1 min read·8 words

Managing Various Artists MP3s on Linux

Jan 9·1 min read·6 words

Bash's ctrl-o timesaver

Dec 22·1 min read·3 words

DNS Issues on a Nokia FastMile 5G

Dec 21·1 min read·7 words

2024 Guide to Signing and Notarising a Single CLI Binary for Mac

Nov 30·1 min read·12 words

Cross-Compiling Rust for Rosetta on Mac

Nov 27·1 min read·6 words

Bluesky, Fedi, and making centralisation modular

Nov 26·1 min read·6 words

LLMs are DRM for information

Nov 21·1 min read·5 words

Go template functions

Nov 12·1 min read·3 words

A Watch Channel In Go

Nov 8·1 min read·5 words

SourceTree being overzealous

Nov 7·1 min read·3 words

Several people are typing...

Aug 8·1 min read·4 words

Building Cross-Platform Offline-First Apps with Bluetooth Low Energy

May 17·1 min read·8 words

/dev/world 2024 wrap-up

May 13·1 min read·3 words