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Michael W. Lucas

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Michael W. Lucas is the author of several critically-acclaimed nonfiction books and assorted short fiction. He was on the Internet before the Web existed, and now works for an independent telecommunications wholesaler in Michigan.

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Building Mastodon Bots is Stupid Easy

I just updated the footnote fortune file for Patronizers. Yes, my Patronizers get a Unix fortune file containing all the footnotes from my nonfiction books. I thought it was daft, but apparently a few readers actually use the dang thing. My exhausted brain wondered, “How hard would it be to build a Mastodon bot that posted one of these every few hours?” Turns out: not hard at all.

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Average rating: 4.2 · 1,307 ratings · 123 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors

	SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys 4.18 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition 4.33 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Networking for Systems Administrators 4.25 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid 4.25 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS by Michael W. Lucas (Goodreads Author), Allan Jude 4.54 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ed Mastery: The Standard Unix Text Editor 4.46 avg rating — 59 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid 3.91 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS by Michael W. Lucas (Goodreads Author), Allan Jude 4.46 avg rating — 41 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sudo Mastery: User Access Control for Real People 4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD by Michael W. Lucas (Goodreads Author), Jordan Hubbard (Foreword by) 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Michael W. Lucas wrote a new blog post Building Mastodon Bots is Stupid Easy I just updated the footnote fortune file for Patronizers. Yes, my Patronizers get a Unix fortune file containing all the footnotes from my nonfiction Read more of this blog post »
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Michael Lucas and 1 other person liked James Tomasino's review of Drinking Heavy Water: a Montague Portal novel: "Eek! I love this series. The infinite universes make fabulous settings for the action to play out, and of course every bad thing that can happen will happen. That's expected from the premise and would be fun enough on its own. What's makes this so go" Read more of this review »
Jul 29, 2023 07:36PM · see review
Michael Lucas liked CJ Jones's review of Terrapin Sky Tango: a Beaks thriller: "And I thought the first book was explosive. Yes, it was a lot of personal misery, but this book adds twenty years of compacted emotional abuse (giving and receiving) to the action. I'm not exactly sure how a professional cat burglar keeps causing thi" Read more of this review »
Jul 29, 2023 07:35PM · see review
Michael Lucas liked Mike's review of git commit murder: "I started this expecting a little corny mystery - a Murder mystery about git? Worth trying, maybe it'll be funny. I actually really enjoyed it, no joking about it. Couldn't put it down for the last quarter or so. I loved seeing events through Dale's ey" Read more of this review »
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