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Ben Ramsey

@ramsey@phpc.social

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Coder, Author, & Speaker. PHP 8.1 & 8.2 RM. ramsey/uuid. Open Source. Staff+ Engineer. he/him

Co-admin of https://phpc.social

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4878 Followers

498 Following

50 Posts

Joined August 14, 2018

Website:

https://ben.ramsey.dev

GitHub:

https://github.com/ramsey

PHP:

https://people.php.net/ramsey

Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 3w ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/117272757390130027 Sooner or later, politics comes for us all, even Ed Sheeran.

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⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

@benroyce@mastodon.social

I'm going to post the full text of #Macklemore's response to his cancellation from #EdSheeran's tour I'm not going to editorialize. I'm not going to provide context- you can search the news I think it's important because he doesn't get angry. He doesn't burn bridges And he doesn't back down from a clear moral stance. He's generous and even-handed Effective communication on an important topic https://www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2HK/ 1/x #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #Pink #RobertKraft #music

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2w ago

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@paninid@mastodon.world In 3000 years, scholars will ponder the inexplicable sudden collapse of Western civilization, caused by the enigmatic Maga peoples.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 3w ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heyokyay/117303280812787539 This is me.

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@heyokyay@mastodon.social

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2w ago

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@preinheimer@phpc.social

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 1mo ago

I didn’t know I needed medieval “Teenage Dirtbag,” but it turns out I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skfZBqH1NgM&feature=youtu.be

Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus - A Bardcore | Medieval Cover by Hildegard von Blingin' ft. Friar Funk

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @tchambers@indieweb.social

At #FediCon, @dansup@mastodon.social tells us how @loops is doing 1 year later. #FOSSY

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2w ago

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@MaddieM4@raphus.social Years and years ago, I saw some prototype devices that were supposed to help athletes cool down quickly. They’d put their hand in this chamber, which would subject it to cold air, and the idea was to cool their entire body by cooling the blood circulating through their hand. I thought it was a pretty interesting concept, and now that I think about it, it was like a reverse gom jabbar.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 1mo ago

Replying to

I’ve seen several comments that assume this is AI-generated. I don’t think that’s the case. I have no background in psychology, but I think this is who Holmes is—she’s a psychopath. https://phpc.social/@ramsey/117232395614247431

PHP Community on Mastodon

Ben Ramsey (@ramsey@phpc.social)

This looks pretty messed up. I can’t wait to see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI&feature=youtu.be

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2w ago

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@preinheimer@phpc.social Are those rainbow sticky note pads?

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

The person next to me on the flight watched Fox News for the entire 3 hour, 45 minute flight. Fox News is freaking out over El-Sayed winning the Democratic primary in Michigan. Apparently (according to Fox News), he’s a far-left communist who wants to destroy the country, and the Democratic Party is fracturing and falling apart over all the communists who are infiltrating the party. Ooookaaaay.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 1mo ago

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@MaddieM4@raphus.social As someone who’s followed and supported all of these organizations for ~25 years, it’s difficult to view them as “vanity projects for rich people.” I won’t defend them, but I can’t see them as evil just yet. I suspect others who are defending them find themselves in a similar situation.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 3w ago

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@bobmagicii@phpc.social @GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange I know all the SSIDs my phone has stored, they all require authentication, and I have the feature “ask to join WiFi” turned off, so it shouldn’t ever attempt to join anything, so this caught me off guard.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 3w ago

I was out and about and noticed my phone connected to a WiFi network called “Open Roaming.” I’ve never seen this before, and it freaked me out. It turns out, it’s a thing, and my device supports it automatically. https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/solutions/networking/wi-fi-6-6e/openroaming/index.html

OpenRoaming - Seamlessly Roam Across Wi-Fi 6 and 5G Networks

OpenRoaming is a multi-vendor initiative to provide a better bridge between mobile and Wi-Fi networks. With OpenRoaming mobile users can automatically and seamlessly roam across Wi-Fi 6 and 5G networks.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

In Vancouver, and I just saw a little kid, maybe 4 or 5, wearing a Ninja Turtles t-shirt using the turtles design from the 1987 cartoon, and it was in French, and I felt like I was taken out of time and placed in an alternate universe, for a moment.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 1mo ago

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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social Can the equals symbol be replaced with other symbols for more complex comparisons? That’s the only reason I can think of to force inclusion of it. That said, while far from perfect, I’ve thrown money at that lone developer who maintains Calibre, since it’s the best open source option we have.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

I went through security in Nashville today without ever showing my boarding pass or ID. Everything was handled with facial recognition. Boarding the plane from Salt Lake City to Vancouver, they did the same thing. No boarding pass or passport check, just facial recognition.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

Subway has jumped the shark.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social They are testing the waters to see which variant of the “spin” is more palatable to the public.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@m1ke@phpc.social https://newsroom.subway.com/2026-06-29-Subway-R-Canada-Settles-the-Debate-Introducing-the-SubDog-TM-Yes,-Its-a-Sandwich

Subway Newsroom

Subway® Canada Settles the Debate: Introducing the SubDog™ - Yes, It’s a Sandwich

Subway Canada celebrates the SubDog with a national contest in partnership with the Toronto Blue Jays™ Key Facts: Subway Canada launches the SubDog, a new footlong hot dog built as a sandwich....

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone Actually, I practiced this a few weeks ago for a PHP elePHPant exchange. I waited until I received the other person’s elePHPant and used the same box to ship them my trade. Win!

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone We can have this future now!

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@kboyd@phpc.social Oh, yeah. That’s pricey. I’ll take the ferry. Let me find out what all’s going on this weekend tomorrow, and I’ll let you know.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@jspath55@chaos.social Thanks! I’ll try to check out some of their original stuff.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@Crell@phpc.social I mean, the magnetometer I always go through in Nashville is right next to a fancy millimeter wave machine that I rarely, if ever, see used. I usually only see them send elderly people through it. I guess because of embedded medical devices?

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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I guess you don’t get a cool stamp in your passport book anymore?

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@kittylyst@mastodon.social I had to renew mine last year, so I have a fresh book, and it’s just going to stay empty. 😭

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@Crell@phpc.social I haven’t been asked to go through one of those in 10 years.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@Crell@phpc.social I already do Clear and Pre-check, so opting out would just inconvenience me and everyone else.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 1mo ago

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@MaddieM4@raphus.social Good point. The discourse is so polarizing on any topic these days, when someone is critical of anything, the automatic reaction is to assume a good vs. evil stance, hence the defensiveness others are displaying and my statement that I can’t view them as evil.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to on joshbutts.social

@josh@joshbutts.social @Crell@phpc.social I used to refuse, but then they stopped asking me to walk through them. Now, I’m never asked to use them. 🤷‍♂️

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2w ago

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@alex@social.alexschroeder.ch @MaddieM4@raphus.social This is hurting my brain, and I must be missing some nuance.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2w ago

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@alex@social.alexschroeder.ch I did not know that about Debian. They include *all* the IETF RFCs? There are over 10,000!

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@jspath55@chaos.social I guess this is a group that did it more recently? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CyrnH1nrQ8&feature=youtu.be

Firesign Theater's "THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF NICK DANGER, THIRD EYE" by the Calais Players, 2019

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@jspath55@chaos.social Is this a Minecraft joke?

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@kboyd@phpc.social Actually, when I made the joke, I was looking at a Vancity credit union, and only just realized after hitting “send” that other places around here also use “Vancity.” I didn’t realize it was a nickname for Vancouver. 😳

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2w ago

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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place @Daojoan@mastodon.social Interesting. I’ve never seen that.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@bobmagicii@phpc.social I’m kind of partial to the comic/graphic novel artwork. I have all the source books for the old TMNT and Other Strangeness TTRPG published by Palladium, and it has all that Eastman/Laird artwork in it.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to on 666.glitchwit.ch

@kf@666.glitchwit.ch There are all the truck-driving sims, too. My son bought a gear shift, steering wheel, etc.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

I was disappointed to learn Vancity doesn’t sell Vans (shoes).

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 1mo ago

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What’s really weird is that she’d let a film crew into her home days before going to prison. What did she hope to accomplish?

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@kboyd@phpc.social I’d walk on because I didn’t rent a car. How pricey is the sea plane?

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@carnage4life@mas.to I think the comparison to a compiler is flawed. You trust the compiler because it’s deterministic. An LLM is not. You never know exactly what it’s going to give you, depending on the model used, your prompt, the time of day, whether Mercury is in retrograde, the alignment of the planets, etc.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2w ago

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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place @Daojoan@mastodon.social What?

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2w ago

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@alex@social.alexschroeder.ch HTML 2 was the last IETF RFC, after which it moved to the W3C’s standards process, where HTML 3, 4, and 5 were defined and, now, are continually updated as a living standard. I’m not sure what point you’re making about it not having an IETF RFC or how that relates to being offline.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@kboyd@phpc.social I’m speaking on Friday, but I might have time on Saturday or Sunday. How would I do that? Ferry?

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 3w ago

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@GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange @bobmagicii@phpc.social I use maps all the time.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 1w ago

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@atax1a@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange I thought there were some community-maintained open weights models that weren’t trained on stolen content.

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

· 3w ago

Replying to on threads.net

@paniniddb @paninid@mastodon.world Who needs attorneys, when you’ve got LLMs? 🙃

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