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  @doragasu@mastodon.sdf.org USB is perfect. 😄 CC: @OpenComputeDesign@linuxrocks.online

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  lol holy crap, "doas make clean" from /usr/ports on my #FreeBSD laptop has been running for the past two hours, nearly. WHY??? 😂 Could seriously use some parallelization. Maybe next time, I'll do cd /usr/ports; for x in */*; do ( cd "$x"; doas make clean ) & done ;)

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  @Screwtapello@teh.entar.net @amadaluzia@mastodon.bsd.cafe Huh, #TIL that less has marks like vi/ed! :D

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  Perhaps I'm being silly, but [less] with scroll bars would be a nice thing to have. Not even clickable, necessarily, but just a visual indication of the size and position of the viewport vs the size of the document. P.S., I am occasionally a very silly person. https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01M5QWY6H3STZMZ2A7678FP4FQ

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  Can no longer download some Play Store apps using the anonymous Aurora Store account. Can no longer use my old spare gmail account without giving Google my cell number. Can no longer sign up for a new gmail account without giving Google my cell number. This is not normal. This is not ok. What the actual flaming forking fork?

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  Hey #NetBSD guys, How do you set up #WireGuard? wg-quick isn't available for NetBSD from what I can tell. I got wireguard-go to create the tun0 interface, but when I try to feed the config file to it, I get a parsing error: rld@discovery:~$ doas wg setconf tun0 /etc/wireguard/protonvpn.conf Line unrecognized: `Address=10.~~~.~~~.~~~/32,2a07:~~~~::2:2/128' Configuration parsing error rld@discovery:~$ (~~~=redacted) #BSD #RunBSD

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  *cough* #NoSlop / #NoAI / #AInt / #NeverSlop folks, it's time to put our money where our mouths are. (As you're able) https://www.netbsd.org/donations/ #NetBSD

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  @computerchronicles@mastodon.social Dear everyone under 50, and everyone involved with anything resembling TV production today: Do you notice how all of the text has nice, fat drop shadows? That's so that you can read it, no matter the color of the image behind it. WHAT  👏 A  👏 BRILLIANT  👏 EFFINGG  👏 IDEA  👏 I  👏 WONDER  👏 IF  👏 WE  👏 COULD  👏 DO  👏 THAT  👏 TODAY  👏 EVERYWHERE  👏 PLEASE  👏

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  Just finished watching #Pluribus. WHAT THE HECK DID I JUST WATCH??!?? Laziest ending, ever. #PLUR1BUS

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  Post your #NeverSlop tech stack! I'm thinking... OS: #NetBSD, #Illumos, #Haiku, #RedoxOS or #9frontEditor: #ed, #nvi, or #VimClassiceBooks: #clbre??? (Doesn't seem to have any downloads yet); #arcalibre?Social: (egad, #Mastodon is already sloppified?!?) #GoToSocial, #snac2, hopefully #LittleFediAudio editing: #TenacityBrowser: #KonformBrowserImage editing: libvipsData/file encryption: #LibreSSL, ccryptPassword Manager: #ChiPassTerminal Multiplexer: GNU #Screen and #OpenTmuxEmail: #aerc,...

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  #POLL: How do you pronounce the "SHA" in SHA-256?

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  #KDE be like, "Man, picking a good AI policy is so HARRRRRD!" Meanwhile, #Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy khaby_lame_hand_gesture.mp4 (The policy is CC-BY-SA-licensed, too, guys. You could literally just copypasta it. ;)

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  @computerchronicles@mastodon.social Hah, 1985 was better than 1995! 😄 Man, the years after Sculley until Steve's re-introduction in 1997 were so lost and clueless. Well, kind of like Apple now, except that they're killing it, financially (not that anyone should care about that). I recently heard some rumblings that Apple is maybe paying influencers to promote the new super-expensive folding iPhone? If it's true, I'm absolutely shocked.

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  Tired: Me ten years ago talking about doing something in the 1980s and my millennial friends losing their minds and saying, "Wait, HOW OLD ARE YOU!?!?" Wired: Me today, remembering something from the 1980s, doing the math on how LONG ago that was, and then saying, "WAIT, HOW FREAKING OLD AM I!?!?" #OLD 🤣

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  Not sure why, but #mpv on #FreeBSD is super stuttery now and doesn't want to play video. Not sure what happened. rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -srm FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64 rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg info |grep mpv mpv-0.41.0_1,1 Free and open-source general-purpose video player Tried reinstalling it and all its dependencies, but it's still doing it. Maybe I need to employ my old adage, the very sagest advice from a hypothetical #Canadian: "When in doot, reboot!" Tha...

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  Had an absolutely garbage, rear-axle-scraping-against-the-blacktop kind of mental health day yesterday. 0/100, would not recommend. Send funny tech memes, jokes, and happy thoughts. Or, you know, send nudes of motherboards (not people, you freaks!!! 😆)

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  I've got my eye out for some cheap #soda Coke is getting stupidly expensive for what it is. I was at Aldi the other day, and I saw some diet root beer, and bought it excitedly and took it home. I didn't realize until I tasted it that it was root beer flavored sparkling water. It literally tasted like someone poured some soda water into a glass, took a root beer flavored Dum-Dum (lollipop), and swizzled it around in the soda water and served it. Rather underwhelming. 😂 I distinctly re...

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  New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 16: Retrocomputing https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-16-retrocomputing.html 308 words cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel@polymaths.social @dm@polymaths.social @sotolf@polymaths.social @thedoctor@polymaths.social @pixx@merveilles.town @orbitalmartian@polymaths.social @adamsdesk@fosstodon.org @krafter@polymaths.social @roguefoam@polymaths.social @clayton@polymaths.social @giantspacesquid@fosstodon.org @stfn@fedi.stfn.pl @golemwire (I will happily add/remove you fro...

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  I recently learned while flipping through youtube that the MacBook Neo saves money by only shipping 8GB RAM, ans saves RAM by aggresively swapping to... SSD. So I wonder how long it'll be before all of those SSDs start going belly-up. God forbid you just optimize your bloated OS a little better. rld@prometheus:~$ pfetch ..:::. rld@prometheus ..-==- os Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur) .+#: host 20NQS18E00 ThinkPad X390 Yoga =@@ kernel 6.12.107+deb13-am...

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  More #NetBSD thoughts: I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;) But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually k...

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  New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 3: Cats!! https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-3-cats.html 1292 words I can tell this is going to be a favorite of mine, and I hope it will be of yours, too. :) cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel@polymaths.social @dm@polymaths.social @sotolf@polymaths.social @thedoctor@polymaths.social @pixx@merveilles.town @orbitalmartian@polymaths.social @adamsdesk@fosstodon.org @krafter@polymaths.social @roguefoam@polymaths.social @clayton@polymaths.social @giantspacesquid@fossto...

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  WHAT, new #TedLasso episode dropped!! Let's goooo!!!! #dm — #microblogging #MicroToot: 57 characters

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  SOON. #Bandcamp #Friday #BandcampFriday https://isitbandcampfriday.com/ — #microblogging #MicroToot: 71 characters

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  #ThreeGoodThings: CatsRetro/permacomputingNerdy command-line shenanigans.

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  Stupid network printer only works if I power-cycle it every time I go to print, from any computer in the houseCode up a little bash one-liner to ping the printer every 3 seconds and display a '#' if it's up and a ' ' if it's downPrinter starts working reliably because my pings are keeping it alive somehow?!?!?PROFIT!!!

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  Just remembered the Z-Hop* setting in #Cura. Now my C64 keyboard dust cover should hopefully print without incident. :D * Causes the print head to jump up whenever moving over a printed layer to prevent the print head from snagging the part being printed and yanking it off the build surface (print/print head collision) #3DPrint #3DPrinting #3DPrinter #Sovol #C64 #C64U #Commodore #Commodore64 #Commodore64U #Commodore64Ultimate

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  I was holding my kitten in my arms, and I noticed that his hind legs were pointing straight up and his head was pointing straight down... GUYS, WHAT ARE KITTENS EVEN MADE OUT OF?!? #LiquidCats #Kitten #FloofSon #Sunny

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  @occult@vox.ominous.net Ugh, this is so annoying. The Fediverse doesn't need a TikTok. The universe doesn't need a TikTok. TikTok is garbage. I was so hoping that #Loops would be a real personal video sharing platform like [Beme] was (for a short time), and not just another brainrot spigot.

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  Found an old screenshot of my #Sharp #Zaurus running #Linux back in #2004. This was the shiz. XD

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  Utter complete flipping black magic. This lunatic made an animated JPEG. ANNIMAYTED. JAY-PEG. No JS, no special viewer*. They hacked the "progressive" JPEG mode. https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/ Via @82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe — http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/07/linkdump-no-117/ Direct example image link: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/cat.jpg * Not every viewer will display the animation, but firefox does, but only when loaded from the internet. Viewing it locally see...