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2026-07-29 19:42:54 UTC

This toot intentionally left blank (but will be edited if I need to make any comments on the poll that will be posted beneath it)

2026-07-27 13:40:15 UTC

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@nprofile…q6qh
Try YAM Launcher.

2026-07-24 02:04:43 UTC

Why is everyone angry at #Mozilla?
WRONG ANSWERS ONLY.
Let 'er rip! 😂

2026-07-22 14:13:56 UTC

If you remember downloading files from wuarchive.wustl.edu, please don't forget to schedule your colonoscopy.
😂

2026-07-14 19:11:01 UTC

Just realized the #altoids tin in was gonna toss in the blue bin would be perfect for keeping thumb drives in. Derp!
#reuse

2026-07-14 14:41:27 UTC

New #blog #post: Re: 5 Albums
https://rldane.space/re-5-albums.html
541 words
This is a #JulyReply post in reply to @nprofile…hpkh's post :D
(Minor CW in that it mentions religious music... and cults, 'cause 2026 gotta 2026, I guess 🤦‍♂️)
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @nprofile…hy4k @nprofile…7t4r @nprofile…2zfv @nprofile…qnx8 @nprofile…clkd @nprofile…vd7p @nprofile…f83y @nprofile…xd8n @nprofile…gfsf @nprofile…z289 @nprofile…lp8t @nprofile…vaq2 @nprofile…ze5h
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #Music #FiveAlbums #FiveAlbumsToKnowMe #5Albums #5AlbumsToKnowMe

2026-07-13 05:21:09 UTC

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@nprofile…q6qh
Oh, heh. 😄
The display and the scale are separate (and wireless), so you can put something big like a plate on top without obscuring the display.

2026-07-12 22:33:14 UTC

Okay that's a little weird. I bought a wireless kitchen scale and the base has both an internal battery and a compartment for two AAAs. Huh.

2026-07-09 14:17:28 UTC

Ok peeps, I've got my #HumanJSON set up, please take a look and let me know if there are any issues. :D
https://rldane.space/
cc: @nprofile…4uxh @nprofile…hy4k @nprofile…pwn4

2026-07-02 14:04:13 UTC

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@nprofile…c2w7
I'm reminded of that 80s movie (was it Ferris Bueller??) where the professor is lecturing in an auditorium-style class, and the students are slowly replaced by tape recorders. Eventually, the professor is replaced by a reel-to-reel tape player. 😄

2026-07-02 12:24:00 UTC

I have block autoplay video and audio set in Firefox, AND I have uBlock Origin set to block all media over 512 KiB.
And yet, some videos still autoplay on reddit.
The modern web is so 💩, yall. 😒

2026-06-16 12:31:33 UTC

#NetBSD guys,
Is there a way to set battery charge thresholds?
I'm looking at installing it on a Thinkpad X265.
Thanks!
P.S., how does this look to folks? — https://github.com/mdehling/netbsd-thinkpad-battery

2026-06-14 13:18:21 UTC

Posted a daily update to my #Junited post, also organized it into weeks to try to make it more easily navigable.
https://rldane.space/junited-2026.html
Mentions:
-- Week 1 --
@nprofile…em5z
@nprofile…hy4k
@nprofile…lwmd
@nprofile…jmg2
@nprofile…yhqn
-- Week 2 --
@nprofile…g5uf
@nprofile…q28f
@nprofile…upxj
@nprofile…qxrs
@nprofile…ze5h
@nprofile…939k
@nprofile…f83y
@nprofile…5rls
@nprofile…pdft
@nprofile…mex6
@nprofile…03dx
-- Week 3 --
@nprofile…vf35
APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE if this turns into a hellthread.
https://fedi.tips/muting-conversation-threads-in-mastodon/ 😄

2026-06-08 13:26:29 UTC

Really love the very subtle anti-capitalist perspective in @nprofile…u76z's books. 😆
👍
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KTKPKK18MNG9FPKW6JKT466M.png

2026-06-05 09:46:46 UTC

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@nprofile…q6qh @nprofile…h3v3
What is "Fish Linux?" Is that a distro?

2026-06-05 01:38:50 UTC

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@nprofile…h3v3 @nprofile…q6qh
There is technically a loophole in the NetBSD rules because the rules state that LLM code cannot be added "without permission."
But that permission has never been granted.

2026-05-31 14:45:14 UTC

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@nprofile…q6qh
I think it's fair to say,
"It was the best of OSes, it was the worst of OSes." ;)
There are actually some parts of the GUI I really love:
Bitmapped fonts :BlobCatThinkLove: :MiraLovesYou:
Clean (sometimes utterly sterile 😆) interface
The whole experience of DRAWING new windows feels very zen
But the whole idea that the mouse is the very best way of manipulating text is, shall we say, wrong.
But I still want to read that Ballesteros book and learn more. :)

2026-05-30 22:26:36 UTC

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@nprofile…q6qh
9? 7.9? 9front? 😄

2026-05-30 16:57:38 UTC

Hmm, still no mention of #tedu on marc.info, still no (last I heard) decision about slop in base via tmux.
Are the #OpenBSD guys ok? I don't mean this sarcastically.

2026-05-30 12:29:37 UTC

TIRED: Using VSCode like some kind of monster
WIRED: Using (neo)vim like a proper human being
INSPIRED: Using vi/nvi like it's 1979
TRANSLATED: Using ed(1) like it's 1974

2026-05-29 13:53:34 UTC

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@nprofile…q6qh
This seems to be a very good start to ed if you like a video overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoyNMFccbow
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GoyNMFccbow
Kay Lack - The little editor that could
If you prefer textual:
https://allthingsopen.org/articles/getting-started-ed-editor

2026-05-29 13:16:39 UTC

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@nprofile…q6qh
Like this? 😄
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KSSY1H4KCEZB22WR2V7WAAP7.webp
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KSSY1VF1RC4Q6B407H2W09S4.webp

2026-05-29 13:10:42 UTC

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@nprofile…q6qh
Yaaaas, fam. ;)
I'd type this in ed if I could, but tut doesn't let you dynamically pick the editor, so I leave it on vi by default. ;)
Also, I edit my .exrc in ed.🅷🅰🅲🅺🅴🆁🅼🅰🅽

2026-05-29 12:03:57 UTC

tooting from ed(1) like it's 1979...

2026-05-29 12:03:07 UTC

Would it be too gauche to get a sticker that says something like,
My ten-year-old thinkpad running BSD/Linux is cooler than your shiny $3,000 iToy
? 😂
#Thinkpad #Thinkpad4Life #Stinkpads

2026-05-28 08:14:34 UTC

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@nprofile…qxrs
How does nvi compare to elVIs? I would've thought that elVIs was more featureful.

2026-05-27 03:10:07 UTC

Interestingly, #FreeBSD comes with #nvi2 in base, while #OpenBSD and #NetBSD seem to be running #nvi 1:
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
~
~
~
Version 2.2.2 (2025-10-08) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.
OpenBSD 7.3
(7.9 is still running the same version)
~
~
~
Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.
NetBSD 10.1
~
~
~
Version (1.81.6-2013-11-20nb4) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.
They all seem to have nvi2 available as packages, though, which #Debian, oddly, does not.
rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg search nvi |grep '^nvi2'
nvi2-2.2.2 Updated implementation of the ex/vi text editor
rld@Intrepid:~$
#(searching openbsd online)
rld@Intrepid:~$ searchall -o nvi |grep ^nvi
nvi-2.2.2 (list) with wide and files limited by
nvi-2.2.2-iconv (list) with wide and files limited by
[email protected]$ uname -sr
NetBSD 10.1
[email protected]$ pkgin search nvi |grep ^nvi |grep -v nvidia
nvi-1.81.6nb13 Berkeley nvi with additional features
nvi-m17n-1.79.20040608nb11 Clone of vi/ex, with multilingual patch
nvi2-2.2.0 Multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
[email protected]$
~ $ head -1 /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
~ $ apt-cache search nvi |grep -E '^nvi2? '
nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
~ $

2026-05-26 11:09:20 UTC

2015 scam: I am a Nigerian Prince, I have fifteen million USD for you
2026 scam: Oh hey, in totally PayPal, here's my literal two cents: email meeeeee!
😂
cc: @nprofile…q6qh

2026-05-24 04:19:09 UTC

Dang it, I looked up something to share with someone to help them find some software they were looking for, then noticed it was a bsky . bridgy account.
Sheeeeeeesh.
Look, I understand you folks are trying to be nice/helpful, but could you please stop boosting that crap? I'm not going to agree to the bridge's terms or whatever, and I'm hella not going to pretend that some corpo "we're not as bad as fascist X, even though we basically helped make it what it is by courting apartheid clyde" bsky is a part of the fediverse, c'mon.
PLEAAAAASE stop this. 😞

2026-05-23 15:09:35 UTC

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@nprofile…kkfs
A little better, but it still kinda reads like,
"I was fine with overthrowing democracies, boosting fascism, and enslaving humanity, but when you fired thousands of my coworkers, that's a bridge too far! I'm OUT!"
😅
Cheers

2026-05-23 15:05:13 UTC

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@nprofile…kkfs
Please forgive my snark (it's obviously not directed at you), but it's amazing how people seem to magically procure both a spine and a moral compass the day they're getting fired.
What the flark was that person doing in the six months leading up to that? Helping Meta enslave humanity, presumably.
*siiiiiiiiiiigh*

2026-05-23 14:59:59 UTC

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@nprofile…valu
Seems I get the same error no matter what I try to do
rld@Intrepid:src$ CC=gcc LD=/usr/local/bin/ld gmake
...
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x33b): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x35a): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x379): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `WebPAnimEncoderAssemble':
anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAssemble+0x197): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAssemble+0x20b): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o:anim_encode.c:(.text.OptimizeSingleFrame+0x43b): more undefined references to `__assert2' follow
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_default_error':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_default_error+0x1c): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_warning+0xe9): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_chunk_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_chunk_warning+0x73): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: jpeg/jerror.o: in function `output_message':
jerror.c:(.text.output_message+0x31): undefined reference to `__stderr'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [Makefile:26: paltool] Error 1
rld@Intrepid:src$ CC=gcc LD=/usr/local/bin/ld gmake -lc
...
pngerror.c:(.text.png_default_error+0x1c): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_warning+0xe9): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_chunk_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_chunk_warning+0x73): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: jpeg/jerror.o: in function `output_message':
jerror.c:(.text.output_message+0x31): undefined reference to `__stderr'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [Makefile:26: paltool] Error 1

2026-05-23 14:07:39 UTC

Found a really cool command-line image manipulation tool called paltool and had no trouble compiling it on #OpenBSD, but it craps out on #FreeBSD.
Any ideas? #AskFedi #HiveMindScript started on Sat May 23 08:59:03 2026
Command: bash -l
paltool $ giturl
https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/paltool
paltool $ cd src
src $ CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc16 gmake
(some portions snipped for space, see https://bin.benjaminhollon.com/ohnumplans.bash for full output)
/usr/local/bin/ld: imgq/libimagequant.o: in function `liq_crash_if_invalid_handle_pointer_given':
libimagequant.c:(.text.liq_crash_if_invalid_handle_pointer_given+0x6a): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: imgq/mempool.o: in function `mempool_create':
mempool.c:(.text.mempool_create+0x1db): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/alpha_dec.o: in function `WebPDeallocateAlphaMemory':
alpha_dec.c:(.text.WebPDeallocateAlphaMemory+0xab): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/alpha_dec.o: in function `VP8DecompressAlphaRows':
alpha_dec.c:(.text.VP8DecompressAlphaRows+0x591): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: alpha_dec.c:(.text.VP8DecompressAlphaRows+0x5b0): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: alpha_dec.c:(.text.VP8DecompressAlphaRows+0x5cf): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/alpha_dec.o:alpha_dec.c:(.text.VP8DecompressAlphaRows+0x5ee): more undefined references to `__assert2' follow
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `WebPAnimEncoderNewInternal':
anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderNewInternal+0x113): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderNewInternal+0x190): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderNewInternal+0x1c3): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderNewInternal+0x3f0): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `MinimizeChangeRectangle':
anim_encode.c:(.text.MinimizeChangeRectangle+0x31b): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.MinimizeChangeRectangle+0x33a): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.MinimizeChangeRectangle+0x359): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `WebPAnimEncoderAdd':
anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0x9a): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0x1de): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0xb3a): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0xb59): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0xb78): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0xb97): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o:anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0xbb6): more undefined references to `__assert2' follow
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `FlushFrames':
anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x39): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x33b): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x35a): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x379): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `WebPAnimEncoderAssemble':
anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAssemble+0x197): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAssemble+0x20b): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o:anim_encode.c:(.text.OptimizeSingleFrame+0x43b): more undefined references to `__assert2' follow
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_default_error':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_default_error+0x1c): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_warning+0xe9): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_chunk_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_chunk_warning+0x73): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: jpeg/jerror.o: in function `output_message':
jerror.c:(.text.output_message+0x31): undefined reference to `__stderr'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [Makefile:26: paltool] Error 1
src $
src $ # :/
src $
logout
Command exit status: 2
Script done on Sat May 23 08:59:53 2026

2026-04-21 01:14:35 UTC

https://copy.sh/v86/ is one hell of a playground — #microblogging #MicroToot: 48 characters

2026-04-16 21:27:04 UTC

Help, I have zero idea what I'm doing.
What have I gotten myself into?!?
#plan9 #9front #TheFrontFellOff #LostUnixNerd #AmICoolNow
Read the hashtags, ya lazy bum. ;)
CC: @nprofile…clkd
P.S., cleaned up a sample script I found online for downloading and launching 9front via qemu, and posted it [here].
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KPC2ZFYF0RB5QX586Y57R0FN.png

2026-04-07 21:01:38 UTC

Dear municipal utility request form webpage,
You do not actually need to give me a bright red banner indicating that the form is not complete every time the web browser loses focus.
I'm pulling stuff up, ya ding-dong.
(Who let web pages have the ability to detect focus, anyway?!?)

2026-04-05 18:24:06 UTC

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@nprofile…hth5
And the vibe is totally under your control!
I love this place!

2026-04-05 17:26:47 UTC

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@nprofile…hth5
It was over the top before hitler's mini-me took over.
I can't imagine it now. 🤣

2026-04-05 15:43:25 UTC

Posting this, because I'm always forgetting them 😄
#Esperanto ki- (question) words
kial : what for, why, for what reason
kiam : as, when
kian : what kind of, what sort of
kia : what a, what kind of, what sort of
kiel : as, like, such as, how, in what way, such a, what a
kien : where to
kieo : whereabouts
kies : of which, which one’s, whose
kie : where
kiom : how many, how much
kio : that, which
kiuj : that, which, who
kiun : which, which one, that, who
kiu : that, which (one), who
Source: http://denisowski.org/Esperanto/ESPDIC/espdic_readme.html

2026-04-04 20:51:36 UTC

Does anyone know if there are any #eInk-based phones with unlocked bootloaders you could install something like #LineageOS on?
That would be a crazy cool device to have, but I wouldn't be willing to put up with the typical #Android shenanigans.
#AskFedi #FOSS #HiveMind

2026-04-03 13:19:47 UTC

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@nprofile…hth5
It's such a lovely, pure thing in such a dystopian time, man. XD
I remember trying it 26 years ago and being amazed. :D

2026-04-03 13:10:04 UTC

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@nprofile…f83y
That can also be done as a bash alias, but for some reason, I've never felt the need to.
Maybe if cd had been changedir all along, or something. XD
I think I commented elsewhere on this thread being surprised that unix's mkdir wasn't md like in DOS.
I never aliased that, but I do have a very useful alias called mcd (actually, a function):function mcd {
#mkdir & cd
[[ $1 ]] && mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1"
}

2026-04-02 21:21:04 UTC

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@nprofile…valu
Aww, did you get a new ginger floofbaby?

2026-04-02 20:09:16 UTC

#FloofDaughter #Mira #cat #cats #CatsOfFedi #AVIF
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KN7X0VXFTDY19DFH7CRW1XV5.avif

2026-04-02 19:52:34 UTC

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@nprofile…hth5
No way, sudo apt install -y sl instead! ;)

2026-04-02 17:59:23 UTC

I'm not saying you should all go out and set up aliases to enable your various typos and slip-ups, but I honestly don't know why I didn't do this 25 years ago.alias cd..='cd ..'
#bash #UNIX #Shell #UnixShell #POSIX

2026-04-02 13:07:46 UTC

Just totally normal #FreeBSD things, nothing to see here, uh, just a slight timekeeping malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?rld@Intrepid:~$ which uptime
/usr/bin/uptime
rld@Intrepid:~$ which guptime
/usr/local/bin/guptime
rld@Intrepid:~$ man guptime |grep -ci "\<gnu\>"
7
rld@Intrepid:~$ uptime
8:03AM up 8:30, 3 users, load averages: 0.92, 0.68, 0.50
rld@Intrepid:~$ guptime
08:03:42 up 30 days 23:45, 1 user, load average: 0.92, 0.68, 0.50
rld@Intrepid:~$

2026-04-02 03:41:40 UTC

I don't go in for a lot of the so-called #KurtzmanTrek hate online, because a lot of it has an unpleasant political smell to it, but...
If these people are still propagating the insane fallacy of the bridge of a starship having a WINDOW in the front, they're just irredeemably stupid. I don't give a rip how cool the visuals are. And yes, I obviously know about transparent aluminum... But NO.
#StarTrek #BraveNewWorlds
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KN6495ZY06XQT76RFP18CVC9.avif

2026-04-02 03:26:52 UTC

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@nprofile…f83y
I have no way of actually verifying this, but it seems (according to certain parties' accusations) that whoever is calling the shots at The Document Foundation (i.e. the LibreOffice org) is pulling a Gnome Foundation and deciding to jettison whoever they don't like.
...but like... ten times worse?
Umm... egad. #FOSSDrama #ArentWeAllAdultsHere?

2026-04-01 19:42:01 UTC

Mmmmkay, a Collabora <--> LibreOffice public online grudgematch sounds like a very odd and un-original #AprilFools joke, but it's somehow... not??
https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-about-collabora-blog-post/
What the heck? XD
#Collabora #LibreOffice #FOSSDrama

2026-03-31 20:52:36 UTC

Just a gentle reminder that the "If I don't club baby seals, someone else will club them"-style argument isn't an argument.
(Re: a conversation I had with a friend last night, not intended as a #vaguetoot against anyone on here)
#LLM #slop #AI #ethics

2026-03-28 12:47:43 UTC

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@nprofile…atnr
lol you make it sound like I was the only one 🤣

2026-03-26 04:09:45 UTC

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@nprofile…f83y @nprofile…sq2g
Holy crap, that's strike two.
AGENTS.md was strike one. I didn't see it until someone else pointed it out. I was searching for "claude" and "llm," but didn't know to look for "agents."

2026-03-25 23:35:34 UTC

@nprofile…sq2g
I noticed you have a very nice-looking alternative client for Keepass and BitDefender.
I couldn't find any statements on LLMs on the project page.
Do you have a policy? I think some folks would be very interested in a no-AI keepassxc alternative.
Thanks!

2026-03-25 00:00:11 UTC

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@nprofile…h3v3
Any tricks on finding good batteries for old Thinkpads?
This has been a problem for me. Either the stock/internal one is a little worn out and dies rapidly when it reaches 40%, or the third party external batter I order... basically does the same. 🤦🏻‍♂️

2026-03-24 11:46:58 UTC

If you really believe in the silly 250 character limit, then why the heck is everyone posting "3/12" continuation threads?
Either the limit is a good idea, and nobody should post multi-part toots, or its a dumb idea, and should be retired (in favor of a ~6k post limit). One or the other. Cut the crap, already.
I'd 100x rather see long posts shortened with a "See more" button than yet another toot that ends with "1/" 🤦🏻‍♂️
Forcing people to create threads just to get their thought across is terrible UX, and I'm tired of being diplomatic about it.
#Mastodon #GoToSocial #GtS #snac #fediverse

2026-03-21 17:05:29 UTC

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@nprofile…wslp
I'm going to test out Mint Mobile's "Home MINTernet" in the coming weeks to see if it's as good as their parent company's offering (T-mo), as it's nearly half the price. :D
I can't believe I'm paying $20 for 15GiB of cellular data. What a time to be alive. XD

2026-03-21 12:10:29 UTC

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@nprofile…wslp
T-Mobile is who I get my home internet through, which is funny, because that's a German company, no? XD

2026-03-20 21:50:43 UTC

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@nprofile…wslp
Yeah, I've heard internet access in Germany is really, really bad. I don't get that. Northern Europe has amazing and cheap internet access.
Here in the U.S., I pay $50/mo for ~200mbps via cellular, and may switch to one that's $30/mo.

2026-03-20 21:21:10 UTC

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@nprofile…wslp
Yeah man, the porting experience was even pretty easy. I had to call AT&T's support line for the porting pin, as I was on a business line (they were almost crying to see me go, I'd been a customer for decades), but once I got that, it just took a couple minutes and the mint mobile app (which seems to have a good number of trackers, may want to use the private space feature of android) guided me through the steps. Very easy.

2026-03-20 20:59:45 UTC

Gotta say, for $20/mo, this is pretty flipping incredible!
#LOSSYPNG #monochrome
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KM6GJJXW6Z0D76RG7HHDNRVB.png

2026-03-20 12:23:18 UTC

Could someone please tell the maintainer of https://openports.pl (#OpenBSD Ports search) that the cert has expired? 😥

2026-03-19 20:05:40 UTC

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@nprofile…9atz
Yes, it's what I've been using for the past few months.
My only negatives with it is the fact that they block the captive portal detection, and you have to turn off some of the more extreme security settings in order to get a lot of websites to work.
Otherwise, they're both very good #Firefox forks.

2026-03-19 17:27:17 UTC

Well, that's depressing. :(
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
List of #FOSS projects using #slop (yes, including the Linux kernel and of COURSE systemd)
#NoAI

2026-03-19 15:12:42 UTC

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@nprofile…hth5
Sadly, they're badly infected by silicon valley corporate brainrot.
#Thunderbird seems to be going in a good direction, though. They have different management.

2026-03-19 15:00:27 UTC

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@nprofile…hth5
Same, been using FF since before it was called FF! (Mozilla Milestone 16 / M16) ;)
https://web.archive.org/web/20000815052646/http://mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/

2026-03-19 14:52:08 UTC

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@nprofile…hth5
It's not trying to be a new browser like Zen (which, if you like that, cool, whatevs ;), and it's not trying to be so secure that it breaks basic things like captive portal detection, like LibreWolf.
It's minimally different from Firefox, and I'm totally here for that. It also seems to have shorter toolbars (I forget the name of the setting) set by default, so it uses up a little less screen real estate than stock firefox.

2026-03-19 14:42:00 UTC

Trying out #Waterfox now.
So far, really liking it. Not too great a departure from stock #firefox.
I may make it my default!

2026-03-03 15:58:25 UTC

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@nprofile…ml9f
I mean, if it worked for Thoreau and Jesus, you're probably on the right track. ;)

2026-03-03 15:18:53 UTC

WHAT THE FUCK.
https://www.rawstory.com/military-2675544403/

2026-03-02 17:37:50 UTC

Samsung 870 EVO SATA III SSD 1TB 2.5” Internal Solid State Drive
Price on 2025-10-04: $ 94.99
Price on 2026-03-02: $179.99
🙄
#AI #RAMShortage #SSDShortage #Enshittification #LateStageCapitalism

2026-02-22 00:58:21 UTC

Well, this is forking intolerable.
#Firefox is officially #enshittified.
It turned on the horrid "sponsored shortcuts" and "sponsored stories" without me asking.
Those stories are the last dadgum thing I ever want to see. I don't want more news about USFASH.
Smeg #Mozilla. I hope Google bumps them off the money-nipple and they crash and burn.
I'm going to try #WaterFox and #LibreWolf again.
#enshittification #e14n
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KJ1DNGW7SRQBEHPQ7S8091ZD.webp
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KJ1DNH5KPNA7HW003PSHC45C.png

2026-02-19 19:11:42 UTC

I was coming very close to switching to Rossmann/Merrill's new #privacy-focused #cellular carrier, #Phreeli, but it has a #BindingArbitration clause, too.
* Long, soul-rattling sigh
So, I guess I'll just switch to #MintMobile instead and pay half as much.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
cc: @nprofile…q4cr

2026-02-19 14:17:51 UTC

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@nprofile…ml9f
Man, that quote (and the Dr. Soran quote that it refers to) gets deeper and more intense as I age.

2026-02-17 03:16:36 UTC

Tooting publicly what I recently said in a direct message:
I really, really want to see a linux distro that says,
"Ok, we're taking all of the components out there, picking a core set of needed components, and OWNING THEM. We will contribute upstream, fork when necessary, and will ship an absolutely complete and well-documented OS."
(Also, "We will not chase the latest trends, nor will we adopt the latest geegaw from Poettering, et. al., unless it actually fixes something that needed fixing.")
'Tis the dream.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=89dGC8de0CA
cc: @nprofile…8u0e
P.S., YES I BASICALLY MEAN BSD, but maybe with the Linux kernel and GNU utilities? XD

2026-02-12 15:27:23 UTC

#TIL you can use vim/nvim as a pager directly, like
some_command |vim
Even better than that, you can redirect a file into vim like
vim < some_file.txt
The advantages of this over view/vim -R are twofold: one, it is literally impossible to overwrite the file, unless you manually type :w exact_filename within vim. Second, you can safely edit the buffer without getting any warnings of being in read-only mode, because you're editing an ephemeral buffer, not the file.
Disclaimers: I did not actually learn this today, but within the last 12 months. Also, this doesn't work in vanilla vi/nvi.

2026-02-10 21:40:52 UTC

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@nprofile…f4r9
Raspi is better than most ARM software by virtue of the fact that they value openness (to a limited extent), and that their hardware is very popular.
Apple, on the other hand, is extremely popular (as ARM goes, anyway), but they do not at all value openness, so you have herculean efforts like Asahi.
Other manufacturers like #Pine64 value openness (more so than Raspi), but they're not as popular.
The truth table ends up looking like this:
manu- | values | is | end
facturer | openness? | popular? | result
---------+-----------+----------+-------
RasPi | yes | yes | good
---------+-----------+----------+-------
Apple | NO | YES | meh
---------+-----------+----------+-------
Pine64 | YES | no | meh
---------+-----------+----------+-------

2026-02-10 14:16:52 UTC

I'm looking at two #ARM devices sitting on my dresser, both tablets.
One is a locked-down piece of garbage, designed to be a locked-down piece of garbage. I regret buying it, because its utility is obscured by the horrible software stack on it, but it was stupidly cheap, an easy fire-and-forget purchasing decision.
The other is a lovely piece of open hardware, designed for openness, designed for linux. It was graciously sent to me by a #fedifriend last year. It is sadly out of support from the distro that supported it, and is basically stuck at nearly 10-year-old software versions without any path for an upgrade, unless I do some insane skill levelling-up and do an ARM #LFS on it, or something else nearly as hacky.
Both devices are sadly useless to me, even though one was designed to be a closed surveillance helldevice, and the other an open platform.
This is because ARM sucks. It has always sucked, and it will always suck. There are no open hardware interface standards, no easy way to address the hardware with FOSS drivers, and even when you do have FOSS software for it, it rarely finds its way upstream. The hardware itself is inspired, but the software/firmware/driver stack is utterly Kafkaesque.
I'm not going to belittle folks who get Apple Silicon devices to run linux on them, nor would I ever besmirch the heroic, herculean efforts of the #Asahi team to get linux working on that hardware, but please never forget that those are herculean efforts, and should they ever cease, your hardware support is dead in the water.
As for me, I'd rather have a thermal-belching, potato-performant Intel Atom-based brickphone than a sleek, battery-sipping, crazy-performant ARM laptop. 😅

2026-02-08 18:07:21 UTC

New #blog #post: Paper Books vs. e-books vs "librebooks?"
https://rldane.space/paper-books-vs-e-books-vs-librebooks.html
1210 words
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #media #books #ebooks #amazon #kindle #kobo #rakuten #DRM #deDRM

2026-02-08 17:16:41 UTC

Just curious: can anyone who has used both kindle e-readers and the kindle store and kobo e-readers and the kobo/rakuten store compare them for me?
I'm thinking along these lines:
selection of books
price of books
evilness of the company ;)
physical properties/features of the e-readers themselves
Any ideas? @nprofile…hy4k?
#AskFedi #HiveMind #eBooks #eReaders

2026-02-02 23:14:03 UTC

Soooo...
There doesn't appear to be a single US #cellular carrier that doesn't have a #BindingArbitration clause in their #ToS.
Shazbat. 💢🙄
#Arbitration #BindingArbitrationClause #Chicanery

2026-02-02 13:20:58 UTC

Haven't read it all, yet, and unfortunately I didn't save the toot that brought it to my attention, so I'm unable to credit/thank the person who originally linked it, but the Pope's statement on AI is actually kinda great:
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/communications/documents/20260124-messaggio-comunicazioni-sociali.html
#Pope #NoAI #NoSlop

2026-02-01 22:28:33 UTC

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@nprofile…valu @nprofile…pfyz
There is a linux compatibility layer, and it can be containerized/Jailed, but it's not necessarily like running a full native linux container AFAIK.
I would really love to get #KerbalSpaceProgram (Linux native) working in #FreeBSD, but last I tried, it didn't want to work with compat_linux.

2026-02-01 22:15:10 UTC

New #blog #post: Examining The Ethics of Media Consumption and Sharing
https://rldane.space/examining-the-ethics-of-media-consumption-and-sharing.html
937 words
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #Media #Movies #Piracy #Sharing #Streaming #Disney #Netflix #Amazon #Bezos #Melania

2026-01-30 01:07:40 UTC

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@nprofile…z6pq
Does it taste like the original?

2026-01-30 01:06:56 UTC

Updated my blog's CSS so that <code> segments don't look like garbage.
The problem is that the way the theme is set up, it doesn't differentiate between in-line code snippets (defaulting to a white background) and code blocks, and the default code block color is very dark, and the default code color is also kind of dark, and it was miserable to see, before.
I started off picking IBM 3270 colors from cool-retro-term, but the default foreground color was too bright for in-line code blocks, so instead I picked an almost-black super-dark green for the foreground color, and a very light green for the background color. So hopefully it's vaguely reminiscent of a green-screen, but light instead of dark, and hopefully doesn't look like... key lime pie, which is what I think it looks like, but oh well. XD
Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20250618121134/https://rldane.space/unix-data-compression-shootout.html
After: https://rldane.space/unix-data-compression-shootout.html
#rlDaneWriting #blog #blost

2026-01-29 23:27:46 UTC

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@nprofile…z6pq
WHAT!!! THIS EXISTS AGAIN?!? Where can I get one? XD

2026-01-23 20:42:48 UTC

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@nprofile…t05x
Ever run it on bare metal? I've thought of trying it as a desktop OS. Not sure how well suited it is for that.

2026-01-21 04:17:27 UTC

Totally random #TheGoodPlace quote:
MICHAEL: If soul mates do exist, they're not found.
They're made.
People meet, they get a good feeling, and then they get to work
building a relationship, like your parents.
They didn't magically stay together because you proved they should.
CHIDI: It wasn't my logic or my representation.
It was... the feeling they got watching me,
this scared little kid telling them that he needed them.
MICHAEL: It was also what you made them remember.
You know, they loved each other.
Sometimes people forget.
You reminded them of what they already had.
...
CHIDI: Turns out life isn't a puzzle that can just be solved one time and it's done.
You wake up every day and you solve it again.
MICHAEL: Terribly inefficient.
CHIDI: Wow, (voice breaking) what a time to learn.
#TheGoodPlaceQuotes #S04E09 #TheAnswer

2026-01-19 21:24:16 UTC

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@nprofile…yhqn @nprofile…m0rx
"If you need bold and colours, it means you can’t write."
* glances at his markdown-formatting-heavy toots and blog posts 🫣
lol, love this Over/Under. :D
"We forget that a filesystem is, by definition, a database."
Preach that, yoooo!
I maintain my own file search system using find, grep, and zstd, and it is far faster than either Gnome or KDE's file index database.

2026-01-13 19:23:28 UTC

New #blog post: The Scenes that Made Me: The Good Place (2016)
https://rldane.space/the-scenes-that-made-me-the-good-place-2016.html
440 words
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #TheGoodPlace

2026-01-13 17:56:56 UTC

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@nprofile…nw6h
@nprofile…9atz @nprofile…vf35 @nprofile…hl5m are good starting points. 😁

2026-01-11 21:42:40 UTC

New #blog post: Monocultures Considered Harmful or: Why Linux Nerds Should Give BSD and Other "Weird" OSes a Try
https://rldane.space/monocultures-considered-harmful-or-why-linux-nerds-should-give-bsd-and-other-weird-oses-a-try.html
545 words
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #EdsgerDijkstra #Dijkstra #monoculture #monocultures #ConsideredHarmful

2026-01-08 20:07:47 UTC

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@nprofile…hl5m
Can your mind train my mind to be nicer to me? 🤣

2026-01-03 02:31:30 UTC

Hey @nprofile…sftd,
I love how you're helping folks get off of windows with Nixbook.
How can I find a group near me that volunteers to do the same? Is there any group structure like the LUGs of old?

2025-12-22 13:09:28 UTC

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@nprofile…j25c
Yeah, like what luakit, qutebrowser, and vimium on firefox do. You hit f, and every link gets a number or letter next to it. Whatever number/letter sequence you type is the link that gets followed.

2025-12-17 19:21:42 UTC

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@nprofile…x4wz
Heya! I've been daily-driving it for nearly a month on my main at-home laptop (Thinkpad X260).
It's pretty great! ZFS is darn near bulletproof, and after some initial challenges of getting wifi and GUI configured, it was pretty "boring"... until I tried upgrading to 15.0, lol
Figured out how to roll back to 14.3, and I'm now waiting for 15.1 before I try again (although I believe the issues I had have now been resolved, but I'm still going to wait ;)
Package availability is amazing (better than Debian in some cases!), and most things compile without any issues, although some things that don't have very well-written Makefiles are iffy and I got stuck.
Been having fun with Dosbox-X, playing games I loved 20-30 years ago. I couldn't get the Linux version of Kerbal Space Program to run under compat_linux, but I didn't really expect it to.
#OpenBSD definitely gets my vote for noob-friendly #BSD, since it has X11 in the base install, and it configures itself, but I now have sway (Wayland) running under #FreeBSD just as if I were still on Linux, so as long as someone is willing to skim through the pertinent parts of the handbook, it's a great OS.
The only downsides to #FreeBSD vs. Linux is that S3 resume takes a little longer (8 seconds instead of 1-3 seconds), and I have occasional hiccups, which I'm sometimes not able to recover from. Loading some websites in Firefox will make everything hang for several seconds at times (even though I'm launching Firefox via nice (1)), and there are some times that sway never quite recovers from S3 suspend, although that's rare. The good thing is that sometimes it will catch the power button and shut down cleanly, and even when it doesn't, #ZFS is so bulletproof that it just takes it all in stride.
There are occasional Linuxisms that feel a bit odd, like some of my packages (the swaync notification system and the duckstation console emulator are notable examples) require #pulseaudio of all things, which sometimes eats up my CPU. That's... really weird to me. I liked how minimal sndio on OpenBSD is.
Both major BSDs have very sane syntax for the config file that governs Wifi access points, and that's very refreshing to me after using a TUI to join networks on #Debian (although it's definitely possible to uninstall #NetworkManager on Debian and use the native interface config files, but they're not as nice/simple as the BSDs').
One really fun (if a bit cartoonish) way of comparing the BSD philosophy to the Linux philosophy is to look at doas vs sudo, specifically man doas.conf, then man sudoers.
The manpage for the sudoers file is pretty long and convoluted, as is the syntax for the file itself. doas.conf is super brief and to-the-point, and its manpage is pretty concise.
I think once they add the GUI setup tool to the FreeBSD setup wizard, that will be a real game-changer.
P.S., I haven't really daily-driven OpenBSD in a while, but I'm planning on getting an adapter so I can power my OpenBSD Thinkpad X200t off of a power bank, instead of the very dodgy OEM battery, so I can experiment with OpenBSD some more. I know the latest version has fixed the problems I was having with Emoji support, so I think that OS deserves another look. With the little bit of experimentation I've done in the last week, I've been pleasantly surprised with even Firefox' performance on that little Core 2 Duo. The only bummer about OpenBSD to me is the lack of ZFS or any other modern filesystem, so the occasional power losses or hang-ups become much more dangerous.

2025-12-13 14:02:49 UTC

Hey #FreeBSD fam,
What is wrong with my setup? %)
(Emoji works fine, normal latin diacritics seem fine, but Japanese is non-existent. I'm using the same fonts and terminal config as in Linux, and I've tried it in foot (the terminal shown here), lxterminal, and xterm. All the same.)
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KCC0AWPZRNXJ8NN924ZACC8G.png

2025-12-04 20:41:15 UTC

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@nprofile…3frg
I found his "is this christian nationalism" and "shut up about covid" videos very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very annoying and troubling.

2025-12-04 20:38:05 UTC

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@nprofile…3frg @nprofile…e39l
I may be a theosimpleton, but I think no matter how you attempt to "slice" it, you manage to find your way to a very confusing place:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=KQLfgaUoQCw
(Disclaimer: linking to this video does not mean I like all of that channel's videos)