I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!).
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Last Notes npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π CATGIRL COMMANDOES GO GO GO!! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Excellent work! Post coordinates ASAP and leave discreetly without engaging. I repeat: without engaging! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Post GPS coordinates ASAP. We will send a catgirl commando for rescue & extraction within 48 hours unless otherwise instructed. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Yup, that's for ... a bit later. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π I am still totally floored by the fact that this 2 cpu, 2GB netbook feels perfectly usable under #NetBSD 11. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π And we are live from #NetBSD 11 Ladies and Gentlemen! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π It's always funny when 'progress' displays progress as '-stalled-'... npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Updating #NetBSD 11.0_RC7 to 11.0... npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Anyway, I KNEW I should have installed 'pigz' before... π npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π "All the open pullup requests will be committed to the stable branch shortly after the 11.0 release, and become part of the upcoming 11.1 release. We are currently aiming to release 11.1 within the next two months." npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Sweet computer happiness: downloading #NetBSD 11 from 11.0_RC7 to update the netbook. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Took you seven tries, though!! π€ npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Today, I discovered the goodness that is mupdf: PDF, epub, jpeg, PNG viewer. Small, fast no drama program. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π - Get in the car, loser, we are going to the gelato place! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Installed Dillo ( @npub1vltβ¦uhe3 ) and NetSurf on that little #NetBSD machine. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Also, this is probably the movie with the highest density of former super heroes: Spider-Man, Batman, the Punisher, MJ Watson, and whoever Elliott Page played in the umbrella academy, as well as Charlize Theron in the old guard. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Just saw the Odyssey, and I have ONE question: why is Agamemnon a pale copy of Darth Vader? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π $ uname -rms npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Since I am an idiot, let's just download RC7 on the RC6 machine, reformat the USB drive and reinstall from that. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Apparently, I just reinstalled 11.0 RC6 on top of RC6... npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Can I update from 11.0 RC6 to 11.0 RC7 using 'sysupgrade'? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Thanks friend computer! I feel safer already knowing how to separate the truth from misinformation! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π "As the fight over AI data centers heats up, some polls have shown that AI is less popular with Americans than Immigration and Customs Enforcement." npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Just sent a little bit of money to the #NetBSD foundation @npub1ug0β¦dw2r because I want you guys to release 11.0 soon! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Strangely, I have more issues with pkgin refusing to connect or stalling in the middle of a download than I have with other functions. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Kind of a scary looking display in this picture, but it clears up and goes back to normal pretty quickly. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Also: I like CTWM. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Overall, that was one of the fastest and easiest installations ever. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Also: yes, I know that poor little machine is filthy. Cleaning will have to wait for tomorrow. π»π€ npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Time to go to bed, but the experiment is, so far, a complete success! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Making all devices and certctl are taking their time though, but I suppose that is to be expected... It's a netbook after all... npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Now THAT is what I wanted to see! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π It boots! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π So. That's a little netbook from Lenovo. Seems to be working. Let's test it with a Fedora 44 live USB key... npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Oh wait, I have this old laptop which may or may not work... npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Wait, wasn't that yesterday's news? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Yes. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Deleting cookies as soon as you close a tab or window should be considered as important as having an ad blocker these days. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Today, in great dialogues at work: npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Safety should be OK. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Current temperature here is 40C. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Trying to analyze an SPDX file related to a Linux or BSD distribution is actually quite hard, and time-consuming. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Logique. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π He is a churchgoing Republican, right? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Same here on SDF npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Listen, I like a bit of science-fiction just as much as the next guy, but you have to remember that this is the kind of technology that gave you (and me) immortal hits such as a tomato and super glue pizza recipe, people with 16 fingers on each hand, proving there are no countries in Africa with 'K' in their names (and the list goes on). npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Avec des frites comme accompagnement ? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Lessons learned: @npub1060β¦ydzs has a much MUCH better bandwidth than I have at home (not a real surprise here). npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Donation has been sent to the #OpenBSD Foundation. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π * OpenBSD.Amsterdam is done! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π All right, you weirdoes, time to update ALL THE THINGS to the new version of #OpenBSD! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π I was $TODAY years old when I learned the #OpenBSD 'ps' command has a '-f' option to do the same thing as Linux 'ps'. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π I have come to hate the term 'AI'. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Are both walls the same color though? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π 11.0 RC4... π€ :NetBSD: npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π How else can @npub1trlβ¦cgye track evil traitors that are a danger to us all? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π This is not a post about @npub1trlβ¦cgye because, well... Friend Computer is your friend! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Well... Guilty as charged, I guess. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Give all the pets to that poor little doggo! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π And... When the guy^W dev^W madman^W Absolute Programming God who is responsible for the Wii port of #NetBSD actually likes your post about running a blog on a Wii with NetBSD, you have reached a level of Meta-information I did not think was possible. π npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Gosh, it feels so good to be on a Linux machine again. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Something I discovered recently: npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Oooooooh, the burn the burn! π€ npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π So nvi right? π€ npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Name a better combination than tmux and vim. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π This is the kind of reactivity and efficiency I appreciate in government affairs! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Of course npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π You can probably remove 'modern' from your sentence. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π ONE SIN BEYOND!!! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π [citation needed] npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Fediverse! I need your collective mind! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Step One. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π That's a big one! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Thinking of a master plan... npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π True story: I once went to Dubai on business, and I was staying 10 minutes away from that mall, the one with the indoor ski slope. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Switzerland is showing the way, while making some very reasonable points. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Now, here is something new... npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π So: npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π #NetBSD 11, you are doing the packages in alphabetical order, right? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π [3348/9317] Compiling C object libqemu-mipsn32el-linux-user.a.p/linux-user_signal.c.o npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π The good side of this, is that I can keep an eye on both the #NetBSD 11 VM and the compilation of qemu on my #Slackware server! π npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π It works, but it is going to be painful: since the qemu network emulation provides the VM with an IPv6 address through DHCP, #NetBSD sysinst tries IPv6 first, times out, then tries IPv4... all of this to be redirected by the web server and go through IPv6 - timeout - IPv4 again. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Moment of truth... π¨ npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π It seems #NetBSD 'sysinst' still has issues with the 'curses' qemu console, but it remains readable, so onward! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Well, well, well... What do we have here? :netbsd: npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π [787/9317] Linking target target/hexagon/gen_semantics npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Oh wait... π€¦ββοΈ npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π From: npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π $ /usr/local/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 /opt/qemu/netbsd11.img 20G npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π ~/files/download/ISO/NetBSD$ curl -O https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/20260206082425Z/amd64/installation/cdrom/boot.iso npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π It's all fun and games until all electronics around you start to fry at the same time and satellites and airplanes start to fall from the sky. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Let us end the world together today, shall we? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π WANG CHUNGING IS MY LIFE! IT'S NOT A PHASE, IT'S WHO I AM! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π I will chung my wanging whenever I want! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π #OpenBSD 7.8 has a 13th patch for httpd: npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π "OpenAI uses as much electricity as New York City and San Diego combined, at the peak of the intense 2024 heat wave. Or as much as the total electricity demand of Switzerland and Portugal combined. Thatβs the electricity of roughly 20 million people." npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π They put AI in everything these days, so he cashed out early and decided to go and ruin some other thing, I suppose. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Lennart Poettering (yes, THAT Lennart) has a new company: Amutable. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Important information: that 'decent' little black dress was at least two sizes two small. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π We should probably define 'distance by meringue underwater' as a scientific measurement of 'amount of trust in a specific technology'.
