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 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 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 - Get in the car, loser, we are going to the gelato place! 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 Thanks friend computer! I feel safer already knowing how to separate the truth from misinformation! 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 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 Logique. 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 All right, you weirdoes, time to update ALL THE THINGS to the new version of #OpenBSD! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Are both walls the same color though? 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'. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Yup, that's my understanding as well. I have been reading qemu man pages for $random_project and going "ooooh you can compress disk images, ooooh you can encrypt them... Oh, wait..." npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π 'The use of encryption in qcow and qcow2 images is considered to be flawed by modern cryptography standards, suffering from a number of design problems ..." npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π If you want something that preserves your privacy, move to another platform than Mastodon. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π That is not going to happen. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π When you have real good followers. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Got some CDs of dark and moody music delivered today. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Just wait until we REALLY start to tax them. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Yes. But. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Everybody is worried about Greenland. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π "Commies" being a convenient term for "Any person I don't like, starting with people who are not lily white like me". npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π This picture is probably not Cilia Flores, as she was supposed to be dressed in a blue and red jump suit and have blonde hair. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π She also believed in Jewish Space Lasers. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π You can do both, but usually the Foundation is the one who is set up to collect and redistribute money efficiently to the project. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Oh, color me surprised... NOT. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Precisely: they outsource the moderation they should be doing to the rest of the Fediverse. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Not pictured: the extra work that mastodon.social dumps on all the other servers because they refuse to filter users for obvious signs of spam. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Fair warning. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π I have said it before, but I will say it again: if people think moving from X(itter) to Bluesky is a good idea, they are just deluded and haven't done their homework. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Oh, you mean interacting with the kind of charming people that comprise the current US administration? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π OK, so red states will vote Republicans and blue states will vote Democrats and the current Republican majorities will continue as before? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Hence the question I ask every time: what makes you think there will be midterms? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π But remember: it's only a True Guillotine (tm) if it comes from the Guillotin region of France. Everything else is just a sparkling Decapitator and a pale imitation of the real thing! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Monday morning and AWS is down (at least part of it), right? npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π WhatsApp is encrypted end-to-end. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Good for you. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π "Democracy is the worst form of government ever, except for all others". npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π I'll never tire of posting this: npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π I am tired of waiting! npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Zadar was beautiful, but Trogir is even more beautiful... npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Croatia, day 4: Zadar. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Totally worth it though. npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Croatia, day 3: Plitvice npub19yex9j484gfrspsfgs3gwcvzxmd63yfrr0k36233t2sh0fgchzrs57npv6 Parade du Grotesque π Croatia, day 2: Karlovac.
