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RL_Dane

@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org

Involuntary time-traveler, recipient of offensive grace. Quasi-technical Linux and FOSS enthusiast. Armchair privacy advocate

Profile pic courtesy NeoFetch.

Header image courtesy of NASA: https://unsplash.com/photos/Q1p7bh3SHj8

My #interests:

#StarWars
#StarTrek
#Linux
#UNIX
#BSD
#OpenBSD
#Bible
#Christianity
#Jesus
#AmateurRadio
#Bash
#Dallas
#Writing
#Poetry
#Space
#KSP
#Tea
#FountainPens
#Journaling
#TabletopRPG
#RetroComputing
#ClassicMac
#uxn

#fedi22

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josh, to random
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    WideAperture, to random
    wyndix, to random

    Hey guys! I want to start federating with the wider fediverse. It'd be lovely if you could boost this post

    topher, to random

    I honestly don't understand how we've reached a point where Windows and macOS both suck, and the prominent Linux desktop environment has completely gutted menus, toolbars, capable file management and even the most fundamental aspects of the desktop paradigm - including desktop icons themselves, along with most customisation options and settings, and the apps within it don't even currently aesthetically match themselves.

    PerryM, to random
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    As a computer hobbyist, I often worry how good my passwords are. I've never seen anything to describe how important it is. This chart and the research is super. My hat off to HIVE!

    pixelherodev, to random

    talk from the ninth international workshop of
    https://diode.zone/w/sDPCT5cdmU2sH6hezSpfxA

    Totally forgot to post this sooner

    OutOnTheMoors, to random
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    hacker voice
    I'm in

    RL_Dane, to random
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    Ugh, I finally fixed my blur settings, but only by whacking my ~/.config directory.

    Ouch.

    sotolf,

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    tychotithonus, to random

    My 11-year-old demands that I share this with the world at once. (author unknown)

    stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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    ⭐️ Reminder that if you see a hashtag for an event, or conference, on Mastodon, that hashtag can be followed like any other account and will be delivered to your home timeline until you unfollow it

    NanoRaptor, to random
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    pixelherodev, to random

    > effort to rewrite sudo in rust

    Why would someone go to so much effort to not use doas??

    msprout, to random

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    nantucketebooks,
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    @benjaminhollon @msprout @RL_Dane I once wrote a program to parse through my Mail folder. I called it NICNAC, which was an acronym for NICNAC Is Certainly Not A Client.

    pixelherodev,

    @RL_Dane @ianthetechie Yes, but - given that compile time saved means more time the developer can spend working on the code - that time can be spent optimizing it.

    You can get those runtime benefits anyways, and better.

    Source optimization by experts still consistently beats compilers by a lot, because the compiler is constrained in what it is allowed to do. It cannot replace usage of an O(n^2) algorithm by an O(1) algorithm!

    LoganFive, to random
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    Comedy = Tragedy + Time
    Tragedy = Comedy - Time
    Time = Distance/Speed
    Therefore,
    Tragedy = Trying to write math jokes

    Sfwmson, to random


    spaceraser, to random
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    So, correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m going to go out here on a limb and say that it seems to me that the majority of good faith criticism of the vibe on mastodon, calling it “stuffy” and “no fun”, comes from people who joined mastodon.social, after complaining loudly that there was no default instance to quickly onboard people to the new service.

    So like, the irony, I guess, is what hit me this morning.

    spaceraser,
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    Cuz I was trying to square up how this very common criticism of mastodon was so hard for me to see in my experience. My first month or so here, I participated in an hours long alliteration thread with @RL_Dane and @benjaminhollon, among other contributors. It was very silly and not at all serious. That’s been the norm for me, people wanting to do fun stuff and normal stuff and silly stuff and serious stuff all together.

    atomicpoet, to random

    Jack Dorsey explaining exactly why no single company should own a social media platform.

    ruari, to random
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    Sometimes I am told that my cycles have the wrong number of wheels… but do they? Two cycles, four wheels. What is the problem?

    brandont, to random

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    gordoooo_z,
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    @benjaminhollon @RL_Dane @brandont @sirber Maybe it was we who were cool all along...

    brainofdane, to random
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    whispers
    [How does Fedora look and feel so much better than MacOS ever did on this device?]

    :fedora: 😆

    topher,

    @CharismaticBatman

    Can concur. Big Sur was when things suddenly became too obnoxious and unusable to tolerate any longer.

    Hideous UI choices, cloyingly oversaturated colours and translucency. Illegible text anywhere because of terrible, inconsistent contrast ratios to background and font-weight almost comically thin.

    It's just an ugly and inaccessible mess and they have betrayed the legacy users who used their system for decades.

    @brainofdane

    multilingualchurch, to random
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    Out of nowhere, a memory popped into my head and the more I think about it, the more inspiring it is.

    My dad died pretty suddenly when I was 17. I am blessed to have lots of happy memories of him.

    Recently, I've been thinking about how much joy he got from listening to a vinyl single made by his mate, V (name redacted for reasons that will become clear) at some point in the 70s.

    Let's just say that the other five of us in the family weren't huge fans. As soon as that record came on, we'd find somewhere else to be. But my dad would be lost in the music, whole body moving in time with it.

    For me, even the titles of those songs (yes, there was a B-side) makes me think of 12-string guitars with rainbow straps, untidy beards and booming laughs. For my dad, those songs probably made him think of time with his mate, who he hadn't seen for years by the time I heard him play the record. And he genuinely thought it was great music.

    Why does this inspire me now?

    I write books. I'm often tempted to feel down about sales numbers or about the fact that I haven't really done anything that has gone viral.

    But I doubt V ever signed a record deal. I'm not sure even if he even sold the entire run of his single. But my dad bought one. And he loved it. It meant a lot to him.

    It doesn't matter that V never played on Top of the Pops or Hit Parade. He had one fan in Scotland and his music meant so much to that one fan.

    I'm pretty sure that if my dad and V met in heaven, my dad would ask V to sing those songs again.

    I'm tired of trying to attract the crowds. Hoping for a bestseller is not a healthy strategy.

    From now on, I work for the few:

    • For the people I love and who love me,
    • For the people my work touches,
    • For the people who will keep coming back to my work, even if everyone else has cleared off,
    • For the God who loves me and gave Himself for me.

    Today, sing your song, bake your cake, write your book, do your talk, shape your pot, not for the faceless crowds but for the few who really matter. And for you, because you matter too.

    RL_Dane, to linux
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    Very minor, but one thing does better than is provide a graphical mouse cursor in text mode (fb).

    Kinda cool.

    JdeBP,

    @RL_Dane @traecer

    That's basically the idea, yes. If you've heard of or the old that used to be part of (but was quietly removed from it several years ago, with far less fanfare than when it was originally added) it's the same sort of idea, but structured significantly differently to and more flexibly than those two.

    http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html

    http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/guide/user-virtual-terminals.html

    I have version 1.41 in development, delayed because of a planet-wide pandemic and Brexit. (-:

    vwbusguy, to fediverse
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    What's something cool you've found or are doing with that isn't specifically related? I'm interested in the scope of use cases for it.

    smallcircles,
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    @vwbusguy I might inspire with 3 fedi-related curated lists that can be found at https://delightful.club

    RL_Dane, to random
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    I like , I just wish it didn't take 14 seconds to resume from S3 suspend on my X200

    Also, the system uptime is actual runtime and not time since it was switched on, although now I'm not sure what the "correct" way is.

    valpackett,

    @RL_Dane haha, not having a suspend-aware monotonic clock is a long-standing omission, here and here I've been looking into that stuff across platforms from a userland API point of view, and yeah I might work on fixing that. I'm kinda amazed that you've just noticed it as a user!

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