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cenbe

@cenbe@mastodon.sdf.org

Retired Java programmer and Linux admin living on #Milwaukee's Lower East Side. Commodore 64 elder. Cat servant. Old-school #ttrpg player (#CastlesAndCrusades). I'm also interested in Javanese culture (#gamelan, wayang, dance) and have traveled there many times.

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cenbe, to random
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Message from Google: "With the new Find My Device network, you’ll be able to locate your devices even if they’re offline... Find My Device will use the network of over a billion devices in the Android community and store your devices’ recent locations." What's the worst that could happen?

cenbe, to random
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Pictures from a review of the Bavarian State Radio Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle playing the Mahler 6th in Chicago last weekend. First one is all eight horns playing "schalltritter hoch" ("bells high"), and the second one is the infamous hammer that's used twice in the finale.

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zirias, to FreeBSD
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Hello bsd.cafe 🤩!

I finally did it and moved to a more appropriate "home realm" for a enthusiast. Thanks @stefano for offering this!

Moving followers worked flawlessly, restoring all my settings was pretty quick, but of course all my old toots are left on https://techhub.social/@zirias 🙈

So I guess I'll introduce myself here by writing a little thread, adding a few of my works that someone might find interesting. But first a bit of "who am I":

I'm a "professional" software architect/developer (mostly platform in the day job), FreeBSD hobby-admin and ports committer, fan (and occassionally coder and even musician), and apart from computers also interested in music (playing a few instruments myself), traveling, cooking, sometimes sports, sometimes politics ... but probably won't toot about any non-technical stuff (or, very very rarely).

cenbe,
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@zirias https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeckOS

revmem, to random
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I gotta say, I wish people would not feel obligated to put mood enhancing background music on their videos. emo or techno or ambient or whatever, I can't even watch content on some sites without turning the sound off (weather.com for a random example).

cenbe,
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@revmem Enough with the videos. People still know how to read, don't they? [doubt creeps into voice] ...don't they?

thgs, to emacs
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Ok so NOW, I will learn

cenbe,
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@thgs Bless you my child, you have chosen a holy path.

sheng, to random
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@cenbe meant to say hi today! good seeing you (out of the corner of my eye) 🙂

cenbe,
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@sheng hiya, yeah there seemed to be a lot of good conversations going on today

cenbe, to random
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"Maximum power!" --Servalan

cenbe, to Milwaukee
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"Code and Coffee" meetup in

cenbe, to random
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Poor Wizard... about to have an abscess drained :( I worry for the vet's safety!

Prosaic, to random
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I guess you should always keep your hands to yourself especially around unfamiliar simians

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cenbe,
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@Prosaic I react the same way when someone slaps my ass.

Extelec, to random
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BASIC is 60 years old today.

This was my first BASIC book, although my first actual BASIC was NASCOM Tiny Basic IIRC 1978

cenbe,
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@Extelec First language I learned, followed by RPG and COBOL.

itsfoss, to random
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What do you think about COSMIC?

https://news.itsfoss.com/pop-os-cosmic/

cenbe,
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@itsfoss I think it's a very bad idea for hardware vendors to produce an operating system. What's next, "runs best on System76"?

cenbe,
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@mmstick https://support.system76.com/articles/system76-driver/ "This installs the System76 driver and related utilities which are needed to enable full functionality for your system."

pid_eins, to random
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Seems its that season of the year again, where I get to populate my blocklists of assholes on the Internet.

Good to get a personal refresher on how the wider audience on the Internet behaves. 🤮

cenbe,
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@pid_eins If you had just kept the name babykit, everyone would have argued about that instead and it would all have died down quickly. babykit ftw!

botvolution, to random
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A Very Good what fucking time of the morning do you call this to every bastard out there.

cenbe,
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@botvolution morning... morning? no, means nothing to me

cenbe, to random
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I've had time to reflect on Sir Simon Rattle's 6th last weekend, and I know what blew me away: it's that it was a European orchestra! Rarely have I heard them live; it's a whole different way of playing. They're like friends casually getting together to make music (only the level of mastery is superlative). Even the way the guy struck the hammer -- kind of hefted it for a second, then rested the head on the floor until it was needed and took a quick, mighty swing... like an executioner.

cenbe,
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Also, if anyone has any doubts about the ordering of the inner movements, listen to Sir Simon. The relief of the Andante after that arduous first movement was palpable. Then a brief break for tuning (and for Sir Simon to have a water), and it's into the Scherzo... which he let die down to almost nothing, and then BANG! straight into the Finale without a break. It was absolutely overwhelming. was right: Andante, then Scherzo.

davidpmaurer, to random
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are you morlock or eloi?

cenbe,
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@davidpmaurer morlock striving to become eloi

Carpathian, to random
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A picture from happier times. We lost Our Girl to cancer yesterday. We were with her when she went to sleep for the last time; there was no pain.

Moneypenny 2014-2024.

It's going to take a while...

cenbe,
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@Carpathian May her memory be a blessing.

cenbe, to random
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Plan 9 (9front) new release "DO NOT INSTALL": http://9front.org/

billgoats, to retrocomputing
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100 delicious megabytes

cenbe,
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@billgoats I have one for my Commodore 64!

cenbe, to random
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A well-deserved ovation for Sir Simon Rattle and the Bavarian State Radio Orchestra after playing the 6th in Chicago this afternoon. Many gave water to the dead. There was screaming in the audience during curtain calls. And yes, the hammer was LOUD. The guy next to me jumped in his seat.

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cenbe, to random
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On , watching a freight train go hurtling past in the opposite direction inches away. I'm glad our rail system is relatively safe.

mir, to random

can computing just Stop Moving please? like, no new chips. no new distro upgrades. no features. Just let people actually fucking fix and optimize the trillions of lines of spaghetti code currently in production.

cenbe,
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@mir Good luck with that. I took early retirement rather than staying in IT.

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