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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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Tusky, to random
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‼️ Big annoucement!!!

✅ Tusky 25.0 is officialy out, in F-Droid and Play Store 🎉 🎉 🎉

These are the main updates to this new version:

➡️ Support Mastodon translation API
➡️ Show post language
➡️ Improved screen transitions
➡️ Filter settings now moved to account preferences
➡️ Post stats now have a stable position
➡️ A lot off under-the-hood stability & performance improvements.

❗ Also, #Tusky 25.0 app is smaller in size despite having more features.

RL_Dane, to vim
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When you're in a web browser and and end an input form with [Esc]:wq

;)

gershman,
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@RL_Dane

Same, but C-xC-c.

RL_Dane, to random
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I don't know why online git hosts don't ever show SLOC. I get really curious about code complexity in projects and will occasionally clone a repo just to run cloc on it.

https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc

@Codeberg, could that be a feature?

ianthetechie,
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@RL_Dane @Codeberg glorified hello, world in Java vs nasm? 😜

30e8cbf1427c137fa60674a639431c19a9d6f4c07fd2959df83158e674fccbaa, to random
rl_dane, to random
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OOPS! Forgot to post a in quite some time!!

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dtgeek, to HashtagGames
@dtgeek@mastodon.social avatar

BATMAN: Yes, I do donate plenty to charity to help Gotham. But contrary to the Fox News crowd, you need strong government programs to help, too! Speaking of which, the previous president belonged in Arkham, not the White House! What kind of person views Clark Kent as an "enemy of the people" for doing his reporting job?! (Sees camera start to pan away) Wait, don't cut me off--- (cuts to a DC Comics "technical difficulties" test pattern)


thor, to random
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This.

NickGates, to random
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h3artbl33d, to random
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We become what we behold
We shape our tools and then
our tools shape us
~ Marshall McLuhan

That quote struck me :flan_aww: I have been using for little over two decades. Back then, it wasn't love at first sight as documented on a blog. It did grow on me, right to the point where I could say that I truly loved it. I still remember socially engineering my mother for permission to get a Puffy tattoo (which was a requirement before turning 18). Much to my surprise, she was not only okay with it, but offered to give it as my birthday present :flan_heart:

Over the years, OpenBSD and the community have been shaping my views on computing, security and privacy. I am incredibly grateful to Theo, to OpenBSD, to the developers, to the contributors and community at large.

You - collectively and without exception - have been a bless. It has been (and continues to be) an honor. I am forever grateful to you all :heartcyber:

(soon to be continued)

NanoRaptor, to random
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On my second workday medicated. One of the best and surprising parts is confidence and trust in what I've already done.

Before, in essence I couldn't trust that my intent was what I actually managed to do.

I don't have to double check myself over and over. I just remember, and it's there. The live thoughts of tasks I performed still exist in my head and are accessible in moments.

JF, to random
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I'm enjoying the good weather and testing the integration of in !

@PINE64 @meanmicio

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mhoye, to random
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somebody just showed me a development strategy calling itself "waterfall agile", which they shortened to "wagile", if you were holding out hope that anyone in this field has any idea what they're doing

SolusSpider, to Facebook
@SolusSpider@linuxrocks.online avatar

Here's the conundrum....
I am not fond of as a platform, but I love my .
This 100 is only part of all who have messaged me on my so far.

SolusSpider,
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@RL_Dane BTW: Reddit still exists? wink

18+ amin, to random
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Tater Toots

profoundlynerdy, to forth
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Is there anything like Plank but for or ? By this I mean an ultra minimalist version in heavily commented for any instruction set.

jbzfn, to random
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Did you ever hear the tragedy of Prabhakar Raghavan the Wise?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

vga256, to random
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

i just sat down at the hospital bed with a neighbour of twenty years who just had a temporal lobe stroke at 70.

we got along well over the years, always shaking hands and chatting about anything that came to mind whenever we saw one another for a few minutes. we were not close, but friendly. in the last few years i had been avoiding him, because i disagreed with his take on the russian war with ukraine, and just didn't feel like listening to his politics anymore.

i knew that he had grown up in eastern europe during the soviet regime, but had never delved too deeply into his personal life. he had been a teacher before he became a welder, a career which he retired from a few years ago. but that was about the depth of my familiarity.

today, i listened to him cry and recount his years fleeing romania on foot, at 21 years old, walking 700 km (and sometimes running, from border police) along the railroad tracks from transylvania to serbia and yugoslavia and croatia and slovenia, before finally arriving in austria to work for a few years.

he regretted that he couldn't help his parents when they died. he was sad that he had starved as a child, but was proud of his upbringing in a strict communist education system. that he had been trained as a soldier at 20, and survived the training. he was mystified that god would punish him after trying to live a kind, honest life.

he told me about getting drunk with his friends in paris, smashing a few windows of église notre-dame des champs with cobblestones they had pulled out of the road, and then being locked up in jail for two months. not to brag, but simply to tell someone else that it had happened to him.

after two hours, i began to form a picture of a very complex person, torn between mixed feelings about the past and the choices he had made in that time.

this is the first time he has had a life-threatening illness, and he is now going through a personal crisis. these are all things we could have not talked about casually as neighbours, standing in one another's driveways for twenty years.

it was good talking with him today. it was good hearing him think out loud, and just listening.

niccolove, to random
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I'll be live in ~6 hours to talk about the GNOME financial situation. Is there anyone from @gnome (ideally, from the Foundation) who would like to join live?

loops, to random
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✨Hello Notification Feed!
We just finished adding the notification feature to Loops, along with Push Notification and filtering.

We hope you're ready 🚀

mstankiewicz,
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lauren, to random
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Back in the day, it was popular to use line printers to print out large (multiple sheets taped together) ASCII images to hang on walls and such. Some of these were very popular with us guys (keep in mind this was a heavily male-centric CS-era, even worse than now) and were NSFW -- but still ended up hanging in various places where they really shouldn't have been.

At the ARPANET site #1 lab at UCLA, we wanted some "Star Wars" posters. At the time, the only place I knew of with a potentially usable video digitizer (black and white, very low resolution by today's standards of course) was at the original Stanford AI Lab (SAIL / SU-AI).

So. A nationwide TV Star Wars special was coming up. This was my chance. I arranged with the gentleman who had the digitizer at SAIL to have it tuned to the appropriate local channel in Stanford at the correct time.

Then, from my bedroom here in L.A., over the ARPANET via my account on the SAIL / SU-AI system that controlled the digitizer, I grabbed various key images as I watched the same program locally.

Then, after the program was done, I FTP'd (file transferred) those files down to UCLA, where I had a UNIX program to create those ASCII posters.

Mission accomplished, thanks to the Defense Department's ARPANET!

Though this was fun stuff, a LOT was being learned about distributed systems and resources through these kinds of amusements.

peterkotrcka, to random
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Is micro:bit fun to work with? I was thinking about a small board for uLisp and micro:bit already has LEDs on board and everything.

ChrisWere, to random
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Nothing to do with today's discourse but FYI, GNU Social is still alive and kicking.

https://gnusocial.network/

jeffowski, to random
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profoundlynerdy, to esperanto
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I realize #Esperanto as a language movement is decentralized but is there anything like an "upper crust" within it?

howtophil,
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@profoundlynerdy All I really know is I like using Esperanto as the "magical language" in my stories with magic :)

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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"What you're refering to as Mastodon, is in fact, AP/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, AP plus Mastodon. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning AP (ActivityPub) system made useful by the AP standard, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full social network as defined by the federati."

Me, paraphrasing a known philosopher of Free Software ;)

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