rl_dane

rl_dane, 13 days ago to foss

I tried using #PulseSMS for a little bit today, because I remember liking it back in 2018 when I actually paid for the service.

I downloaded it and disabled its networking access immediately through #CalyxOS' firewall.

Even though it wasn't able to download ads, it still had blank ad banners, pop-up "buy premium!" screens and premium feature teasers like a thumbs-up icon next to the most recently received text with some small text saying something like "Try reactions!" (which sends you to the TRY PREMIUM! page.

This is without any internet access. It's all just hard-coded into the app.
I don't have a problem with these guys charging for their app, or charging a REASONABLE subscription fee for the service (being able to send SMS through any web browser), but man, apps in 2024 are just SO horrid. :'(

The state of SMS in the FOSS world is still pretty bad.
I either have to live with flip-flopping between #AOSP Messages and #QUIK for the features I need, or whack a great deal of my #SMS history in order to reduce the db size so that #Fossify messages can run reasonably well without burning up my battery.

Ok, sorry for complaining. I'm thankful for #FOSS. :D

rl_dane, 15 days ago to random

OOPS! Forgot to post a #tootlog in quite some time!!

2024-01-01 7,070 37
2024-01-02 7,121 51
2024-01-03 7,219 98
2024-01-04 7,271 52
2024-01-05 7,314 43
2024-01-06 7,431 117
2024-01-07 7,480 49
2024-01-08 7,532 52
2024-01-09 7,612 80
2024-01-10 7,651 39
2024-01-11 7,677 26
2024-01-12 7,757 80
2024-01-13 7,849 92
2024-01-14 7,890 41
2024-01-15 7,950 60
2024-01-16 8,077 127
2024-01-17 8,170 93
2024-01-18 8,359 189
2024-01-19 8,377 18
2024-01-20 8,416 39
2024-01-21 8,490 74
2024-01-22 8,548 58
2024-01-23 8,591 43
2024-01-24 8,645 54
2024-01-25 8,736 91
2024-01-26 8,812 76
2024-01-27 8,833 21
2024-01-28 8,869 36
2024-01-29 8,891 22
2024-01-30 8,893 2
2024-01-31 8,893 0
2024-02-01 8,972 79
2024-02-02 9,090 118
2024-02-03 9,169 79
2024-02-04 9,232 63
2024-02-05 9,282 50
2024-02-06 9,285 3
2024-02-07 9,285 0
2024-02-08 9,290 5
2024-02-09 9,317 27
2024-02-10 9,346 29
2024-02-11 9,368 22
2024-02-12 9,401 33
2024-02-13 9,411 10
2024-02-14 9,419 8
2024-02-15 9,421 2
2024-02-16 9,429 8
2024-02-17 9,431 2
2024-02-18 9,435 4
2024-02-19 9,444 9
2024-02-20 9,444 0
2024-02-21 9,445 1
2024-02-22 9,446 1
2024-03-04 37,748 28302 <-- switched the script to count toots on all instances
2024-03-04 37,867 119
2024-03-05 37,897 30
2024-03-06 37,931 34
2024-03-07 37,961 30
2024-03-08 37,996 35
2024-03-09 38,021 25
2024-03-10 38,028 7
2024-03-11 38,061 33
2024-03-12 38,109 48
2024-03-13 38,131 22
2024-03-14 38,143 12
2024-03-15 38,158 15
2024-03-16 38,197 39
2024-03-17 38,213 16
2024-03-18 38,233 20
2024-03-19 38,277 44
2024-03-20 38,312 35
2024-03-21 38,329 17
2024-03-22 38,348 19
2024-03-23 38,424 76
2024-03-24 38,446 22
2024-03-25 38,516 70
2024-03-26 38,561 45
2024-03-27 38,582 21
2024-03-28 38,634 52
2024-03-29 38,674 40
2024-03-30 38,743 69
2024-03-31 38,789 46
2024-04-01 38,880 91
2024-04-02 38,968 88
2024-04-03 39,017 49
2024-04-04 39,047 30
2024-04-05 39,101 54
2024-04-06 39,105 4
2024-04-07 39,110 5
2024-04-08 39,140 30
2024-04-09 39,192 52
2024-04-10 39,254 62
2024-04-11 39,400 146
2024-04-12 39,467 67
2024-04-13 39,552 85
2024-04-14 39,615 63
2024-04-15 39,654 39
2024-04-16 39,678 24
2024-04-17 39,735 57
2024-04-18 39,773 38
2024-04-19 39,827 54
2024-04-20 39,926 99
2024-04-21 39,955 29
2024-04-22 39,971 16
2024-04-23 40,038 67
2024-04-24 40,105 67
2024-04-25 40,122 17
2024-04-26 40,160 38
2024-04-27 40,220 60
2024-04-28 40,277 57
2024-04-29 40,379 102
2024-04-30 40,447 68
2024-05-01 40,481 34

rl_dane, 27 days ago to random

Official #petition to formally (or at least informally) re-name modern macOS and all derivates (iOS, watchOS, iPadOS, tvOS, bongOS, backscratcherOS, whatever) to "poopBSD."

Please #BOOST TO SIGN

Poorly written/translated sample usage to follow:

'MURICAN:
"Yo bro, what're ya runnin' there?"
"💩BSD lol YOLO"
"BOGUS, man! Such cap. You coulda run a REAL BSD, or at least Asahi, poser!"

BRIT:
"Jolly ho, my good man. What have you running there on yon slab of aluminium?" (al-YOU-min-EE-um)
"'s ShiteBSD, innit?" (SHY-te)
"Bad show, dear fellow. Bad show indeed!"

FRANÇAIS/CANADIENNE:
"Salut mon ami, qu'est-ce que c'est sur votre macbook?" (mak-buuk)
"Alors, c'est MerdeBSD, L'incroyable nouveau OS de la Pomme!" (bay-ess-day, oh-ess)
"Crétin!! Imbécile!!!"

PERSIAN:
"Salaam, doosteh-man! Eeen chee-eh?"
"Een-eh GohBSD!"
"TOKHMEH-SAG!!! Khareh!! Khaak-too-sar-et!!"

(Yeah, I'm feelin' my sass, today. But do boost ;)

rl_dane, 1 month ago to random

What your project's version numbers say about you:

0.19 - Honest, but unsure about yourself. Need some encouragement and community (yeah, this is totally me)
1.2.4 - Rational, decent human being
1.56 - A little less OCD, still quite decent
2024 - HIPSTER
20240405 - Can't be bothered to faff about with those decimals, but at least the version still means something and is precise
1.56.7 - "I serve chaos and destruction. Fear me."
163 - Yeah, I just don't even pretend to care anymore

rl_dane, 3 months ago to random

As silly as it sounds,

SOMEDAY I will stop confusing the Calulator and Calendar on my phone.

But today is not that day. %)

rl_dane, 3 months ago to fediverse

When you open a link from your terminal #Fediverse client instead of copying it* and realize...

"Oh no... I just started firefox."

Oh, the modern web. Woe, woe.

• and viewing it in a terminal and/or lightweight browser

rl_dane, 3 months ago to random

~ $ pkgsizes |tail -1
linux-image-6.5.0-0.deb12.4-amd64:Installed-Size 452.50 MiB
~ $ pkgsizes |grep linux-image
linux-image-amd64:Installed-Size 13 KiB
linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64:Installed-Size 389.11 MiB
linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64:Installed-Size 389.12 MiB
linux-image-6.5.0-0.deb12.4-amd64:Installed-Size 452.50 MiB
~ $ #Yowsa. Who knew the kernel was so PHAT?

pkgsizes script: https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/pkgsizes

rl_dane, 3 months ago to debian

Currently bootstrapping #NetBSD #pkgsrc onto my #Debian / #ARMbian #PinebookPro, just so I can hopefully have #zathura-mupdf ;)

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/platforms.html

If this works well, it will be a fantastic secondary package manager for all my debian-based boxes, and a great alternative to the AUR.

cc: @amin

rl_dane, 3 months ago to random

I think there should be some kind of international standard symbol for mental health that people could print on to buttons and wear them if they need encouragement that day.

rl_dane, 3 months ago to Blog

New #blog post: A Breath of Fresh Air (link in text)

This post introduces a new tag to my blog: "Informal post."

It's written in a more informal style than I usually use, and has minimal editing and proofreading. More like #100DaysToOffload style, although I'm not formally counting my 100 posts (yet?)

cc: my awesome chorus - @amin @ivan @sotolf @dm @orbitalmartian and others

#rlDaneWriting

rl_dane, 3 months ago to random

Random amazing website you may not know about:

The GUIdebook Gallery (capitalization on purpose)
https://guidebookgallery.org/

It's got in-depth screenshots of many versions of many different GUIs, some quite obscure.

rl_dane, 3 months ago to random

#MyFirstMac was a Macintosh SE with the original "SuperDrive!" (FDHD - Floppy Disk High Density), a 20MiB miniscribe hard disk that should have died, but never did, and 2MB RAM. Purchased 1989-12-22 (I still remember the date, for some reason)

At some point, my parents upgraded me to 4MiB RAM and an external 105MB Mirror (IIRC) hard disk (which sat under the Mac itself and had the same #SnowWhite design language), and then I was seriously livin' large!

I didn't have another Mac until my 2008 MacBook 4,1 (classic white plastic, Penryn Core 2 Duo, 2 GiB RAM, 60 GiB HDD)

My last Mac (probably forever 😥 was an early 2014 MacBook Air, which I dearly loved, but which sadly died from tea exposure in 2019.

cc: @ivan, @mike

rl_dane, 3 months ago to random

Dude, I don't even like coffee, but this is just so elegant.
I so love design

https://yewtu.be/shorts/XCXVcknbC4E

rl_dane, 3 months ago to random

TIL you could scp from one remote to another, like

$ scp $site1:foo.tar.bz3 $site2:

rl_dane, 3 months ago to random

Had a little free time, so I fired up newsboat. @ivan's first blog post didn't disappoint. Pretty funny stuff:

https://libreivan.com/posts/secure_password/

rl_dane, 3 months ago to random

I really need to start writing more #Perl

Fun fixed-point hacks to get decimals* in bash/ksh are neat, but get annoying and strangely buggy quite fast.
I wish ksh2020/ksh93u+m were more popular, as it has floating point and a bunch of neat features that makes it very competitive to Perl.

I'd use it, but I'm afraid to start writing scripts that depend on a ksh dialect that may or may not be maintained in the future.

cc: @mirabilos for insights into ksh

• usually for dealing with temperatures, where a little decimal precision is preferable

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

My phone has eight cores...
Since when does a phone do heavy multitasking?

Weird future, this.

~ $ neofetch
         -o          o-            u0_a201@localhost
          +hydNNNNdyh+             -----------------
        +mMMMMMMMMMMMMm+           OS: Android 14 aarch64
      `dMMm:NMMMMMMN:mMMd`         Host: google Pixel 7
      hMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMh         Kernel: 5.10.177-android13-4-00003-ga720
  ..  yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy  ..     Uptime: 5 days, 12 hours, 11 mins
.mMMm`MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM`mMMm.   Packages: 142 (dpkg), 1 (pkg)
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM:   Shell: bash 5.2.15
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM:   CPU: (8) @ 1.803GHz
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM:   Memory: 4390MiB / 7479MiB
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM:
-MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM-
 +yy+ MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM +yy+
      mMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm
      `/++MMMMh++hMMMM++/`
          MMMMo  oMMMM
          MMMMo  oMMMM
          oNMm-  -mMNs

~ $ lscpu -e
CPU SOCKET CORE ONLINE    MAXMHZ   MINMHZ      MHZ
  0      0    0    yes 1803.0000 300.0000 574.0000
  1      0    1    yes 1803.0000 300.0000 574.0000
  2      0    2    yes 1803.0000 300.0000 574.0000
  3      0    3    yes 1803.0000 300.0000 574.0000
  4      0    0    yes 2348.0000 400.0000 799.0000
  5      0    1    yes 2348.0000 400.0000 799.0000
  6      0    0    yes 2850.0000 500.0000 500.0000
  7      0    1    yes 2850.0000 500.0000 500.0000
~ $

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

Ok #AskFedi,

I need a recommendation.
I am officially getting my grandma a Linux Laptop, as she inadvertently damaged her MacBook Air (those things just do NOT like tea!!)

My budget is just shy of 1,000 USD, and I'd ideally like to stay within half of that.

I'd also like to keep something about as light as the MBA, and not smaller than a 13.3" screen.

I was thinking of getting a used (probably five year old) Thinkpad X1 Carbon, but I'm not sure how rugged they are compared to the old fashioned Thinkpads.

My other thought was one of the more affordable #Slimbook options, but I'm worried about shipping time/cost and support all the way from Spain. (Although, of course, I don't expect any support for a 5-year-old used Lenovo. XD

I'm also considering #VanillaOS as the distro, because I want something as safe and basic as possible. My grandma is 103. Yeah. 103.

cc: @amin

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

That feeling when the uncle who tried to show you that commandline interfaces were cool when you were a spoiled Mac kid 30+ years ago looks at you using the command line your linux box like you have a second head growing at your neck.

Eat dirt, Apple.
You've made all my relatives (who taught me so much about computers) into passive consumers of technology.

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

Half of my kingdom for a FOSS Android SMS client that can take all of those silly "Liked an image" messages from iPhones and just figure out where they go (instead of showing up as spurious messages) or just delete them.

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

Hey Polymaths!

@amin's asleep!.
Post some low-res PNGs of your pets! (Or anything else!

Bonus for semi-faithful reproductions of classic video modes like C64, CGA, EGA, MCGA, VGA, and Amiga modes.

Here's my entry, using Image Toolbox

#SleepySunday

rl_dane, 4 months ago to debian

Every now and then, I have to pop open a terminal and run neofetch to confirm that, yes indeed, "I got the swirl back in my life."

#DEBIAN
#ItsGoodToBeHome

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

I won't debate Wayland vs X11 at this moment, but i have to say that Sway is a far better tiling window manager plus compositor experience than i3wm plus picom

(Focusing on the compositing features for the most part)

rl_dane, 4 months ago to debian

Hey #AskFedi,

I'm getting very strange files popping up in my home directory.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
They show up, I delete them, they show up again.

#Debian #Linux, latest updates. No other issues as far as I know.

SMART is happy, reports nothing wrong with the nvme.

If it was disc corruption, why would it be in my homedir?

-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 17:07 'P'$'205'
-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 17:20 'P'$'325361''#NV'
-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 17:57 'P%'$'276''s&V'
-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 18:19 'Pe'$'273206''TV'
-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 18:26 'P5'$'325''[;V'
-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 18:51 'P'$'265233''*'$'

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

Unbidden opinion:

The whole "Wayland breaks everything" post is a huge distraction.
One of the best ways to aid your "enemies" is to attack them with hastily-drawn conclusions, untested assumptions, and sheer stubbornnes.

#Wayland has some real problems, and so does #X11.
There are undeniably many scenarios* where the Wayland devs never thought to do something differently, or just refused to do so for reasons they believe to be rational and for the greater good.

Making a list of very low-level features and APIs that Wayland doesn't support is a waste of time. The only response you will get will be "We never wanted to support that," and the rest of your argument will fall on deaf ears.

Sadly, the article does have some cogent points about how Wayland was designed, but they're lost in the volume of noise about features that most people (even most neckbeards) aren't nearly as concerned about.

Thankfully, Wayland is growing and slowly getting better, although there are MANY annoyances to this day.

cc: @thelinuxEXP

• Forgive me for not actually constructing a useful list here. The simple truth of it is that I'm not an expert, and I'm not trying to construct a detailed polemic, but just an overall statement regarding the right approach to disagreements such as these.