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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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NanoRaptor, to random
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RL_Dane,
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@NanoRaptor

cc: @sotolf

izzyamar, to random
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I'm editing id3 tags and getting my mp3 library in shape. MY GOD HOW I HAVE MISSED THIS.

RL_Dane,
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@izzyamar

I may sound like a simp, but editing tags is one thing that makes me miss old iTunes. it was just so easy. Kid3 is ok, and Picard is literally the kitchen sink, but iTunes just took care of it so easily.

thor, (edited ) to ADHD
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What to do if you're 40 and you've realised you can't stand office work at all because you have #ADHD, but the only job experience you have is 13 years of being a software engineer?

Add to that the constraint that you can't go to school to re-educate yourself because school is just office work you don't get paid for?

What kind of job can you even get in that situation? I've been thinking about that for 4 years now and I don't have any good answers. 🤷‍♂️

EDIT: I did not respond well to medical ADHD treatment. Bad side effects. Many people get those, but it's not talked about much.

#jobs #careers #programming

RL_Dane,
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@thor

Q. What treatment options for have you pursued?

RL_Dane,
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@thor

Hmm, that stinks. Are there no other options?

Re-tooling your entire career when you already have a fairly stable one is not done easily or flippantly. I've tried re-inventing myself a time and a half and it was always harder than I thought.

jppelt, to random
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Does Fedi have any thoughts on ? If so, what is the fediverse thinking?

Thank you in advance!

RL_Dane,
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@jppelt

Seems a bit like a "free speech" alt-fedi.

In the grand scheme of things, probably not that bad. I dunno.

I think @twizzay @twizzay uses it.

RL_Dane, to Blog
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New post: Nearly a Quarter Century of Mobile Phones
https://rldane.space/nearly-a-quarter-century-of-mobile-phones.html

This was meant to be a quick-and-dirty post to get myself writing again after a pretty bad month, but I ended up writing for nearly two hours, so... ?!?!?!?!??

cc: my : @joel, @amin, @dm, @ivan, @sotolf @thedoctor

dfloyd888, to random
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QNAP NAS models, if one buys an Intel based one (one that can run amd64), and one that has a HDMI out, can easily have a new OS installed, something like TrueNAS SCALE if there is enough RAM, or just plain old Linux with ZFS and Samba for a small attack surface, although it doesn't have a pretty web UI.

RL_Dane,
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@dfloyd888

Hey, welcome back! :)

symbolix, to Synthwave
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„Dreamy nostalgia, unchained melodies, endless fantasy, hope, action, emotions... All of that and way more you can expect with my fifth studio album called ‚5th Element‘“
https://marvel83.bandcamp.com/album/5th-element

RL_Dane,
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@symbolix

Looking forward to queuing this up in a few minutes!

joel, to android
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This is from a year where I actually didn't do

And the instance I first shared it on got lost to time...

Anyway, here's every smartphone I've owned so far, just so I can say I technically beat you to it @robb ;)

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/the-smartphones-i've-owned-so-far/

RL_Dane,
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@joel @robb

This was fun. I need to write one, too.

I can't find it anywhere (even a screenshot), but there was a mobile game I used to love playing circa 2001 called Gladiator. It wasn't a java or BREW game, but rather used the incredibly stripped-down "web browsers" we had back then, "WAP." (NO, NOT THAT FETID SONG.)

thelinuxcast, to books
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The first post on my new blog https://www.thebookieblog.com/my-new-blog/

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@thelinuxcast

Subscribed!

thelinuxcast, to random
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If I wanted to start a blog, but had no interest in managing the software of it, which platform should I choose? Honestly been out of the blogging space for so long, I have no idea what the options are outside of managed wordpress.

RL_Dane,
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@thelinuxcast

I'm pretty complexity-averse, and I've had a good time with pelican as my SSG. It's pretty dead simple to set up and use, more so than Hugo, IMHO

RL_Dane,
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@monospace @thelinuxcast

Second this, I've heard @drose raving about micro.blog

MostlyHarmless, to random
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These darn millennials...Walking around like they rent the place.

RL_Dane,
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@MostlyHarmless

Darn Zoomers, working half-heartedly as if their hard work will be rewarded only with more work and layoffs.

adamsdesk, to linux
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Saying Goodbye To Neofetch and Giving Thanks

Gain the latest news as to what happened to the Neofetch project and giving thanks to the lead developer Dylan Araps and contributors.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/neofetch-archive-goodbye/

RL_Dane,
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@adamsdesk

WOW. "Taken up farming." That is really something.

I remember someone telling me about farming, and when they were asked, "hey, you're a professional, you have this extensive background, why in the world do you spend so much time just digging into the dirt."

The guy looked up thoughtfully for a moment and replied, "Well, it's cheaper than therapy."

🤷‍♂️

SolusSpider, to random
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Hence why I moved across the world, so that this situation would not happen.

RL_Dane,
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@SolusSpider

😆

RL_Dane, to random
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Ooo, found a new-to-me fediverse software in < 15k SLOC of C: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

$ cloc snac2

Language code

C 11441
C/C++ Header 3351
...

SUM: 15533

cc: @amin

RL_Dane,
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@amin

Compare to >5 million SLOC for GtS and >200k SLOC for honk ;) (both written in Go)

DANG, GtS if FIVE MILLION SLOC? What in the world is the mastodon server itself?!?

Wait... mastodon is 185k SLOC of YAML and only 100k SLOC of Ruby?

So GtS is "fatter" than mastodon itself? :o

RL_Dane,
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@krafter @fedops @amin @mirabilos @polishdub

Ok, my bad.

Looking only at gotosocial/internal, it's 108k SLOC of Go, and a tiny smattering of YAML, JSON, and .md

Looking at mastodon, here are the dirs & SLOC:
6878 db
49k spec
183k config (YAML)
app: 64k SVG, 64k JSON, 38k ruby

RL_Dane,
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@dheadshot @amin

I didn't count GtS right. See other replies in the thread for the correct count. It's still a few hundred thousand SLOC, IIRC.

Ruby is slower, but I think the code is more concise.

tinfoil-hat, to random
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@RL_Dane are you from germany?

RL_Dane,
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@tinfoil@social.tinfoil-hat.net

Nein ;)

I'm originally from the land that conquered a lot of other lands but treated them decently fairly, but I've lived most of my life in possibly the most overrated country of all time.

Where am I from? XD

RL_Dane,
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@tinfoil@social.tinfoil-hat.net

You got it.

tinfoil-hat, to random
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This is straight from a movie. Just proves predictive programming

RL_Dane,
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@tinfoil@social.tinfoil-hat.net

This was a #StarTrekDS9 episode.

RL_Dane,
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@tinfoil@social.tinfoil-hat.net

Sounds a little like AI (2001), but absolutely definitely Demolition Man (1993) with Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, Rob Schneider, and Wesley Snipes.

That movie was LEGENDARY. I still remember seeing it in the theatres when it came out. XD

jawsh, to random
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Does anybody know of a FOSS Android application for keeping track of the location of Bluetooth devices?

RL_Dane,
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@adamsdesk @jawsh

Not sure if this has what you want, but its worth a try:

https://f-droid.org/packages/f.cking.software/

RL_Dane,
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@jawsh

Yeah, its more of a passive detector.

Another option would be to try a google play app with networking permissions revoked.

That's what I do for the scant few google apps I use, like google/pixel camera and snapseed

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