RL_Dane

BrideOfLinux, 4 days ago to random

Here's an article from the FreeBSD Foundation making the case for why you might consider using FreeBSD in your enterprise: FreeBSD 14.1- What’s new, and how did we get here? | FreeBSD Foundation https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-14-1-whats-new-and-how-did-we-get-here/

rl_dane, 4 days ago to random

Incontinence is no laughing matter...

But I really think "Uncertainty" would've been the perfect brand name 😅

sotolf, 4 days ago to random

Some thoughts on keyboards and ergonomics.

https://sotolf.codeberg.page/posts/keyboard/

I guess I should do the choir thing as well. @RL_Dane @amin @orbitalmartian @joel

amoroso, 6 days ago to Lisp

This is the year of the Lisp Machine desktop.

Here's an online Medley Interlisp session on my Chromebox. Your turn: show off your Lisp Machine environment.

#interlisp #lisp #LispMachine

fbievan, 6 days ago to random

@RL_Dane
Original Work: https://rldane.space/gesture-navigation-is-lame.html

I couldn't find an E-Mail Address, to I went with the next best thing... A Fediverse thread.

Sometime last year, LineageOS Dropped 2 Button Navigation Support, since it was entirely supported in Android for numerous years (and they couldn't justify maintaining that).

I really do miss 2 Button navigation, as a new android user, I loved it... so whenever LineageOS dropped it, I was saddened, and moved to 3 button navigation.

RIP THE GOAT

Have a Great Day,
Yet amazing Night,
Evan G.

NanoRaptor, 7 days ago to random

Trans Am.

misty, 8 days ago to random

Oh man, this news story. Former MLA from Manitoba asks Meta's own "ask AI" chatbot if a phone number he found on Google is really Meta support. It tells him yes. It isn't, and he's scammed out of $500 and control of his accounts. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581

golemwire, 8 days ago to random

mms, 8 days ago to random

Wrote a few more chapters, and boom. It's 23:30. The /Forks and Wars/ chapter of my Unix History is going smoothly. However there is so much info that would make the text incomprehensable, I think I'll add "bonus" subpages, like timeline.

Which Unix forks would you consider as the most important/noteable except of BSD, Solaris and Xenix? Have you used others maybe?

In the mean time, Mad Dog!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZMA3Ge144U

#bsd #unix

orbitalmartian, 8 days ago to random

Post 59/100 for #100DaysToOffload .
https://orbitalmartian.codeberg.page/blog/brain-full-to-burst/

A trigger warning is on the post, it focuses on some distressing and upseting mentions.

My Brain is Full to Burst.
#blost

raiderrobert, 8 days ago to random

I was fired from my first dev job.

It was 2011. I was trying to get a proper job after doing a couple of start ups with friends.

After 1 interview with the CEO, I got the job.

I was elated.

It was only part time, 20 hours per week. A lots of people were on vacation in my first couple of weeks, so it was slow to start, but I knew I'd get going there eventually.

45 days in, it was time for my check-in with the CEO. (1/3)

RL_Dane, 9 days ago to random

Hey #tooters,

How do you buy (paper) books ethically?
I was looking at abebooks, but they're owned by #LexCorp now 🤦‍♂️

youronlyone, 8 days ago to music

A self-hosted scrobble software that could be good for ActivityPub support: Maloja.

https://github.com/krateng/maloja

Sample instance: https://maloja.krateng.ch

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Tags: #Music #Tracker #Scrobbling #Scrobble #ActivityPub #Maloja #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

RL_Dane, 10 days ago to random

Anyone got shell accounts to an OpenBSD server I can get an invite to? (Not privileged or anything/teensy quota is fine)

Just wanted to have a shell account I can learn on. I do have an OpenBSD machine at home, but my PineBook is realistically Linux-only. OpenBSD will run, but the framebuffer doesn't work (yet?), so I think it's just "hope xenodm works, otherwise debug with a serial cable" ;)

P.S. I think I was looking in the wrong place. There is a list here: https://tildeverse.org/members/

tedchoward, 10 days ago to random

I have a #unix question. I’m running #Slackware. I log into my machine from the console and use startx to start X11. By default, my terminal app (urxvt) does not start a login shell. I know I can configure it to do this. The question is: should I? And why?

libreleah, 10 days ago to random

We have more Dell Latitude ports under review for Libreboot. If anyone has Latitude E6220, E6320, E6330, E6230 please do:

Boot with linux kernel option at boot time: iomem=relaxed

Now download coreboot via git:

git clone https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot

in there, util/intelvbttool

go in there and type "make"

./intelvbttool -l -v data.vbt

as root, in that directory, do this intelvbttool command, send it to me: info@minifree.org

The VBT configures a few things and is needed for backlight control.

fedops, 10 days ago to random

Wow, glad this week is over. Even just 3 days provided a full month's supply of dysfunctional corporate bullshit of the highest order.

Remember, peeps: don't put your heart & soul into anything with an HR department!

NanoRaptor, 11 days ago to random

Oh goodness, yes.

inlovewithpda, 11 days ago to random

The #trackball is really the best pointer of a laptop. Scrolling with the trackball is just great.
I really wish more laptops have them. @tuxedocomputers please release a machin with trackball ;) #mntreform

RL_Dane, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to macos

Something I miss from #MacOS: Being able to command-click on a Finder window's titlebar, and seeing a pop-up menu of the entire file path.

I can't find any convenient way of doing this in #KDE #Dolphin, other than making the window huge so it can show the entire path, which doesn't work with my workflow most of the time.

Just for the curious, the directory I'm working on now is 127 characters long (full path) and 8 directories deep from /

Edit: Found a solution, thanks to @Tionisla

madeindex, 11 days ago to environment

If you haven't yet you should probably watch #Koyaanisqatsi 👍

• Doesn't matter if you care about the #environment or not, this #movie offers a stunning perspective on modern society. It's a groundbreaking #film that pioneered many things! 🎞️
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi

#GodfreyReggio the #director is an extremely interesting person as well:
He used to be a #monk who "...spent 14 years in silence and prayer during his training." & went on to become a #documentarian 🎥
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Reggio

bscloutier, 11 days ago to random

Digging in the basement I found a 1-1/2" listing of an OS I wrote in the mid 90s. It is 100% 80186 assembly code. Complete with TCPIP stack, Web server, FTP, and FAT filesystem for use in a hand sized device I also designed.

Has SW floating point routines including all of the trig. Applications ran in Basic and the compiler I wrote is in this. My PUT/GET statement took and optional string for use in keyed database access. This was my first (and not last) exposure to AVL trees.

Ahh memories...

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rl_dane, 11 days ago to Dallas

Crazy hail right now. Power's out.

#Dallas #Texas

Long exposure of my garden where you can see sharp, oblong bits of hail.
Long exposure of my garden where you can see sharp, oblong bits of hail.
Long exposure of my garden where you can see sharp, oblong bits of hail.
Long exposure of my garden where you can see sharp, oblong bits of hail.

juliank, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

Just uploaded a new build of @keepassxc to Debian unstable, this adds a separate keepassxc-minimal package, and a transitional package that depends on keepassxc-full | keepassxc-minimal; so people upgrading (or new installing) will get the full experience again.

This is still 2.7.7, mind you. 2.7.8 I need to go look at some day when I'm not killing myself with apt solver work!