My coworker started chatting over wall this morning as we were both on the same server investigating something… it’s the best chat client haha
We had 11°C and a lot of wind today. I left the house at beautiful sunshine to go into the woods. I had to shelter from the rain under a coniferous tree right away for 10-15 minutes or so.
Many puddles had plenty of spawn in them. Some of the super tiny tadpoles already hatched. Unfortunately, none of them will probably make it, because all those puddles will all dry up in the next one or two months I reckon. Let’s hope for the best, though.
A bird landed in the trees about 30 meters away from me and it appeared to be a larger one, like a buzzard. Only at home at the screen I then saw that it was just a pidgeon. :-)
A bit later, there was a chaffinch happily singing and picking on the forest road. I could close in to about five meters before it flew half a meter further and continued. So I made a few steps, too. That game continued for over five minutes, before it then decided to relocate four meters higher onto a branch to let me pass by beneath. Pretty cool!
Trying to write my own C programs that do TCP/IP on OS/2 Warp 4. Didn’t go so well. This operating system is much, much more dead than DOS and it’s super hard to find any information. 🫤
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version
Bad news from BSD land – the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux. NAS vendor iXsystems has been busy this year, but apart from some statements in online user communities, it hasn’t been talking about the big news. Back in 2022, we covered TrueNAS CORE 13, the new release of its FreeBSD-based turnkey OS for NAS servers, and in that article we mentioned its new product, the Debian-base … ⌘ Read more
if you are not in a “central country” you are screwed. I thought it would be a good idea to promote a LiberaPay page to build some patronage to my free/open projects, but in Brazil LiberaPay can only handle PayPal and it integrates poorly, it doesn’t accept Reais! If you try a direct PayPal donation button it works much better: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5B4MZ78C9J724 … this is so frustrating.
This is interesting allowing to access a Web with SSH, although a bit complicated for the ‘regular’ user
https://pico.sh/tunnels
I’d expect some one-time password, or some challenge to copy and paste. Anyway, it always makes mi think of alternatives to passwords.
More basement:
I completely forgot that DVD-RAM was a thing once. Found my old disks and they still work. 🤯 The data on them is from 2008, so they’re not that old. Still impressive.
The disks are two-sided. On the photo, that particular side of the disk on the left appears to be completely unused. 🤔
And then I read on Wikipedia that DVD-RAMs aren’t produced anymore at all today. Huh.
(I refuse to tag this as “retrocomputing”. Read/write DVDs that you can use just like a harddisk, thanks to UDF, are still “new and fancy” in my book. 😂)
I was so hyped when I found this box in the basement! 🤯🤯🤯
Only to find out, that …
… it’s something else. 😭
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Finally broke down and installed Pipewire. Bare ALSA is only good if you only use one physical sound card ever. Don’t even try Bluetooth.
How is everyone?
yarn should define its own federation protocol that extends the basic twtxt in ways that twtxt doesn’t allow. it’s time. and i’ve got ideas!
I came across Google Summer of Code
This one looks interesting, I’ll apply soon, and perhaps is interesting for you as well
https://kiwix.org/en/google-summer-of-code/
Would ‘twtxt’ be a good project for the next one? 🤔
Wanna see something interesting?
Playing with Wireguard and network namespaces today. Resisting the urge to redo my server.
Is Philosophy Self-Help? https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/is-philosophy-self-help/
So I had three espressos before 11:00 - today’s going swell.
Cool news from: https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
Wishing I could do accents like Trevor Noah can.
KTeaTime: A customizable tea steeping timer application from the KDE project: https://apps.kde.org/kteatime/
Planètes, décors, machines, personnages… Je veux tout :P <@https://im-in.space/web/@noroanka/111913341057705258>
eapl.me jumped to Ruby League 🔻
185/140 calories burned this week!
After getting used to it, I’m loving this date format:
2024-02-06
I liked ‘6feb2024’, although isn’t as international as the former.
And… ‘06/02/24’ is awful, don’t use it!
Pro tip: Don’t run out of space on Btrfs.
I wrote this in my status script to reduce my computer usage: uptime | awk ‘{sub(“,”, “”, $3); print $3}’