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  Xfwl4 - The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor "We, the Xfce team are excited to share some great news! After careful consideration, we’ve decided on a meaningful way to use the generous donations from our community: funding longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce. This initiative will utilize a significant portion of the project’s donated funds, but we believe it’s an important investment in Xfce’s future. The goal is, th...

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  Cool. I'll just enter a decryption password for an archive from 2018. This is sure to bring joy.

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  Out and about(sp?) running errands this afternoon and can already see signs of the impending weekend Canuckian invasion. Saw a few groups of forward scouts/Toronto Blue Jays fans malingering about the neighborhood in advance of this weekend's baseball games. It a couple times for it to click as to why so many Blue Jay fans were piling out of over-sized clown cars at different places.😆 #Baseball #SeattleMariners #goms

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  Big bada boom this morning about 30 miles north of us on Whidbey Island. "About 700 pounds of fireworks were inside the home on Smugglers Cove Road, according to Kolton Kellison, a firefighter with Central Whidbey Island Fire and Rescue. A “large explosion” shortly after firefighters arrived, threw one “into a truck” and knocked another to the ground, he said." Apparently four pallets of fireworks were dropped off at the house yesterday. 😬 https://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/2026/06/2...

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  Anu remains a role model and an inspiration...time to follow the dreamer. #CatsOfMastodon

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  Performed my annual rotating & deploying of SSH keys in pre-celebration of #Bloomsday tomorrow. "...and my heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. Yes I will rotate those SSH keys."

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  My vengeance is a confident block. Giving mercy is only a timed mute. Curating my feed is certainly necessary. When comments aren't terribly cute. #IsThereAnyEscapeFromNoise #Fediverse #MentalHealth

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  Caught up on all my matrix threads(I fucking hate matrix/element/SPA crap). Acheived #InboxZero on all of my email accounts. 🎉 Feelin' really good about getting some much needed digital housekeeping done. "Vacation" is over. I'm all caught up...until tomorrow.

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  Sleeping on the bathroom tile is not entirely out of the question tonight.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZRhdeFFydM #TwoTone #music

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  A FAQ page is now available regarding the work Xfce/Brian is doing to build Xfwl4, an Xfce Wayland Compositor: https://wiki.xfce.org/xfwl4_faq #Xfce #Wayland #Xfwl4

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  Per the blog post details: "If you’re interested in the detailed reasoning behind the project or want to explore all the technical details, check out the issues and the work in progress source code." Xfwl4 issues: https://gitlab.xfce.org/kelnos/xfwl4/-/issues Xfwl4 source code: https://gitlab.xfce.org/kelnos/xfwl4 #Xfce #Wayland #Xfwl4

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  Well, don't mind if I do. Thanks! #MandoCello #StringedInstrument

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  Dearest Annabelle, Out on our drive this afternoon, I managed to "pinch" the tip of my right middle finger while I was trying to gently close the car door. Hurt like a motherfuck. Was fine after 15 minutes. There were about a two dozen tiny, broken blood vessels that showed up immediately on the tip. But otherwise no bruising or apparent damage to the nail. Six hours later I've got this weird, incorrect dull pain if I move my middle finger in a specifc but, generally...

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  I had completely forgotten that there was a second season of Rings of Power even though it's been sitting on my harddrive for two years. Let's maybe give that a spin before I go to bed.

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  Seems like I'm not the only one without adult supervision today. Who's gonna get some extra cookies and a nap today?🙋

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  Nice to see Gil Scott-Heron and his piece "Whitey on the Moon" get some recognition courtesy of astronaut Victor Glover and today's #Artemis launch. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis-2-pilot-victor-glover-whitey-on-the-moon- #NASA #Space #SpokenWord #Poetry #Jazz #Apollo

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  Dammit! Locked Anu out on the lanai again for a half hour(or so). I am a bad hoomin. At least it's warm-ish. Pretty soon it'll be warm enough that I can leave the door cracked 24/7 and she can be a "free-range" kitty once again.

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  Re-watched "Escape from New York" again last night. It still makes me oddly nostalgic for when my father used to take me to work on his job sites in Newark and Irvington, NJ in the mid '70s. It's probably why I have such a fondness for dystopian literature and films. Good times.

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  In the Land of Lowered Expectations, the operational word of the day is: SLUGBAIT. Happy Friday!🎉

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  Currently, I use the pip-check package to check for outdated packages by using `pip-check -H`. Is there a better way of checking for outdated #Python packages installed by pip? Is there an open issue for adding this functionality to #pip that I might follow? Thanks.

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  Every morning I wake up and fail my own purity tests. How can I persist in tolerating myself? #Sisyphus

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  Being a public scold is not an admirable trait. Your bloviating screeds are not to be emulated. You're simply a bore trying to make others feel bad about themselves. Go die in a fire(metaphorically speaking). Thanks.

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  It's been almost ten years exactly since I left Facebook. It was terribly disappointing to see my old high school and college friends eagerly drinking politics for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I do miss some of them; but, I don't regret walking away from the cesspool.

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  A new blog post by me: "List outdated packages in Python's pipx without upgrading" Solving a papercut in pipx with a small bash function. https://suburbanalities.blogspot.com/2026/03/list-outdated-packages-in-pythons-pipx.html #Python #pipx #papercut #Blog #Suburbanalities #Bash

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  Six days until Spring Equinox, and Seattle weather tryin' to get all its homework done at the last minute. wtf? 🤣 (this will all be gone by noon most likely...) #Seattle #wawx #pnw #Whiteout #Snow

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  It is better to have lunched and have leftovers than to never have lunched at all.

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  My 2nd child, Anu, "relaxing and acting naturally". #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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  Been struggling all day with a massive toothache. Thankfully no small animals or children were harmed in the process of my ongoing psychotic breakdown.

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  My partner and I were having a lovely night eating some wings at a local dive when this happened. I feel that my destiny has now been laid out before me. One Ranch to rule them all, One Ranch to find them, One Ranch to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

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  Getting a "Happy Birthday" email from some rando site I signed up with 13 years ago is such a mixed blessing: 1. Thanks for reminding me that I'm an old! 2. Thanks for reminding me that I have forgotten your usefullness long ago. 3. Where have you been for the twelve previous years? I've missed your validation. 4. Holy shit! Your website is even more of a pile o'crap now. Thanks for letting me delete my account. Sometimes the Web works. #UX