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  *cough* #NoSlop / #NoAI / #AInt / #NeverSlop folks, it's time to put our money where our mouths are. (As you're able) https://www.netbsd.org/donations/ #NetBSD

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  @computerchronicles@mastodon.social Dear everyone under 50, and everyone involved with anything resembling TV production today: Do you notice how all of the text has nice, fat drop shadows? That's so that you can read it, no matter the color of the image behind it. WHAT  👏 A  👏 BRILLIANT  👏 EFFINGG  👏 IDEA  👏 I  👏 WONDER  👏 IF  👏 WE  👏 COULD  👏 DO  👏 THAT  👏 TODAY  👏 EVERYWHERE  👏 PLEASE  👏

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  Just finished watching #Pluribus. WHAT THE HECK DID I JUST WATCH??!?? Laziest ending, ever. #PLUR1BUS

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  Post your #NeverSlop tech stack! I'm thinking... OS: #NetBSD, #Illumos, #Haiku, #RedoxOS or #9frontEditor: #ed, #nvi, or #VimClassiceBooks: #clbre??? (Doesn't seem to have any downloads yet); #arcalibre?Social: (egad, #Mastodon is already sloppified?!?) #GoToSocial, #snac2, hopefully #LittleFediAudio editing: #TenacityBrowser: #KonformBrowserImage editing: libvipsData/file encryption: #LibreSSL, ccryptPassword Manager: #ChiPassTerminal Multiplexer: GNU #Screen and #OpenTmuxEmail: #aerc,...

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  #POLL: How do you pronounce the "SHA" in SHA-256?

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  #KDE be like, "Man, picking a good AI policy is so HARRRRRD!" Meanwhile, #Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy khaby_lame_hand_gesture.mp4 (The policy is CC-BY-SA-licensed, too, guys. You could literally just copypasta it. ;)

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  @computerchronicles@mastodon.social Hah, 1985 was better than 1995! 😄 Man, the years after Sculley until Steve's re-introduction in 1997 were so lost and clueless. Well, kind of like Apple now, except that they're killing it, financially (not that anyone should care about that). I recently heard some rumblings that Apple is maybe paying influencers to promote the new super-expensive folding iPhone? If it's true, I'm absolutely shocked.

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  Tired: Me ten years ago talking about doing something in the 1980s and my millennial friends losing their minds and saying, "Wait, HOW OLD ARE YOU!?!?" Wired: Me today, remembering something from the 1980s, doing the math on how LONG ago that was, and then saying, "WAIT, HOW FREAKING OLD AM I!?!?" #OLD 🤣

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  Not sure why, but #mpv on #FreeBSD is super stuttery now and doesn't want to play video. Not sure what happened. rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -srm FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64 rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg info |grep mpv mpv-0.41.0_1,1 Free and open-source general-purpose video player Tried reinstalling it and all its dependencies, but it's still doing it. Maybe I need to employ my old adage, the very sagest advice from a hypothetical #Canadian: "When in doot, reboot!" Tha...

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  Had an absolutely garbage, rear-axle-scraping-against-the-blacktop kind of mental health day yesterday. 0/100, would not recommend. Send funny tech memes, jokes, and happy thoughts. Or, you know, send nudes of motherboards (not people, you freaks!!! 😆)

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  I've got my eye out for some cheap #soda Coke is getting stupidly expensive for what it is. I was at Aldi the other day, and I saw some diet root beer, and bought it excitedly and took it home. I didn't realize until I tasted it that it was root beer flavored sparkling water. It literally tasted like someone poured some soda water into a glass, took a root beer flavored Dum-Dum (lollipop), and swizzled it around in the soda water and served it. Rather underwhelming. 😂 I distinctly re...

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  New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 16: Retrocomputing https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-16-retrocomputing.html 308 words cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel@polymaths.social @dm@polymaths.social @sotolf@polymaths.social @thedoctor@polymaths.social @pixx@merveilles.town @orbitalmartian@polymaths.social @adamsdesk@fosstodon.org @krafter@polymaths.social @roguefoam@polymaths.social @clayton@polymaths.social @giantspacesquid@fosstodon.org @stfn@fedi.stfn.pl @golemwire (I will happily add/remove you fro...

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  I recently learned while flipping through youtube that the MacBook Neo saves money by only shipping 8GB RAM, ans saves RAM by aggresively swapping to... SSD. So I wonder how long it'll be before all of those SSDs start going belly-up. God forbid you just optimize your bloated OS a little better. rld@prometheus:~$ pfetch ..:::. rld@prometheus ..-==- os Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur) .+#: host 20NQS18E00 ThinkPad X390 Yoga =@@ kernel 6.12.107+deb13-am...

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  More #NetBSD thoughts: I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;) But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually k...

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  New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 3: Cats!! https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-3-cats.html 1292 words I can tell this is going to be a favorite of mine, and I hope it will be of yours, too. :) cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel@polymaths.social @dm@polymaths.social @sotolf@polymaths.social @thedoctor@polymaths.social @pixx@merveilles.town @orbitalmartian@polymaths.social @adamsdesk@fosstodon.org @krafter@polymaths.social @roguefoam@polymaths.social @clayton@polymaths.social @giantspacesquid@fossto...

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  WHAT, new #TedLasso episode dropped!! Let's goooo!!!! #dm — #microblogging #MicroToot: 57 characters

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  SOON. #Bandcamp #Friday #BandcampFriday https://isitbandcampfriday.com/ — #microblogging #MicroToot: 71 characters

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  #ThreeGoodThings: CatsRetro/permacomputingNerdy command-line shenanigans.

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  Stupid network printer only works if I power-cycle it every time I go to print, from any computer in the houseCode up a little bash one-liner to ping the printer every 3 seconds and display a '#' if it's up and a ' ' if it's downPrinter starts working reliably because my pings are keeping it alive somehow?!?!?PROFIT!!!

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  Just remembered the Z-Hop* setting in #Cura. Now my C64 keyboard dust cover should hopefully print without incident. :D * Causes the print head to jump up whenever moving over a printed layer to prevent the print head from snagging the part being printed and yanking it off the build surface (print/print head collision) #3DPrint #3DPrinting #3DPrinter #Sovol #C64 #C64U #Commodore #Commodore64 #Commodore64U #Commodore64Ultimate

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  I was holding my kitten in my arms, and I noticed that his hind legs were pointing straight up and his head was pointing straight down... GUYS, WHAT ARE KITTENS EVEN MADE OUT OF?!? #LiquidCats #Kitten #FloofSon #Sunny

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  @occult@vox.ominous.net Ugh, this is so annoying. The Fediverse doesn't need a TikTok. The universe doesn't need a TikTok. TikTok is garbage. I was so hoping that #Loops would be a real personal video sharing platform like [Beme] was (for a short time), and not just another brainrot spigot.

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  Found an old screenshot of my #Sharp #Zaurus running #Linux back in #2004. This was the shiz. XD

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  Utter complete flipping black magic. This lunatic made an animated JPEG. ANNIMAYTED. JAY-PEG. No JS, no special viewer*. They hacked the "progressive" JPEG mode. https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/ Via @82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe — http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/07/linkdump-no-117/ Direct example image link: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/cat.jpg * Not every viewer will display the animation, but firefox does, but only when loaded from the internet. Viewing it locally see...

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  When #FreeBSD is so reliable you forget you're not on #Debian*. rld@Intrepid:handbook$ doas apt install imv doas (rld@Intrepid) password: doas: apt: command not found rld@Intrepid:handbook$ doas pkg install imv * UNTIL you try to do a major version upgrade and wifi breaks. 🤣

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  Trying them ALL 😅 @joel@polymaths.social

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  @jaypatelani@bsd.network @corvus@mapstodon.space @cmccullough@polymaths.social They're already slopped. 😓 https://slopscan.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2Fgit%2Eenlightenment%2Eorg%2Fenlightenment%2Fenlightenment

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  Cats' resting state of matter: liquid Cats' state of matter when there's an open container of Churu (liquid treats): PLASMA

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  heh. rld@prometheus:~$ doas iw dev wlan0 scan |grep -i 'ssid:.*virus' SSID: VirusInstaller2.exe

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  Switched to a #NoSlop #Android #Launcher. It was hard to say goodbye to #KissLauncher after using it for literal years, but  #LastLauncher is really hitting my minimalism button.  😁 https://f-droid.org/packages/nl.bw20.last_launcher