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Re: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117031824676828375 Waiting for people to crawl out of the Fedi woodwork to complain such snark is not productive.

Describing the "$user Emphasized a message" messages in an SMS group chat as "iStuffs", as NULL intended.

Leading a pontoon boat for a day on the lake. Friend 1: did you bring Malort? Friend 2: No * near unison * Friend 1: Good Me: Good Friend 3: Good

#uspol If, by happenstance, you live in Kentucky - please make the phone at McConnell's office in DC blow up off the hook with constant phone calls: https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/mcconnell-aide-dismisses-continued-requests-1962792 The phone number is (202) 224-2541. Explicitly say […]

I collect Laserdiscs in part for sample mining. There's a lot of bad movies from 1975 to 1999 that can be had for a song with amazing quips perfect for industrial and/or metal bands. Was just reminded of Wargames; there's a killer sample within the first five minutes: "I want someone on the […]

I made a post about #NetBSD a bit ago that managed to escape some of it's containment, and since then I'm up to four people who've tried it. Some successes, others who needed support and I did my best to route them appropriately. Looks like at least one new full time user, possibly more. I was […]

Oh shit this sounds amazing! A Servo-based browser project: https://nlnet.nl/project/Bisque/ "Bisque will actively "bring in" the surrounding desktop, while also exposing its own state transparently; for example, bookmarks and history as plain files and directories, or browser tab state and […]

Should probably log in an see why Teams keeps beeping, but there's a particularly bad case of the Mondays over here. It was a great weekend in the woods.

So Linus showed his entire ass ( again, if you've been paying attention in the last twenty years, but for some reason this one really got noticed ), and now I keep seeing people talking about building weird #NetBSD / Debian hybrids, how Devuan was trying that, and You know you can just run […]

Feeling annoyed enough with Ansible today I'm considering dusting off an old project that I abandoned because Ansible was, at the time, close to what I had in mind. I hate it when Redhat ruins shit.

I think a particularly bad early mistake of the web, as it exists now, was a category error. HTTP and HTML were designed to move and display documents. It still does a pretty good job of that, too - when someone points out a well built website, it's typically a small library. Little books of […]

I went viral once. As in, when I describe it, I point people to the Ars Technica article as they clearly did the best reporting. But this headline ... lmao. They outdid themselves. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116967314914742479

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode “We think this may help younger orcas feed more easily, or it could also just be for fun.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/orcas-team-up-to-ram-sunfish-until-they-explode/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm;_social-type=owned&utm;_source=mastodon&utm;_medium=socialmastodon.social

Re: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270 I fully agree with this. I think it's reasonable and appropriate. We need a path forward and this is the most plausible I've heard yet. I also can't help but wonder: what if we don't - either by failure, or by doing something else […]

Great, the Firefox ESR version on my desktop - less than two years old - can no longer get through an Anubis challenge. There's also a small but impactful set of sites where functionality is breaking. Why are the web standards changing so fast that noticeable bitrot happens faster than the […]

There was a point in my past, as a juvenile thrilled to shrink my Windows 95 partition and only use it for games because I finally got my sound card working on SuSE, at which point I may have thought of Linus Torvalds as somewhat of a hero. Then came broadband internet and being terminally […]

In between track 4 and 5 on it's playlist, mpd suddenly ground to a halt into silence. After banging and yelling for a bit, I discovered Firefox - on a completely different desktop out of focus - had suddenly grabbed the ALSA device and wouldn't let it go. I scrolled through the 70+ tabs and […]

Aaaaaand.... *checks time* .... doesn't matter. Katydids.

I don't care which search engine you use, because, there are only three: - Google ( which is problematic ) - Bing ( aka Microsoft, which is problematic ) - Yandex ( Which is problematic ) There are others that aren't those, but explicitly state they don't crawl the entire internet . If you […]

Re: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116881258702794940 Kinda funny how soon all this after I posted https://zadzmo.org/blog/posts/2026/0706-Dealt.md

It's not always DNS. And most of the time it is, it's not actually DNS itself but someone who did something wrong in DNS that took a non-negligible amount of time to have an impact. It's literally designed to limp along in a degraded state as long as possible and people get upset when it does […]