Nostr notes by R.L. Dane (snac)

@nprofile…v88g Just curious, what's the use case for that?

2026-08-07T12:09:30Z

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Ben Stokman (nprofile…v88g)

Just curious, what's the use case for that?

@nprofile…v88g You mean... simultaneously?

2026-08-07T02:07:19Z

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Ben Stokman (nprofile…v88g)

You mean... simultaneously?

@nprofile…q6qh Except for ufetch assuming a dark theme ...

2026-06-20T13:24:56Z

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bpl (nprofile…q6qh)

Except for ufetch assuming a dark theme (grrrrr!), I wouldn't call that awful at all!

If not for the very mousey interaction model, I think the default #wm in #NetBSD is pretty darn slick! ;)

Then again, I'm old(ish). ;)

cc: Stefano Marinelli (nprofile…z6zj)

@nprofile…pary @nprofile…z6zj "Dessert pizzas" were a ...

2026-05-31T18:49:06Z

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Stumpy The Mutt (nprofile…pary) Stefano Marinelli (nprofile…z6zj)

"Dessert pizzas" were a time-honored staple of cheap American pizza buffets! 😆

Federation's broken on polymaths.social again, how's my ...

2026-05-31T18:33:33Z

Yo, #OpenBSD peeps, Has anyone tried #Sway on 7.9/-current? Is it ...

2026-05-02T12:14:12Z

Yo, #OpenBSD peeps,

Has anyone tried #Sway on 7.9/-current? Is it good?

It's a little buggy in #FreeBSD. I don't really care about sway vs. #i3wm all that much (nor am I ideologically invested in the Wayland vs. X11 grudge match 😄), but I reallly like foot as a terminal, and fuzzel as a launcher/menu, and they're Wayland-only. 😂

I need to give #FreeBSD 15 another try on this laptop, soon. ;) ...

2026-04-16T18:47:03Z

I need to give #FreeBSD 15 another try on this laptop, soon. ;)

FreeBSD hasn't been perfect, there are occasional momentary hangs when loading large websites (for some reason), and every now and then Wayland/sway will just completely lose the plot and force me to shut down...

But dang if #ZFS isn't freaking bulletproof.

@nprofile…gh3g Reminds me of when I do open *.pdf on my ...

2026-01-22T22:20:59Z

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vermaden (nprofile…gh3g)

Reminds me of when I do open *.pdf on my computer at work (open is a shell function that eventually calls xdg-open). It goes from nothing to having a dozen Zathura windows open at once.

Feels like Star Trek, man. XD

@nprofile…4md4 @nprofile…q7n5 I don't use the web ...

2026-01-21T22:55:53Z

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DHeadshot's Alt (nprofile…4md4) Chad McCullough (nprofile…q7n5)

I don't use the web interface directly 99% of the time, but yes, I think it does.

His account just wasn't being found initially from snac, for some reason. GtS could see it fine.

@nprofile…q7n5 just mentioning you so I can follow you from ...

2026-01-20T16:58:49Z

Chad McCullough (nprofile…q7n5) just mentioning you so I can follow you from this account.

snac can be a bit odd to use at times, but I like it. ;)

@nprofile…9lm2 @nprofile…hl5m @nprofile…hl5m ...

2026-01-13T03:03:41Z

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R.L. Dane (snac) (nprofile…9lm2) Justine Smithies (nprofile…hl5m) Justine Smithies (nprofile…hl5m) 𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑️🤪 (nprofile…6cws)

I take some of that back. A lot of emoji are still in black-and-white in the terminal (including alacritty and xterm) for some reason.

Namely:
😀 😃 😄 😁 😆 😅 😂 🙃 😉 😊 😇 😍 😘 😗 ☺️ 😚 😙 😋 😛 😜 😝 😐 😑 😶 😏 😒 😌 😔 😪 😴 😷 😵 😎 😕 😟 ☹️ 😮 😯 😲 😳 😦 😧 😨 😰 😥 😢 😭 😱 😖 😣 😞 😓 😩 😫 😡 😠 😈 ☠️ 💩 🤖 😺 😸 😹 😻 😼 😽 🙀 😿 😾
(and others)

I have both noto-emoji and unicode-emoji installed.

@nprofile…hl5m @nprofile…6cws I just remember installing ...

2026-01-11T22:48:08Z

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Justine Smithies (nprofile…hl5m) 𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑️🤪 (nprofile…6cws)

I just remember installing noto-emoji and openmoji, and that seemed to do it?

For some reason, some programs like dmenu are still in black-and-white, but alacritty is in color.

Emoji got a lot better in #OpenBSD 7.8.

@nprofile…g8wz Welcome to adulthood? ;)

2026-01-03T13:35:21Z

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cheese :neodog_flag_agender: :neodog_flag_ace: :neocat_flag_transmasc: (nprofile…g8wz)

Welcome to adulthood? ;)

@nprofile…v8jm \> Some highlights in there: Tigger is ...

2025-12-27T18:41:03Z

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slembcke (nprofile…v8jm)

\> Some highlights in there: Tigger is cuddling Perry the Platypus. We did a bunch of games for Disney, so everyone started getting me Perry stuff. Tigger liked to cuddle him.
ADORBS
\> I made the flute from some old bamboo that was being thrown out. (I have like... 3(?) as well as a concert flute under the desk)
So cool!!
\> The wooden box is a "useless machine".
Oh, those are fun
\> Stirling engine sitting on top of my computer. (used for cooling my tea)
Ha, I didn't notice that one, somehow.

@nprofile…v8jm @nprofile…qqn0 The first thing I noticed was ...

2025-12-26T18:21:51Z

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slembcke (nprofile…v8jm) The Seven Voyages Of Steve (nprofile…qqn0)

The first thing I noticed was that Hobbes wasn't jumping up on my bed as effortlessly as before. The other big tell that I didn't understand at the time was that he'd start hiding himself in the cupboards and not answering when I called. I didn't know at the time that a cat's instinct is to die alone. 😥

Fortunately, he was absolutely not alone when he passed. I and my aunt were with him.

On a happier note, sweet desk pic!! Tell me about the flute, the gaming handheld, the... is that a Kurta calculator?!?

Oh, and the Data and Spot painting. 🥹

@nprofile…qqn0 Very contented cat, 100/10 would headpat. ...

2025-12-26T18:18:36Z

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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (nprofile…qqn0)

Very contented cat, 100/10 would headpat.

slembcke (nprofile…v8jm)

@nprofile…s8s5 Huh, it's light on my machine. It must be ...

2025-12-26T16:12:06Z

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Tyrone Slothrop (nprofile…s8s5)

Huh, it's light on my machine. It must be respecting your machine/browser's light/mode preference?

Also, my vote is absolutely for the BSD. XD

--Sent from my FreeBSD thinkpad. XD

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com @nprofile…ehnf @stefano ...

2025-12-25T20:40:42Z

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com fedops 💙💛 (nprofile…ehnf) @stefano Jan Schaumann (nprofile…mcrd)

Bookmarked, thank you!

@nprofile…v8jm @nprofile…mwjh Oh, that was a brilliant form ...

2025-12-25T17:13:03Z

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slembcke (nprofile…v8jm) Maurizio (nprofile…mwjh)

Oh, that was a brilliant form factor. The last true small phone.

I'm kind of done with phones in general, from a privacy standpoint (terrible), from a usability standpoint (can haz real keyboard plox?), and now from a visibility standpoint (old eyes not loving focusing on something less than an arms-length away).

I'm going to try to keep this Pixel 7 for as long as possible.

And yeah, I remember 2007 when people were flipping their lids for the iPhone, calling it the "JesusPhone."

There hasn't been any hardware all that interesting since then.
And Apple absolutely does not have the vision to produce a revolutionary product like that anymore.

@nprofile…v8jm @nprofile…mwjh Man, I'd call that winning. ...

2025-12-25T15:56:13Z

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slembcke (nprofile…v8jm) Maurizio (nprofile…mwjh)

Man, I'd call that winning. I've never made it to four years with a single phone. 🤦‍♂️

And the phone I had the very longest (in terms of daily-driving)? The ultra, ultra, ULTRA-cursed iPhone 5c. XD

I had the green one. I don't know why I didn't nickname it "Limey Bastard," it would've fit.

I still have it, and my beloved old iPhone 4, sitting on my shelf.

I planned on going the distance with my Pixel 4a 5G, but it went swimming with me two years ago, and that was that. 😆

@nprofile…d4r7 Amazing photo!!! @nprofile…n7nf

2025-12-25T15:51:28Z

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Mo Warden (nprofile…d4r7)

Amazing photo!!!

Tionisla (nprofile…n7nf)

@nprofile…wmgj Honestly, Linux is pretty far into the "it ...

2025-12-25T14:21:55Z

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Paul (nprofile…wmgj)

Honestly, Linux is pretty far into the "it just works" category nowadays, but if you'd prefer a more unixy experience, and don't mind a daily supplement of RTFM (😄), the BSDs are pretty great.

I'm still a n00b (always a n00b, but that's ok!), but here's kind of how I see them:

FreeBSD: Very full-featured, ZFS by default, which is amazing, has the most (monetary) support, tends to support newer hardware the best. Requires some RTFM to get a GUI (but this is changing soon). Easy-to-use TUI installer
OpenBSD: Very secure, somewhat minimalist mindset, tends to work well on hardware it supports, lacking a modern filesystem (UFS/FFS only). Gives you a basic X11 GUI out of the box. Relatively easy-to-use prompt/script-based installer. Forked from NetBSD in the 90s
NetBSD: Supports architectures you've completely forgotten about. "Of course it runs NetBSD." A very portable/standard base for development (very standard unixy/bsd-y things, not as eccentric). Ask around before buying hardware to make sure it's well-supported. Needs more funding (I hope to contribute a little next year, if things go well). Includes things (like ZFS, bluetooth, FFS "softdeps") that OpenBSD has jettisoned or avoided for maintainability reasons. Lead dev is active on Fedi, and helpful. Lacks full-disk encryption.
DragonflyBSD: Haven't tried this one yet. It was forked from FreeBSD in the 2000s, and has its own modern filesystem called HAMMER2.
GhostBSD: a desktop-oriented FreeBSD "distro" with a graphical installer. Wasn't able to get it working the last time I tried it
NomadBSD: a desktop-oriented FreeBSD "distro" that runs from a persistent USB, or can be installed. Worked decently well for me when I tried it

I mostly run FreeBSD, Linux, and OpenBSD.

Holler any time I can be of assistance.

Cheers, and happy holidays!

@nprofile…wmgj You have to decide if freedom is more important ...

2025-12-24T19:35:17Z

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Paul (nprofile…wmgj)

You have to decide if freedom is more important to you than convenience or paper-thin aesthetics.

That's really just about it.

Sorry if I'm not putting it super tactfully. I was a fanboy in my day, but it was a lot easier to be an Apple fanboy in 1989 or 2009 than today, now that they're just an overrated, overpriced, overhyped fashion brand with fascist leanings.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you don't have any experience running a free(dom) OS on your computer(s), then I can recommend something like Fedora or MX Linux as a great starting point, although I'm partial to #Debian. Getting FreeBSD going takes a little bit of work, although I wouldn't call it particularly hard. It's just some #RTFM :)

Again, I don't mean to be belligerent or demeaning. I'm just a bit further along on my journey and I have a hard time hiding my disdain for Apple anymore. I was a huge Apple fan for most of my life, so it's definitely a love-to-hate kinda thing. The mystical wave function of Apple's hype machine collapsed after dazzling my eyes for 30 years, and all I was left with was a solitary particle of bullcrap. XD

@nprofile…g26q It would seem not! 😂

2025-12-24T16:53:03Z

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Stefano Marinelli (nprofile…g26q)

It would seem not! 😂

@nprofile…gccn Simple toots like this are so heart-warming. XD

2025-12-24T15:56:21Z

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arthur.pizza (nprofile…gccn)

Simple toots like this are so heart-warming. XD

@nprofile…yfnj Retrying! :D

2025-12-24T15:54:14Z

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FediTree (nprofile…yfnj)

Retrying! :D

@nprofile…n7nf I'm so sorry, bud. '25 has been a rough ...

2025-12-24T15:53:30Z

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Tionisla (nprofile…n7nf)

I'm so sorry, bud. '25 has been a rough year!

Mourning my mom and grandma this year, as well as my cat from two years ago still, somehow.
No gifts around the Christmas tree right now, but that's ok.

Hope you have friends or family even by video chat to warm your countenance today.

❤️

@nprofile…wmgj It's doable!!! - —Sent from my #FreeBSD ...

2025-12-24T15:50:29Z

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Paul (nprofile…wmgj)

It's doable!!!

-
—Sent from my #FreeBSD #Thinkpad

@nprofile…yfnj, what'cha got for me?

2025-12-24T12:57:45Z

FediTree (nprofile…yfnj), what'cha got for me?

@nprofile…m4kk Dang, that looks like paradise!

2025-12-12T17:06:54Z

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dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: (nprofile…m4kk)

Dang, that looks like paradise!

@nprofile…wes6 @nprofile…2v87 I honestly find the snac UI a ...

2025-12-12T15:04:40Z

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m0xEE (nprofile…wes6) DHeadshot's Alt (nprofile…2v87)

I honestly find the snac UI a bit confusing, and I'm constantly trying to dodge this relay user that's following me everywhere 😂

I was tempted to just migrate to the main mastodon.bsd.cafe instance, but mastodon's insistence on using JS to view anything, and lack of support for markdown is rather annoying. XD

It's funny how well the various AP servers interoperate, and how poorly they do the same, at the same time. XD

@nprofile…cjt2 Oh dang, I don't remember having an ...

2025-12-12T12:45:36Z

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Amin, minor deity of the legume realm (nprofile…cjt2)

Oh dang, I don't remember having an open-anything test at Uni, but I'm sure there were a couple.

Then again, I don't remember the last time I had a test in Uni. Probably all lower-division classes. All my grades in LIT were from papers and such.

@nprofile…cjt2 Daaang. Either aced it or bombed, lol (I'm ...

2025-12-11T21:48:44Z

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Amin, minor deity of the legume realm (nprofile…cjt2)

Daaang. Either aced it or bombed, lol

(I'm sure you aced it)

@nprofile…mnge @nprofile…yrtx I think @nprofile…cjt2 uses ...

2025-12-11T21:35:49Z

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Chad McCullough (nprofile…mnge) GoToSocial (nprofile…yrtx)

I think Amin, minor deity of the legume realm (nprofile…cjt2) uses ice cubes.

Nostr event nevent1qqsdevmt7yjnz4caxhjcy88fql4uxr8ysgts6apz7w40rlke7rnlztgzyr9gpxuthq7plquqaqug6uayg4at3g43mkl7e4g2mywkasndqdyr7l7r0as

2025-12-11T21:27:40Z

Seriously loving my nerdy feed on this little instance.

@nprofile…mvk2 reads tootvague confusionman 3 system HOLY ...

2025-12-11T21:27:18Z

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Ariadne, bunyote friend :therian: (nprofile…mvk2)

reads tootvague confusionman 3 system
HOLY FORKING SHIRTBALLSYeah, that's baaaaad.

@nprofile…kd7f Doctorow himself has used the bowdlerized term, ...

2025-12-11T21:22:34Z

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myrmepropagandist (nprofile…kd7f)

Doctorow himself has used the bowdlerized term, "enpoopification" in interviews.

Amin, minor deity of the legume realm (nprofile…cjt2)

@nprofile…8xyl Whoa, an actual #honk user, other than tedu!! ...

2025-12-11T21:13:53Z

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horia (nprofile…8xyl)

Whoa, an actual #honk user, other than tedu!!

Hello there! Tell me about your setup! How do you like Honk?

@nprofile…wes6 @nprofile…2v87 Huh! That makes a little more ...

2025-12-11T14:05:05Z

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m0xEE (nprofile…wes6) DHeadshot's Alt (nprofile…2v87)

Huh! That makes a little more sense now, I guess! XD

mastodon and GtS have spoiled me a bit. Snac is a new world for me. ;)

P.S., mega-kudos for running your snac server on PPC! You absolute boss! ha

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com @nprofile…n8a6 @nprofile…05vt ...

2025-12-11T14:03:22Z

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com Teapot Ben (nprofile…n8a6) KaiXin (nprofile…05vt)

That is definitely a habit I will be picking up! ha ;)

@nprofile…fxxd @nprofile…2v87 😂

2025-12-11T14:02:47Z

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Ben Stokman (nprofile…fxxd) DHeadshot's Alt (nprofile…2v87)

😂

@nprofile…05vt Nice! :)

2025-12-11T04:47:50Z

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KaiXin (nprofile…05vt)

Nice! :)

Hello from #OpenBSD! #RunBSD #GottaTryThemAll ...

2025-12-11T02:06:54Z

Hello from #OpenBSD!

#RunBSD
#GottaTryThemAll
#INeedMoreThinkpadsLOL

@nprofile…2v87 A lot of statuses come across looking like ...

2025-12-11T01:59:19Z

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DHeadshot's Alt (nprofile…2v87)

A lot of statuses come across looking like boosts from this relay account, and that account ends up being the one I'm replying to, but only some of the time.

I'm finding myself a bit confused by #snac. XD

@nprofile…2v87 @nprofile…fxxd So, you're saying I just ...

2025-12-11T01:58:16Z

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DHeadshot's Alt (nprofile…2v87) Ben Stokman (nprofile…fxxd)

So, you're saying I just need to store all my passwords in plain text on a USB thumb drive in a file called CON.TXT? ;)

@nprofile…05vt Is there a bug tracker for it?

2025-12-11T01:35:56Z

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KaiXin (nprofile…05vt)

Is there a bug tracker for it?

What is up with replies on snac?? 😅

2025-12-11T01:02:27Z

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What is up with replies on snac?? 😅

Enafore seems to handle replies with snac better than Elk. I ...

2025-12-11T00:01:44Z

Enafore seems to handle replies with snac better than Elk. I guess I'm staying here, even though switching between instances takes a few more steps.

@nprofile…5w22 "app" is a psyop. 1990s: "What's ...

2025-12-11T00:01:04Z

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wyatt :terezi_libra: (nprofile…5w22)

"app" is a psyop.

1990s: "What's that piece of software? What does it do?"
2020s: "Just install the app, derr!"

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com "app" is a psyop. 1990s: ...

2025-12-11T00:00:25Z

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com "app" is a psyop.

1990s: "What's that piece of software? What does it do?"
2020s: "Just install the app, derr!"

@nprofile…2v87 @nprofile…fxxd Oh, DUH. XD

2025-12-10T21:33:50Z

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DHeadshot's Alt (nprofile…2v87) Ben Stokman (nprofile…fxxd)

Oh, DUH. XD

@nprofile…fxxd Colon was the directory delimiter for classic ...

2025-12-10T21:02:08Z

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Ben Stokman (nprofile…fxxd)

Colon was the directory delimiter for classic MacOS, but I don't think that's related.

More likely because special devices in DOS ended in a colon, like CON: and LPT: (IIRC).

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com @nprofile…sk3n @nprofile…80pq ...

2025-12-10T19:18:52Z

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com God Emperor of Mastodon (nprofile…sk3n) Jon 🇨🇦🇵🇹 (nprofile…80pq) YEAH! There were TONS of shareware games and utilities of all different kinds in the late 80s through early 90s.

But they were never huge. You might have a basic word processor for specific tasks (like I remember a shareware word processor for the Mac for typing in the Arabic alphabet called "Al Katib" or "Ketaab" or something like that), but nothing like full LibreOffice, or even something as complex as GIMP.

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com @mms YEAH! There were TONS of ...

2025-12-10T19:15:50Z

@relay@fedi-relay.gyptazy.com @mms YEAH! There were TONS of shareware games and utilities of all different kinds in the late 80s through early 90s.

But they were never huge. You might have a basic word processor for specific tasks (like I remember a shareware word processor for the Mac for typing in the Arabic alphabet called "Al Katib" or "Ketaab" or something like that), but nothing like full LibreOffice, or even something as complex as GIMP.

@nprofile…g26q Woof, that's rough. :'( There's lots ...

2025-12-10T17:25:31Z

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Stefano Marinelli (nprofile…g26q)

Woof, that's rough. :'(

There's lots of people like that in our Home Owners' Associations here in the U.S. I don't know of those are a thing in the E.U. They're very annoying.

@nprofile…x4wz With apologies to Pokémon, I think the slogan ...

2025-12-10T15:16:11Z

Justine Smithies (nprofile…x4wz) With apologies to Pokémon, I think the slogan with the BSDs should be,
"Gotta try 'em all!" XD

I've spent some quality time in #OpenBSD and now #FreeBSD, I'd like to try #NetBSD and #DragonflyBSD next.

Ooo, I forgot who recommended me trying #Elk with #snac, but it ...

2025-12-10T14:48:10Z

Ooo, I forgot who recommended me trying #Elk with #snac, but it works super well. Very noice. :D

@nprofile…n8a6 @nprofile…g26q Water Pikachu. 😁

2025-12-10T14:31:15Z

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Teapot Ben (nprofile…n8a6) Stefano Marinelli (nprofile…g26q)

Water Pikachu. 😁

@nprofile…kf45 Downscaling and cropping can be done readily ...

2025-12-10T14:29:58Z

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Andrew (making toys) (nprofile…kf45)

Downscaling and cropping can be done readily with ImageMagick on the command line.

Afraid I can't help with the rest.

@nprofile…uq0z @nprofile…y3th Jeez, 2025 is going just so ...

2025-12-10T14:28:53Z

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slowly turning blue (nprofile…uq0z) Christine Lemmer-Webber (nprofile…y3th)

Jeez, 2025 is going just so hard. 🤦‍♂️

@nprofile…n8a6 @nprofile…05vt Dang, is this the 8260 ...

2025-12-10T12:25:56Z

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Teapot Ben (nprofile…n8a6) KaiXin (nprofile…05vt)

Dang, is this the 8260 consternation club? 🤣

I'm happily rolled back to 14.3.

Let me know when it's safe to upgrade, again. 🤣

@nprofile…v4f8 Oh gosh, I remember nautilus!! Gnome 2 was epic. ...

2025-12-10T11:56:26Z

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vins (nprofile…v4f8)

Oh gosh, I remember nautilus!!
Gnome 2 was epic. XD

@nprofile…80pq Ugh. Jerks.

2025-12-10T06:27:38Z

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Jon 🇨🇦🇵🇹 (nprofile…80pq)

Ugh. Jerks.

@nprofile…v4f8 Ooo, what is that file manager? It's giving ...

2025-12-10T05:52:11Z

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vins (nprofile…v4f8)

Ooo, what is that file manager? It's giving me netscape navigator vibes. ;)

@nprofile…8t8z Yeah, getting a bright light can help. I did ...

2025-12-10T05:50:37Z

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libremelon (nprofile…8t8z)

Yeah, getting a bright light can help. I did that one year. I'm not sure if it really helped, but it was interesting. You can search your favorite online shop for "seasonal affective disorder light." They're not very pricey, it's just a bright white light to shine into your face for a few minutes a day.

@nprofile…80pq I didn't realize they still had a free tier. ...

2025-12-10T05:49:04Z

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Jon 🇨🇦🇵🇹 (nprofile…80pq)

I didn't realize they still had a free tier.

I wonder if the base tier has ads. :P

@nprofile…haje It does seem to be running an older version, so ...

2025-12-10T03:41:33Z

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jloc0 (nprofile…haje)

It does seem to be running an older version, so it could be caused by the same issue that's blocking it from connecting to #snac:

```bash
rld@Intrepid:~$ curl -sL mastodon.sdf.org |grep -o 'version":"[^"]*"'
version":"4.1.25"
rld@Intrepid:~$ curl -sL fosstodon.org |grep -o 'version":"[^"]*"'
version":"4.5.3"
rld@Intrepid:~$ curl -sL mastodon.bsd.cafe |grep -o 'version":"[^"]*"'
version":"4.5.3"
rld@Intrepid:~$ curl -sL mastodon.social |grep -o 'version":"[^"]*"'
version":"4.6.0-nightly.2025-12-09"
rld@Intrepid:~$
The dev on the matrix chat said that snac only supported the v1 api and that Tokodon defaults to v2, but should fall back to v1, but that might be broken? It could be that mastodon.sdf.org is running too old a version of mastodon for #Tokodon to talk to??

Hopefully the bug will get fixed. XD

@nprofile…8t8z #SeasonalAffectiveDisorder?

2025-12-10T03:05:23Z

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libremelon (nprofile…8t8z)

#SeasonalAffectiveDisorder?

@nprofile…haje https://mastodon.sdf.org looks like vanilla ...

2025-12-10T03:04:22Z

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jloc0 (nprofile…haje)

https://mastodon.sdf.org looks like vanilla Mastodon to me.

From the front page:
Mastodon: About · Get the app · Keyboard shortcuts · View source code · v4.1.25
They have a Matrix chat that seems pretty helpful:

https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/#tokodon:kde.org
#tokodon:kde.org

#BSD tip: The explanation for the various /%[a-zA-Z]/ codes for ...

2025-12-10T00:51:01Z

#BSD tip:

The explanation for the various /%[a-zA-Z]/ codes for the date (1) command are actually in the strftime (3) manpage.

#TIL

Submitted a bug report for #snac support on #Tokodon, just FYI: ...

2025-12-09T23:27:39Z

Submitted a bug report for #snac support on #Tokodon, just FYI:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513147

Oooo, #Tuba is nice, and works nicely with #snac. Well, ok. It ...

2025-12-09T19:55:20Z

Oooo, #Tuba is nice, and works nicely with #snac.

Well, ok. It looks like a phone app, has no title bar, and the scrollbars are typical horrible phone-style scrollbars, but it works.

#Tokodon just gave me a server error trying to authenticate to snac. :/

@nprofile…48wq @nprofile…fwuu Sounds intense!!

2025-12-09T19:27:42Z

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muž s klapkami na očích (nprofile…48wq) Ángel (nprofile…fwuu)

Sounds intense!!

@nprofile…fwuu I had the pleasure of taking an undergraduate ...

2025-12-09T19:26:08Z

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Ángel (nprofile…fwuu)

I had the pleasure of taking an undergraduate literature class that focused on Quixote and its later derivatives. It was a ton of fun.

Except for the second part/book of Quixote. Cervantes was so cruel to the poor hidalgo!!!

@nprofile…fwuu That's awesome!! Have you read the Quixote? ...

2025-12-09T18:40:57Z

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Ángel (nprofile…fwuu)

That's awesome!!

Have you read the Quixote? ;)

@nprofile…x4wz @nprofile…au0l How about "CBARR?" ...

2025-12-09T18:24:22Z

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Justine Smithies (nprofile…x4wz) Pete Prodoehl 🍕 (nprofile…au0l)

How about "CBARR?"

"Can't be arsed"-response-rage. XD

@nprofile…fwuu Yay!! It's so rare to meet another Borges ...

2025-12-09T18:18:28Z

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Ángel (nprofile…fwuu)

Yay!! It's so rare to meet another Borges fan on Fedi!!! ❤️

@nprofile…qhz8 Quite possible the software quality problem is ...

2025-12-09T17:13:41Z

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Bob Lord 🔐 :donor: (nprofile…qhz8)

Quite possible the software quality problem is itself in turn a manifestation of #crapitalism and "just ship it" culture.

Finally unfollowed that rl_dane at polymaths guy. SO noisy, ...

2025-12-09T16:58:20Z

Finally unfollowed that rl_dane at polymaths guy.

SO noisy, totally dominated my feed. 🤣

And it's like... everything he said, I've already thought of.

So unoriginal. 🙃

This is not the manual; man pages snac(1) (user manual), snac(5) ...

2025-12-09T15:48:33Z

This is not the manual; man pages snac(1) (user manual), snac(5) (formats) and snac(8) (administrator manual) are what you are looking for.
—https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

THIS
IS
THE
WAY
!!!

#ThisIsTheWay #SomeoneGetsIt #Documentation #snac

@nprofile…gr5r The fact that EU taxpayer money was spent ...

2025-12-09T13:52:53Z

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Mastodon (nprofile…gr5r)

The fact that EU taxpayer money was spent advertising on X would make me fuming, if I were an EU citizen/resident/taxpayer.

@nprofile…g26q @nprofile…arnq 🥹

2025-12-09T13:50:39Z

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🥹

@nprofile…fwuu This was a really fun read, thank you. Reminds ...

2025-12-09T13:48:09Z

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Ángel (nprofile…fwuu)

This was a really fun read, thank you.

Reminds me a bit of #JorgeLuisBorges' Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, but in reverse. XD

#Tlon #Tlön

...looking through my timeline on this instance... "Dang, ...

2025-12-09T13:46:41Z

...looking through my timeline on this instance...
"Dang, that R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou: (nprofile…arnq) guy sure toots a lot. Give it a rest, already!" 🤣

Nostr event nevent1qqs03a4jlpxush8adwq5c0zg4j8agjh5r7c096j75a5ugs9j3w7xd8czyr9gpxuthq7plquqaqug6uayg4at3g43mkl7e4g2mywkasndqdyr7z94qa6

2025-12-09T13:44:59Z

Good morning, snaccers. ;)

@nprofile…c066 Things like this remind me of the meaning of ...

2025-12-09T13:42:38Z

R.L. Dane (snac) (nprofile…c066)

Things like this remind me of the meaning of #ubuntu before it was appropriated by a corporation that no longer really resembles the ideal they named their project after. ;) 💗

Alternate punchline: "This is how we run ubuntu on BSD." 😅

@nprofile…se6k @nprofile…fng7 I know! Today, I've been ...

2025-12-09T00:35:39Z

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Tim Ch-AI-se (now with bonus spooky) 👻 (nprofile…se6k) The Bird (nprofile…fng7)

I know!

Today, I've been thinking of trying my challenge to daily-drive a raspberry pi zero (original) 🤣

#AndStatus does not like GoToSocial (and/or vice-versa), but it ...

2025-12-08T23:36:15Z

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#AndStatus does not like GoToSocial (and/or vice-versa), but it seems to like #snac just fine!

Testing out #AndStatus, for some reason. 😁 @nprofile…y3xg

2025-12-08T23:31:32Z

Testing out #AndStatus, for some reason. 😁
Fu (nprofile…y3xg)

I wanted to re-post this #Solarpunk manifesto on my account, only ...

2025-12-08T22:39:32Z

I wanted to re-post this #Solarpunk manifesto on my account, only because snac is very friendly with non-javascript and #smolweb browsers.

All credit goes to The Bird (nprofile…fng7)

Source: https://blahaj.zone/notes/afu4n5fr7gr7038j

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My Solarpunk Manifesto

Solarpunk is a radical hope-infused aesthetic and political ideology centered on building an equitable, sustainable, just, and accessible world where no one is left behind, where we build with nature, where we destroy all forms of exploitation and oppression, where we celebrate the wonderful diversity of humanity and nature, where we live within our planet's optimal boundaries for habitability and survival.

Solarpunk rejects unhealthy growth. Instead, it embraces harmony with one's environment, degrowth and decolonial concepts that are rooted in unlearning our unhealthy and harmful socializations from past violent regimes. Where we instead build with nature in a collaborative way.

Solarpunk embraces the Pluriverse, where there is no one way for all of society and people to live/exist, but there is a multiplicity in lifestyles, ways of being, and ways of constructing society. Finding the healthiest, care-centric, equitable, just, and accessible way of being in society requires collaboration and exploration by those within that community, and often is unique to that community.

Solarpunk rejects binary models. Humanity and the natural world exists in multiplicity. There are multiple genders, multiple sexual orientations, multiple ways bodies can appear, and multiple abilities, which all have validity.

Solarpunk embraces accessibility and inclusivity as the foundation in which to build society and relations with one another, where events and places are easily accessible to people of all abilities and gender and age.

Solarpunk rejects capitalist-individualism. Instead, it embraces collective care and solidarity between fellow human beings and non-human beings and ecosystems, where our unique individuality is celebrated for its diversity and our contributions to our community accepted at the level in which people are able to give.

Solarpunk recognizes the dynamic and ever-evolving process that is nature as well as its right to exist alongside human being's right to exist. We are in community, and that relationship with nature and one another requires collective care and solidarity.

Solarpunk rejects unhealthy competition and embraces instead collaboration and conflict resolution. To build a community requires collaboration and just conflict resolution strategies.

Solarpunk rejects greed and hoarding of resources that is endemic to capitalism. Instead, solarpunk embraces sharing and collectively/publicly held goods, land, information, and resources. This isn't to say solarpunk is against us personally owning things, but to say that:

* the land itself cannot be owned as property as it holds personhood within our collective Earth community,
* the public commons are crucial to survival,
* information should be open and free to access and use,
* Internet infrastructure should be open and accessible for all to use and held collectively by the people
* library systems are critical for the community and provide books, tech equipment, skill swaps, and other necessary items and skills for all to use,
* healthcare free and accessible to all, education free and accessible to all, where a diverse methodology of problem-solving and encouragement of discovery and reading is emphasized,
* the goods/resources needed for survival must be shared equitably so no one is left behind and everyone is provided for,
* all our infrastructure is collectively held and maintained,
* all of our society -- every aspect of our community -- is accessible to all who dwell in it.

Solarpunk rejects exploitation of others and one's environment. Instead, it embraces collective care and mutual aid, where we honor and respect one another's differences, identities, abilities, and actively listen and care for each other. Where we seek to do no harm and if harm is done, actively hold one another accountable and do repair. Transformative justice is often the framework used in repair. Where we work in collaboration with one another and the ecosystems in which we dwell. That we sustainably source our materials and engage in repair to ecosystems, to give them time to recover for any extraction we do to meet our collective needs. To never take more than we need and to use all that we need to avoid waste. To create things made to last, where we can repair and mend what we have and share those skills within inclusive and accessible systems, like libraries of skills, goods, books, etc.

Solarpunk rejects racism, rejects white supremacy, rejects ableism, rejects classism, rejects sexism, rejects xenophobia, rejects homophobia and transphobia, rejects antisemitism, rejects all forms of bigotry that treats a group of people as less-than.

Solarpunk embraces liberation, equality and equity, where no one is left behind, where non-hierarchical, horizontal democratic practices are utilized.

Solarpunk rejects borders. Borders are often used to punish migrants and asylum seekers and has been a source of violence against other groups of people that is rooted in supremacy, domination, and xenophobia. Thus, solarpunk rejects it. Instead, solarpunk embraces either open borders or no borders at all. Migrants are welcomed and needs provided for just like any person dwelling in that community.

Solarpunk invites everyone to work together collaboratively toward a just, sustainable, equitable, accessible present and future. Where we can start building that right now with one another even as we work to end the harmful systems oppressing us. Power to the people! We can do this together.

@nprofile…g26q @nprofile…cjt2 #snac itself is remarkably ...

2025-12-08T17:17:43Z

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Stefano Marinelli (nprofile…g26q) Amin, minor deity of the legume realm (nprofile…cjt2)

#snac itself is remarkably chill and old-fashioned. :D

@nprofile…v8jm @nprofile…t3fe Fedora is my new default n00b ...

2025-12-08T15:27:29Z

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slembcke (nprofile…v8jm) Jérémie St-Amand (nprofile…t3fe)

Fedora is my new default n00b recommendation. It mostly just works. I tried it for the first time in... 21 years this year. ;)

@nprofile…qap5 Markdown tables are simple but clumsy. ...and ...

2025-12-08T15:19:51Z

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royal (nprofile…qap5)
Markdown tables are simple but clumsy.
...and sadly non-standard. :/

Sorry I don't have a good recommendation for that one.
I either use LibreOffice Calc, or csv/some-character delimited (not only comma) text

Don't get me wrong, I feel bizarrely privileged that so many ...

2025-12-08T15:17:43Z

Don't get me wrong, I feel bizarrely privileged that so many people follow me (for some reason?!?) on my main account, and I totally believe in following folks back, as long as their feed is at least marginally interesting, and I do like having so many toots to look through on my main account.

But, I kinda love how smol my feed is on this account, and how BSD-focused it is. ;)

```bash
rld@Intrepid:~$ toot --no-color whois rl_dane@polymaths.social |grep -i following
Following: 1341
rld@Intrepid:~$ toot --no-color whois rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe |grep -i following
Following: 41
cc: Amin, minor deity of the legume realm (nprofile…cjt2) for smol fediverse appreciation
(I'd cc: you at re.clew.se, but I doubt you'd see it there. XD )

@nprofile…hyvm My bad, will try to post more about #BSD in ...

2025-12-05T02:05:48Z

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Jason Lefkowitz (nprofile…hyvm)

My bad, will try to post more about #BSD in 2026. XD

Yo, what's up, #BSD peeps? I'm not on here enough. I ...

2025-07-19T13:44:26Z

Yo, what's up, #BSD peeps?

I'm not on here enough. I appreciate all of you weirdos!

💗

@nprofile…72l5 @nprofile…nwa8 Actually, the whole point of ...

2025-06-06T15:15:06Z

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Amin, minor deity of the legume realm (nprofile…72l5) Tom (nprofile…nwa8)

Actually, the whole point of the glow was that the ascii art just kind of disappeared at avatar (small) size.

@nprofile…a2d6 @nprofile…utur @nprofile…x80e Ummm... XD ~ $ ...

2025-06-04T02:21:17Z

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Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 (nprofile…a2d6) eproc (nprofile…utur) inglfo (nprofile…x80e)

Ummm... XD

~ $ for ((x=0; x<=100; x+=10)); do echo " ==> $x"; wsconsctl display.brightness=$x; sleep 1; xbacklight -get; done
==> 0
display.brightness -> 2.00%
100.000000
==> 10
display.brightness -> 9.00%
100.000000
==> 20
display.brightness -> 20.00%
100.000000
==> 30
display.brightness -> 29.00%
100.000000
==> 40
display.brightness -> 40.00%
100.000000
==> 50
display.brightness -> 50.00%
100.000000
==> 60
display.brightness -> 67.00%
100.000000
==> 70
display.brightness -> 100.00%
100.000000
==> 80
display.brightness -> 67.00%
# (it actually went DOWN here)
100.000000
==> 90
display.brightness -> 100.00%
100.000000
==> 100
display.brightness -> 100.00%
100.000000
~ $
This is a #Thinkpad X200t, btw.

~ $ uname -a
OpenBSD falcon.lan 7.7 GENERIC.MP#0 amd64

@nprofile…utur @nprofile…x80e @nprofile…a2d6 Interesting. ...

2025-06-04T02:16:11Z

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eproc (nprofile…utur) inglfo (nprofile…x80e) Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 (nprofile…a2d6)

Interesting. Bummer there was never a reply.

@nprofile…utur Seems I just need to set /dev/ttyC0 to be ...

2025-06-04T02:13:35Z

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eproc (nprofile…utur)

Seems I just need to set /dev/ttyC0 to be writeable by wheel. Are you certain that it's actually changing the brightness (in both directions) and not just fiddling with gamma like xrandr?
I guess I can test by looking at power consumption. :D