Unix geek. Thought leader for a small flock of back-yard hens and assorted wildlife. Technically correct.
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Last Notes npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss So, when I was young, I did my first serious programming on an Osborne 1 Portable. I had a TI 99/4a before that, but it was year before I had storage, so my programs were limited to things I typed in while the machine was powered on. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss "Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day" npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss For folks forced to use slop machines by their employers, at least be polite about it! npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss "Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’" npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…c3cd I'm starting to move away from physical media, as I can better support artists by buying their music directly, or via something like BandCamp. I end up with FLAC or similar, as good as what I'd get from a CD. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…qxrs hostname(1) is missing from the article. But that's one that's often replaced. Last I checked the GNU version didn't support -s to display short (no domain) names. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…s8xx @nprofile…kxet Oh, hey. Thanks for chiming in. I'd meant to find an address and ask if you'd written up an analysis of Delta Chat. I didn't see on one your blog, but I might have missed it. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss I wanted to find an article talking about the image @nprofile…la7y posted, and there were several, including a paywalled NYT article. This does indeed remind me of Anne Frank. They're telling Christians, "you can stay, but don't try to protect your Shiite neighbors." npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…la7y @nprofile…sn9q They're hiding their identities out of shame because they're doing monstrous things. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…hl5m vi in OpenBSD *is* nvi, I thought. It's hard to imagine them digging up Joy's code and including it for fun. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…q0gn Friendica defaults to not having post length limits. I'm curious why there are no Friendica servers listed. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…la7y Is that suit green? If it is, this is one of those perceptual glitchies. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss So, Coons and Fetterman were the sellouts? npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…v2v2 How significant a problem is this? It's easy to block a user or a site. It's easy to post follower-only messages. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss "Women's rights are human rights." npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…v2v2 I've got to land on one soon - ideally something that can contain OpenGL. I'm pondering IUP but I'm open to suggestions. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…cck4 What happened with the first two? npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…my6t The one pet rat I ever had was bitey and mean. It could be that the pet store selling him intended for him to be food and didn't treat him well. I don't know. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss 'U.K. police arrested the former Prince Andrew on Thursday, on suspicion of "misconduct in public office."' npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss I want to break a local community free from Signal, and I've been thinking about XMPP. In reading some analyses I found this gem: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…pfuj I'm going to go with the prescriptivist "it has no meaning and can be safely ignored," which serves me well with so much new usage. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…la7y Funding the genocide and bombing kids is evidently okay. But stickers... Stickers are just going too far. We must draw the line somewhere! npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…la7y But it'll be a very strange sort of hybrid animal from the look of it. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…pfuj I like this. When I teach people about bases, I try to break them free from the symbols having values, and we often end up having them do something in base 3 with circles, squares, and triangles. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Mask up! And make sure it's a decent mask - N95, KF94, potentially KN95. What's the difference? Simply, surgical masks only block 40%, compared with 80% for a proper respirator. (And if 80% seems risky to you, welcome to those of us who recommend isolating where possible.) npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss There are folks who'll tell you not to isolate, that masks are a good idea but optional and you should balance the social stigma against the protection. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…qxrs Good video. I learned more about Linux running Slackware than I would have guessed going into it. My only quibble is that it's painful and non-obvious building a minimal system, and once you've built it, maintaining it is equally non-obvious. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…w8de @nprofile…jerk I'd look at shifting off of KDE in that situation. I've been using Openbox ever since I transitioned to it from TWM in the nineties, and I've never regretted it. (Although some folks want me to dig into Fluxbox, and I'm considering it. The integrated tabbing support is compelling.) npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Downton Tabby npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…3x7l And atop the harm it will do to students cognitively, it's pushing the climate crisis faster. It's really discouraging stuff, to be resisted as much as possible. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…vqqu Just curious - can you also do LUKS, for those of us still too frightened by the specter of data loss to use native ZFS encryption? npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Sensible: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Alright, I'm hooked now. @nprofile…3x7l boosted their Lower Decks theme earlier. After hearing that I listened to their BSG theme, then some more of their Trek, and now this elaboration on the theme from Inner Light: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss What am I missing here? I always thought you needed special gear of some sort to have solar or a backup generator. Is the special gear literally just to meter in both directions for tracking money? npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Do you share pictures of your kids online? Think before you post! npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…7ppx Depending on what you run, this might be good: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss I run FreeBSD but I don't tend to build it. I consume binaries. So sometimes I make assumptions based on its similarities to NetBSD, which was the first free Unix I ran. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…7ppx This reminds me of my week. It's hard to understand people sometimes. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Alright, all the aurora pictures got me interested, so I went outside. I think we had a few too many clouds, but I put my phone on a tripod and managed to coax a time-lapse video out of it. I think there's some aurora there behind the clouds. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss The corrupt fat cats on the Supreme Court need to retire. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss I just watched an interaction on IRC. I give people the benefit of the npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…kf5y ZFS here and I roll my own, so I wanted to speak to one specific point: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss I used to wonder why we don't set the time based on the sun being at it's highest point at noon. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss "Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals." npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss 'Behind closed doors, city leaders had inked nondisclosure agreements tied to the nearly $15 billion plan. Then came a zoning change that allows industrial facilities to now be built on farmland, stripping away oversight and clearing the path for potentially even more sprawling data centers to be built in the city with little public input.' npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…nlgf I don't know. I still clearly remember LocalTalk and 1200 baud dialup. I remember what an amazing leap into the future it was when I finally dragged coaxial through the house for ThinNet. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss This is deeply neat. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…8sc8 The Internet Archive to the rescue, also! The second file here has it: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…8sc8 Bill, thank you!!! npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Here's a clip from the credits showing it in context. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Hey, Star Trek folks. We were watching a TOS episode tonight - By Any Other Name - and this was one of the end credit images. I can't figure out what it's from. Does anyone know? npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…0y34 That poor kid in the picture... Of all the books he could choose, why *that*?!? npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss A colleague just posted this link: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Crowing as a Service. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss No kings. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss I'm not sure if this is criminal or just inadvisable. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…0y34 Dismaying stuff. Thank you for linking it. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…84uv Of course, I live in New Hampshire, where so many of the politicians yearn to be the next Texas. Moved here from a state on your list. Someone has to be here to vote for sense. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss I'm not the only person looking forward to Nuremberg II: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Hey, #Fediverse... Are there any good sources of IP blocks to drop for LLM scrapers? I'm thinking like an email RBL list, but for crawlers. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…4knp The alt text thing is worth reconsidering. I sometimes have trouble reading text in images or seeing what's going on in them, and thus regularly rely on alt text. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss This was a while back. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Google's deceptive greenwashing exposed. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Post from Linda O'Connell on LinkedIn. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…f34v @nprofile…7j6d npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…97dd In many ways it's the ideal model for the future. It's fundamentally kind and mutually supportive. Yes, they solve most problems with technology, but they try to maintain some balance. Some of the biggest problems they face arise when they try to do too much with their technology. I yearn for the Star Trek future, while bitterly regretting that I appear to be here for the post-atomic horror. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss @nprofile…wxma I was just informed that my "weight" is being produced by a blue scale, which tried to make me feel fat before to keep me from trying some pants I wanted. This is the same scale that has overstated my weight repeatedly for the last year or more. No scale can be that wrong! I need an accurate weight. I have directed my Team to get rid of this scale IMMEDIATELY. It will be replaced by a scale that gives me better numbers. My weight is important and it must be measured competently and accurately, and it can't be manipulated for political purposes. My scale said I weigh three hundred pounds (a shock!) but, more importantly, it made a cracking noise when I stepped on it. My beltline is BOOMING, but I think that's's a political game they're playing, because they failed to get "Kamala" elected. This scale and everyone involved with making it needs to be put "out to pasture". Thank you for your attention to this matter! And STOP ASKING about the Epstein files! There's NOTHING to see there! It's a witch hunt! npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Rachel Leidig's husband, Guilherme “Gui” Lemes Cardoso E Silva, was taken by ICE. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss CODEPINK joined with several rabbis at a sit-in at Senator Chuck Schumer's office. Their goal was to urge the Senator not to support war criminals and genocide. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss From Joe Marshall's blog on Planet Lisp: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Fascinating glimpse into the history of Palestine: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss "Behind closed doors, the Israeli military is no longer merely worried about public relations; it is concerned about prosecution. The Israeli army has admonished soldiers for taking selfies and filming themselves demolishing Palestinian homes, warning that such material is now being harvested as evidence by international human rights organisations." npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Thanks to Timotheus Tap, LL.M, on LinkedIn, I learned about Tim Crosland and his remarkable composure. From Timotheus's post: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss If you haven't heard of the Hind Rajab Foundation, read this. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss In Vernor Vinge's "Rainbow's End" there was a gruesome project to shred books to digitize them. Further, his particular dystopia was set in 2025. His vision wasn't dark enough to match today's reality, but here are bits of it that have come to pass. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss The world won't be able to keep pretending much longer. There are too many voices shouting the truth. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss I've been pondering professional folk being hesitant to engage in the issues that will define our day in the history books, and I realized there is precedent. From George C Scott's A Christmas Carol: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Here's the impact of what our purchased Senate just did. There's still a chance for it to be prevented by the House. Call your representative! You can find them here: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss The world really must wake up and make this stop. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss This is a repost from Meg Schwarz, from her LinkedIn account. It struck me as being particularly important at this moment in our lives: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Clip from Crater of Needles, fourth episode of the fifteenth story of Doctor Who - the William Hartnell years. There was evidently no budget for retakes. The crew's laughter is immortalized. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Analysis of starvation as a weapon of war, and its status as a war crime: npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss I haven't seen a study looking at this previously, but it's an obvious area of interest. npub1lkdlcam3z56pwzrtak7298yd89xhl5ly39sg346cqx8nmfw6d5as5qyxgv Mason Loring Bliss Another post copied over from LinkedIn - this time from Dr. Selina Shaw:
