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Small selection of ruru (Ninox novaeseelandiae) in care at Wildbase Recovery NZ ๐ #owlsintowels
Went to look up packages with a particular keywordยน:
$ pkg_info -Q $keyword
Great, it listed several packages. What are they? Tried
$ pkg_info $keyword
but it didn't return anything since it was just a sub-match of terms, not an actual package-name. So good ol' Unixisms to the rescue:
$ pkg_info -Q $keyword | xargs pkg_info | less
and โจ๐ชโจ done. Exactly what I wanted.
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ยน in this particular case keyword="sieve"
@davecb yeah I think that's a good analogy
Fedi is not end-to-end encrypted.
Assume people can see your posts. Assume that we cannot tell you if you are actively being monitored. Assume we cannot tell you if we are compelled to do things.
Be smart, not stupid. I don't want to receive a subpoena. <3
You know how you shouldn't go in to edit/rewrite PRs submitted by your co-workers after you review them? I do exactly that when I work with #LLM code assistants. I don't waste too much time asking them to fix things.
@tomTom Casavant 
@baseballbaseball group I doubt it. It also wouldn't surprise me if they scrub Jackie Robison day.
I am developing an app. https://github.com/glyph/pomodouroboros . It is a pomodoro timer, for people with ADHD. There are many other pomodoro timers, and many ADHDers use them, and thus it is hard to differentiate it. But it has a hook. The hook is that you don't have to remember to start it. It runs all the time in the background. This is important to me personally and I believe it will be important to other ADHDers. Not many people use it just yet. It's very primitive. So I am the main user. ๐งต
#BSDCan 2025 registration is open!
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html
The schedule of amazing talks with a great selection of #FreeBSD , #NetBSD , and #OpenBSD topics will be up shortly!
@malin 
@bartaviBart Groeneveld the files in the terminal context are weird and it involves a lot of `ioctl`s and internal state inside the OS sadly
+1 recommend on this. I generally prefer open back headphones but these are quite good for when I'm gaming or typing on a very loud keyboard. I personally have the 250 Ohm model which the M4 Mini and Studios can drive directly just fine.
https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/114190508540481471
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Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/substack-rival-ghost-is-now-connected-to-the-fediverse/
if there's one thing about *waves hands* All The Recent Stuff that pisses me off the most, it's the resemblance to early-covid-era feelings of "i do not know how worried to actually be" on a daily basis.
TOO worried and i feel like a conspiratorial crank. NOT ENOUGH worried and i fear i'm burying my head in the sand. and depending on which news you look at that feeling wildly oscillates
Hello all 
Today we're releasing NodeBB v4.2.0. Most of the changes pertain to minor updates to our existing ActivityPub integration.
The "View Original" button for user profiles is located in the sidebar of any remote user profile:
Are mobile-backends-as-a-service still a thing? If so what's good?
Today in my surveillance class we're discussing Faraday bags for mobile devices: what threats they can (and most importantly, can't) protect against, the physics involved, and how to measure their effectiveness.
I wrote up a little blog post a while back: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/
Should you keep your phone in a Faraday container? Probably not. But Faraday bags are useful to provide assurance against a particular, if narrow, range of threats, and understanding what they do and don't do for you is essential if you're considering using one.
Rainbow drop shadow?
I gotchu.
Our third and final talk comes from Mislav Novakovic on Refactoring to Rust. Thanks to everyone who attended, to our fantastic speakers, and to our gracious host Taiste!
See you next month at Reaktor on the 15th, and please get in touch if you'd like to give a talk :)
https://helsinki-python.github.io
#Helsinki #Python #HelPy #Finland #meetup #refactoring #rust
containers: the big idea: include EVERY dependency
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/big-idea-every-dependency/
๐ฃ The CFP for All Systems Go! 2025 is now open. We look forward to your proposals.
โฒ๏ธ The deadline is June 13th.
โน๏ธ To submit and learn more visit ๐ https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2025/cfp
๐๏ธ Tickets will be available starting early April.
Updated 27/04/2025: Do you like #DelayNetworks and echoes in your #BonkWave or #NotBonkWave ? Check out my #SealEggs for #BitwigStudio preset! Now at version 1.52 (built in v4.0) and is ready to use. The updated version adds colour and mod freeze options. In this audio clip I've got the drums and arp going through Seal Eggs and into Valhalla Supermassive for delay. You can get a copy of the preset from my website and use it in your own #Bitwig #ElectronicMusic making.
https://www.ambientspace.com/technical-notes/bitwig-notes/seal-eggs-nautical-delay
Today in my surveillance class we're discussing Faraday bags for mobile devices: what threats they can (and most importantly, can't) protect against, the physics involved, and how to measure their effectiveness.
I wrote up a little blog post a while back: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/
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Convincing people to give Linux a try is going to be a lot easier when there's a direct, chargeable-to-creditcard cost associated with continuing to use Windows, the thing they are familiar with.
That's your strategic advantage. Just make sure not to waste it by being condescending or patronizing, and always prioritize *their* needs in the process, not yours.
Also, importantly: your friends and relatives are probably not going to care about the gory internal details of a Linux system.
They won't care that there are different "desktop environments", or about the distinction between a DE and a WM, or about different UI toolkits, package managers, whatever. Just skip all that.
What they *are* going to care about is whether it will update automatically, whether the UI matches what they expect, whether they can change the colors, whether the things they need work and are reachable with a single shortcut. They will care about what the system does *for them*.
For example, instead of asking "what desktop environment do you want, GNOME or KDE?", boot a few different live images for them that use different desktop environments (or one that lets you swap) and ask them which one looks the best to them. Then install with that one.
Likewise, don't ask what "distro" they want; pick a distro that will be able to run most things out of the box, and that you are sufficiently comfortable providing support for. If they unexpectedly end up a Linux nerd, they can always switch later.
You are just installing "Linux" for them, configuring it for them based on their preferences, and telling them that you can explain more about any part of it if they're curious to know more. That's it.
Provide details if they ask, but not if they don't, or you'll just overwhelm them. Providing details upfront just makes most people assume that all of it is 'required knowledge', even if that's not what you meant.
Hey, so, in light of Microsoft killing off Windows 10 in October (https://digipres.club/@misty/114190352645015060)...
If you want more people to use Linux, now would probably be a good time to start talking to your friends and relatives about how Linux will still work and get updates and, most importantly, *offer to help them setting it up and keeping it working*.
And ideally, take notes of what problems they run into, because those notes are going to give you a pretty good idea of what needs changing for Linux to become more widely usable to people. Maybe you could even contribute some of the fixes yourself!
Hey, so, in light of Microsoft killing off Windows 10 in October (https://digipres.club/@misty/114190352645015060)...
If you want more people to use Linux, now would probably be a good time to start talking to your friends and relatives about how Linux will still work and get updates and, most importantly, *offer to help them setting it up and keeping it working*.
And ideally, take notes of what problems they run into, because those notes are going to give you a pretty good idea of what needs changing for Linux to become more widely usable to people. Maybe you could even contribute some of the fixes yourself!
Convincing people to give Linux a try is going to be a lot easier when there's a direct, chargeable-to-creditcard cost associated with continuing to use Windows, the thing they are familiar with.
That's your strategic advantage. Just make sure not to waste it by being condescending or patronizing, and always prioritize *their* needs in the process, not yours.
The output of "zfs list" can be sorted by a specific column using -s. To
sort the datasets by the "used" column in ascending order, run this command:
zfs list -s used
To sort in descending order instead, use -S:
zfs list -S used
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
Cool things you can do in Mastodon and perhaps you weren't aware of:
* Create an RSS link from any Mastodon profile
* Validate your profile easily using your personal domain
* Use a column interface ร lร Tweetdeck (RIP)
Share your favorite use cases!
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That's...an interesting bike design.
"The Cannondale R4000 Roller Blade is a visionary concept bike from the mid 1990s featuring four inline skate wheels instead of a regular front wheel."
https://bicycledesign.net/2006/07/i-must-like-harebrained-ideas/
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๐ GNOME 48 is here!
After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings exciting updates and improvements. ๐
๐ Check out whatโs new in #GNOME48 in the release notes: https://release.gnome.org/48
@gnome Go GNOME ๐ !
๐ GNOME 48 is here!
After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings exciting updates and improvements. ๐
๐ Check out whatโs new in #GNOME48 in the release notes: https://release.gnome.org/48
got a lot of great answers to "how is the shell involved in handling Ctrl+C" to the effect of one of:
- "the shell is responsible for sending a SIGINT"
- "the shell takes input from the terminal emulator and relays it to the program"
- "it must be handled by the layer above the program, which is the shell"
and while none of those is true, they feel like they totally _could_ be true in a different world. It feels hard to explain why it might be useful to have a more "accurate" mental model
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If LLM/AI companies could maybe stop DDoS-ing git forges from open-source communities for five minutes, that would be just amazing.
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Bluesky made more money selling t-shirts mocking Zuckerberg than custom domains https://tcrn.ch/4kZtcF2
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Are mobile-backends-as-a-service still a thing? If so what's good?
that is, this is what www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/c... was about
C++ creator calls for action t...
Hey, so, in light of Microsoft killing off Windows 10 in October (https://digipres.club/@misty/114190352645015060)...
If you want more people to use Linux, now would probably be a good time to start talking to your friends and relatives about how Linux will still work and get updates and, most importantly, *offer to help them setting it up and keeping it working*.
And ideally, take notes of what problems they run into, because those notes are going to give you a pretty good idea of what needs changing for Linux to become more widely usable to people. Maybe you could even contribute some of the fixes yourself!
this one is... spicy
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