Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Michael Lucas @mwl@io.mwl.io

2/6/2026, 6:54:46 PM

Public

Hey #FreeBSD folks!

Ten years ago, disk ID labels (/dev/diskid) were often painfully encoded.

Today, my WD drives show up cleanly. Is that just a WD thing? Do other vendors show up as encoded crud?

If you could look in /dev/diskid and see what you have, I'd appreciate it.

(diskID is disabled in 15, you'd need to uncomment kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" in /boot/loader.conf)

TLDR: can I now recommend diskID labels as reasonable, or am I just lucky in my hard drives? #sysadmin

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