I had a personal victory with my handstand practice, and it only took me a month to write about it.
https://russ.whirling.top/ramblings/saying_yes_while_doing_a_handstand.html
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mastodon 4.7.3Russ Sharek has been described by reliable sources as wiser than a rubber duck, a zen fool, a benevolent super villain, a talentless hack, a magical f***ing wizard, a misanthropic community leader, a clown (grand)father figure and an Impish Cabaret Rasputin.
Each of these facts is true.
Them/He pronouns, because the chorus of voices in their head assures them that this is accurate and will absolutely vex both fascists and grammar prescriptivists alike.
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actual clown:
emoji:
:clown:
languages:
English, toki pona
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It took a bit more flailing to get 'nellie' willing to boot #9front from her hard drive.
No matter what I tried, there was no luck with a GPT partition.
On a whim I gave an MBR setup a shot. As the hackerinos say: *I'm in.*
Next up, sorting out wifi.
I got the firmware loaded and the card scanning last time. The problem was that I couldn't figure out how to get aux/wpa to do its thing.
Be gentle with the cluebats, 9nerds.
Sometimes, you have to step outside the big top and appreciate the carnival.
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Well, butts.
I took a look at the possibility of uninstalling ImageMagick on my OpenBSD system, and it turns out that it is a dependency for inkscape.
That's a program we use regularly here at the clown house.
It seems I'm stuck with both for the moment.
Again I say, butts.
Congratulations, you're listed on the #FilthyHumanHands license's "in_the_wild.md" page.
https://git.disroot.org/bsdclown/filthy_human_hands/src/branch/main/in_the_wild.md
If you'd like to change the wording, let me know. :)
The secret to good listening is simple. Unless I'm willing to be changed by you, I'm not really listening.
- Alan Alda
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@libroraptor@mastodon.nzhttps://slopscan.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub%2Ecom%2FImageMagick%2FImageMagick
For me, the answer to the question of "how much slop is ok" is "none" if I have alternatives to try...and if I don't have an option I think that is a concerning problem.
If you need a reminder to do your backups, any way you like, here's one you can use:
Today, after a bunch of learning, I started my migration from borgbackup to restic.
Some of today involved literally moving paperwork around. Most of the pile was old record keeping; now sorted and destined for the shredder.
I was amused to discover proof that I was grossly underpaid for some promotional work by a well known circus.
It did look impressive on my cv, and turned out to be a metric ton of fun.
Current me is adding the proof to the scrapbook for that reason, and past me can have their mind blown by the client name.
Said by clever computer-touching friend:
"The logo for vi is "vi" rendered in whatever typeface you use in your terminal."
The newest episode of the #2ClownsInACloset #podcast is now available for your listening pleasure!
This installment's slogan: "The proof is in the podding"
The latest episode, feed URL, complete episode archive, show notes, transcriptions, and more can be found on our site:
https://circusfreaks.org/podcast
Each episode is 100% advertisement, tracker, and gloom free.
Please enjoy...and share!
Feels like a good day to remind creative friends to make things with their #FilthyHumanHands.
https://whirling.top/fhh
Today the wildfire smoke in the air from the North is thick enough to block out some of the sun beating down on #ThisOldClownHouse. It's a weirdly mixed win, as the air quality is terrible yet cooler than we feared.
At the moment, I'm grateful to @SocialGaff@cathode.church for having done an excellent job of redoing the weather stripping on the doors.
We're expecting some rain by the end of the weekend, so hopefully that will help both problems.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
The truly amazing thing is that no one had to reserve the cable three times to make the connection.
I don't know what you computer touching weirdos have done to my brain...
I just finished writing 500 some-odd lines of (terrible) #Perl using nothing more than my brain, several websites filled with helpful examples, and a copy of #vi.
I would feel empowered and wizardly if I wasn't too busy being baffled.
First of May is something of a clown holiday. It was traditionally was the start of circus contracts for the year.
As a result, it was also used as a way to describe inexperienced clown, similar to how we say "newbie" today.
I'm happy to always be a First of May, a complete newb, or anything else that keeps my cynicism at bay.
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@jaypatelani@bsd.network @alter_unicorn@masto.bike
Agreed, and trying to learn enough to be helpful.
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@alter_unicorn@masto.bike
There's also another slop-free vim fork to try called vim-classic:
https://vim-classic.org/
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@alter_unicorn@masto.bike @jaypatelani@bsd.network
I am a trained theatrical clown and circus performer who maintains a couple of OpenBSD ports. The bar for contributing can't be that high.
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@tinker@infosec.exchange
Openbsd has not made a formal policy. There was some chatter about it on the -misc list, but no formal statement made.
It's been a frustration for those of us already running #openbsd who wanted a safe home from the slop-pocalypse.
That said, it's a terrific os. I daily drive it on several machines, including my laptop.
#runbsd tagged, in hopes of summoning the fanbase.
*waves*
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@tinker@infosec.exchange
Hi old friend!
It has been forever, and many things have happened. For one, we aren't in Dallas anymore!
We've gone on a wild adventure which has relocated us to Pittsburgh. We're currently renovating an old hotel into a clown school, artists residency, and theatrical play space.
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@prahou@merveilles.town
There are days where I think my dislike of mice is the only thing that saves me from this fate.
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@Timpostma@mastodon.world @RadioAzureus@mastodon.social
I think I slept through most of the first day with decent air quality too. The body demanded recovery time.
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@Orlovsky@mastodon.social @Larvitz@burningboard.net
I wrote a (terrible) perl script which keeps adding random tracks to musicpd whenever the playlist runs empty.
I have it in a cronjob that runs every ten minutes to check if the playlist needs a fill up. There is just enough time to notice, and override it by manual queuing if desired.
I'm planning on adding fake station ids next. :)
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@Larvitz@burningboard.net
That's really cool!
We did something similar with our music collection, and listen to a lot more music as a result.
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@inherentlee@flipping.rocks @s0@cathode.church @SocialGaff@cathode.church
It makes me really happy that people are still enjoying the creative things which came out of that collaboration.
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@RadioAzureus@mastodon.social
Yeah, we're only outside in masks for short periods today. The filters are positioned by the doors to create a sort of airlock space. Even with all of that, I got a headache when someone ducked outside.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social
I'm waiting for the hand bound hardback edition of your wonderful hellthreads.
(Also, I don't know if we inspired it, but every time I read the phrase filthy human hands it inspires me)
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@acallegaro@mas.to
We installed miniflux a while back. It's been a really nice tool for the clowns here.
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@prahou@merveilles.town
I assumed you were well beyond hope. :)
I'd be curious to know what tools you use to do this.
@nmott@infosec.exchange
*waves with a filthy human hand*
Thanks for the follow!