purple 💜

@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe "we should have shotguns." shred -uz **/*

things i learned this week:
NFS respects sparse files. throw conv=sparse in your dd's that happen over NFS 👍 them shits saved me over 70GB of transfer at 802.11b speeds

@tisba@ruby.social @cwebber@social.coop run everything on obscure systems like NetBSD/mac68k systems diversity is starting to seem as important as biological diversity -- if one virus is enough to take down the dominant species, we gots a problem!

some of the meta going on fedi rn is EXTREMELY reminiscent of the early llms russia used to divide america the prompt is basically the same; "waste as much of their time and effort as possible"

@asokel@ohai.social we got lasers. we can burn it down remotely!

@Sonikku@techhub.social @cstross@wandering.shop only if we don't change our ways. so i'm told..

to those who are migrating from gitlab to forgejo:

hmu if you need help. we did this at work over a year ago. migrating repos is easy, orgs/projects are hard, and so are users. i can share the scripts we used to handle that stuff, if needed (they are not scripts of honor...)

@cthululemon@social.cthululemon.com to move masto to another server, we do something called a "lift-and-shift" to borrow a term from the construction industry. this is where we shut it down, move all the files, and start it back up. to get in to the extreme details and why's would be to start citing the deep magic that founded the internet, but, the quick and dirty generic process is: -1: take inventory of what exactly is being moved. are you moving volumes and database dumps or only volumes? if so, treat them as separate migrations. do you need to make considerations for networking changes? 0: spend a few hours looking over the configs to see what (if anything) you need to change. config changes are otherwise avoided during migrations. 1: alert your users/temporarily redirect DNS to a maintenance page/otherwise handle obligations you need to for scheduled downtime. 2: stop the stack. 3: do any data dumping that may need to happen. 4: copy & import it to the new host. 5: change the DNS & start the stack. for masto in specific, if you're running the most basic self-contained docker compose stack for it, then you'll really only need to copy the volumes over and won't need to bother with database dumps.

$ ssh ssh://purple@example.com:9000
NetBSD 11.0_RC2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Mar  4 21:02:00 UTC 2026

Welcome to NetBSD!

This is a release candidate for NetBSD.

new vps, new RC.

also the unofficial support for netbsd is growing. this host had an older stable release on file and it was zero issue to sysupgrade to 11.0_RC2 \m/

@Michigander@toad.social i almost learned French because of this

@vwestlife@mastodon.social @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org brave to bring it on the internet :\ (yes, old crap is still in the wild)

@penny@eldritch.cafe the downtown swanky underground bar that plays jazz music and has a dress code even on weeknights runs solaris on its POS terminal server. it's a very classy OS in general. dapper stuff.

@soatok@furry.engineer ah yeah, matrix is a bit shit like that.

@dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party hot take: literally every one i've ever tried to use has worked fine out of the box with zero installation of anything at all. the battery in my laptop's digitizer gives me more trouble than the input device itself 😌 (it's a AAAA battery and they're $$$$)

@beanclock@jorts.horse omfg the grilled cheeses this would make

@89q12@cyberpunk.lol you can run workloads on control nodes. nothing stops you. the world is your oyster 😌

@vampiress@eigenmagic.net the Endless games are a great example of nailing the UI and then keeping that UI persistent across all the games, regardless of the genre of the game. i suppose that it helps that they're all turn-based. https://www.amplitude-studios.com/#Home is the author's site.

i hope our neighbors like this song ^_^

not that they could hear it over their airconditioner #america

gold star bisexual

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place i did this with perl and then didn't get the job because i was "overqualified" lmaoooo i had never once held a paying IT job prior to that

@heatherhorns@plush.city yesssssss!

@connections@tacobelllabs.net mmm these things sound so good!

@uint8_t@chaos.social the steam hammer.

Alien::Build::Auto::X0::Alienfile> TOO NEW found cmake version 4.4.3

thanks, cmake. real fuckin' useful.

@shibao@shitposter.world @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer seconded. restic is the good shit.

forgot about this internet comfy place :3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuq4tprW4to

gonna do one of those ai interviews and only say "Lansing."

2027 will be the 100 year anniversary the first UAP report in the US. i'm sure there's no significance to that.

https://tian.greens.org/TASC/TASCNARCAP.html

@alrs@lsngl.us there's only two people alive that can look at my mom's name and pronounce it correctly, me and her. nobody or no system knows how to pronounce it, and her friends don't even call her by it at all. makes screening calls real real easy. but i worry. eventually they'll get it right..

just removed the NOINDEX stuff from muh site. not that it really mattered ...

"you cannot hate yourself in to a version [of yourself] that you love"

@matera@mastodon.sdf.org update-manager is trash, yeah uninstall it. no reason to disable unattended upgrades, though :)

finally getting around to setting up Pretendo on the 3ds. wish i could find that "pov you're setting up wifi on your 3ds at a friend's house" shitpost.