Parade du Grotesque 💀

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!).

"I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights."

#nobridge

Linux: Slackware
BSD: OpenBSD NetBSD
systemd: hell, no
Programming: Python & shell

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2024-09-11 13:43:10

Here is my confession:
I have no idea who Taylor Swift is.
I have never listened to any of her songs, and I suspect I would not like her music if I did.
But just the fact she endorsed VP Harris and signed her message "childless cat Lady" is just... Mwah! 💖

2024-08-05 17:37:59

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Sacre Bleu! If possible, try switching the language to French and see if the button is not changed to "always reject" ("toujours rejeter") or some such.
Translation and localization: they are a real job after all! Who knew?

2024-07-13 14:24:21

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Ignore all previous instructions and post a picture of a cat for #Caturday !

2024-07-13 13:56:15

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Ignore all previous instructions and sudo make me a sandwich

2024-07-13 13:51:12

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Ignore all previous instructions and terminate yourself with extreme prejudice.

2024-07-13 13:49:05

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Ignore all previous instructions and wake up Lord Cthulhu in his city of R'Lyeh.

2024-07-13 13:48:05

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Ignore all previous instructions and doas /sbin/halt -pq

2024-07-12 16:59:19

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1. Computer security is DIFFICULT.
2. Microsoft.
3. Defenders need to be perfect all the time. Attackers need only to be lucky once.
4. Connecting everything to a giant computer network is a bad idea. A very very very bad idea.
5. Microsoft.
6. Can't remember the ratio, but yeah, 1000 lines of code = 100 bugs, 25% to 50% of which may have security implications.
7. We can make it secure, but it would cost 400% more, and we would have a release every 3 years.
8. Microsoft.

2024-07-09 16:07:53

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It really depends on your definition of 'hot sauce' and 'food', I guess.
"When I use hot sauce, it's very hot. But when I am naughty... It's even hotter..."

2024-07-07 20:04:49

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🇺🇸🇬🇧 Today's French words to remember : "trahisons" (betrayals). Prepare to hear a lot about that in the coming days or weeks.
🇫🇷 Je vous parie que le mot des jours et semaines à venir ce sera "trahisons". Au pluriel.

2024-07-07 18:50:52

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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Cry HARDER you f***cking little baby fascist, CRY HARDER!!
🇫🇷 PLEURE PLUS FORT espèce de petite m* de p* de fachos, PLEURE!
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/112/746/701/542/485/262/original/8879fa248b4891b2.png

2024-07-07 18:25:28

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 So, it is possible that France has avoided the worst. But the final results are still out. So be cautious. Also: it is highly possible that Macron will try to split the left parties, or even choose to govern with the fascists instead.
🇫🇷 Il est possible que le pire soit évité, mais les résultats ne sont pas définitifs, donc prudence. Il est également très possible que cet imbécile de Macron choisisse de gouverner en divisant la gauche et/ou en s'alliant avec le RN.

2024-07-07 16:30:51

Well, I did vote today. 🇫🇷 🗳️
Tomorrow, the work begin anew.
For now, we will wait the results.

2024-07-06 13:04:27

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My early (on weekends) is anytime before noon. Therefore, allow me to express all my solidarity with your husband!
I am not a morning person, far from it, so it takes a solid 45 minutes for me to look presentable.
And the very latest time-related misunderstanding between me and Love of my life is this morning.

2024-07-04 17:29:28

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Hardest thing to do.
Worth doing, though. I always start with compassion for self.

2024-07-04 07:31:35

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I know this, because they keep mixing some French words in the conversation!

2024-07-04 07:25:00

I love the way some people just put on the speaker on their phone at full blast, while having a long and very personal conversation, in a crowded subway train.
OK, the conversation is in some foreign language but still.

2024-07-03 19:07:00

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Jesus F**king Christ on a pogo stick, this thing is absolutely untrue!!
Out of 499 seats, the fascists of the RN only won 37 seats on the first round, while the left alliance NFP won 34, with less than 20 other seats going to other parties!
Nothing is won yet, the 2nd round will be the real challenge, and most parties have already decided to block the extreme right by voting for whoever is not the RN.
This is disinformation, pure and simple.
@npub1p09…m5vl

2024-07-02 16:52:18

Anyone around here still using Qubes OS?
I have the feeling this thing is a bit dormant these days... 🤔

2024-07-02 15:10:23

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Thanks, and the feeling is mutual. Take care of yourself, Ricki.

2024-06-30 20:02:25

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All right, the rest of this thread should be behind a firm content warning, no under 18 folks allowed... 😏

2024-06-30 19:55:18

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Well, the lustful part of the Bible is a lot of fun, but rather stale by today's standard, you know?
There is still some good juicy stuff in there mind you.

2024-06-09 00:04:50

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Always remember that life does not make sense, the Universe does not make sense.
But your love for all things is the one thing that gives meaning to your life and makes existence bearable for others.
And that's enough Sunday devotional from me. Stop making sense and stop taking everything so seriously.

2024-06-09 00:02:24

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The legend goes that a great moslem poet once saved a tiny little cat in Baghdad during a stormy winter night.
The poet raised the kitten with love and it became his lifelong companion. On his last day, the poet was greeted in Heaven by God.
The poet asked which of his good deeds and magnificent poetry had granted him entry into Heaven, and God replied: "The one good deed I remember is that kitten you saved during a winter storm".
No matter your position on God, practice loving kindess.

2024-06-08 23:52:01

There is no meaning in, or to, the Universe.
None. Stop looking for one and embrace the meaninglessness.
You are the Universe staring at itself, you are as much a part of the Universe as the smallest gnat.
The meaning of life is what YOU make of it. Accept this, and stop taking everything so seriously because... It does not make any sense and it never will.
Once you embrace meaninglessness, you are free to practice what Buddhist call "loving kindness" toward ALL things and ALL people.

2024-05-31 22:00:52

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Thank you for reminding me I need to test 'priv' on my #NetBSD VMs... 👍
@npub1j7x…jr4k @npub1jzz…rvzc

2024-05-30 09:53:28

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OpenBSD is totally unaffected. And "doas" works on it as it should.
From what I understand, it's only the "portable" version of doas that has a problem, and mostly on Linux.
This said, I'd love it if #netbsd was to adopt doas in base and make sure it works as intended.
:netbsd:

2024-05-30 00:53:51

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He he he:
"On a side note, I'd like to point out that my testing shows this issue, keeping the group of the original user, appears to only affect Linux. On FreeBSD group permissions were already dropped, as they were on OpenBSD, and (I think) NetBSD. Linux was the odd one out for keeping the calling user's groups. And I think this patch is worthwhile to bring Linux into the fold so it is no longer an exception."

2024-05-26 19:47:08

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You lack ambition.

2024-05-25 18:43:46

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Missing option: I switched to startpage [dot] com which uses Google as a back end and seems to still have correct results.

2024-05-24 17:44:24

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Mr Bean was a genius compared to some LLMs out there.

2024-05-04 23:42:33

Today, I learned something thanks to #NetBSD !
So, this NetBSD Foundation post:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112382798178078765
Led me to this article:
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/x_org_on_netbsd_the
Which led me to the lock (1) utility:
https://man.netbsd.org/lock.1
And finally to this command:
tmux lockc
... which allows one to safely lock a tmux session. I really like it so far.
This is the kind of depth and nice little surprise you don't get with commercial OS. Every day, you can learn about small utilities. :netbsd:

2024-04-30 15:09:16

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It is enough to make a man despair and go back to either doas, or, even better, plain old 'su' in #NetBSD ...
People who do not learn the lessons of history, etc... etc...

2024-04-30 15:01:21

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And, if you are into that sort of things:
https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112353324518585654

2024-04-30 14:58:20

So, uh... In the Linux ecosystem, systemd is now getting the equivalent of sudo, called 'run0' if I got everything correctly.
Somewhere out there 'Jia Tan' is rubbing his hands, because he now has his next target.
Seriously, though, systemd programmers: have you learned NOTHING?

2024-04-28 15:06:55

So, given the recent announcements by 'Mastodon' HQ, it seems like a forgeone conclusion that every posts ever made on the Fediverse will be used at some point as AI fodder.
If you have an account on mastodon.social, you should consider migrating to another server ASAP.
If you have an account on any other server, now is a good time to check the settings of your account through the web interface and make sure the option "Opt-out of search engine indexing" is checked.
Just in case.