Tim Chase

Christian, husband, father, geek, dork behind @ed1conf

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2025-05-01 20:00:22

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@nprofile…t4qe a bit sad that OpenBSD didn't meet your needs (TIL about no sixel on OpenBSD's xterm despite our efforts to coerce it), but would have been just as sad if you had tried FreeBSD and switched to OpenBSD since I enjoy them both. But happy for you that FreeBSD seems to be suitable. Enjoying your posts about your adventures!

2025-05-01 19:00:35

the phrase "Vibe Surgery" popped into my head today. 😖

2025-04-14 20:24:14

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@nprofile…q5wq
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/114/338/182/704/652/200/original/a99431c9cf522615.jpg

2025-04-14 20:23:20

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@nprofile…q5wq
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/114/338/180/043/986/032/original/c45f240ebbfce345.jpg

2025-04-14 15:01:53

Some weeks life just decides to throw things at you to see if it can take you down.
A couple weeks ago, storms took out some trim on the house, so we have our handiman coming to repair that for $$$.
The new ~$375 mower purchased last fall and used for one mowing of the yard before being put in the shed for the winter? Refused to start when I went to mow the yard for the first time this past week. Another $150–200 (and 1 week) to diagnose & repair.
The phone? Its battery just decided to keel over (not a gradual thing), so it refuses to run unless it's on the charger and positioned *just so*. Another $200+ to replace that.
So now I'm waiting to see what decides to die next…the washer or dryer? Stove? Some pipe bursting?
But despite the frustrations, I'm thankful we have sufficient savings to cover them as only annoyances, not financial disasters.

2025-03-30 19:34:22

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@nprofile…q5wq
More loatheworthy shell?
While one typically quotes things like in English with the opening quote at the beginning and the closing quote at the end, the shell is perfectly happy to accept things like
$ git commit -am Send\ the" output to "'"stdout"'
or even in the middle of words:
$ echo hell"o world"
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Short-circuit boolean evaluation can be a blessing in short, clear contexts
$ some_prog && deploy || send_failure_notice
but can rapidly spiral into a world of subshells and implicit order-of-operations for the boolean-conjunction evaluations.
Also, various shells differ in how they handle wildcards on the right of "<" or ">"
$ cat < *
$ echo hello > *.txt
Does it behave like tee(1)? Or use the first one, expanding the rest as arguments to the program? Or is it an error? 🤷
I'm sure I could come up with a few more…
@nprofile…enrd @nprofile…q955

2025-03-18 12:41:29

@nprofile…q5wq
Not sure whether this has already crossed your feed, but I figured cheese and rodents were something you'd enjoy.
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/114/183/473/012/623/655/original/55dd9794aa7b632e.jpg

2025-03-14 01:41:46

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@nprofile…q5wq
Better get out there and moon some folks to help it recharge…

2025-03-13 19:02:36

I love how wisely coding a change means that subsequent changes can be made in moments.
In this particular case, there was some vendor#1-specific fallback logic that was needed. By implementing the fallback logic generically and keeping things fairly data-driven, when vendor#2 turned out to ALSO need some fallback logic, it was as simple as extending the list of columns-to-check. Under 30 seconds and deployed.
Not only faster, but the logic/code-paths had already been tested.

2025-03-13 17:43:39

Sigh, with all the competent devs out there struggling to find work, it saddens & frustrates me when I see posts like "I lied during the interview and said I knew SQL, so Big Corp hired me. Now I have less than a month to master SQL & reporting before they figure out that I'm a sham."

2025-03-08 00:27:08

Learned about https://messwithdns.net/ today. Very cool for testing some DNS ideas I was playing with.
Thanks, @nprofile…6m2n!

2025-03-05 22:19:16

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@nprofile…sr9k my hang-up on completely switching to my SSG was getting the RSS feed working. I didn't want to push to production if that broke. Hopefully yours retains that functionality if it was there previously?

2025-03-03 20:59:06

Ah, the joys of helping a poor soul struggling with filenames containing vertical bars. Except it wasn't an actual vertical-bar/pipe character (0x7c, which can cause grief in the shell if not escaped/quoted), but rather it was a U+FF5C "FULLWIDTH VERTICAL LINE"
Hurray for hexdump(1) output ☺
$ ls | hexdump -C
and it was clear what happened, with the UTF-8 encoding right there.

2025-03-02 22:26:14

Apparently thousands of MS customers are experiencing Office365 downtime.
Meanwhile, with my local-first mail, data, and document processes, I wouldn't have even noticed if the news-article hadn't crossed my radar.
https://abc13.com/post/microsoft-outlook-outage-investigating-issues-users-not-being-access-email-365-services/15967080/?

2025-02-27 18:14:10

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@nprofile…sr9k dang, you're smooth…Using it uninterrupted (AFAICT) for the last several minutes. 😎

2025-02-27 15:59:13

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@nprofile…q5wq
I've taken to pretending I'm my own answering service. "Hello, how may I direct your call? I'm sorry, you've reached the call-screening service that Tim uses. If you'd like to leave a callback number and a message, I'd be glad to pass it along to him."
Machines get tripped up and continue with their inanity. Junk-callers generally bumble and claim it was a wrong number or are just confused. On the lucky occasion I "take a message for the holder of the line (me)" and manage to get a legit callback number, I can then include that in my FTC Do Not Call complaint report along with the (usually-faked) number that was on my caller-ID. (why yes, I do have a "launch the FTC complaint page" hotkey configured in Fluxbox 😉)
And when it's an actual human with legit cause to contact me (e.g. the dr. office calling back from an unrecognized number), they always understand, and often get a good laugh out of it.

2025-02-27 14:21:42

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@nprofile…sr9k alcohol just makes the network-hardware belligerent and more prone to vomit packets all over your network. I recommend a calming mug of chamomile tea instead. 😛

2025-02-26 17:42:22

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@nprofile…q5wq
I'm starting to suspect that "con" starts to take on a different meaning¹ here, Not really about a "conference" any more, and more about the gelato…
@nprofile…h77u @nprofile…ucuv
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¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick

2025-02-24 15:15:17

Note to self: when doing a large backup dump to a ZFS dataset on a USB drive, plan it so it doesn't overlap with when your cron jobs do their weekly scrub of all attached pools. Because performance on that USB drive will be abysmal and still going 12hr later.

2025-02-20 16:17:31

If you're a managed-services provider (MSP) and you plan to create a failover name/alias for a company's primary and secondary servers, make sure that both the primary and secondary servers have the that failover name/alias as part of the TLS certs' SAN.
Otherwise, when applications attempt to connect, it will trigger TLS certificate failures on the primary, triggering the failover mode to the secondary, which will also trigger TLS certificate failures, taking down the entire business for 2+ days.
As a MSP, you might be so fortunate as to have a competent geek notifying you within hours of the noticed downtime of the exact nature of the issue and how to resolve it. But it's up to you to decide whether to actually fix the issues and reissue the certs with the correct CN/SAN values. Or maybe instead you choose to require every application to switch to referring directly to the primary server, and then have to switch everything back another day.
#TalesFromTheDayjob

2025-02-20 13:57:25

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@nprofile…sr9k hah, haven't heard of them before, but it sounds like it could have been theme music to a TV show in the 80s ☺

2025-02-19 13:38:30

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@nprofile…59xe @nprofile…sr9k I also remember when my browser had a dedicated button available to toggle images, so you could run with images off (so much faster), and only if the prose warranted downloading the image, enable image-downloading for that one image/page.
I kinda miss those days.

2025-02-18 18:26:34

A recent conversation here on the fediverse discussed how pleasant it was to just share things of interest and engage in conversations that caught your fancy without worrying about whether something goes "viral".
On the other hand, about every other time I reply to something on :birdsite:, it's now prompting "do you want more people to see this? get a paid account and we'll s̶h̶o̶v̶e̶ i̶t̶ d̶o̶w̶n̶ o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶'̶s̶ t̶h̶r̶o̶a̶t̶s̶ promote your content!"
The contrast was pretty striking. I'm here to have fun and find "there" less and less fun (mostly just keeping the account for a couple that haven't moved to the fediverse).

2025-02-18 00:24:33

Found myself entertaining the hope that @nprofile…q5wq's new April Fools kickstarter¹ book might be something like "rcs mastery". However given how little weeping and gnashing of teeth I've heard, I suspect that's not the case.
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¹ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/mwls-next-1-april-book

2025-02-15 15:28:39

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@nprofile…sr9k hah, for travel, I refuse to use anything but one of the freebie-hand-me-down laptops I've received (with full-disk-encryption enabled). Makes travel much less stressful in the event it should get lost/stolen/damaged.

2025-02-13 17:36:53

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@nprofile…q5wq you're knocking it out of the park with your advertising on this one. 👍

2025-02-12 13:27:30

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@nprofile…x759 is there a clear delineation between "small" and "larger"?
Does it distinguish between active users ("have used the site in the last $PERIOD") vs inactive users ("haven't visited in the last $PERIOD")?

2025-02-07 17:48:48

Mom calls up in a panic, "I went to click on the folder containing my manuscript and now it's just…gone!"
[thinking a moment]
Me: "This might sound silly, but try pressing control+z"
Mom: "It's back! How did you know? You're amazing!"
(somehow the click became a click-drag moving the folder into some neighboring folder; rather than poke through all the neighboring folders to find where it was, control+z just undid the move and presto 🪄)

2025-01-24 19:57:18

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@nprofile…sr9k
"But it works on my machine…"
#SixWordStories #SixWordHorrorStories

2025-01-24 19:48:59

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@nprofile…sr9k
It's not DNS! (it was DNS)
#SixWordStories

2025-01-24 13:33:23

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@nprofile…sr9k
It's also part of what seems broken over in the Bluesky world: sure, it's "federated", but only if you have a huge investment in infrastructure.
From Bryan Newbold's defense of atproto¹, "Our design goal is not to run the entire network on small instances…This architecture facilitates big-world indices…Such indices are not cheap at scale!"
But I want my federation to be so affordable that anybody can get a domain-name, spin up a $1/month VPS instance², and participate in the fediverse. Things like snac make the completely feasible. So thanks, @nprofile…73zh!
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¹ https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t
² https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

2025-01-22 20:03:55

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@nprofile…q5wq
$666, the 1099 amount from the Beast?

2025-01-21 20:42:52

One of the nice things about distributed version-control is that, when BitBucket went down at $DAYJOB, it was easy to push around changesets between hosts, completetly cutting BitBucket out of the process. When things came back online, just a `git push` to get things back up to the shared repo, and done.
From a version-control perspective, it was basically a non-event here.

2025-01-21 17:36:13

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@nprofile…93qq Seconding @nprofile…ehlq's suggestion. You might need `-maxdepth` to prevent it from recursing deeper if that's an issue.
Or you can send results of the find(1) to xargs(1) or GNU parallel(1) like
$ find $LOCATION -type f -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 -L1 mycommand
which can spawn multiple processes if that could speed things up.

2025-01-20 22:12:44

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@nprofile…q5wq I'm not sure which age-demographic that was targeting. But it certainly was…a thing.

2025-01-19 13:48:04

Recently saw an interesting comparison between modern LLM prompt-injection and old-school phreaking—interpreting data *and commands* over the same channel leads to arbitrary users being able to send commands.
https://lobste.rs/s/bbrgdy/lessons_from_red_teaming_100_generative#c_d0tdc1

2025-01-19 02:01:35

I'm sure I knew this at one point, but (re)learned today that a DNS TXT record has a limit of 255 characters.
(he says noting that it's roughly the length of a Tweet and pondering the ramifications of microblogging-over-DNS which is absolutely horrible…hey, brain, no…stop it, STOP it!)

2025-01-16 02:08:21

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@nprofile…q5wq
Context-free, that could describe pretty much any of your nonfic, no?
@nprofile…4ew9

2025-01-15 20:28:42

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@nprofile…q5wq
How can I get ahead if my servers are headless?

2025-01-14 16:09:48

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@nprofile…q5wq
I frequently find that I miss @nprofile…wvfd's flan over here on bsd.cafe but that (non-)usage was too good to pass up.

2025-01-14 16:03:33

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@nprofile…q5wq
arms length
:flan_guns:

2025-01-14 13:40:50

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@nprofile…x759
I guess it would depend on what your intended outcome is. A couple ideas
- You can use the metadata key/value pairs in your profile(s) to cross-reference other "you"s.
- if you're looking for one Everything Neil feed, it might make sense to have your main feed follow your other feeds and boost everything you post, or have some auto-aggregator feed that does the same thing
- the Web Finger protocol¹ allows for providing multiple URLs associated with a profile, each with a corresponding "rel"ation value² that might disambiguate beyond just the basic "self" value
(have I mentioned that, after reading up on them in excruciating detail, I loathe the ActivityPub/ActivityStreams/JSON-LD/webfinger³ protocols?)
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¹ https://www.w3.org/community/reports/socialcg/CG-FINAL-apwf-20240608/#other
² https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml
³ https://blog.thechases.com/posts/activitypub-activitystreams/

2025-01-13 16:35:13

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@nprofile…q5wq
$ telnet mwl.link 80
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: mwl.link
includes
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
I felt a bit undereducated, as if someone interjected from the wilderness. But I feel wiser now.
https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about

2025-01-11 03:59:23

Just played around with a CLI utility written in Go that had ~380 lines of code, not including the 62 external dependencies (bringing in another ~230k lines of code)
Replicated the core functionality with fzf(1) and less than 20 lines of shell-function.
Not sure how I feel about this.

2025-01-08 19:06:53

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@nprofile…sr9k
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/794/294/761/679/730/original/75809b0a9f4e01ae.png

2025-01-08 16:19:10

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@nprofile…7cy4 @nprofile…q5wq
A few more for the collection:
Panic! Rat The Disco
Trash Can Sinratras
Nine Inch Tails

2025-01-08 14:21:50

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@nprofile…q5wq So you're saying that, while inadvisable, I *could* use a Zip drive as a cache device? [something clicks]
:flan_think:

2025-01-07 17:22:39

As a long-time user of vi/vim, I still regularly get little moments of delight when some modestly-complex change can be done with just a few keystrokes. Just now it was "on that previous line, inconveniently located (so moving by word/character/sentence isn't helpful) there's a number I need to increment by 12."
-12^A
The "-" moved to the first character of the previous line, the 12 followed by control+a jumped the cursor directly to that number and incremented it by 12. And done without my fingers leaving the home-row. 😎

2025-01-07 15:41:12

@nprofile…xwsy So this crossed my feed and made me think you'd get a smile
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/787/821/070/741/372/original/cf1acee69e50531b.jpg

2025-01-06 22:51:48

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Source file: 4144 bytes
Unstripped binary: 17536 bytes
Stripped binary: 7120 bytes
Not shabby.

2025-01-06 22:49:58

Playing a Candyland-like game with dear daughter, we were curious how many rounds it would take before someone would win.
So I cranked out a quickie C program to model the board and player positions/state (lose a turn, get an extra turn) and fired off the simulation.
Verdict after 10000 games:
With 1 solo player, it could be finished as quickly as 14 rounds and as many as 70+ (theoretically an infinite number if you keep hitting the "back to the start" square).
With 2 players, it came out between 14 and ~40 rounds pretty consistently.
With 3 players, 14–30.
With more players, that upper drops rapidly toward the lower-bound because even if lots of players have bad luck, the coin-toss balances out, so with 300 players, someone wins consistently within 15 rounds.
As a bonus, the C program regularly compiled at nearly every step along the way (which is often rare for me), and not a single segfault, out-of-bounds, or other treacherous fault. 😎

2025-01-05 20:41:00

A great post discussing all the things her site does NOT do to annoy readers. I strive largely for the same on my own blog (though I tend to use semantic linebreaks rather than arbitrarily wrapping around 72 chars).
As a bonus, when you build a site like that, it's *fast*. Fast to load. Fast to render. Fast to recall from cache. Fast because there aren't piles of dependencies and images to download.
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/01/04/cruft/

2025-01-04 16:52:09

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@nprofile…q5wq Readers prefer to support their artists directly rather than see large percentages of the money go towards intermediaries?
:flan_faux_shock:

2025-01-04 16:49:39

When I enabled my sidebar in about:config with
sidebar.revamp → True
sidebar.verticalTabs → True
it put a little icon in my top-left corner that looks like a rectangle with a darker/thicker left edge. Hovering over it shows "Expand sidebar" and when clicked, the sidebar expands, and hovering over it now shows "Collapse sidebar". You might have to right-click on the background of the toolbar and click "Customize Toolbar" if that icon has been removed (which should give you a chance to drag it back up into someplace convenient in the toolbar UI).
And @nprofile…f7sw has the "make Google results less rubbish" answer. I like to use FF's keyword bookmarks so I have that under "g" letting me type
g firefox tabs sidebar
in the URL-bar and getting the non-AI-polluted results.

2025-01-03 14:40:48

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@nprofile…sr9k There's definitely a balance to be struck.
I see a lot of modern software using GB of RAM and gobs of CPU (glares at Electron apps) to run, or build-steps taking ghastly amounts of time (recently several CLI utilities written in Rust taking >1hr to compile, on admittedly-old hardware that still blows away anything I had in the early 2000s where compilation times were tolerable)
On the other hand, it's awfully nice to have interpreted (or semi-compiled) languages like Python or Ruby where you don't have to think much about memory management and the standard library gives you oodles of tools by default (having built-from-scratch more than my fair share of standard data-structures/algorithms in C, it's nice to just have them right there)
But the most important thing from both our posts is that profiling is paramount. If that interpreted code is fast enough, let it be. And on the other side, optimizing byte-vs-int storage is useless if you're poorly managing GB of RAM elsewhere, or you're using some time-consuming O(n²) algorithm where you could use an O(1) or O(logₙ) routine.

2025-01-01 18:32:50

$ gpg --edit-key $YOUR_EMAIL_OR_GPG_FINGERPRINT
> key 1
> expire
>> 2y
>> y
> save

2025-01-01 17:26:15

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@nprofile…79g5 Congrats to all involved!

2025-01-01 01:39:19

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@nprofile…q5wq
…stick around a while and then ketchup with you later
:flan_guns:

2024-12-31 12:47:12

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@nprofile…q5wq
I don't plan to drive sober tonight. If all goes according to plan, I'll be staying home and go to bed early sober. 😛

2024-12-31 12:33:35

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@nprofile…sr9k thanks for wrangling all the software & hardware to keep the lights on, and for shepherding the community so that it's a pleasant place to hang out. May you and your loved ones have a joy-filled new year!

2024-12-30 21:12:30

Need a 5-minute count-down timer in the terminal?
$ sleep $(( 60 * 5)) ; play ding.wav
(or whatever notification you want like inotify or mpg123 or xeyes(1) etc). If you run a BSD that respects SIGINFO, you can even see how much time has elapsed.
Need a stopwatch instead?
$ time cat
Use control+d to stop. Again, access to SIGINFO can give you a lap-timer for free.

2024-12-30 21:00:43

Need to tack a header+footer on your clipboard contents?
$ xsel -ob | cat header.txt - footer.txt | xsel -ib
Map it to a key (or alias or shell-function) to give quick access.

2024-12-30 13:34:59

@nprofile…q5wq In case you feel extravagant in your purchase of a large block of ISBNs,
https://annas-archive.org/blog/all-isbns.html
While it feels reminiscent of early IPv4 allocating, there's a LOT of blank space in there ☺

2024-12-29 13:28:23

Particularly delighted with this very niche gift I received for Christmas. I hope that, if you're among the few for whom it makes sense, you get the same pleasure I did. ☺
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/736/335/868/812/756/original/fe3457b72f0c9c20.png

2024-12-26 15:42:25

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@nprofile…q5wq Hah, took me a while to parse the geometry of his position, but it looked like he had a Moe (from Three Stooges) bowl-cut.
(it's the shadow from his rump, but still)

2024-12-26 15:19:51

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@nprofile…xq7g I remember a pair of "Visible Man" and "Visible Woman" models from my youth.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_214318
A quick search (adding "anatomical model" to the search terms) suggests they might still be available.
https://www.amazon.com/Craft-House-Corporation-Visible-Woman/dp/B00004W1DG

2024-12-25 00:46:16

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@nprofile…fa4k @nprofile…q5wq
Fun to see continued updates on its project. My sister was part of the NASA measurements team for the PSP, so these make me proud of her work 😁

2024-12-20 22:00:28

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"I don't even like most people and if I'm still masking to protect them, you can too."
—@nprofile…q5wq
😉

2024-12-20 18:22:12

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@nprofile…x759
Been reading through some of your blog-post archive and wanted to say thanks! Lots of good stuff in there

2024-12-20 17:26:33

Great post from @nprofile…x759 that echos some of the same reasons we still tend to stick to DVDs over streaming services. Add to his excellent list of reasons:
• commercial-free (all the streaming & cable services seem to have advertising, despite that absence being one of cable's selling points many decades ago). I'm bombarded by enough advertising elsewhere in life and don't need any more
• can check them out for free from our local library
https://neilzone.co.uk/2021/11/do-you-still-buy-or-watch-dvds-or-blu-ray-discs-why/

2024-12-20 14:06:53

You might be familiar with
sed '/pattern/G'
for inserting a blank line *below* lines matching /pattern/ but sometimes you want to put the blank line *above* the matching line. For that, you can use
sed '/pattern/{x;p;x;}'
It swaps the current space with the (empty) hold-space, prints that blank-line, then swaps them back so the matching line is there to be printed at the end of the cycle.

2024-12-19 14:20:47

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@nprofile…sr9k Festive annual commemoration of your emancipation from the womb!

2024-12-17 14:04:16

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@nprofile…q5wq sounds like a "people of questionable taste" mailing-list to me 😉

2024-12-16 22:30:20

Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no.
@nprofile…q5wq is at it again with another April 1st book.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/mwls-next-1-april-book

2024-12-16 17:59:27

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@nprofile…eyyt @nprofile…qvjw
Things that have gone well:
- optimize code for readability first. You revisit both your own and others' code far more than you want to; this can entail good code architecture and keeping things fairly DRY (and understanding when code-deduplication is detrimental rather than productive)
- don't chase the latest and greatest—the ol' reliables (SQL, vanilla JS, Python/Ruby, Linux/BSD, standard library) work quite nicely with less churn
- use a good distributed version control like git, fossil, or mercurial (svn is passable if you absolutely must, but so many places just version in .zip files or VSS or the like)
- use good version-control practices. Atomic per-concept commits with useful descriptions, not commits that touch lots of unrelated things and "asdfg" comments
- avoid proprietary tech if you can—they'll raise prices, change terms & conditions, drop features, or otherwise take their roadmap where the money is, not where your roadmap is
- similarly, on-prem architecture gives a lot of benefits for known loads (see recent DHH articles) and also keeps things within your roadmap not theirs
- include security & accessibility in product designs from the start. It's MUCH harder to retrofit them in later in development

2024-12-16 00:59:06

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@nprofile…ehlq Interesting to see the Eligible ones, but also interesting to see the Unlocked ones ☺
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/659/768/386/393/008/original/b47fa33c02eda2a0.png
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/659/768/438/865/117/original/cae35e53fbf2dd86.png
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2024-12-15 00:17:33

So (in a form) these crossed my feed today
https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&q=toe-charms+crocs&udm=2
and as the Crocs connoisseur in my life, I figured it was essential to share. 😛

2024-12-14 22:01:59

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@nprofile…q27h "metal" is a pretty broad genre. I enjoy instrumental metal, especially neoclassical and glam, and get a kick out of the occasional folk-metal track.

2024-12-13 19:10:21

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@nprofile…q5wq did my share of 10base2 and ARCNET, but never anything required one cable for each direction. Curious to only be learning about it now. If anybody would know, @nprofile…4ew9 prob. has some in his lab. 😂

2024-12-13 14:12:53

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@nprofile…j6tr
I like breathing new life into old hardware for home-lab purposes, but as you've found, newer low-end systems are so much more power-efficient. But yes! My sweetheart occasionally grouses about the number of laptops/RPi-type units I have on the desk 😂

2024-12-13 14:06:38

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@nprofile…q27h
finding a lucrative contract job can be the fastest *legal* way.
Unfortunately, risk and reward are often correlated, so any way to *make* huge amounts of money can also *lose* huge amounts of money.

2024-12-12 14:17:05

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@nprofile…q5wq Took a spell to flesh out the thread, make sure the photo focus-points were adequate, and alt-text was copied in. Should be good to go now with the whole thread. ☺

2024-12-12 14:13:21

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451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons
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2024-12-12 14:12:54

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425 Too Early
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2024-12-12 14:12:21

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420 Enhance Your Calm
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2024-12-12 14:10:58

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418 I'm a teapot
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2024-12-12 14:10:33

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417 Expectation Failed
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2024-12-12 14:09:59

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410 Gone (in memory of the Uncivil one)
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2024-12-12 14:09:13

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406 Not Acceptable
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2024-12-12 14:08:42

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404 Not Found
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2024-12-12 14:08:11

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403 Forbidden
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2024-12-12 14:07:43

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402 Payment Required
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2024-12-12 14:07:03

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401 Unauthorized
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2024-12-12 14:06:14

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307 Temporary Redirect
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2024-12-12 14:05:32

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302 Found
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2024-12-12 14:03:54

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301 Moved Permanently
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2024-12-12 14:02:33

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HTTP codes as rats: 300 Multiple Choices
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2024-12-12 14:00:36

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HTTP codes as rats: 206 Partial Content
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2024-12-12 13:59:49

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HTTP codes as rats: 204 No Content
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2024-12-12 13:59:17

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HTTP codes as rats: 203 Non-Authoritative Information
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