Sean Eric Fagan

UNIXy person, prone to shouting PUPPY! in public. Frequently gives away ebook using #KindleBookGiveaway hashtag

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kithrup_at_wandering.shop@mostr.pub

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2024-09-19 22:58:34

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Those appear to be fake.

2024-08-14 19:49:34

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@npub1yck…ujmw netgraph is a higher-level library; internally it ends up using mbufs in the kernel, because all of the drivers use mbufs.

2024-08-13 11:07:10

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@npub1c9m…9xjd That wasn't filed on April 1. That is disappointing.

2024-07-06 20:15:14

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@npub15te…wdn7 KITTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2024-06-28 09:59:16

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@npub104e…r4uy Sockets are the same -- I tried using socketpair(), and closing both sides. It only gets EV_EOF if the one *not* being monitored closes.

2024-06-28 08:46:15

Here is my shameful #FreeBSD confession: I rarely use kevent. My excuse is that I generally work on kernel-level code, and low-level userspace utilities.
So this is how I was surprised to find out that, when using kevent, if another thread closes one of the file descriptors on the queue... it doesn't result in an event.

2024-06-24 16:11:28

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Katherine Addison (aka Sarah Monette)'s Mélusine (The Doctrine of Labyrinths), which I *have* but *haven't* read, so if you read it please let me know. I think I have more books in this series to giveaway. It's all very chaotic.
Anyway, as usual, feel free to claim one, or tell other people about the giveaway, or opine about the book, or any or all or none of the above.

2024-06-22 18:07:50

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 6 copies of Sarah Beth Durst's THE LOST, a standalone novel that I suspect had a planned sequel that never happened.
The plot is: a small town in the middle of nowhere, people and things show up. They are, as stated, lost. Hm, I read it a *very* long time ago, so I'm a bit fuzzy on details now, but I *do* know that I liked it a lot. I think it may have been the first Durst novel I read, although it wasn't the last.

2024-06-15 18:07:49

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of R.F. Kuang's Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution, which I have but have not yet read. This was one of the authors scrod by the evil done by the 2023 Hugo people, so I got this when it was on sale. I get very angry when I think about the shenanigans, and maybe this will help make up for them.

2024-06-12 10:41:18

I know virtually nothing about IPSec. I don't suppose anyone has a small sample client and server? (Just something to connect to a server over IPSec, exchange a bit of data?)

2024-05-24 21:54:16

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@npub1psd…9sr7 So like a real programmer then.

2024-05-21 20:45:22

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@npub1psd…9sr7 If it were only to store it locally, it would be compliant. But that would be STUPID.

2024-04-16 15:09:59

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@npub1psd…9sr7 It turns out PEOPLE LIKE YOUR STUFF. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH

2024-03-30 18:42:57

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Anne McCaffrey's The Dragonriders of Pern: Dragonflight Dragonquest The White Dragon (yes, all three books). This is a classic, and like all classics it has some warts, but they get fewer and fewer. It is fantasy hiding under a science fiction mask, although I find myself curious what happens after Pern is rediscovered, and dragons become the preferred interstellar couriers.
Claim one if you want, and/or tell other people about the giveaway.

2024-03-08 17:19:08

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of @npub1sna…23t2's Discount Armageddon (InCryptid Book 1). This is not a randomly-chosen one; I am giving this one away because I just finished reading the newest book in the series, Aftermarket Afterlife. It was a phenomenal book, and caused me to cry several times, and which I've tagged for award nomination next year.
But to get to that one, you have to read *this* one. And you *want* to read it, really.

2024-02-06 12:15:44

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@npub1psd…9sr7 "Digital marketing" sounds like SEO and/or spam.

2024-02-05 12:33:16

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@npub1psd…9sr7 What is a mugwump in that context?

2024-02-01 20:36:21

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1n3z…0des nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I've forgotten almost all my perl. I'm replacing my system scripts with python ones. ;)

2024-01-24 11:21:35

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@npub1psd…9sr7 If you'll pardon the expression: shit's getting real now, innit?

2024-01-14 21:45:22

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@npub1qag…9gyn @npub1wqh…wwzl Have you considered that Tim Cook is a republican?

2024-01-09 18:30:33

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Three words: WRENCH LAN PARTY

2024-01-04 22:13:56

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! This is not one of my favorite DW books -- it's more focused on humor than human insight, but a) I'm weird, b) other people will fight me about this opinion, and c) it's the first one that shows his direction changing. Also, it introduces the Night Watch, which means Vimes and Carrot. It is a *great* place to start reading DW if you have't yet.

2024-01-01 19:09:51

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 6 copies of @npub1clu…tu2v's The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran, An Earthly Crown, His Conquering Sword, and The Law of Becoming, which I have but haven't read. (I may have read the first one a long time ago? But I don't quite recall it, and it was long enough ago that even if I did it got mixed up with another series.) If you read it let me know what you think!
As always, feel free to claim one, or tell other people, or both! And if you like it, let the author know!

2023-11-28 12:24:43

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Gale has significant problems writing -- various neurological issues resulting in some psychological stress -- and has found ChatGPT to be a good way to either start, or do an editing pass on it.
And that's where I think it'll be the most useful to people as an end-user product. Eventually, anyway; I don't think they're there yet -- too chaotic and random.

2023-10-31 17:33:02

I added a HomePod Mini to the household yesterday, so I could reliably control my office light. That worked, yay.
But now the HomePod Mini in the bedroom has forgotten that there is a room called "Main Bedroom," and so it -- and *only* it -- won't control the light. Unless I tell it to turn off the light, upon which it asks me which room, and lists the rooms, excluding "Main Bedroom," and when I respond "Main Bedroom" it controls the light.
I have no idea how to fix this.

2023-10-24 11:45:18

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@npub1l40…nm43 We just spent a significant chunk of change getting screens installed on as many windows here (Ireland) as we could. I'm still shocked they're not normal here.

2023-10-22 10:35:58

Proof Stray Cat is using his new cat house.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/278/220/116/050/656/original/1ad4f2a5f090e4ac.mp4

2023-10-12 15:22:55

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1kn2…7gvj a bigger concern is that once you do that, someone else can get that account name. And if you don't log on periodically, he's threatening to close it anyway, and again let someone else take it.

2023-10-01 09:34:36

I have just moved here from mastodon.cloud (they randomly suspended my account, then unsuspended it, with no explanation either time), thanks to @npub1psd…9sr7, so quick bio: I'm a unixy guy, I program, I will frequently voice opinions about politics, I have a spouse and 4 cats (plus a 5th independent contractor that came with the house), we currently live in Ireland, and I frequently give out ebooks (almost always US Kindle for various reasons).