Rob

Late 40-something year old software engineer and all around gay nerd. Cooking, bicycling, software, radio - KE6FTH, music, rants, etc. I fix things. he/him/his #nobot

home: Seattle metro area
Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/retronauts
Signal: @robdaemon.70

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robdaemon_at_tech.lgbt@momostr.pink

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2024-08-26 21:09:30

ugh I really do need to migrate over to Signal

2024-08-24 22:36:01

Sitting here sketching out my graphics subsystem for my hobbyist OS
and I wrote "GUI toolkit either similar to MUI or ST-80 MVC"
that's a tough call here for me. I really like MUI

2024-08-19 23:41:34

I do really love seeing the oligarchy in this country grasping their pearls

2024-07-21 05:44:16

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We only had the one choice because of Medicare.

2024-07-21 04:59:33

The skilled nursing facility mom was at was awful.
No air conditioning in the rooms. She pressed her call button and it took them 2 hours to get to her.
I went to go see her right after Crichton today, and she was practically in tears and I heard her begging the aide to call me.
She had tried texting me on Telegram but apparently their WiFi times out all connections every 12 hours and she couldn't figure out why I wasn't responding.
I showed up at just the right time.
I brought her home, and I can take care of her so much better than they did.
She made it all of 24 hours in that facility.
FUCK AMERICAN HEALTHCARE.

2024-07-10 01:39:38

And it's time to go find out, via imaging, if the ping pong ball sized bulge on my head is a lipoma, osteoma or worse.

2024-07-09 19:25:29

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you know what, just last night I was thinking...
how long until Canonical or RedHat embraces LLMs, and then suddenly they become a crucial part of systemd?

2024-07-09 05:43:42

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the line drawing reminds me of DOS in the best ways possible

2024-07-09 00:27:42

ugh Chrome on my Chromebook just suggested I try out new AI features
STOP THAT
I mean I'm not really surprised just annoyed

2024-07-05 19:04:06

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I prefer it to Linux but I mainly use Linux instead due to wireless support right now.

2024-07-04 18:42:48

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I did install CDE for a bit, and NsCDE.
NsCDE is slightly unstable, but plain CDE 2.5 worked pretty well

2024-07-04 18:39:36

I quite like using emwm on my FreeBSD machine.
I do want to tweak the color scheme a bit though.
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2024-07-03 17:44:36

I don’t know who this choad is but texting me from two different numbers simultaneously with this sort of right wing spew?
Fuck off into the void.
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2024-07-03 02:32:22

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he is having some issues with his back hips, he has arthritis

2024-07-03 02:28:48

Okay Crichton is having kidney issues. We're going to try subcutaneous fluids every few days but if he doesn't respond within a week... He is 18.
I'm not going to put him through difficult treatments just for me. He's been here for me for 18 years. Letting him go when it's time is the least I can do.

2024-07-02 22:00:13

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*gasp*
I have a bunch of glass art and I took a glass blowing class ;)
but yeah that E-class does not belong right there.

2024-07-02 21:57:58

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which part? the car or the awesome Museum of Glass?

2024-07-02 18:24:39

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I am just amazed at this attitude that Biden has to go. I mean, sure, but now? It's a little late.
They all want Trump to win because they think they can claw something back afterwards. They're delusional.

2024-07-02 03:10:48

I still regret having gone with a 4k display on my ThinkPad X1 Extreme.
Sure, it's sharp, but ugh I do use some older software that just doesn't handle it well

2024-06-30 21:01:13

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I need to switch some people over to it from Telegram that I originally convinced to use Telegram 🤣 Like my mom

2024-06-29 20:15:00

JFC I am not a huge Biden fan but it's a little too late to have the entire Democrat machine turn on him.
Do you all want Trump? This is how you get Trump.
Dumbasses.

2024-06-29 04:12:33

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"How many husbands have you had?"
"Mine, or other women's?"
"Yours."
"Five."
"Five?"
"Yes, just the five. Husbands should be like Kleenex. Soft, strong and disposable."
"You lure men to their deaths like a spider with flies."
"Flies are where men are the most vulnerable."
"Right!"

2024-06-29 04:06:15

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I KNEW it would be Clue before I even clicked on it.
My favorite comedy of all time.

2024-06-28 19:34:59

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I found it because of trying to type in Spanish years ago, and I hate misspelling things because of my keyboard layout!
But real Irish names need the characters too, that's for sure.

2024-06-28 19:30:01

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wait that's the origin of the phrase "dead key"?
TIL

2024-06-28 19:25:30

There are a lot of things about the Mac that irritate me, but how macOS makes accented characters available on a US keyboard is great
ñ is Option-N N
é is Option-E E
ò is Option-~ O
å is Option-A
ü is Option-U U
î is Option-I I
ç is Option-C
(there are other combinations, and any of the two key ones listed above can take a different secondary key)

2024-06-26 18:29:10

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what, you don't like 50 copies of the same piece of software on your machine in opaque packages that can't easily read files from your $HOME?

2024-06-26 16:37:50

Finally saw a Cybertruck in the wild. Gross.

2024-06-25 16:15:50

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I say p-code. After that, you've already built something you can adapt to native codegen if you want, later.

2024-06-25 05:02:26

Okay my Nim experiment is here https://gitlab.com/projectplaid/experiments/nkernel

2024-06-23 06:57:55

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ignore the newlib errors, I can fix those, I just haven't implemented the wrapper functions yet.

2024-06-23 06:57:24

Okay @npub1qnu…hzwk @npub1dmy…5tze - obnc can cross compile!<code>export CC=aarch64-none-elf-gcc export CFLAGS="-D OBNC_CONFIG_TARGET_EMB=1 -specs=nosys.specs -O1 -g" obnc -V -o hello.elf -x hello.obn Creating executable hello.elf: aarch64-none-elf-gcc -o hello.elf -I /usr/local/include -D OBNC_CONFIG_TARGET_EMB=1 -specs=nosys.specs -O1 -g /usr/local/lib/obnc/OBNC.c /usr/local/lib/obnc/Out.c .obnc/hello.c -lm /home/rroland/arm/arm-gnu-toolchain-13.2.Rel1-x86_64-aarch64-none-elf/bin/../lib/gcc/aarch64-none-elf/13.2.1/../../../../aarch64-none-elf/bin/ld: /home/rroland/arm/arm-gnu-toolchain-13.2.Rel1-x86_64-aarch64-none-elf/bin/../lib/gcc/aarch64-none-elf/13.2.1/../../../../aarch64-none-elf/lib/libg.a(libc_a-closer.o): in function `_close_r': /data/jenkins/workspace/GNU-toolchain/arm-13/src/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/reent/closer.c:47:(.text._close_r+0x1c): warning: _close is not implemented and will always fail </code>
and I have a AArch64 ELF file!

2024-06-21 20:52:06

This sub-heading on an Apple story:
> The company claimed — without specifics — that EU rules could compromise user privacy and security.
boy if that isn't some misdirection bullshit, Tim.

2024-06-21 02:57:51

I swear I'm about 30 seconds from buzzing my head
I've been letting my hair grow out and I am so tired of it

2024-06-20 20:53:16

do you like *good* techno / synth-pop?
Yes? Of course you do.
Do you know Yello? You've probably heard "Oh Yeah" from *Ferris Bueller's Day Off*
If you liked that, you should listen to this remix compilation of theirs: "1980-1985 The New Mix In One Go"
https://tidal.com/browse/album/64627096?u
standout tracks: "Vicious Games", "Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch)", "Desire", "Bostich"
yes maybe I'm showing my age with this but holy shit this album still makes me dance my ass off

2024-06-18 00:59:48

And here's something you don't see much:
The Digital Research PL/I compiler!
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2024-06-18 00:42:10

Phase 1 of setting up the Compaq 486: Digital Research Concurrent DOS 386 v3.01.
Next up I'll add Oberon and a boot manager.
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