Posts by gnomon@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B0K3HZ9qzLPL9uDzDk by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-11-17T02:17:01Z
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"You get back to your chemistry set. We'll put in the fix. And don't talk to any reporters!"Hey I think the filmmakers were trying to communicate that this old guy is the villain of our little play this evening#monsterdon
(DIR) Post #B0K3Ha4ZaSmHzolHd2 by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-11-17T02:19:04Z
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Hey, this movie is from 1980. Why is it channeling that unpleasantly misanthropic "every single person is horrible" vibe that we keep noticing in films from the 70s?Anyhow I wonder what Ramon is up toI hope he's having fun#monsterdon
(DIR) Post #B0K3HauKU2B6aKycIi by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-11-17T02:23:35Z
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OK, hands up everyone who just saw that half-second shot of an unevenly bricked-up sewer tunnel and bellowed "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRÉSOR"Don't lie, we see you miscreants#monsterdon
(DIR) Post #B0qHFCo0fXgczSENlI by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-12-02T15:31:09Z
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@ricci it even has indices¹ ² ³!!¹: https://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ext2.html#contrib-performance²: https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-425-438.pdf³: I know you're using BSD and thus likely not ext[2-4], but I expect that whatever filesystem you're using there has a similar optimization
(DIR) Post #B0sgrfLRtYYfg5EBKS by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-12-02T23:35:57Z
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I hate the "cattle vs. pets" framing of managing larger clusters of computers with automation, implying that managing small clusters or single machines is done manually.I hate it because managing a single machine without a framework suitable for automation has been generally poor practice *forever*.But I hate it even more because the foundation of the metaphor is that it is OK and normal to treat livestock without compassion or care. It is quite simply not.Retire that framing, please.
(DIR) Post #B0z5cc3dUxq0wPZfsG by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-12-06T18:08:45Z
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I think the sole plate of my left cycling shoe just snapped..?!?!?
(DIR) Post #B13ijmyNzHozfMN4PQ by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-12-09T03:10:29Z
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@tomjennings @mathew @peter @cstross most of the revisions in the Andúril codebase are workarounds for sloppily built hardware¹, to give the project its due.And as you might expect from an open source project, its existence has given a bunch of slightly-above-hobbyist-level hardware manufacturers permission to treat the firmware as someone else's problem and concentrate on building glowy neat widgets to a price point. It's done wonders for the flashlight world.¹: https://github.com/ToyKeeper/anduril/pulls?q=is%3Apr
(DIR) Post #B1EU5sCbrcfZgLejLc by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-12-13T20:44:04Z
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@mwichary psst @mhoye , I think you'll enjoy this HTML/SGML/GML history spelunking thread 👀↑↑(edit: courtesy of @feonixrift )
(DIR) Post #B1Smj3H5PwWdAhm7c0 by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T04:43:27Z
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@ricci psst @cks , ya gotta see this thread if you haven't already.
(DIR) Post #B1SmkwCAi175nLNLhA by gnomon@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T04:48:19Z
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@cks ah, sorry, I should have guessed you'd be all over it already!
(DIR) Post #B1zoIgcPdnxnV6z2yO by gnomon@mastodon.social
2026-01-06T03:21:10Z
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@cks the good news is that Linux's filesystems and mpd(1) will handle those files _just fine_.However, I discovered when using an mpd satellite database setup and an SMB mount from my home fileserver to my work laptop¹ and trying to play woob by vool (or vool by woob? You know the one) that macOS absolutely does not handle this situation gracefully at all.I do not understand how anyone manages to take this OS seriously. It just does not _work_.
(DIR) Post #B1zoIlk2as2JODai3c by gnomon@mastodon.social
2026-01-06T03:28:22Z
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@cks ¹: work laptop never gets to have personal music files stored on it of course, but I'm more lenient about letting it use mpd to cache files into RAM for playback
(DIR) Post #B26KfMtMBwftVxqOoK by gnomon@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T01:24:04Z
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@mfenniak ooh, mind if I ask which TV you're getting? (I promise I'm only curious and will offer no feedback ot second-guessing.)
(DIR) Post #B26KfPxMnUfH1Gk8ye by gnomon@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T02:10:22Z
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@bkuhn It's @mfenniak 's older Vizio that's crashing, not mine.
(DIR) Post #B26KfR2MmOG4N45ePQ by gnomon@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T02:10:49Z
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@bkuhn I'm afraid I've never owned a Vizio product (and never will), I won't be able to help you here: I cannot accept their amply demonstrated stance towards FS/OSS licenses¹; their willingness to inject advertising into the user experience²; their habit of exfiltrating usage information³; and their refusal to function when denied a network connection⁴.¹: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html²: https://www.consumerreports.org/money/advertising-marketing/vizio-inserts-pop-up-ads-over-tv-shows-a7020591358/³: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24912527⁴: https://www.reddit.com/r/VIZIO_Official/comments/18g8hvo/hey_vizio_my_internet_is_out_and_i_cant_watch_my/
(DIR) Post #B26KgdfxH7tXrHBJOC by gnomon@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T04:19:41Z
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@bkuhn I know exactly who you are and was hoping you'd enjoy seeing someone appreciate your work! 😁 (Thank you!)
(DIR) Post #B26Kgf6ZxcmmI8e5Wi by gnomon@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T04:26:25Z
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@bkuhn I have to confess that yes, I did mean to. That was a _very_ oblique joke. (Are you familiar with @cwebber 's occasional pleas for someone to help explain how ActivityPub works? Crops up every few months, always pulls in some very sincere explanations from people who don't realize she wrote the W3C standard.) Sorry for being unnecessarily obscure, I meant no harm by it.
(DIR) Post #B2AFmoywQgm5WU1x8C by gnomon@mastodon.social
2026-01-11T04:40:56Z
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@debian thank you!!
(DIR) Post #B2HPpAarPMvYmGFFDM by gnomon@mastodon.social
2026-01-14T15:36:32Z
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@publicvoit I'm interested in such a thing too. Instead right now I am using a Caldigit Element 4 hub and manually plugging and unplugging two upstream cables. It's an inelegant solution but a very good hub. (I have a USB-C 5GbE network adapter plugged into one of the rear ports.)
(DIR) Post #B2cemu770fzeSHPtvE by gnomon@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T21:27:09Z
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@cks @0xabad1dea so what you're saying is that Odin is me, but more quadrupedal