Post B4O4yP1q5xvMDNsV1c by polishdub@bsd.network
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(DIR) Post #B4O3718C7CE4nPpYhs by mwl@io.mwl.io
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Researching my NYCBUG talk on 1 April reminded me of FretBSD.In 2003, @dvl and I put up a fake web site about the UN forcing #FreeBSD and #NetBSD to merge. The site is gone, but the text is archived athttps://www.freebsddiary.org/fretbsd.phpA ComputerWorld reporter contacted Dan requesting more details for a story, so: we won!The fifth paragraph, or #OpenBSD? My career peaked early. That last sentence is the finest thing I will ever write.
(DIR) Post #B4O3ojG1vijE6UL5A8 by mwl@io.mwl.io
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It was 2003. The US had just invaded Iraq for bogus reasons. Dan and I did a prank page saying that the UN was merging NetBSD and FreeBSD. What about OpenBSD? Well..."Theo de Raadt could not be reached for comment. While Theo's home has been surrounded, UN peacekeeper troops have yet to storm the building and heavy casualties have been reported in the surrounding countryside. UN spokesmen insist that the siege is going according to plan, however, and Theo is expected to be available for integration in the new combined BSD at some date in late 2023. Of the two hundred eighty-nine casualties suffered by the UN troops at this time, the commanding officer insists that they were caused by a rampaging Canadian moose. Daniel Hartmeier, previously of the OpenBSD Project, insists that OpenBSD has no weapons of moose destruction. "
(DIR) Post #B4O3uwrEHKFE1Lhj60 by mwl@io.mwl.io
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My career is done. I can never top that.
(DIR) Post #B4O4yP1q5xvMDNsV1c by polishdub@bsd.network
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@mwl Sooooo, no more books? Or just that we get the aftermath of peak performance?
(DIR) Post #B4O4yPBlV3rciAWQUq by mwl@io.mwl.io
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@polishdub I shall spend the remainder of my life spewing out words and pining for lost glory.
(DIR) Post #B4O5YsE518A7C5zhVg by leifur@the.bisexuals.town
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@mwl maybe, but you've still continued writing gold. You wrote the line "the purpose of a system is what it does, and a computer does pain" less than a year ago. I was telling friends about that line just this weekend.
(DIR) Post #B4O6OsQHWxZCrYUy8G by mwl@io.mwl.io
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@leifur :flan_blush:
(DIR) Post #B4OBXjgns2B09ZGo0e by acsawdey@fosstodon.org
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@mwl @dvl It is very good. But also: green vs purple sneakers? Are you a closet Babylon 5 fan or something? 😁
(DIR) Post #B4OCHbUkfYOK3lVL4S by mwl@io.mwl.io
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@acsawdey @dvl I stay out of the sneaker wars, tyvm!
(DIR) Post #B4OGnTRAYxmS9VHUY4 by dvl@bsd.network
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@mwl Viewers should click on the link at the end of the post:http://fretbsd.unixathome.org
(DIR) Post #B4OGnTfhgvPGsa56Ce by mwl@io.mwl.io
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@dvl Didn't mean to make more work for you, just wanted to give you due credit. Sorry.
(DIR) Post #B4OIFcUGbo90HaiNpA by gumnos@bsd.cafe
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@mwl That and a message from Ken Thompson in your inbox? Surely you've peaked. 😛
(DIR) Post #B4OtK7XomF9O4FNwn2 by gnomon@mastodon.social
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@gumnos @mwl there is still room for greater triumphs! For example you could find a way to make Knuth tell you to fuck off. That would be worth getting cast in bronze.
(DIR) Post #B4OtK7ka0nMIhpM8gK by gumnos@bsd.cafe
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@gnomon while I doubt that would be Knuthian in response (he's a practicing Lutheran and author of the book "3:16", suggesting there would be a distinct lack of profanity), one might get some other sort of response.@mwl
(DIR) Post #B4OtK830uG6VczyrPk by mwl@io.mwl.io
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@gumnos @gnomon oooh, a new goal!