Sysadmin, forced to use Linux/Mac OSX for work, prefers BSD, plant-based. Anti AI, Anti Fascist. Wobbly (IWW!), old school goth.

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Every time I see job positions they're from an "AI first" company or "AI forward" (whatever the hell that means)
I want to see job adverts from "AI Never" companies. Damn it!

2026-03-16 23:18:38 UTC

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AI needs to fucking crash & burn.

2026-03-01 08:54:28 UTC

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I lived in New Orleans for 5 months back in '92. The city was different then. Pre-Katrina.

2026-02-26 22:47:04 UTC

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oh that brings back memories.

2026-01-27 23:51:15 UTC

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huh. Their Chief Product Officer was CTO of Pantheon? 😂
Pantheon is garbage web hosting for companies who don't want to hire Sysadmins to do things properly.

2026-01-27 23:40:52 UTC

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I thought he was working at Microslop?

2025-12-06 08:18:22 UTC

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Snac I'm not sure as I never run that but if there's a package or port, it should be doable.
I run relayd and httpd for my static site (TCP/443 and 80), syncthing runs on 22000. Not used radicale but I'm sure you can have that listen on a different port if need be.
I don't run anything in a vmm/vmd.

2025-11-19 22:07:29 UTC

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So much for "No NAT November"! 😉

2025-11-13 15:20:18 UTC

Being a #sysadmin of 26 years has taught me most certifications are a pure money making grift from corporations. Most tech workers who know their stuff don't need these. Nothing beats hands-on experience of technology.
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/115/543/050/353/028/840/original/4eac18a9c360c643.jpg

2025-10-23 22:31:07 UTC

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Have run -current on devices for over a decade and there's only been 2 times a snapshot has gone wrong.

2025-10-20 08:12:44 UTC

AWS widespread outage. Most of the services I use at $day_job are down. Hooray for hosting silos! The Internet is supposed to be decentralized!

2025-09-13 22:35:26 UTC

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Who is T F G?

2025-08-26 11:44:23 UTC

Please 🛑 STOP 🛑 recommending the Brave browser. It is put out by a company run by a massive bigot. Don't support them.

2025-07-09 18:56:48 UTC

Does anyone on the Fediverse who runs #FreeBSD ever got WINE to work properly in 14.3? It just won't play games. I get weird memory issues.
If you do run FreeBSD and WINE to run Windows apps, please share how you got it working. Thanks!
Boosts very welcome!

2025-07-07 12:24:11 UTC

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no sign of this on stock android on Fairphone 5.
Wish I didn't need a Pixel to run @npub1kwa…e0nj otherwise I'd switch to GOS in a heartbeat.

2025-06-10 21:33:43 UTC

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would be a damn shame if it got keyed, now wouldn't it?

2025-01-30 22:42:46 UTC

So like...#matrix ... Which is best to run? Synapse or Dendrite.. or something else?

2024-12-19 12:24:45 UTC

#introduction time...
Hey I'm Tom. Long-time Sysadmin. Came to BSD from Linux in 2005, been a happy BSD user since. I still have to use Linux in my every day work, but I am looking at ways of putting more BSD into use if possible.
I maintain a modest 6 OpenBSD ports (mostly games!)
When I'm not playing around with computers, I like playing my tenor and alto saxophones.