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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!).

"I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights."

#nobridge
#nobot
#noai

Linux: Slackware
BSD: OpenBSD NetBSD
systemd: hell, no
Programming: Python & shell

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2026-01-27 23:46:40 UTC

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They put AI in everything these days, so he cashed out early and decided to go and ruin some other thing, I suppose.

2026-01-27 23:32:33 UTC

Lennart Poettering (yes, THAT Lennart) has a new company: Amutable.
https://amutable.com/about
Mission statement:
"A foundation of integrity
Our mission is to deliver verifiable integrity to Linux workloads everywhere
We are building cryptographically verifiable integrity into Linux systems. Every system starts in a verified state and stays trusted over time.
Build integrity
Boot integrity
Runtime integrity
That's Amutable"
If it works as well as systemd ... (sigh)

2026-01-18 01:34:10 UTC

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That is not going to happen.
Sorry.

2026-01-08 20:11:32 UTC

Everybody is worried about Greenland.
The best way to avoid a lot of problems is for the US and Danish armed forces to declare some form of whiskey war.
US Special forces, seal team 6 or something, land in a remote part of Greenland, hoist a giant US flag, declare victory and go home after a few weeks.
3 days later, Danish special forces land in the same spot, take down the US flag and raise an enormous Danish flag, declare victory and go home after a few weeks.
1/2

2025-08-06 13:22:31 UTC

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Croatia, day 4: Zadar.
Ottoman vibes intensify.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/982/018/882/478/556/original/c1c6375842fab3c1.jpg

2025-08-04 05:48:11 UTC

Croatia, day 1: Zagreb.

2025-07-23 16:38:55 UTC

I just discovered all public transportation in Luxembourg is free.
As in: free. Hop on a bus, a tram, even a train. It's all free. And I love this so much I can't even express it. This is so great.

2025-02-06 20:18:26 UTC

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From what I remember, no rust = no Firefox.
I'll let other, smarter people confirm this, though.

2024-12-16 23:42:27 UTC

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Excuse the expletives, I cannot take this any longer.

2024-11-25 13:54:47 UTC

I am not saying I am in this picture, but I am probably in this picture.
CC: @npub19zu…0jum (related to your previous post on Mastodon users)
(Stolen from: https://lemmy.world/post/22421400 )
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/543/907/399/887/261/original/f18255f15e2fa2bd.jpg

2024-11-19 18:24:30 UTC

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So, today:
- my re-installed home server runs perfectly stable, Yay! 😊
- links needs... all of X11 to run? Booo! 🤯
I mean take look at this:
slackpkg install pixman
slackpkg install libxcb libXau libegl
slackpkg install libxdcmp libglvnd
slackpkg install libXrender libXdmcp
slackpkg install libXext
slackpkg install fontconfig
slackpkg install x11-skel x11-ssh-askpass x11perf
slackpkg install libX11
All of this for a term app? Seriously?
- There is an update for dovecot, just sayin'

2024-11-17 18:06:04 UTC

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Fear not, gentle reader, as that poor little penguin's head was properly reformatted, with the installation proceeding without major issues...
The only problem was that the default kernel was not outputting anything to the VGA, selecting the "graphical" version solved that issue, at the price of a couple of resets.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/499/600/154/280/763/original/f01120335f5e8c6d.jpg
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/499/600/991/508/843/original/fb8e0a87fff05c16.jpg

2024-11-17 17:16:01 UTC

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Help! My head is being reformatted!
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/499/405/389/068/168/original/2ccdb71ce9b61a98.jpg

2024-11-16 14:53:48 UTC

$ md5sum -c slackware-15.0-install-dvd.iso.md5
slackware-15.0-install-dvd.iso: OK
And so it begins...