Olivier

🇬🇧48yo man from France, pleased by simple things, and in the process to declutter his life.. Raised software development engineer (the pre-Y2K “victorinox” variant that’s also part sysadmin, part dba, part manager and also psy consultant). Loves operating systems that just work. UNIX philosophy is thus my best companion in life. This account is a companion account to my mastodon account on bsd.cafe. This place is for more personal topics and content.

🇫🇷 Ce compte sur une instance snac est le pendant perso de mon compte mastodon et me permettra d’aborder parfois des opinions ou des sujets moins liés à la communauté BSD, et à lier ou maintenir des amitiés virtuelles fédérées. Je posterai essentiellement ici mon contenu et utiliserai Mastodon pour de la republication/reaction.

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2025-01-22 07:57:34 UTC

Good morning fellow humans from the fediverse ! #hello

2025-01-22 07:56:34 UTC

Coffee machine in failure mode. I guess Skynet is active already. #uspol #ai

2025-01-21 07:32:09 UTC

Tout au long de ma présence sur les réseaux sociaux (et surtout depuis l’envol du fediverse), j’ai pu découvrir et échanger avec des personnes trans. J’ai parfois, au travers d’expériences relatées sous forme de podcasts, eu accès à la souffrance connue dans un parcours de vie. J’y ai vu des parallèles avec des souffrances personnelles. J’ai ressenti à ma façon ce combat intérieur.
Je vois ce qui se passe aux USA et je suis en empathie et en soutient envers des personnes qui voyaient une évolution du regard porté sur elles, et devront finalement tout recommencer.
Je vois et lis la crainte sur les réseaux, au sujet d’un mouvement qui pourrait aller plus loin et traquer les personnes non-conformes à un certain “standard” au yeux d’un certain électorat. Standard qui dépassera la chasse à la transidentité, et qui vise évidemment les origines ou singularités de chacun.
Je fais des efforts lorsque j’écris ces mots, pour ne pas me fâcher dès la première ligne.
Mais : FUCK Trump
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2025-01-19 11:00:29 UTC

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On a Sunday morning, this is a particularly well chosen moment to drill holes. Maybe he has to put the mics deeper in the wall because you speak not loud enough #spyware

2025-01-19 10:57:28 UTC

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Supporting you in this trial, you triggered my journey to this lab experiment…

2025-01-19 10:37:51 UTC

I have several accounts on Mastodon, Pixelfed, snac.
There is a challenging time where you have to make things clearer and keep posts in appropriate buckets, deciding of the editorial line for each account.
Still undecided, to be honest. But it needs to be done, or several conflicting personalities will appear in this skull of mine.
This snac account _might_ become the place where I *actually* write some posts both in English and French, to share personal reflections about life or work, whereas the mastodon account might become the “high bandwidth” rebroadcast/react medium for the accounts I appreciate and want to share.
Meaning, there could be some move in my followed people lists. People monitoring their stats might wonder why I unfollow from some place, when I follow them from the other. [I know this is less an habit on fediverse than on X but I remember monitoring the likes-count and follower-count with anxiety at this time. -Lack of self esteem and need for some appreciation, you all know the story-]
Well let’s see how and where it is going!

2025-01-19 08:25:55 UTC

These guys were clever to an extent we no longer can imagine. They were constrained by resources at a point they had to dig into very clever tricks to do their thing.
I really have unlimited respect for the Unix guys, from the roots to just now, because they had to do wonders with machines that your phone or calculator would easily beat. (The same respect will apply to people sending other people to the Moon).
Current devs would just stop, cry, and extend their resources by purchasing the next tier of “subscription” for their infrastructure.
You don’t have unlimited resources. You will never. Resources you overuse comes from an artificial paradise abusing nature, energy and even abusing your fellow humans.
Just have a break and consider the word “optimization” : learn tricks from ancestors and consider using resource AFTER having put your optimization skills in practice.
Don’t use bloated frameworks
Choose the right tool for the right usage.
Do think before typing code.
Also, as a user :
- learn to enjoy simple things which does not necessarily involves cloud computing, you know the good old days of home computing with everything safe at home ? (Do backups)
- you might reconsider all the AI bullshit and buzzwords and use the brain you had since day one : such a device, when used correctly, can produce poems, do calculations, send people in space, draw, paint, write texts and even summarize them for you. It even might do it better than the LLM model next door, you know. It just takes some practice. Brain will have limited resources but you can also use clever tricks too (e.g. pencil to swap RAM to paper when needed)
- When people push over-complicated solutions, tell them and prefer others.
- Advocate the use of simple tools that does the job honestly, without bells and whistles.
We people, at either end of the spectrum may encourage people to have a fair use of computer resources.
#optimize #coding #kiss #minimalism #resource #memory https://mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/113852419155879682

2025-01-18 16:33:12 UTC

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The BSDCafe is the place of all kinks these days. Are we upgrading to a NSFW lounge club with excessive heat inside ? 🥵🤣

2025-01-16 18:48:06 UTC

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2025-01-16 18:46:21 UTC

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You made my day Stefano… when harddisk meets hardcore. It’s all about slave peripherals.

2024-10-12 18:20:37 UTC

I really should remember keybindings in lynx, because arrow navigation just sucks when you don't take care... Yet, happy with a low bandwidth low tech solution. I must have some 56k modem somewhere, let me search a little... (kidding).

2024-10-12 18:16:26 UTC

A post from a frugal BSD configuration, NomadBSD booted from an USB SSD, using lynx browser
feels very roots, but snac is rendered not so bad on this text browser