Without planning it, my playlist started playing Time by Pink Floyd. And for the first time in my life, “Home, home again…” played at the exact moment I was pulling through my gate.
In all these years, that had never happened before. And I smiled.
With a fresh OpenBSD release just around the corner, this may be a good time to reprise my 2021 article "What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_every_it_person_needs_to_know_about_openbsd.html (also available in smaller chunks at apnic.net) #openbsd #security #networking #development #freesoftware #libresoftware
Introducing uncm(4) https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261018200218
Pizza!
It’s Sunday. 19:07.
I’m waiting for something: what am I waiting for?
Need to find the location of a program? Use "locate program_name".
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
#SilentSunday last of the late summer picnics
I asked my wife to take a look.
She lowered her eyes, remained silent for a few seconds, then said:
"I think it's too long."
Obviously, I'm talking about the text of my talk at Linux Day next Saturday...
Good morning, #Fediverse
It's a warm Sunday morning, I'm supposed to be doing something more urgent but I'm totally stuck in a dilemma:
FreeBSD or SmartOS for that new setup?
Life can be hard.
Ruben's Third Rule of Social Media:
If you ask to not have something explained to you, someone will explain it to you.
Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that I have a filter to exclude and not see 'KDE' and I follow 'AlpineLinux', what happens in #mastodon when there's a toot with #alpinelinux and #kde? Does it show in my timeline or not?
I published some of my #dotfiles at https://codeberg.org/midtsveen/dotfiles
I know it's still very much a WIP, but I'm excited to eventually try out AlpineBSD
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/alpinebsd/
(NetBSD base + Alpine pkgs)
Comparando *BSD en los Thinkcentre m710q, m715q y m720q por @joel
- What about ThinkCentre M710q, M720q and *BSD: https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/what-about-thinkcentre-m710q-m720q-and-bsd/
- M715q power usage and the BSDes: https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/m715q-power-usage-and-the-bsdes/
Updating NetBSD system files on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with the 'sysupgrade' utility requires a small edit to /usr/pkg/etc/sysupgrade.conf:
RELEASEDIR="https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-$(uname -r | cut -d. -f1)/latest/$(uname -m)-$(uname -p)"
This changes part of the subdir from "evbarm" (which doesn't exist) to "evbarm-earmv6hf" (which does).
Please note that I might not know what I'm doing, being quite new to NetBSD.
Last week I stopped playing the old Amiga Ambermoon #retro computer #roleplay #game after I finished the starting quests on the first island. I lost interest and it was again because of something that I never like in rpgs: "Grinding to survive". So, I decided against going now below Waterdeep and rid the city of the evil that hides in its sewers. 👁️
But I wanted a second try in my "I want to play some the of the roleplay games. I enjoyed when I was young"...
Today I found my old "Das Schwarze Auge /Realms of Arcania" discs: "Schicksalsklinge", "Sternenschweif" and "Shadow over Riva" in the attic (sic!;-).
Yeah, it's a round based crpg. And I played through all three of them in the classical way. I played the DSA pen and paper with some friends in my youth. The whole introduction into AD&D came with the computer and EOB.
But I know I can work around the fighting system to fight pesky Orcs, Goblins and other creatures and let the computer do it automatically instead for DSA2 and 3.
Heh, never worshipped "Rondra" a lot, was more of a "Firun&Ifirn", "Phex" or "Hesinde" type of person. ;-) So, I want to play it more like an action adventure. If it fails me, we meet in the face of "Boron" :-).
Now setting up dosbox on my #RunBSD and the games my NAS and I'm off to Thorval, the Salamander Stones and then Riva for a while.