Ask not what getRandom() can do 4 u, buwhat u can do 4 <insert CA here>

Went on a #retrocomputing raid to Berlin and came back with this pile. In some kind of order, bottom to top:

• #Sun Ultra 5 workstation
• Philips NMS 9100 XT-clone
• Booky #286 mini-PC w/display
• A box of random things, including some books, VGA and sound cards, manuals, tape drive, FPU, etc.
• Display for the Philips
• No-name, unknown #386 minitower (in box)
• Compaq SLT/286 "portable"
• Bunch of keyboards, including for the aforementioned machines
• 5l Kieler Bier
• Another random box; SCSI HDD, some powersupplies, etc.
• 5l Kieler Bier (yeah, two)
• Toshiba T1000 almost-working laptop
• IBM ThinkPad 380XD (working!)
• More keyboards

Arrrr! Most successful raid, indeed! This loot should keep me busy for months... ;-)

#Beer #RoadTrip #Loot

So, yeah. Another #EuroBSDCon is behind us, and we're sad to leave. It has been incredible meeting all the old farts and new hopefuls - more of the latter than ever, I think! Great talks in all tracks - including the hallway one. Even some conspiracies for good, which is always fun.

There were too many highlights to mention, so I'll just shout a big THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to making this a fantastic experience - again.

On a personal note I ask/hope those of you who said hi at the conf can reach out and remind me who you are, so I can connect faces to handles on here. I suck at remembering so you'll have to forgive me for some of the bewildered looks I'm sure I gave some of you.

(After that last pic I was afraid someone would arrest us - drinking that beer from paper cups must be an affront to the locals..)

#EuroBSDCon2026 #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD #Retrocomputing

I posted my first #FreeBSD-related blurb on my #WriteFreely instance. It's about how I run "wrapped jails" at work and at home:

https://scrolls.anduin.net/bsd/freebsd-wrapped-jails

You can follow @bsd in case I post more in the future - but I'll probably shamelessly promote anything I write there from this account anyway. :)

(Federation from WriteFreely is still a bit wonky, so please bear with the slightly mangled quote post here..)

RT: https://scrolls.anduin.net/api/posts/hhqqk96cbo

As part of my ongoing efforts to commit atrocities upon the Internet, I hereby announce two useless bots: @lsl1quotes and @lsl1comedian.

As the names might give away, this is about Leisure Suit Larry: In The Land of the Lounge Lizards. About once or twice a week, these bots will post or boost a narrator quote (the former) and a quote from the (terrible) comedian in the game Casino (the latter).

Follow away and boost away, but do so at your own cringe^Wrisk! Also, they're hosted off of a 486[1] running #NetBSD so they will be slow..

I take no responsibility for the way in wich none of the quotes have aged particularly well, nor do I claim authorship - this is all taken out of the game's resource files or collected during actual play. I guess if the current IP owners, or Al Lowe, aren't happy they'll let me know and I'll take it down..

[1] https://larry.weirdr.net/

#Sierra #Retrogaming #Larry

RT: https://larry.weirdr.net/lsl1quotes/p/1787491021.765986

So we had @Edent and his wife visit our office, the #Floppy Museum, and our "retrocave" (all in the same place!) the other day. What excellent people.

Cc @andersgo

RT: https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116080140681563164

Check out the thread for the second poll. And chime in with any ideas you might have!

My intention that any #OS2 nut can have an account and post their pictures and brags. If anyone wants to come aboard as co-sysop, I'm hiring! ;-)

RT: https://pleroma.anduin.net/objects/40e7a877-c9ad-49d5-8a96-fdf592edffb1

To all you #OS2 lovers out there: I'm firing up a new fediverse instance solely for the purpose of posting OS/2-related pictures: Screenshots, pics of your OS/2 machines, OS/2 paraphernalia, OS/2 memorabilia, OS/2 just-about-anything.

#Retrocomputing #Nerdporn

I have two questions I'd like answered (no, "why" is not among them); the first here, the other in the replies.

First one: Which domain should I use? I've registered two, which to use?

I just spent longer than anyone ever should to figure out that rev does not change / into \. #Tired #Unix