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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

This is fine, I think. Probably. How important could a file named "windows.networking.hostname.dll" really be, anyway?

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

JFC, has it been that long? Fine. I'll run a backup. #backup

Screenshot of the Pika backup program in Gnome, showing that I have shamefully gone three whole months without running a backup.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I'm no expert, but I think I might need a new battery. I was starting the truck and as soon as I turned the key, there was a loud bang! and an acrid smell. The truck still runs since it has four batteries, but I will have them all replaced tomorrow.

Photograph of a truck's battery. The entire side is missing and the diodes are visible inside

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

There's only one way to find this place.

Screenshot of the Google Maps app for Android showing a town called Accident, Arkansas in the United States.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Screenshotting this because I don't want to step on Tuta's toes too much by pointing out in the replies that Nextclous is also a good replacement for online calendars and file sharing.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I've been playing Palworld lately, and it's positively addictive. Meet my level 46 battle chicken #Palworld #Gaming #GamingOnLinux

This screenshot shows the status page for a 'pal' in Palworld, in this case a Chikipi, widely considered the weakest pal in the game.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Ugh. Gonna be late for this delivery. I had a trailer tire blowout in the final stretch. So now I'm parked off the highway waiting for road breakdown to arrive. There's a thunderstorm moving in. With any luck, it'll pass trough before the technician arrives. #TruckLife

Picture of the rear tires of a tractor trailer. You can see that the inner tire is off the rim and there's damage to the sidewall.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

There is a lot happening on this truck stop bathroom stall door.

Photo of the back of a bathroom stall door. The door is brown, open at the top and bottom, and framed by gray wooden walls. There is a mass of graffiti written and carved into the door, as well as a small sign that reads, "set a goal SO BIG That you can't achieve it until YOU GROW INTO THE PERSON WHO CAN. — UNKOWN"

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Y'all. I don't know who needs this, but Hello Kitty Spam is a thing that exists. www.spam.com/hello-kitty (It's me. I needed this and I bought some. I forgot to take a picture.)

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Ok, fedi, having a bit of a perl problem. Perldoc isn't working. Whenever I search for a module that it can find, it displays a read error. (Modules that it can't find return the expected not found error.) Anyone know how to fix this? Search isn't helping […] [Original post on darkmoon.social]

Screenshot of a linux terminal emulator showing an error message in the lower left of the screen. It says "read error (press RETURN)

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Evidence, should you wish to use it against me

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

'Possumball American football, but the ball is a live opossum. #AltSportingEvents #HashTagGames

Photograph of a mean looking opossum against a dark background. Its mouth is open as if snarling in anger. (This is a defense mechanism meant to intimidate potential predators.)

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I finally got borgmatic to work under systemd on my mastodon instance. I've been struggling with it for about a week since I first got it to work from the command line. This takes a big load off my mind. Now if darkmoon craps the bed, I'll have seven days of […] [Original post on darkmoon.social]

This screenshot shows the output of the command 'systemctl status borgmatic'. It shows that the backup completed successfully in about 2 1/2 hours.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Uh oh. Guess I should pack a bag and go into the building.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Check this out. In the screenshot below, you can see me pinging my mastodon server over the wireguard vpn. But I'm using a domain name? I installed bind9 on my vpn server, and it serves up wireguard IP addresses for custom domain names. Note the TLD, which […] [Original post on darkmoon.social]

A screenshot of a computer terminal's output, described in the post. OCR text follows:

bruce@fedora:~$ ping darkmoon.heerssen.wg

PING darkmoon.heerssen.wg (fd76:ea04:1115::114) 56 data bytes

64 bytes from fd76:ea04:1115::114: +icmp_seq=1 tt1=63 time=63.8 ms
64 bytes from fd76:ea04:1115::114: +icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=56.8 ms
Xg

—--- darkmoon.heerssen.wg ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 56.848/60.300/63.752/3.452 ms

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Hey Mastodon friends who are smarter than me — which is most of you — what's wrong with these too-good-to-be-true auto focusing glasses? Seen in another sketchy YouTube ad.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

Looks like Ken Paxton won his primary against John Cornyn for the Senate race in Texas. This is good news, but it will still be an uphill battle for James Talerico. I just received this text message from the Talerico campaign. (Alt text a bit later.)

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

I just saw this ad on YouTube for a 16TB external SSD for $50. What's the catch? There's gotta be a catch.

Phone screenshot of the website hawking the above mentioned SSD

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

Hot & Spicy? Not if it's rated at only two peppers, it's not. Better add some extra kick. (Alt text a little later.)

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

I think I finally got the hang of this game.

A screenshot of my character in Elden Ring as the Lord of Frenzied Flame, one of the endings in the game. She's wearing black scale mail and her head is a ball of fire. Flames dance in the background.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

Weeee! The screen size on this thing is ridiculously small. It doesn't matter. It's a touch screen and I'll eventually be using it to control various things in my RV as well as music. It should be fine for that.

Screenshot of my current desktop while composing this toot

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

This hard work. Only 200 feet to go and then I can put the dirt back in boss's hole.

This shows a freshly dug, shallow trench about four feet long. There's a wrenching shovel sticking up in the trench and three cables ready for re-burial.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

I love this dog, and I love this shelter's description of him. I wish I was in a place where I could adopt. This shelter seems like it's run by the absolute best people. If you are in need of a companion and are in the Dakotas, go pay them a visit. If you […] [Original post on darkmoon.social]

An adoption advertisement for Saba, a light tan Labrador Retriever mix who is ready for his forever home. OCR text from the ad follows:

NEUTERED MALE
LAB MIX
Approximate DOB: September 2023
Origin: Stray
Oh boy. Where do we even begin?
Are you dreaming of a peaceful, low-maintenance dog who naps
politely in sunbeams and gently places his head in your lap while soft
music plays in the background? Fantastic. You should keep dreaming
and also keep scrolling. Because this is Saba, and he is none of those
things.
Buthey, if you're the type of person who wakes up and chooses chaos,
we may have just found your soulmate.
Saba's Resume of Absolute Mayhem:
+ Specializes in knocking people over mid-zoomie like a furry
linebacker
« Has absolutely zero spatial awareness and takes it personally if you
expect otherwise
« Can and will leap over fences that violate building height codes
« Thinks "muzzle punch’ is a perfectly acceptable way to say hi
+ Treats toys like they're part of a demolition derby
Found as a stray (shocking, we know), Saba arrived with all the manners

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

I am about to wreck a burrito. Wish me luck!

This is a picture of a large burrito with a side of sour cream and salt in a white Styrofoam container. It's resting on the desk in my semi's sleeper compartment

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

@Holberg At least it didn't censor the word during playback. It would be just a very long series of beeps. That song must hold the record for the most times penis is sung. Also, ducking autocorrect

Screenshot of my phone trying to autocorrect "penis" to "punishment" while composing this toot

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Well, hell. It happened again. Kernel panic. I wonder if my laptop has developed a hardware problem. #linux #fedora #KernelPanic

Photo of my laptop showing the kernel panic screen

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

This green rock that we put under my trailer sticks to my shoes and then tracks inside. It was very irritating, so I put down some flagstone. If it goes okay, I may build a proper walkway in the spring, but this is good enough for now. #homeImprovement #RVLife

A photo of the left back corner of my RV. You can see the green rock (which is actually gray) underneath.

Photo of the right side of my RV looking forward, with the new flagstone walkway stretching straight forward. There's a green lawn in the middle distance with a very large white dog sitting and looking at the camera. There's also a small yellow house in the background.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

The folks at Strike Gently are giving away a free Evil Kitty pin (see below) on orders of $20 or more. I don't have any connection with them, I just think they're pretty cool, and I hope you do, too. www.strikegently.co/collections/fro… #StrikeGently

A screenshot of an email I received from Strike Gently. It features the Evil Kitty pin, which is a black and white kitten brandishing a kitchen knife. There's also a disco ball pin. The relevant text from the email is as follows:

Free Pin Alert # We Made Too Many Kitties
Date Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:02:35 +0000 (UTC)

Oops!
We made a typo and ordered 3000 evil kitty pins instead of 300.
We're giving one away FREE with every order $20+ while supplies last.
Just use code KITTY + add it to your cart!

There are 95 units of each product available.
Don't forget to check your rewards balance and use it for a discount on your order :)

Love,
Charlie
CEO / Intern-In-Chief

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Today, I picked up a load from an underground cold storage facility. I didn't have express authorization to photograph, and I don't know what their policy is, but I took a few quick photos anyway. I though some of y'all might find them interesting. I'll add alt text later when I'm on my computer.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

I think it worked! I opened the Yahoo Entertainment page in Chromium, which doesn't have any ad blockers installed, and this is what I saw:

A screenshot of the Yahoo! Entertainment website which, notably, shows blank space with the word "Advertisement" where actual ads should be.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

Lately Reddit has been blocking me when I follow links to their site. What's going on with that? It happens in Firefox for Android and Linux. #reddit #security

Screenshot of an error page at Reddit saying I've been blocked by security screening

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

It's working, it's working 😁 😁 😁 I only have one integration so far: a temperature and humidity sensor. This is for my RV. So I suppose it's RV Assistant, not Home Assistant. Anyway, I wanted to be able to monitor the internal environment, and now I can […] [Original post on darkmoon.social]

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

A while back I said that perhaps installing HomeAssistant remotely was too ambitious. Well, I persisted. #HomeAssistant #SelfHosted #Fedora #Linux

Screenshot of the HomeAssistant onboarding page.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Y'all. It's possible to close those hundreds of tabs you have open all the time. Just saying.

Screenshot of a Firefox browser showing the menu selection for closing multiple tabs.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

Watch the rain make trippy patterns in my windshield for a few seconds.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

I'm trying to upgrade my Mastodon instance to version 4.5.0 and having some difficulty. Precompiling the assets fails and I don't know why. Help? #Mastodon #SelfHosted

Screenshot of a linux terminal emulator in the process of upgrading mastodon.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

Interestingly, and almost certainly related, Nautilus also refuses to connect to WebDAV on the same server for the same reason.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

[Linux] Help? I'm trying to connect Gnome Online Accounts to my Nextcloud server running at home via a Wireguard VPN. I'm using a self-signed TLS cert since I obviously can't get a CA cert for a made-up Wireguard TLD. Gnome Online Accounts, unfortunately […] [Original post on darkmoon.social]

Screenshot of the connection dialog in Gnome Online Accounts showing an error message that says "Unacceptable TLS certificate."

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025

I've really gotta do something about the weak wifi at home. It's making it difficult to work on projects remotely.

screenshot of a linux terminal showing dropped packets from pinging another machine on the network

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

'man borgbackup2' contains a reference to xkcd 😆 #Linux #Borg #xkcd

Screenshot of the man page for borgbackup2, a backup utility for linux systems

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