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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was a long time coming, but I guess you didn't get the heads up. I put a bigger RAID array on my desktop machine and switched all the laptops over to using it for timemachine a couple of years ago and my 3TB time capsule sits on a shelf acting only as an Airport now.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Saw this the other day. It is a very captivating video, and also an excellent demonstration of someone doing real world engineering!

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think that's the museum I visited most recently (a couple of years ago). I very much enjoyed it. So many stories, even a couple of people I have some remote connections to.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Make sure you put extra glue on your wings!

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Looking at the raw email is a lot of work? Really? It should be one button push or menu selection! Even if you don't have a full understanding of MIME, it is still easy to tell if the image is embedded in the message, or is a link to some remote resource, and what type of image format is used.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

However I have always kept bank & CC & server passwords separately in an encrypted file kept on an internal server. That does mean I have to use cut&paste to use them, and that could be risky.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The only PM I've used is the one baked into macos and/or my browser(s) (which used to mean all in Apple Keychain, but then Apple and Google got into a tiff).

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

One down, hundreds, thousands?, more to go!

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Seems that link got messed up or was changed: The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

That's our dog Darwin in my profile photo, trying to give me a good pose up on the bench at the top of Piper's trail.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

That's not optimism, it's just reality. It's the most likely thing that will happen on that list.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The UnixPC could have been the beginning of a great line of business computers if AT&T had been a real computer company. I don't think the graphics software was called "layers" though. That was the tty multiplexing driver. It was also used for the DMD5620 and windowing terminals that came after.

driver.it

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I'm interested, but I don't see a link to where it can be found.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

It should be easy enough to implement in most programming modes in emacs, but as you have noted it is not yet done. I have never had any desire this. If I want to find the a number of identifiers in a complex code base I use tools that do that as their primary function, such as CScope for C code.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

So you wasted all that time compiling some massively bloated C++ only to have some probably also bloated Rust blow it all up? 🙃

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Personally I think Cyrus has always been best, though I sometimes struggle with parts of the code being sub-par. It has continued to improve though and some of the biggest providers use it, and also help maintain and improve it.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

That's such a nasty hack with SO MANY security implications that I'm not sure it ever should be allowed to work on OpenBSD!

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Even a hoodie and a light sweater were not enough Thursday night with that wind! Especially not for those of us who had just endured 35C during the week before.

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Robohack @robohack.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Indeed it is a good thing. Needing to rename fields is a good sign things were not done right in the first place, so having to revise all the callers is your opportunity to really look deeper and maybe fix things better for your next attempt.

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