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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

There are true patriots, and there are "patriots", bowing to some malleable definition of the term that benefits the propagandist most And now we gonna have "paytriots". Ugh.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The mmo problem of self sufficiency: I need to be higher ilvl to do this thing I can craft gear! I need these raw mats Oh and better crafting gear And now I need to gather rare mats And I need better gathering gear. There is now no way I can do the thing I want in the time I have :(

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

While I am fine with a gui, I still find the command line to be a more concise & precise tool for interacting with a computer. I am glad that linux and bsd have fully featured CLI environments The other guys have poweshell too, I guess.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I feel like some distros for #linux are just about polished enough to fuel the year of the linux desktop. But how to channel new users to these distros best and away from the ones that are less user friendly? (I named no distros in this post on purpose to illustrate how just linux isn't helpful.)

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Politics is not a team sport. Why do so many people seem to treat it like one?

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Sometimes I like to think about resilient computing. How would one build a computational engine that would keep processing for longest amount of time possible? Lasting a year is something an electronic computer can already do. But what about a decade? A millenia? A geological era?

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

A quick way yo make your life a world of pain on #linux: # chmod -R 000 /etc Was done to me once. The prankster hasn't been back since...

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

What do you call an adorable mammalian acquatic animal that wants to rule your country? An Ottercrat

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Smelled a troll just now. Block hammer applied.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Getting NetworkManager to actually really no no really I freaking mean it LEAVE MY RESOLV.CONF ALONE! Is a challenge.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Here we go. Blocking mallet at the ready. By Grabthar's Hammer, keep them at bay.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

There's a whole generation of coders out there who learned the best path to job security was to make code so arcane, obtuse, and inscrutable that only they could have any hope of maintaining it. I've seen multiple critical apps done in this style, and the grinning wizened goblins who wrote 'em.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Utf-8 is really great. Binary log files are a total 0 for me. Looking at my *nix journey, you might see the point where I tried to avoid systemd. Keeping binary log files was one reason for that.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I see a problem. Politics and tribalism do not mix well. Replacing nuanced positions, compromise, and persuasion with loyalism based on a tribal identity is not good. Buying into it by pushing the other tribe away just makes them cling more closely together. This is the opposite of compromise.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Looks like ISPs got the malicious genie. Careful what you wish for... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... So now instead of one standard they might have to adjust to 50? How onerous for these multibillion dollar monopolies! (internet service should be a public utility btw)

arstechnica.com

Big loss for ISPs as Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to $15 broadband law

ISPs fear more states will regulate prices as New York law survives challenge.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Is it just me or are our schools more like prisons now with high security, bad food, and fewer opportunities for growth? I wonder why it got like that...

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 16/12/2024

Updated my #Uplift custom feed: bsky.app/profile/debb... I hand-curate each post via @blueskyfeedcreator.com. If you enjoy this feed, pls Like, Pin and/or Share the feed above? 💙 Thank you!

Found object art featuring tip of a paintbrush dripping illustrated paint over an illustrated joy-filled girl who is standing with face upturned, eyes closed, blissful smile, with arms outstretched.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 15/12/2024

You never know what will come out of a broken crayon. A while back, Crayola asked me for permission to animate some of my winter-themed broken crayon art. Thanks to Jose Hernandez for animating my art! You can find more of Jose's work at www.grown.la My #Uplift feed: bsky.app/profile/debb...

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Open source project that has not updated in 6 months: no problem! Open source project that has not updated in six years: risky bugware? Super stable? What is the horizon between slightly old, stable, and abandonware for you?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/12/2024

WELL HE FUCKING WELL IS

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

How much of what is going on right now is feints designed to tire out the resistance and normalize the crazy? Because it is not January 20th yet and I feel like oeople are going to be emotionally exhausted before the real fights even start. Don't let the trash talk get to you. Bell hasnt rung yet

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The varied landscape of linux distros is both a strength and a weakness. Some require a lot of tuning, others almost none at all. But how to tell which is which? The bandwagon isn't the way. Distrowatch.com is a start. I would recommend looking for stable or "LTS" for a first timer.

distrowatch.com

DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Sometimes the only way to respond to current events is with @alyankovic.bsky.social . Today's wholly terribly relevant tune: "Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung"

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Maybe this is ke being a bucket of crabs but I only want people I can trust exploring the solar system. Because with enough computing, an interstellar traveler with a thruster and a bad attitude could probably send a few large rocks our way, and give us a really bad day.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

So how long do you figure until some bright eyed dudebro in a suit comes around with an AI elementary school teacher and tries to sell it as a good idea?

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

For a gaming pc, which distro would you go with: - mint - pop_os - ubuntu - arch btw - other? (I mean obvo its linux from scratch, but I want to hear thoughts anyway) Jokes aside, I am probably going to go with Pop.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Apparently this morning I will be thinking up terrible jokes. Good morning? I need coffee.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It's a new fun breakfast cereal! Nutritious and delicious, it is also a laxative, diuretic, emetic, and pyretic! You will feel so empty afterwards, so don't forget to eat your Yeeties today!

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The other day I used the word "obliviate" in casual conversation. I got puzzled looks and had to define it. I am happy I used it correctly... But if someone had asked me five seconds prior to it slipping out of ny mouth, I would've been quite puzzled. I have no idea how my brain found that word.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🧵This is mentally abhorrent to me, but to put it into modern idioms, Anyone else see literature as mind virus vaccines? Case in point, the scam presented in Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here. Recognizing the line of political grift there, it becomes easier to see its ilk happening now.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Asimov's Foundation novels prsented the idea of being able to mathematically model the course of history based on the trends of the human herd. With simulation, we are coming closer and closer to realizing this dream. But what if what it predicts is a nightmare?

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Slashdot @slashdot.org · 10/12/2024

Hey it'd be super cool if you reposted this post to let all your cool friends know that @slashdot.org is on Bluesky now!

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

For a long time I was an MMO skeptic. I played their predecessors, MUDs quite a bit, and didn't see what an ugly gui would do for a game over text and my imagination. Can you imagine text based pvp? People would name characters purposeful finger twisters to make it harder.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In a world used to Bomgar, I actually find the classic unix utility of write to be more useful. Sending a command direct to a user's terminal is really handy for them to copy and run the command in turn. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_(...

en.m.wikipedia.org

write (Unix) - Wikipedia

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hmm. Buy a game now, orrrrrrr be distracted (SQUIRREL!) and forget about it for a year then pick up the goty edition for a third of the release price. Let me look out my window for treeborne rodents.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If you work in a data center, invest in good hearing protection. The drone of fans will eventually cause damage.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Fun history of computing fact: in the 90s and the 00s data centers were getting louder. Then oddly enough the drives started failing a lot more often. We had crossed the line where noise vibration was causing the read/write head of the drive to crash into the platter. m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDac...

m.youtube.com

Shouting in the Datacenter

YouTube video by Bryan Cantrill

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

How far the man-machine interface has come. It is good to remember that just 50 years ago this was the state of the art, and things like UNIX were written via devices like this. When characters printed per minute was the measure of speed, you wanted terseness. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletyp...

en.m.wikipedia.org

Teletype Model 33 - Wikipedia

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Another couple of reasons why I use a simple distro like Pop!_os as my personal driver: - Steam is ready to install from the base - nvidia drivers are baked into base - I spend all day working with RHEL, rocky, and basic ubuntu. I want to game when I get home, and not do more linux support 😅

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I have been without a gaming rig for months now. I can't wait for my first hits of #ffxiv and #warcraft once I am set back up.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Wow. The CEO of United healthcare apparently just got killed.

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Is this the lyrics to a filk or am I just imagining it? Tune is Beatles Yellow Submarine We all live in an eldritch horror's dream An eldritch horror's dream An eldritch horror's dream We all live...

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If this is correct "Bluesky’s Permission to Use Your User Content. You keep your ownership of User Content, subject to the license below. Bluesky does not own rights to your User Content" does that mean anyone wanting to use my content to train AI via scraping would need -my- permission to do so?

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snargwomble.bsky.social @snargwomble.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The Universal Translator is a fictional device because it does not exist. Universal Healthcare is not fiction. Arguements that this, the wealthiest country in the world, simply can't do it, are in fact fiction.

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