shepherd seems like kind of a really cool init system tbh on the whole i'm actually liking guix quite a lot, scheme is a very pleasant language for system declaration and i can actually tolerate it unlike nix

guix seems really neat i just wish i could actually experience more of it without it deciding to compile the kernel for fun

i should try guix and see if i can get it to be Tolerable

got a 25$ vhs-c camcorder today. hell yeah. even came with some (probably long dead) batteries.

usps. this package is in Pennsylvania. in should not taje you an entire WEEK to deliver me something in Pennsylvania. i have gotten a delivery from puerto rico to my door in 3 days. what do you mean July 6th

i have a late-model plasma tv. honestly. picture quality is kinda mid. it's not _bad_ per se it's just. objectively worse than an oled. who coulda guessed a 15 year old tv that uses fucking plasma to shoot light at you Wouldn't Be Perfect!

god systemd's dependency ordering is so nice if i want to execute my own service before suspend? don't need to touch suspend, just need to set WantedBy=suspend.target and then all of that dependency is isolated in that service, able to be managed properly

trying to setup dependencies with rcscripts is. Fun. In its own way.

yknow the physics teacher i mentioned who does scuba diving, has a phd in optics, and served in the soviet military? apparently the guy also flies gliders. HE IS A FUCKING SPY. HE IS A COLD WAR SPY.

my dream job is running a big laser tag arean where you're allowed to run and jump and it has ladders and shit. i don't even know if it'd be legal because of the ADA and fire code but man i can dream

i have spent like 100$ total on watch bands for my smart watches and yet all of them caused horrible skin irritation if i wore the thing more than a day or two i put on a 20$ Casio calculator watch and don't notice it for weeks at a time

CLAs are basically john hitler

at a city skate event think i got a contact high in under a minute

dude apollo 17 was great they used spare paper maps to fix the fender on their fucking moon rover, drove 8km away, spent 8 hours on an eva, and named a crater after one of the astronauts because he awkwardly fell over in it oh, and that eva? that day mission control woke them up by playing ride […]

twilio's number search is truly amazing it fuzzy-finds available numbers... based on the digits in them so I search 12345 and it returns shit with 14348

im resisting changing my pfp to the summer one because I don't want to acknowledge that it is actually death now

PSA: If you have a 14900k, beware that this chip can break itself due to intel and mobo pushing it way beyond what's healthy for silicon (it uses 300w+ in benchmarks). If you own one, MAKE SURE you have the latest BIOS/UEFI firmware and all OC options are OFF before putting load on it. If […]

thinking about how back in the day getting a U2 album for free whether you wanted it or not was the height of tech company bullshit

magic trick

I Hate The AZW3 File Format

the 67 kid's name is Maverick i have never heard something more fitting in my life

bios update during severe thunderstorm warning here I come

new tech support option on the doskeline! dial 7754-DOSKEL and press 1

[pol joke] all this shit about the strait being closed and you can just fucking skip through like a kindergartner shoutout all associated regimes for stopping some vaguely irritated ship captain so effectively […]

i think one of linux's actually good features is binfmt. it's so fucking cool just being able to execute arm binaries and have them work. like... what??

the greatest indictment of the gpl/cddl conflict is that dtrace is easier to get on windows than on linux

update on that car chroot: i don't think something in alpine likes the 3.0 kernel because apk is segfaulting when trying to fetch repos so idk i guess i try something else now??

oh okay what the fuck already got a reply, it's a duplicate of a bug reporting hardware issues with my ancient-ass gpu, and they've already got a workaround in the pipeline for 6.7.2 I POSTED THIS LESS THAN 20 MINUTES AGO I FUCKING LOVE KDE DEVELOPERS SO MUCH

philosopher reportedly gets first ever job that isn't teaching philosophy; we spoke to a doctorate of philosophy who told us "what the fuck i got this degree so i didn't have to get a job" the philosopher in question stated about their employer, "i may have had to go through a full course of […]

craziest thing ever: kde plasma doesn't like 3 vertical monitors next to eachother with windows pushing the borders on all of them

this is the best thing I've ever done actually

my dream Thing to own is an openmoko freerunner with a gta04 fuck it's such a cool little gizmo

using racket's gui framework is so cathartic after looking at qt and gtk. you just run "new button" to make a button. layout is just horizontal and vertical panels with simple constraints. the event loop is handled by the runtime, you just give it callbacks.

benjamin franklin should've known that his discovery would've led to easily hijackable iot devices that greatly reduce the security and privacy of your local networks. It was honestly a massive oversight.

Programming was on for a slow painful death the moment people started to think spaces were a viable alternative to tabs.

why did I do this again?

happy 30th to Super Mario 64!

they call me the monitor man

also found this weird HP server blade that I think was an iscsi target? it has a scsi disk port and some iscsi Ethernet ports

apparently at some point I ended up with a PC AT board and just forgot about it?? I just remembered it in my closet and it's an IBM board with a 286 6mhz

cannot get over the fact that everything ddr5 is so expensive that worse am4 cpus cost more than much nicer am5 chips

the multics graphics API was designed for vector terminals and pen plotters and was 3D???? mods???

recently we learned that side-by-side "vertical" splits were added to Multics Emacs under commission by the government of canada, who was using Multics to prepare dual-language texts and needed side-by-side splits for parallel review

https://docs.racket-lang.org/intercal/index.html intercal to lisp transpiler what the fuck

everytime its a problem in your life just blame redhat

fuuuuuck I love industrial foregoing so much it, ae2, cc:t, and mekanism is basically all I want out of a modpack bonus points for pneumaticcraft, I just really like it

oh my god i am just now discovering dotnet on freebsd is a community port microsoft what the fuck i know you like money and linux but can you provide at least 1 developer's worth of love to a bsd

everyone should have 3 optical drives purely so you can enjoy this sound when you turn on the computer it feels like an Event now

you ever just code something