Finally got to sit down and make a dumb little sketch for #looptober I was feeling tracker, so I dusted off Renoise for a good time #music #looptober25 #trackermusic

New "hardening" policy at work kills your ssh-agent process after 10 minutes. Note that this isn't "10 minutes without use on the socket" like gpg-agent does or whatnot, no, it's full on "10 minutes lifetime max". I would describe this as: * High friction * Infuriating * A great source of […]

The human genome is pleased to announce that it has been acquired by GalactiComm in a transaction involving 56 quadrillion UltraCredits in cash, stock and population indentures. Humanity will remain an independent brand and organisation under the GalactiComm banner and is expected to flourish […]

Finally released version 1.5.0 of my update reporting program for remote unix systems. It now has reporting! It can output nice document based reports in HTML, Markdown, Text and JSON The JSON part is ideal if you want to integrate Exosphere into anything […]

Finally released version 1.5.0 of my update reporting program for remote unix systems. It now has reporting! It can output nice document based reports in HTML, Markdown, Text and JSON The JSON part is ideal if you want to integrate Exosphere into anything […]

I will definitely not regret upgrading postgresql in production from 17 to 18 using `--method=upgrade --link` to conserve disk space (and other lies we tell ourselves)

Waffling back and forth on which Linux distribution I should use for laptop/desktop use. Thought I might try arch again but something had updated and was broken _during the install_ so that gave me a look into my future and I abandoned ship. Nix OS is too 256gb of slotted glibc and overhead for […]

When the TV that exists for the sole purpose of displaying its HDMI inputs has the nerve to paint “WiFi not connected” over the signal

Documenting things concisely is hard sometimes. I swear I finished the Reporting feature in Exosphere over two weeks ago, but I've been rewriting the documentation for it like 20 times. There's a lot of stuff and it was supremely annoying to present in a way that doesn't look nasty or isn't […]

I managed to rate limit myself on my own Mastodon instance by just opening a lot of tabs lol

[Story about taking a dump] Let me tell you a story about the worst shit I've ever taken. I was at a friend of a friend's house, in the boonies up here. The house was "being renovated" but had the same vibe as the "ongoing ADHD projects" I leave in the hallway at home. So, visible framing and […]

I'm a bit of a fan of the Higurashi (When They Cry) series, so when I heard the author had a hand in Silent Hill f, I was absolutely intrigued. Turns out: it shows immediately lol. - [x] Showa era japan - [x] Fictional small village in the boonies - [x] Local god rumored to inflict a "curse" - […]

Altered Beast was the second arcade board I ever owned and to this day the ending still delights me Look at that, dude's all "Yeah sorry, I had to turn into this wolf thing to come rescue you" and Zeus' daughter is all "No no no you're fine, no trouble, all good"

I kind of love how my Framework 13 laptop just casually gets BIOS and firmware updates via fwupdmgr, as part of regular package updates on Linux. They just show up and apply on reboot like the kernel or anything else would, which is nice. #framework #linux

Infuriating things about PowerShell: output redirection (i.e. using ">" or "out-file" or anything else) will still wrap lines to the current width of your console window/terminal, inserting newlines in the output. As in, the resultant file with have nice linebreaks where your terminal would […]

@mr_daemon I should probably write the minimalist version of this blog post, but, this is not a good idea for a lot of applications. The maximalist post is this one https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right but to reduce it down: if your application of time needs to express […]

Note to self: don't use naive datetimes in Python, just don't. It's so low effort to use UTC internally and you won't have to wonder "WAIT what happens to any of my time deltas when DST kicks in?" at 1am #python

Attention Gen Xers and boomers with registered domain names 🚨 If you, like me, put a fictitious organization in your domain name registration 25 years ago because NetSol or ICANN did not allow you to leave that field blank, recent policy changes will make that organization name the *legal […]

I've been toying with a new feature in Exosphere. I kind of want to be able to both produce file reports and offer a mechanism through which people can make integrations for their own stuff, like notification sinks, discord bot, zigbee powered doorbell over […] [Original post on untrusted.website]

Whenever I hear or read the expression "throwing shapes", I think of the Magikoopas from Super Mario World, casting Triangle Square Circle

Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender? https://phishyurl.com/ Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting link #infosec

Still playing through the System Shock remake and it's wild how they just stubbornly adhere to the old school puzzles and mechanics, only streamlining what is genuinely a barrier to accessibility. You can still absolutely turn off the power to all sectors on the research floor if you want to […]

I've released version 1.4.0 of Exosphere, my patch reporting program for remote unix-like systems. It now fully supports OpenBSD as a remote platform! https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v1.4.0 #exosphere #linux #openbsd #homelab #sre #freebsd

WOOPS I've added OpenBSD support to Exosphere. One thing led to another and uh... #exosphere #homelab #python #devlog #openbsd

Entering the "Opening Source FIle in vim on production server" arc of an outage is a mood

In GZDoom you can switch between software and hardware renderer. Can you guess which one is which? The hardware renderer seems to calculate the color of each pixel if it's darker, but the software renderer uses color maps. There's a good explanation of color maps […] [Original post on mstdn.games]

One more FreeBSD centric update for the road, you can now explicitly synchronize pkg repositories, provided you configure sudo policies for it. https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v1.3.4 #exosphere #freebsd #homelab #python #linux

Overheard in a MUD: 22:58:11.886 (Newbie): "How do I fix my arms when they're both broken? I'm attempting to purchase a mending salve, but I can't retrieve any gold from my pack as, well, my arms are broken." 22:58:30.224 (Newbie): "You'll need a friend for that I'm afraid!" #mud

Me, for the 12th time this year at least, past midnight: I should write a modern MUD/MUCK system.

Weekends should definitely be three days minimum

Abiotic Factor is a good video game. I've been playing with friends and we're basically only progressing through the game together so it is like an every other weekend adventures thing, and it's a pretty great way of approaching it. There's so much content in that stupid game also. Great […]

A weird side effect of Modern social networks I tend to see on the Fediverse is some people having this weird reluctance to interact with or boost Older Content on their timeline. Thread Necromancy was a normal part of forums and BBSes, and it made perfect sense. It's not like the content goes […]

I was in the mood to start a new playthrough of the System Shock remake, and I should really just gush a bit about how Shodan is great. If you've only played the remake or the original much later after it released, the Evil AI Antagonist in video games shtick will feel like a well trodden trope […]

Small bugfix release for Exosphere for FreeBSD systems, now supports newer versions of pkg on FreeBSD 14. If you were not seeing any updates on your FreeBSD systems, that was why. https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v1.3.3 #exosphere #python #freebsd

Things I didn't know I absolutely needed in my life: Covers of the Ace Attorney/Phoenix Wright soundtrack in City Pop style. It's straight bangers, from start to finish, not a second is bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeBkXhfchb0 #aceattorney #phoenixwright #videogamemusic #music #citypop

ISP dispatched a tech with the usual "between 8am and 8pm" window from hell, to check my shit out They called at 7:30am to let me know they'd be there soon, so I am standing here the most disheveled and half awake ive ever been while a nice person is doing signal tests. Shit could be worse.

My own tool accidentally reminding me that I should upgrade shit to Debian 13 is bad feels.

I'm on hold with my ISP and the phone menu asked me to pick what kind of hold music I wanted, between: 1. classical 2. pop 3. country 4. smooth jazz I kind of just want there to be an option for "complete silence with a beep at intervals to let me know the call has not dropped". That or just […]

Internet connectivity has been shoddy and flapping all afternoon, to the point where I got annoyed and checked, so I could work in peace. After logging in to the stupid HPE portal for my ISP's upstream gateway, I see in the device events that it's been toggling between ethernet link to modem […]

I ran Gentoo for years in the early 2000s, and whenever I feel the pull of Rolling Release Linux distributions, I end up giving Arch a try only to immediately be cured of it because something changed and broke __during the install__. I feel it's probably ok to want to spend more time using your […]

I have such a a love/hate relationship with Mario Kart. It's like, engineered to piss you off in every single conceivable way. And somehow in World they just add insult to the injury, like, you get blue shelled, zapped, red shelled like 30 times in a row, fall from first, make a glorious […]

If I ever have to write a protocol where a handshake is required, i'm just going to go with HI HI/HUG HUG

The Mac Centris is finally recapped, refurbed, and running A/UX. Now to play around with it. 😁 #macclassic #retrocomputing #appleunix

My favorite part of BSD memory management is the distinction between clean and dirty pages, and how the process of making them go from the latter to the former is just called "the laundry". "This page is currently in the wash" is absolutely a thing, and that pleases my heart.

New Exosphere release: we now support having unsupported hosts in the inventory, allowing for ping checks and dashboard presence, even if there's no Package Manager Provider for them. Also, lots of bugfixes, including properly reporting kernel updates for redhat-like systems […]

“Humans are hackers. We were put here to figure things out. Hacking is an innate skill to be tapped into and developed. The hacker spirit guides us through situations once thought hopeless. Hacking is a way to answer your own burning questions, a way to discover your own potential, and a way to […]

Power just went out, and I was woken up by everything becoming _silent_ somehow. It felt very loud. I was hoping my UPSes would hold but according to the power company website this is an "unknown equipment breakage" situation, so welp.

Whew I finally did it: I beat Eviternity 1. The last levels were slightly less stamina demanding than Eviternity 2, but the last boss battle... Fucking hell, the Archangelus thing can eat my entire ass, I had to 1v1 him with a super shotgun and that thing is TERRIFYING in its second phase at […]