I'm just so tired, really.

So I just finished removing netdata from all my systems, purging every trace of it, deleting nodes and workspaces, and ultimately my account. It feels like a great weight has been lifted off my shoulders, now that i know I never have to think or feel anything about it again. To their merit […]

The quality of netdata's install scripts has always been abysmal, but it's been getting progressively worse over time. I was wondering why, after reporting some really obvious oversight and some questionable use of find globs that caused the install script to just... not work. Then today I saw […]

FInally caved in and vacuumed the electric heating plinth in my office to reduce the Imminent Housefire Scents, before turning it on because my toes were numb. As it is toasting or slow roasting whatever crud remains in it, it is currently emitting a very […] [Original post on untrusted.website]

Given the memory prices, maybe it's time to bring this back to reflect reality?

I've been kind of sitting there wondering what remains on my Blockers List to actually switch my Desktop to Linux. The list is shrinking but I think I have it boiled down to "Ableton pls just release Live for Linux you cowards" and "But my homelab Active Directory..."

SO, I switched from KDE Neon on my laptop to Fedora 43, mostly driven by recent hiccups, upgrade issues and unstable stuff, coupled with the userland getting crustier than I'd like. As an early report so far: I don't hate it? It's actually quite nice? I hadn't done redhat based on desktop […]

I was wondering why my Mastodon instance was chugging and the Sidekiq queue was just not emptying promptly. The Hidden Costs of Cheap Openstack Instances(tm) #mastoadmin

Someone on the Steam subreddit was asking for Valve to make a #SteamOS phone (seeing how the new VR headset is Arm but also playes x86 steam games). And I thought "Hey, I've already got #PostmarketOS on a phone. We know Valve is using some 'FEX' library. How hard […] [Original post on toot.cafe]

Not to shit on the effort of anyone or imply I don't appreciate its existence, but man btrfs really feels like "we have ZFS at home" here and there.

Ok I've put it off for long enough, and KDE Neon got one too many Broken Dependencies while just existing. I'm doing a big tarball of my home directory, wiping the disks and giving Fedora 43 Plasma Desktop a fair shake.

Spent all day digging through obnoxious patches in C and my brain feels like it's coming out of my nose. Time to fuse with the couch

Is it me or has PySide/Qt6 gotten way nicer to use with Python in the past, I don't know, 8+ years? I remember using PyQt4 and having a Not Incredible Time.

I had a dream where a museum heist was happening and it failed and someone said to "reset the jimmy jamb" referring to some false ceiling made of some rough textile. I barely remember the dream but "resetting the jimmy jamb" has been bouncing in my head since.

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]

@fuat2mb @delta_chat it's a neat idea to postpone server choice until later, and onboard with some default. #deltachat apps are currently learning to use multiple addresses at once ("multi-transport"), along with cryptographic hardening against evil server operators. The goal is to provide […]

It's important to not hide your feelings when writing ansible playbooks.

I sure would love it if redhat's bind-chroot package would not delete its own named.conf on upgrade every single time.

In prevision of my on-call rotation maybe sucking (it hasn't so far, knocking on wood), I've done biphasic sleep all week. I just kind of go to bed at 8pm, wake up at 12am, then go back to bed around 3-4am and wake up in time for work. I feel less tired than I have in months somehow?

Kind of lost in Valve's announcement of a new steam console and HMD, but I'm genuinely excited for a new version of the Steam Controller. The OG Steamtroller was _weird_ but deeply likeable if you gave yourself time to acclimate to its weirdness, and I always wished they would take what they […]

Holy Shit, #valve did a product launch in 2025 and did not mention AI a single fucking time. So refreshing.

I've managed to finish this track that was languishing in projects folder for half a year, and I'm fairly pleased. Synthwave-like start that veers into big synth roars and drums at the midpoint. https://konkon.fm/feverdream-single/ #music #musicproduction #synthwave #darkwave #konkon

UZDoom is reaching RC stages, which is very exciting. I kind of love how their first thing after forking off of GZDoom was to put in a bunch of long standing default and meta changes that kept being rejected. Among these is that it finally honors the Freedesktop spec and XDG variables on Linux […]

I'm taking down the AC unit last minute while snow is piling on it thinking I should have done this three weeks ago. As is tradition.

I've managed to finish this track that was languishing in projects folder for half a year, and I'm fairly pleased. Synthwave-like start that veers into big synth roars and drums at the midpoint. https://konkon.fm/feverdream-single/ #music #musicproduction #synthwave #darkwave #konkon

With soundcloud having enshittified forever, and not feeling like I belong to bandcamp, I made a faircamp based site for my (could arguably be described as) music. I've also rebranded it under the name KONKØN. This was a lot of effort but the end result makes me happy. https://konkon.fm/ […]

Upgrade to 4.5.0 was shockingly uneventful. I expected to have to do pre and post migrations but apparently that wasn't necessary on release and I appreciate the effort. Only note I'd have is that you don't _have_ to run the minimum Node version, if this gives you issues. I track 22.x LTS just […]

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Bring back BeOS style iconography

Just released a Big Quality of Life update to my patch reporting program for remote UNIX systems. Inventory filtering, Themes support, massively improve tab completion in interactive mode and more! https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v2.1.0 #exosphere #linux #unix #freebsd […]

Just released a Big Quality of Life update to my patch reporting program for remote UNIX systems. Inventory filtering, Themes support, massively improve tab completion in interactive mode and more! https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v2.1.0 #exosphere #linux #unix #freebsd […]

vhs is a lovely tool for recording terminal sessions and demos. asciinema is nice and all, but having your entire demo scripted out and able to generate screenshots of specific frames while also spitting out a much, much cleaner gif than agg would is incredible […]

God damn I had missed this game. I swear it had been a recurring thing at the back of my mind ever since I finished it, like "Man, Pacific drive was great. I would love more Pacific Drive." The DLC secretly dropped yesterday so this is going to be a Good Weekend. #pacificdrive #gaming

A special vibe: adding a FIXME comment to a thing you added in a 1300 lines legacy Perl script, and doing a search for it later to clean up, only to see: `match: 1 out of 32` and then bapping "next" and cycling through all the corpses and skeletons of people long gone, with growing horror

apparently gentoo penguins specifically are doing very well despite climate change because they're very adaptable to their local environment. poetic "yeah, just... let me rebuild my mitochondria with different USE flags"

I've been on the hunt for some accessible, easily self-hosted (on prem or datacenter) chat solution for a while now, and I've been looking very closely at deltachat/chatmail. Not gonna lie, the fact that just uses mature SMTP facilities for transport is making me weirdly aroused. If anyone has […]

This mastodon client came to me in a fever dream. I had to waste the whole day, but now you too can bunnyhop through your fedi feed. https://files.burning.homes/experimental/hall-of-toots/index.html * webgl required * mobile somewhat supported * yes this html file is a whole client and the […]

The problem with using software you wrote yourself is that you impulsively add features you feel would improve your life, and then get annoyed at how other parts of the software don't have the same feature. So I guess I'm adding filtering capabilities to […] [Original post on untrusted.website]

Native english speakers who have learned a second or third language have often told me they find swearing in english to be supremely basic, just in terms of repertoire of Bad Words. I'm not a native speaker but I'd counter that English has "dipshit" and "fuckstick" which are incredible.

I've been replaying Break//Point// for Doom 2 and man it is really an incredibly fun romp through beautiful, well crafted maps the whole time. It's episode sized (9 maps including secret) and has a difficulty level that's really balanced around a reasonably forgiving fun time. The encounters […]

Our instance's @TangerineUI Maple flavour should now fully support Mastodon 4.5.0 beta1's quote posts! I've spent a little time to backport the fixes to the official variants of @TangerineUI as well. If you've been using these flavours on this instance, you should see the fixes up live now! Let […]

I had to write a Perl package to read stuff safely from /proc today, for reasons I'd rather not get into, and I hated every second of it. Getting confused by your own code as you write it sure is an experience I don't miss, and I'm glad the sysadmin swiss army chainsaw has largely moved on to […]

Did another silly little thing for #looptober and this time I felt like chopping amen breaks, in a tracker, as tradition demands. I might actually revisit this later and turn it into a full track #looptober25 #trackermusic #breakbeats

Did another silly little thing for #looptober and this time I felt like chopping amen breaks, in a tracker, as tradition demands. I might actually revisit this later and turn it into a full track #looptober25 #trackermusic #breakbeats

More tired than I'd like, but still wanted to do a thing for #looptober today Sampled myself humming a shaky C note and went from there #looptober25 #polyend

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 […]