Ava wrote a fantastic article on Elizabeth Holmes who has come back into the news lately.
https://blog.avas.space/elizabeth-holmes/
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Anita Lewis
@ajlewis2@social.vivaldi.net
mastodon 4.7.3+vivaldimodRetired: was lab tech, religious sister, archivist, US Army (no not all at the same time) Interested in Linux and eclectic reading.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fastmail/117029860720841187
Fastmail isn't free, but I've been painlessly using it for a few years now. I've got my website parked there at no extra cost.
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Our new Amsterdam servers are live. The EU can now be the primary home for Fastmail data, and like our US locations, it's our own hardware, racked and run by our own people. Nothing rented from a big cloud provider.
Already a customer? Switch regions in your settings. Thinking about it? You choose your region at signup.
Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where, because we figure you'd read the fine print anyway.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region
#Fastmail #Email
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@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
slrn sounds familiar. Back in the late 90s I used usenet. The first time was when I needed info to get my XFree86 working on my first Linux install. I used slrn because console was all I had. I don't remember how I learned to use it and don't know how now. I don't recall the rest of what you have there. I do have the gray hairs.
I discovered Musikcube (https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/wiki) today and it is so much easier to use than cmus. I hope to write a post on it soon. So far the only downside I see is that I couldn't import my playlists. But making new ones within the program wasn't hard.
You move from block to block with TAB. To get to the buttons at the bottom use ESC. When you are in a block you can use arrow keys. No matter where you are you can use j,l to change tracks or i,k to change volume level. You can move fast through the song with the arrow key when on the slider for the length. l
Here is how it looks in the playlist section.
Wow! This is so alive.
Think I'll go back to Debian after a lot of years with Ubuntu and LinuxMint. I like Cinnamon and see that I can use it, so why not? Mint has LMDE, but why not use the actual distro.
Getting all the little changes I've made on my system is the part I hate. I most likely can't just use my Mint home directory. We'll see.
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@junglegeorge@mastodon.africa
Ah, yes, the weird noises are the constant joke at our house.
I finally bought a new mattress. The last one was 13 years ago. It cost twice as much. Not sure if that is inflation or quality of the mattress. It took me a couple years to convince myself that it really was bad enough. I wonder if this new one will outlast my body.
Peace as a priority while furthering relationship in order to become closer seems like a very good way of thinking.
New neighbors moved into the rental house next door a couple days ago. I saw the car and a couple of very small bikes. Yesterday afternoon I got the first glimpse of humans. I saw the backs of two little blonde heads in a large stroller in the carport. Then I saw a fit-looking, probably youngish person with long hair putting on something, maybe socks and shoes. And then I saw the stroller moving down their drive way with the young person on a skateboard pushing the stroller. And out my other window I saw them turn onto the small paved road that our houses are on and take off at speed. It looked like there was great joy in that stroller.
Looks like I am in for fun times!
I got a new battery charger.
https://anitalewis.org/2026/02/25/new-charger-for-batteries/
I had a good time today learning something probably useless for me. I do enjoy this kind of thing.
I found a copy of an old WordPerfect install floppy image set on Internet Archive. Then I learned about something called dosemu2 which does a DOS emulation on Linux. Then I messed around with the images of the floppy disks and got that old version of WordPerfect installed and running on the DOS emulation. So I typed a little document and saved it. I went to look at it in Linux and it was mostly garbled stuff with some words. And then I opened the document again in WP and found a command that would save it as a DOS text file. And voila, when I opened that file outside WP it was normal text. No italics or bold, but the text was there. Too bad I no longer have any old WP documents I need to open. 🤔
The saga of my changing from flip-phone to smartphone continues.
Phone saga. And, yes, I'm a little dense sometimes. I tried to use the Internet on my phone while I was out of wifi range. Turns out I did not have data service. I should have known that I would not have requested service with data when I originally got the service with a flip phone. It cost more for data. But I want data for when our Internet is down so I needed to change plans. Only $5 more but I couldn't figure out how to do it with the instructions I found online. Turns out they changed things and now an agent is required. Chat again and I dreaded it. But this time it was quick and easy.
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@82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Your intro and notes are icing on the cake. I encourage you to be relaxed about it. What counts is that you enjoy what you are doing. Your contribution is much appreciated.
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@harmoniousanger @stefano
It's great to see a wiki! This is so packed with tips. I see that it is beginner friendly. I've been using Bash since around 1997, but only what I needed. I'd like to read through this after I finish with what I've started. It looks like it will help me review and see what I've missed. I'll probably do it on the wiki. It'll make a good project going through it that way. Thanks!
I got my first taste of what must be an LLM at work. I tried to buy my first smartphone for an upgrade on my Verizon account. The payment part went fine, but at the end of the viewing of agreements and such there was a notice that "Oops. Something went wrong. Call phone number 800-xxx." I called and met my opponent who won hands down. It was all "Sorry, I don't understand..." I think it understood "Goodbye" when I said that, but I didn't wait to hear a response. Gads!! I have tried sending an email to the address I found for them. No auto reply yet, so I guess there will be no reply. I may try chat again when I regain my equilibrium. That was what I tried first before attempting to buy the phone and after being handed off to the 4th person who told me that they were sorry they couldn't help because they were the wrong department, I closed the chat.
I should really post this on my blog. :-) I think I'll start with this and then fill in the happy ending.
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@antongorlin@mastodon.art
Looks like you had another awesome experience. There is a lot of effort into getting to such a place, though, I imagine.
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@82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Latin was my first foreign language, too. Then French and then German. I never mastered any of them like you have English. That's what comes from never stopping.
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@82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe
"a man can dream" - imagination is the first step to the creation of something. Like imagining a better economic system, which is one of my dreams.
I get so much info just from your descriptions or comments about these links. I appreciate your ability to lay down these words! In a second language, no less!
I just got a kernel update yesterday. I wonder if someone was listening and fixed this thing. I haven't read it yet, but that link and the one about learning something new are in tabs waiting for me.
I hope you feel better soon and that you get all the coffee you need. 💖
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@knowprose@mastodon.social
Yes, now that you mention it, this is the first time for me, too. I think it is only the second one I've ever bought.
Trying out a link to a 2 minute music video. This is instead of youtube. It's Johnnie B. Goode cover by Elle & Toni.
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@82mhz
I enjoyed that site with the article on vim. There were several more there as well. I recently started using vim quite a bit.
Interesting that those keys for moving are also used on the Mastodon program in the Vivaldi browser. I had changed to Tuba for ease of moving around, but there were some things that didn't work so well on that program and I went back to Vivaldi's. Then I found I could go up and down the posts using "j" and "k" which is much more dependable that the up and down arrows in this program.
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@82mhz
This one is going to take some time to work through. Lots of things I'm interested in here. Thank you so much for publishing your Linkdumps. It looks like you are off to a good start on the next 100.
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@82mhz
That was fun switching back and forth and listening to different types of music. I couldn't tell the difference, but I'm not at the top of my game in hearing or sound equipment.
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@unixsteve
I think you posted a reply to my asking for suggestions on sources for learning bash scripting. I think you suggested I learn scripting in the Bourne shell which would also work in Bash.
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@the_roamer
the roamer, I see you bookmarked. So did I. I decided to use
shellscript.sh by @unixsteve
course.ysap.sh recommended by @bilbo_b
Both of their posts seem to have disappeared, so I'm tossing this into the thread in hopes that it will stick.
You may be the person who recommended course.ysap.sh to me. I'm about an hour into it. That took me a week, so my plan to do it in 2 weeks won't happen. But it is fantastic. I already knew a lot of it, but there was a lot I learned, too. It's rapid fire, but so rich.
Looks like my "tiny experiment" is showing me that I do want to learn Bash scripting, at least a bit of it.
Thank you for this recommendation. I'm now at the place where we start our first script.
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@stefano
A sudden change put me in a place of giving care. I'm sorry for the suffering you are both going through and wish a good and speedy recovery.
I'm pretty sure that both of you are going to feel immense love during this time which will carry you through and bring even more gratitude than you obviously have already experienced in your life together.
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@stefano
Interesting. I get the error message and then if I refresh, the page shows. After putting in the comment, I get the error again, refresh, and my comment shows as having gone through. Might be something with my recently updated browser I guess. Anyway, the deed is done.
Trying to ask about a BSSG issue at brew.bsd.cafe, but I get:
429 Too Many Requests
Also login says site can't be reached.
Nothing urgent, so don't worry about it on my account.
179 Euros - Well spent!
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@johnrakestraw@mastodon.online
If I did more writing this might be a problem I would face. I got a chuckle with your non-comment.
I love this take on "Mrs. Robinson" by Elle and Toni
I like the different pronunciation in order to tell the difference between buoy and boy. Oddly enough "buoyant" seems to usually be said with "boy". At least I say it with that.
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@liztai@hachyderm.io
Hoping for at least 10 years, too.
Beautyrest Silver BRS900 Extra Firm
11.75” Extra firm mattress
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@kepano
I finally understood what this does! I've been using Web Clipper and loving it. I've been using Vivaldi's Reader View, but this view with Web Clipper seems much better. I'm so glad to find it. Thank you.
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@ellane
Now we have something else to judge people on. I hope you will continue to use what comes to you. After all, these LLMs have been trained on both the good and the bad output of humans, at least in the beginning of this process.
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@liztai@hachyderm.io
Funny that I already selected one. I think it will be fine. Surely better than what I have now.
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@kepano
I didn't know I could use the reader with YouTube. That's so nice how it shows a transcript and follows along. So great to be able to grab text from it.
Once again I ran the bssg server a couple time as I fixed mistakes on a page. Then I uploaded the site and puzzled about what was wrong with nothing linking. I had not run the build before uploading. If I blogged more I'd probably remember to do it correctly.
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@liztai
Not really a dumb question. I was trying to buy a phone from my service provider because I wanted to be sure the phone was compatible with the prepaid service I use. They do seem to be tied to them and some won't work. I am not savvy enough to know which will work.
I did get the help I needed on a phone call after 2 hours of online chat this morning. And the short story is that I bought a phone like the one I had selected from a local store with an online order. It will be delivered tomorrow. $60 instead of $90 that the original one I tried to buy cost.
The last woman I talked to determined that was the best solution and she offered to call back when I went to the store to guide me in finding it. I thought that was super service, but I didn't feel I need that much help. She definitely made up for the bad experience with one very excellent experience of kindness.
How to Change Your Life
Poem by Maria Popova
https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/09/how-to-change-your-life/
