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@Endiverge@floofy.tech Good mrawning!
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mastodon 4.7.3Hello! I'm a software engineer earning money with #java and having fun with #c and #lisp.
Here I'm writing about my main hobbies: #cycling #diyelectronins #dragons #leathercraft #photography #retrocomputing. Also, there are toots about #FreeBSD and #Emacs. Some of my toots will be autodeleted every month.
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Looks like, with the great help of @AnachronistJohn@zia.io , @abs0@mastodon.sdf.org and @jaypatelani@bsd.network , I switched my NetBSD system from using binary packages via pkgin to the pkgsrc and building packages from source 
https://eugene-andrienko.com/2026-09-07-bsd-pkgsrc-ports.html
For now, it works and I'm able to have some packages in my system, with the necessary compile-time options. And only one version of Python interpreter installed, not two 
. Also removed a lot of unnecessary packages, so the disk space usage went down from 18 Gb to 17 Gb
#NetBSD #pkgsrc
https://eugene-andrienko.com/2026-09-07-bsd-pkgsrc-ports.html
For now, it works and I'm able to have some packages in my system, with the necessary compile-time options. And only one version of Python interpreter installed, not two . Also removed a lot of unnecessary packages, so the disk space usage went down from 18 Gb to 17 Gb
#NetBSD #pkgsrcBoosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au
I found a new hobby — catch a fish, speak with it and release back to the lake, making photos during the process
Looks like (at least in Russia) prices for this hobby are democratic enough — if you are a newbie, then you don't need to buy high-end fishing tacles, the food to feed the fish and the bait are dirt cheap. And, during the dark times, this could give some food, at least.
#photography #AnimalPhotography #fishing #bleak #roach
— catch a fish, speak with it and release back to the lake, making photos during the process
Looks like (at least in Russia) prices for this hobby are democratic enough — if you are a newbie, then you don't need to buy high-end fishing tacles, the food to feed the fish and the bait are dirt cheap. And, during the dark times, this could give some food, at least.
#photography #AnimalPhotography #fishing #bleak #roachNew emojis on BSD.Cafe detected! 
Huh, looks like I'm started to learn #NetBSD just in time 🤌 :drgn_wrench:
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@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe Isn't this some kind of Unix heritage? 
I see that for packages in my #NetBSD box it is a common thing: all rc scripts installed to somewhere like /usr/pkg/share/examples/… and package installation script suggests to copy them to the /etc/rc.d/ if I want to start them with /etc/rc.conf
I suppose, this is for package reinstallation without removing the rc scripts for them? I have some modifications in some scripts and they aren't lost after package reinstallation.
I see that for packages in my #NetBSD box it is a common thing: all rc scripts installed to somewhere like /usr/pkg/share/examples/… and package installation script suggests to copy them to the /etc/rc.d/ if I want to start them with /etc/rc.conf
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Subscribed to freebsd-hackers maillist … and looking at the horrors of vibecoded shell-script to automatically perform some kind of etcupdate 
IMO, if you are vibecoding because you are unexpereinced in selected language — why not use the known language and write code with natural intelligence? At least the door to bugs and errors will not be so widely open, because you don't know the selected language and all things around it, and see some plausible looking code, stolen from StackOverflow or GitHub, which is missing some necessary checks for corner cases.
And if you are vibecoding — this is definitely not a hacking
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It works!
The line of blocked bots in the daily munin graph is almost horizontal
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@Strongbow@mastodon.nu @cdarwin@c.im Pfff, prices will incrrase anyway 
. I was born at the end of XX century and never saw decreased prices for smth in my country, in my whole life 
. I was born at the end of XX century and never saw decreased prices for smth in my country, in my whole life 
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social @jaypatelani@bsd.network @cienmilojos@infosec.exchange @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org
without prior written approval by core
Dunno, in Russia we call this "generated code is forbidden"🤷♂️. Sounds like the receive of the prior written approval from the core team — will be impossible, bc there will be always 100500 reasons to not give such permission.
You, people in democratic countries, tend to think that if permission could be granted — it will be granted sooner or later — it is just a matter of formal procedures and rules. But this isn't how things may work
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the only way forward is resistance and complaining
Also consider forking and writing own (possibly simpler) software with natural intelligence in use :drgn:
Remember the history of XFree86:
- it was a widely used display server on the x86 machines
- main dev decided to change the license, without asking the rest of the community
- People became angry and the display server was forked
- XFree86 died and fork became the #1 display server on the x86 :drgn_3c_evil:
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Okay, after 15 minutes of waiting, I got a list of AS sorted from the most populated by the bots, to the less populated. Top 20 records aren't surprising: just a Microsoft and Google networks, plus a bit of DigitalOcean and Alibaba.
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@mrmasterkeyboard @f4grx Yes, of course, but I think if people really need non-slop opensource 3D modelling software, then the contributors will participate in such project, sooner or later.
As we speak in Russia: "It is not a gods who make the pots" (Не боги горшки обжигают) — which means that usual people could make something, even if it looks like not an easy thing — it is not required to be a genius with tons of degrees and scientific papers to make something.
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@rk@mastodon.well.com Isn't this a Gallant font? It is still exists and extended: https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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@themannofcool @swirly @wafflesies No, it works — see, there is an external battery indicator — gasoline level in the white tank
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@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be Looks like this is echo from this event :
The 1980s also saw a second wave of AI enthusiasm, focused on expert systems. Companies like Inference Corporation, Intellicorp, and Teknowledge promised to capture human expertise in rule-based systems that could make decisions as well as human experts.
[snip]
The second AI winter arrived in the early 1990s. Again, funding collapsed. Again, researchers rebranded their work. Again, the fundamental promise of machines that could program themselves receded into the future.
https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype/
Shit, I want to end my blogpost about my usage of Dired in Emacs, write another blogpost about cheatsheets for not-every-day-used Emacs keybindings, write simple AF program for plain-text accounting for myself (with a very limited subset of ledger syntax) in a Common Lisp with the help of #ecl and Natural Intelligence (since almost all software for plaintext accounting are proudly slopware nowadays and I can't rely on it and can't trust my accounting to such slopware), countinue drilling case for my NAS, write another blogpost about low-cost selfhosting on Intel Atoms, reverse-engineer PDBs for some default programs on my #Palm PDA (can't find time and muse for it in 4 years ), setup Emacs on Android to use it for everything and avoid use of K9-Mail, ConnectBot and other slopware, and write another blogpost about using Palm in 2022^W2023^W2024^W2025^W2026 — but I didn't sleep well and need to have a good sleep now, FUCK! 
:drgn_sleep: :drgn_sleep: :drgn_sleep: :drgn_sleep: :drgn_sleep: :drgn_sleep: :drgn_sleep:
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yet we adopted them, not ban them
I should note that "adoption rate" already reversed in some cities, when people found that noise, asphalt everywhere and land-use for six-lane roads and parking lots are not the best way to transofrm city's landscape
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@archivescribe@mastodon.social Not only Western TBH…
I live in some easteЯn country where all these steps were already performed at near decade ago and I can say, that western governments just trying to repeat our path.
@signalapp@mastodon.world
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I'm starting to shoot unwanted bots from unwanted ASNs. Will see how it will work…
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What an unfortunate strawman forced to work on FOSS "or die in poverty" by these nasty bosses you invented.
In my days this was called "an example used in the reasoning"
a reasonably sized FOSS project
You mean "overbloated monster, providing free ride for corporations"?
it will inevitably become unpaid, unthanked grind
Then it is better to stop at that point.
Coding assists are a godsend.
For people without natural intelligence? Maybe
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@hopeless @mrmasterkeyboard @chikl
"I am deeply troubled that you guys might have more time with your families or sleeping if you use coding assists!"
Sounds like people participating in OpenSource projects not because it is fun or they like programming and solving intellectual puzzles, but because they boss(es) forcing them to do some meaningless work with directly 2 choices: do that or die in poverty
Maybe it is better for them to not participate in OpenSource at all with such attitude?
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social I think you percieved this right in the first time — obviously these water cannons were bought primarily for protests suppresion by cops🤷♂️
That it were used to cool down the citizens during the heat wave, just a coincidence and/or lack of other cooling tech, like AC, I think.
TBH I don't expect a big level of respect for citizens from any police @eunews@mastodon.social
— obviously these water cannons were bought primarily for protests suppresion by cops🤷♂️
That it were used to cool down the citizens during the heat wave, just a coincidence and/or lack of other cooling tech, like AC, I think.
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social One day I willn't get the work permit visa in some EU country primarily because of my toots, not because of my current citizenship @eunews@mastodon.social
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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social @Soblow@eldritch.cafe Huh, in my fail2ban list (4308 records) and your list (2185 records) — there are only 23 matches. Most of them from ASN 8075 (Microsoft network); also there are IPs from ASN 15169 and ASN 32934.
Looks like pretty bad — possibly, the amount of bots' IPs is so big that they almost doesn't intersect between two random hosts
List of matched IPs:
57.141.20.0
57.141.20.14
57.141.20.59
57.141.20.6
66.249.66.162
74.7.175.185
74.7.227.11
74.7.227.135
74.7.227.156
74.7.227.175
74.7.227.42
74.7.228.29
74.7.230.15
74.7.230.34
74.7.230.47
74.7.241.16
74.7.241.18
74.7.241.21
74.7.242.14
74.7.242.3
74.7.242.47
74.7.243.216
74.7.244.30
List of matched IPs:
57.141.20.0
57.141.20.14
57.141.20.59
57.141.20.6
66.249.66.162
74.7.175.185
74.7.227.11
74.7.227.135
74.7.227.156
74.7.227.175
74.7.227.42
74.7.228.29
74.7.230.15
74.7.230.34
74.7.230.47
74.7.241.16
74.7.241.18
74.7.241.21
74.7.242.14
74.7.242.3
74.7.242.47
74.7.243.216
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@m3tti@functional.cafe Maybe itbis a bit silly to answer to this question with a meme.
Anyway, I think that there are at least two kinds of developers: who depicted on the left side of attached meme (and who happy to turn open software into the open #slopware and perform other … uhm … strange things). And who on the right side of this meme.
Also, I read in someones blog about another way to classify developers: there are one who are "Builders" — they just want to see the working thing, no matter how ugly it is inside; they didn't like programming and see it as a sad way to make the desired things. And there are "Artists" — people who have fun from the process (of programming); sometimes they build something as a result, sometimes not, but in both cases it is a well-spent time.
So, I think, the folks like in the left side of meme and the "Builders" will be happy to replace joys of programming with LLMs and other big tech dependencies, bc they don't see these joys, first.
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@XLibreDev@mastodon.social Lol, they started to remove the knowledge from ArchWiki because it doesn't match with their political views. That's next? Burning manpages (because they have a "man" prefix in the name) and disallowing use of "adduser" for Jews? :drgn_think:
Thanks God, I saved an ArchWiki locally before it was censored
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@nivex@tenforward.social Damn, who is maintaning systemd-networkd and answering to this maillist — the child from kindergarden?
it is jaw-dropping to see project members joining in and throwing around threats because they disagree on some bug triaging, and incredibly demotivating.
Exhibit A — kid meets real life and found an existence of non-desktop, non-PC computers, doing some valuable work in workplaces
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@chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe Me neither understand this behaviour
In such cases I always remember this blogpost from Oatmeal about "AI art": https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
That's how I see AI art. Standing here. Pretending.
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@evacide What a great example of the next big win of democracy (not sarcasm, really).
The previous democratic victories were: the process of rotation of people in power was installed; people became able to participate in this process via the elections; and the people in power became exposed through the media, so people in country didn't perceive them like some God-send authorities.
Looks like the next democratic victory will be — the mass-media and Internet will completely expose the dumbness and idiocy of officials, so they willn't be perceived as people with best fit skills for ruling the country. Literally, the Lenins quote "Any cook able to rule the state" IRL (TBH I'm not a big fan of Lenin and communism because I'm Russian )
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Project Anchorage (anti-slop initiative on Codeberg), and many more.)
Sound interesting, can you share a link to it? :drgn_blep:
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@zyd I don't get it, what is difference between "strictly against" and "strongly against"? @shinmera @valorzard
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@LukefromDC @eff Possibly, IMHO, this kind of shit will resemble the situation with torrents, but worse – because ~30 years passed and the politics learnt something about computers and Internet: both can be used to avoid state propaganda and to make horizontal connections between people, so they need less government and less state — and this is "bad" because old mans in suits loss their power and their narcissic resource (powerless citizens).
So, I think, hosting Mastodon server somewhere in UK, US, Russia or Germany will lead to police smashing your door and to local news about "some guy violated the law designed to PROTECT CHILDREN!!!11". But with a seed^Wmastodon-box somewhere in Netherlands, bought for crypto or cash, and a some still not blocked VPN – you are safe
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@zyd Oh, then it is nice to see ECL in the "strictly" category — at least it is one more safeguard to not see the slopcode in the ECL source tree in one bad day Thanks for explanation!
@valorzard @shinmera
Thanks for explanation!
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By which I mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.
Uhhh, sounds like expected outcome, since assholes behind "AI" fud looks like know about humans interactions as less as possible and definitely will gain profit from destroying healthy human relationships at all.
because it’s hard to raise kids and disrupt civilization at the same time
Fuck, it's brilliant writing :drgn_excited:
her husband, who founded an AI startup, is convinced they will have a household robot within the decade
At near 2010 (or 2015) I read in one big Russian forum of drivers about autopilot will replace human drivers in next 1-2 years and then the driving with your own hands will become a felony because autopilot is just safer. At near 10-15 years passed and autopilots still unable to follow the road rules and laws
After that it is always funny to read such predictions :-DDD
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People, who arguing that it is a privilegy, if some old professor has a secretary to help him with a post mail and e-mail — literally should go and touch the grass to reconnect with this reality.
It is not a privilegy — it is a simple necessity in case of meaningful messages from the whole world. If you still doesn't have a personal secretary:
a) you are not dealing with big enough amount of correspondence
b) you are unable to properly setup the e-mail filters
@initkfs@mastodon.world @lenka@shark.lenka.moe @solair@quietplace.xyz
> для этого нужно как-то пометить себя айтишником
Кто будет больше всех материться и ходить с угрюмым лицом, тот и айтишник
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@freja @db And also they consume a way less power, so e.g. a thermometer could last for years from a single CR-2032 battery.
Also #ZigBee was designed specifically for the network of sensors with low-power consumption. Manufacturing smarthome sensors with a WiFi was a mistake, induced by low engineering culture and a hurry to jump to a hype-train of IoT