tHe MeTRiC SySTEm iS BetTeR BEcUz iTS MoaR PreCiSE

#meme #html #webdev #linux #css #funny

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Fixed a bug in the notification page that made snac hang forever while trying to read abnormally big files.

Improved support for text-only web browsers: it's now possible to configure a set of web browser user-agent strings that will receive simpler HTML in the private timeline web UI. Basically, it consists in avoiding details / summary HTML tags as much as possible.

Added some fixes to media proxy code.

Fixed EmojiReact code to allow any emoticon defined in emojis.json, not only those with colon-wrapped identifiers.

Fixed a bug in notification filtering (paging was sometimes incorrect).

Added a notification filter for Webmentions.

Mastodon API: Don't return reactions count as string (contributed by mkljczk), implemented GET /v1/media (contributed by clairemont).

Fixed bug in documentation examples (contributed by Sprite_tm).

Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations (contributed by wincentbalin and koru).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Did you know that on Unix-like systems it is generally possible to search across man (manual) pages with a command apropos? E.g. apropos wifi on my freshly installed NetBSD finds me documentation for the available network drivers, and a very helpful page afterboot that explains, among other things, how to connect to WiFi (and then install software from binary packages).

Remember when 📱 were invented and didn't have much RAM so they ran one program at a time, and the programs were designed so when you switched away they'd remember what they were doing and resume it when you came back? And then the 📱 got a LOT of RAM so now multiple programs can run until RAM ran out and one got ejected? And then the programs started taking up so much RAM only one can run at a time? And then it turned out the programs no longer remember what they were doing when they get ejected?

OK, our little computer/server/NAS is online at Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt-research/mnt-station

The main idea was to have a high-end enclosure for the classic MNT Reform mainboard to give it a second life, but you can as well build an open hardware computer from the parts.

We're also publishing 3D printable versions of the cases, and there will be more photos and use case details in upcoming campaign posts.

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a stack of 3 aluminum cases in silver, petrol, and black colorways. the lowest one has a MNT Reform laptop mainboard in it

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the black MNT Reform station with 2 cute external wi-fi antennas and one of the 10 front panel LEDs glowing red

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close-up of the front panel with one red LED glowing

I really like Simon Harrison's series of blog posts about using #GameOfTrees for simple version control tasks: https://simonh.uk/tags/got/index.html

My own use cases are more complicated than Simon's but it is making me happy to see confirmation of how the UI designed for working on #OpenBSD and related projects is working very well for people with fairly simple needs. That was one of my goals from the very beginning and is a significant differentiator from #Git.

Building without predicting. (The story of how I built my perfect home.) sive.rs/fit

The Chat // Have a nice chat unencumbered by the meaning of real words. Made for #picojam26 https://itch.io/jam/picojam26/entries (thanks for organising, @illuminesce !)

Play online: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=194820#p

Or from #picotron terminal: > bbs://thechat.p64

When your compiler knows what to compile without giving it arguments, and when the operating system knows what artifact to run without having to tell it.

Don’t move buttons from under the mouse.

Thanks @The2lb3oz4dr10grOfHedgehogs for the video

#Popup #Calendar #Stability

Reading @j-g00da's comics via @jn's zine viewer on Uxn. Fits the medium like a glove.
https://codeberg.org/neuschaefer/dreams/releases
https://kamiokan.de/

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A page from the comics #14

Very cool!

An NES homebrew ROM showing live ADSB aircraft traffic, fed over serial through controller port 2 on real NES hardware. A companion app does the networking the NES can't, then streams it to the NES.

https://github.com/k6lcm/nes-radar

#Nintendo #NES #RetroComputing #RetroGaming

I am seriously considering switching back from Neovim to nvi. I constantly vacillate between the richness and bloat of Neovim and the scarcity and minimalism of nvi. Sure, Neovim does have some nice features. But is it worth this huge increase in complexity? The size of Neovim's codebase is probably like 20 times that of nvi's, while its benefits seem rather marginal to me (based on my way of using it - your mileage may vary).

We always add, add, add instead of subtract, subtract, subtract...

#Neovim #vi #minimalism

█▓▒░ 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗢⬩𝟭𝗞 𝗝𝗔𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 ░▒▓█
🌐 https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2026
WHAT?
👨‍💻 Make #Pico8 (or #Picotron) Games/Demos/Tools in ≤ 1KB
WHEN?
📅 SEP 1ˢᵗ-30ᵗʰ 2026
Hope to see you at #Pico1k jam! 🤓

#GameJam #Demoscene #TweetCart #Sizecoding

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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The EU can now be the primary home for Fastmail data.

basically, my meter shows the net value across all phases, while the electric company counts import and export separately and charges for both. so instead of having almost zero import, the actual import was much higher...

trying to configure my inverter to balance the phases better

exported over one mwh at peak hours. can't wait for the next electricity bill... :)

#solarpunk

More surreal rendering tests for #picotron 0.3.1, this time with tline3d textures x colour tables. Notes and gif:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=193908#p

like = you run it on server
boost = you run it on desktop/laptop :)

❤️

blast from the past

#technomage #openbsd #windows #comic

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girl is stuck in a windows logo fish :remind me what i told you about windows." girl: "they are containers for graphical interfaces?" fish: "dont get clever with me, girl"

spleen is the default typeface on #openbsd ...

cc: @RussSharek@mastodon.art

"coding is solved" they said
"use AI" they said

me working on OpenBSD writing C: dead software walking
https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/dead-software-walking-relayd-and-httpd/

Checking that quad boundaries join up with no holes or overlaps. This one kind of reminds me of a colour plate from an 80s siggraph paper. #picotron

Apple keeps releasing new and more expensive hardware that folks want us to support but we can't even afford to buy the new stuff ourselves to test it on.

I mean.. my iPad is an M1. My iPhone is still a 14. And my Mac is an M1 Max. So... I'm a few years behind over here across the board.

Now there's talk of a foldable iPhone? I'll probably need a second mortgage for it which wouldn't be a good idea because I don't know if selling apps will even survive another year.

The math isn't mathing.

I know I shouldn't be surprised that it just works as is, but still cool, I can build compile uxn binaries directly inside dos.

wcl -bt=dos -ml -fe=bin/uxnmol.exe src/uxnmol.c

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/uxnmol.c.txt
#uxn

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Compiling a uxn binary with drifblim.

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Running mandelbrot

📢 EuroBSDCon2026: The Schedule is Here! 😈⛳️🐡

The schedule is now published!!
You can find it at: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

Grab your tickets 🎟️ at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

For everything else, peek at https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #Conference #Register

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Cutout of the EuroBSDCon 2026 banner. Comic like drawing. First panel has a butler serving a nice Belgium beer. There are two speech bubbles. 1. ...we find this? 2. Etterbeek, Sir. The second panel has Manneken Pis doing his thing.

cons

• the window is a bit farther away
• a little more noise from the inverters

• more space
• all my tools are here
• this is where i spend most of my day anyway
• the old office is now a guest room :)

d_d

Everything I Know About Making Art On The Computer I Learned From @prahou.
https://triapul.cz/automa/i_did_not_kill_stanley_lieber
https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
#occ2026

Five years ago(as of June 8th), I decided to give up on Acme and make my own text-editor. The plan was to make something I'd use for the rest of my life, improve it as I went along. It was to be written in this new language, and my list of ideas for it included a ton of extremely bizarre UX choices I hadn't really tested for my own. But if we ignore the more quirky esoteric things about it, there was two pretty simple choices made for it:

Undo depth: zero.
Largest file: 64kb minus the editor's own size.

Undo is probably the easiest one to understand. As you'd expect, some other mechanism emerged to take its place, I wouldn't just let it eat up my work each time I made a mistake. What ended up replacing it was being able to append and cut off chunks of snarf buffers, when I have something I might want to keep, I push it the top of the snarf file. When I'm satisfied with the change, I pop it off, or add something else on top. This has served me well enough, I figured that if I ever needed undo I might add it, but the occasion never came!

As of today, Left sits at 17677 bytes, which means I can edit a file, at most, a 45kb long file. This turned out to be less of an issue than I expected, mostly it made it so I split projects into chunks, but more importantly, it means that every single byte of the editor has to be accounted for. If I add something, I know its cost and the cost is directly making for a worse editor. This has been a constant force of optimization and code hygiene over the years.

https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
#occ2026

Seeing the Linux TTY on this is so funny to me

#nownownow

A new MNT Pocket Reform mini laptop variant with Quasar 6490 (Qualcomm QCS6490) processor module (8GB RAM / 128GB UFS) preinstalled is now available in our shop: https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-reform

Enjoy!

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screenshot of the MNT Pocket Reform shop page with the QCS6490/8GB RAM/128GB UFS option selected in a dropdown

just took some pictures of the new MNT Pocket Keyboard (small standalone USB-C keyboard with integrated optical trackball and RGB backlight) that's coming to our shop at some point next week. the case is a mix of aluminum (top plate) and Multi Jet Fusion printed Nylon (HP PA 12 S). in my opinion it feels really nice in the hands. open source hardware, of course.

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overview of a black/gray MNT Pocket Keyboard with a fancy aluminum/silicone usb cable plugged in

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overview of a black/gray MNT Pocket Keyboard, with a human hand touching it from the right side to get a sense of scale

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top view of a black/gray MNT Pocket Keyboard, showing the USB-C cable port. and cyan backlights. the keyboard can balance on its sides

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back side of the keyboard, showing the texture of the gray HP nylon material. this photo is edited slightly because the logo was off-center in the print.

• #protectli vp2430 with #openbsd
• #projectaudio dac box s2+
• #tonefactory amp s
• #tonefactory speaker l
• #logitec pebble 2 combo
• #samsung frame tv
  

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  line diagram of my media player setup: tv, openbsd server, dac, stereo amplifier, speakers, keyboard, mouse

need to find something or write a little wrapper for ffplay

current setup:

openbsd -- usb dac -- amp -- speakers
openbsd -- hdmi tv

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dac box s2+

I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front)

The penultimate paper on paint(1) and the 9front art machine.

https://triapul.cz/automa/i_did_not_kill_stanley_lieber

#unix_surrealism #plan9 #9front #art #guide #computers #oldcomputerchallenge

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poster for "I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front)" there's some characters or something, I can't tell

We really appreciate the work done on the TLS settings in relayd(8) and httpd(8).

It makes it even easier to get a tried and tested secure connection to your favorite OS and service!

"Both relayd(8) and httpd(8) now have the "secure" list of allowed crypto methods for HTTPS, which include TLSv1.3 and the TLSv1.2 AEAD cipher suites.

The previous list was "HIGH:!aNULL" which contain non-perfect-forward-security methods and this change may cause old clients to not be able to connect."

Source: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260629165750

Hat Tip to @sizeofvoid and others!

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD

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Meme of "The Most Interesting Man in the World" is an advertising campaign for Dos Equis beer featuring actor Jonathan Goldsmith as a bearded, debonair older gentleman with voiceovers that were both humorous and outrageous. It has the text: I don't always tip, but when I do, it's my hat. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Interesting_Man_in_the_World

WIP doodlemud for #picotron
(you can turn into a ball whenever you like)

it's easy to script everything. wrote a script to download the latest version of routeros and upgrade all my mikrotik devices: routers, modems, access points (via capsman)

and when you need gui then winbox is amazing too. nice solid ui and it's only getting better over time

Created a bunch of simple #plan9 example projects!
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/plan9_c.html

peak I think, 5859 bytes
#Catjam

now considering good old woodworking instead...
any good cnc machines that can produce small parts?

Close enough
#pico8

pretty much all other code i ever wrote is long gone

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eurobsd banner

I've got nothing.

20 new VMs were added and 46 VMs were renewed.

We donated €890 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €67645 (!!) since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay cool, safe, healthy & sane!

#RUNBSD in 2026

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Milton, Office Space, in his cubicle looking into the distance, with the text: I've got nothing" Source: Meme Generator

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Paypal receipt for €890

• hdmi (video) - tv
• usb (audio) - dac - amp - speakers

• idle: 10-15 w
• everything on (incl tv): 70-100 w

it detects the intel hd audio and attaches azalia(4), but only the internal realtek alc257 codec is found.

there is no hdmi audio codec, no audio1, and mixerctl -a only shows the internal speaker/headphone outputs. the external display works over hdmi, but there is no way to select hdmi audio because no hdmi audio device is detected.

is hdmi audio expected to work with openbsd 7.9? if it should work, are there any additional diagnostics steps i should try?

kudos to deltahedra ❤️

i just want to replace it with a few scripts and plain text logs. feels like all i need is to fetch price and weather forecasts and pull/push some modbus registers...

what do you use for your smart homes?

similar to this setup, but with a trackpad not a mouse...

any ideas?

cc @joel@tumfatig.net

now i'm looking for m.2 modules (lte/5g and wifi ap) compatible with #openbsd. any recommendations?

It rained tropically all day yesterday, so we didn't wander the woods, I stayed in and worked on my little OpenFirmware-inspired operating system.

It's capable enough that I've added it to uxn11 and uxn2, accessible with F4. A perfect little tool bounce in and out of roms, set a screen size for roms that don't, rename/delete files, peek at metadata, etc..

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/m_pc

next up: build own micro-grid and automate export to the grid based on price and weather forecasts

#solarpunk

i was thinking about a rowing machine for long time, but was not sure if there is enough space for it in my tiny home gym. this end up very well: rowerg is quite compact and light.

it's not as fun as running outdoors, but there are many pros for me:

• it shows my current heart rate in big digits (it supports garmin watch and heart rate monitor)
• works in any weather (winters are quite icy here for running every day, also there are no bears, wolves, or lynxes indoors)
• helps to do cardio more consistently (rowing is easier to start, no need to carry my phone, keys, head lamp, etc)
• perfect for full body warm up before lifing weights

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c2 rowerg

#nownownow

so far we've presold 12x MNT Quasar 6490 modules, that's 50% of what we need to kick off the first batch. feel free to send me some promo ideas. should i make a video showing the general performance? who would be your favorite reviewer for the Quasar Pocket Reform?

see also
unix: a history and a memoir by brian kernighan

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summary--what's most important. to put my strongest concerns in a nutshell: 1. we should have some ways of coupling programs like garden hose--screw in another segment when it becomes necessary to massage data in another way