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Wesley Moore
@wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social
mastodon 4.7.3Programmer that's likes tinkering, and collecting unfinished projects.
Follow me for Casuarina/Chimera Linux, Rust, electronics, 3D printing, photography, classic Macintosh, and other random computer stuff.
🌏 Sunshine Coast, Australia
On the Fediverse Since: 2017
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Joined January 24, 2023
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Oh @bapt@mastodon.social is working on a proper service manager with dependency tracking and process supervision for FreeBSD. Service definitions use the UCL format already used elsewhere on the system. The project is called rcd: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2026-June/006427.html
After using launchd on macOS, then systemd on Linux, and now dinit on Chimera LInux I think this model is definitely the way too go. (I'm aware SMF on Solaris pre-dates these, but I've not used it)
I had a very exciting sighting on my walk tonight: a Sugar Glider! 
Something flew over me, which I thought was a bird or bat, but then it scuttled up a tree and peered back at me.
We've heard their call but never seen one before. This is the first I've ever seen in the wild.
#WildOz #SugarGlider
Something flew over me, which I thought was a bird or bat, but then it scuttled up a tree and peered back at me.
We've heard their call but never seen one before. This is the first I've ever seen in the wild.
#WildOz #SugarGliderAn inquisitive Butcherbird swooped down from the trees and observed us having lunch. It was no doubt hoping for an offering, but left empty-handed.
Wattle season.
#BloomScrolling
Solo
Some soft retro vibes from the Brightinstar 35mm and FujiFilm Classic Chrome film simulation. From a trip to Caloundra this morning.
Full album on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wezm/albums/72177720334861056
I noticed the tell-tale signs in the grass when mowing yesterday, so set up the trail camera. I was not disappointed, we have a visiting Bandicoot again!
Bandicoot in Garden
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They have fun cat plates too.
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Partially inspired by https://norden.social/@hart/116428906846020645
I think we have an Antechinus living in our garden.
😩 ok that's enough social media for one morning. Time to step away.
Fun one for Australians:
https://payphonetag.com/
"A real-world territory capture game played on public payphones. Register, get a PIN, find a payphone, call in, and claim it. Build triangles between captured phones to control territory and climb the leaderboard."
(note that pay phones no longer actually involve paying, as they're free to use)
/via the @sizzle@aus.social #PayphoneTag
How is this an actual UI in an operating system shipped to millions of people‽
If anyone knows how to turn off the stupid banana when viewing images in the Messages app on Android I'd love to know.
**Edit:** Trying the Right Messages app as a replacement for Google Messages.
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@emenel/116517272057997355
So many other distros they could work with, but chose that one.
My reward for getting both our printers working on Casuarina today. No thanks to Xprinter (my label printer manufacturer) for distributing their driver as a rar file with a .deb inside. Which meant `rar` -> `deb` -> data.tar.xz -> finally PPDs and filter binaries. That was fun to package.
Enjoyed lunch in Esk on a 67 year old table with some avian visitors.
In Nov 2024 a popular cafe in town closed due to increasing financial pressures, culminating in "a significant rent hike". The space they were in has remained empty to this day. I hope the greedy landlord is happy with their actions. It brings me a bit of dark satisfaction to know they have received zero rent in that time.
TIL that Exif metadata is actually well-formed TIFF and as a result can use big or little endian (because TIFF supports that).
https://binspector.github.io/blog/2014/10/13/big-trouble-in-little-endian/
Also explains this output from `file` too: `Exif Standard: [TIFF image data, big-endian, direntries=12…`
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@jacqueline great post. Would read again
I patiently awaited the arrival of Fedora 44, as they had put work into a better out of the box experience on Snapdragon X ARM laptops². I tried it over the weekend… and it didn't work. First I had to discover that you have to manually edit the kernel command line in grub¹ to have any chance of it booting, but even after multiple attempts it never got further than a few systemd boot messages. So the Yoga 7x goes back in the corner again.
¹ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Snapdragon_WoA_Laptop_Install
² https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-ARM-OOTB
Re: https://bitbang.social/@CursiveHello/116487007762641142
I like what GNOME Console (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console) does with the cursor. It blinks for a few seconds after movement ends. Then stops blinking until something moves it again.
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@decryption@aus.social they had a perfectly good icon with iPhoto too. It captured both the camera and photo.
TIL via the @oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io and Friends podcast that ZFS contains a Lua interpreter that runs in-kernel.
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/8/zfs-program.8.html
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@decryption @camwilson Welcome back, and congrats to Cam on the ABC role. You spoke of being a bit tired of the Sizzle when handing it over, I hope the break has been refreshing. Did something similar in 2023: left my job, but was asked if I'd like to come back 5 months later and I'm still there.
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@testman the same for a floppy disk would work well too.
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@MostlyHarmless yeah it's a toss up between neck and back. Have you used the operating system that generated this dialog? Yes → verified.
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@decryption indeed.
"We can't allow this site and then not others as we need to be consistent."
I don't get this. It's not a democracy, it's their own site with their own rules. Seems easy to either explicitly grant Gough the privilege of linking to his own site or say anyone can link to their own content if it's high value and not shameless self-promotion.
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@nrmacdonald @testman ok you got me there. I wouldn't have known what that was without the alt text.
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@doekman just gotta install it ;-)
$ doas apk add age The following NEW packages will be installed: age age-man Need to download 4774 KiB of packages. After this operation, 21.5 MiB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (1/2) Installing age (1.3.1-r1) (2/2) Installing age-man (1.3.1-r1) Executing mandoc-apropos-1.14.6-r6.trigger
- Regenerating man db... OK: 7597.5 MiB in 1562 packages $ which age /usr/bin/age
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@tj@howse.social I just tried this. It's brilliant!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ccgus/116461176971104950
"There’s something here about how it’s developed that I can’t quite put my finger on, but it feels … good?
I think it’s the speed. There’s no needless animations. Things just flow. It’s fast fast fast and the tables scroll at 60fps on my M1 Mac."
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@decryption what a fail on OzBargain's part.
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@librekitty@unredacted.social unfortunate :(
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@roadskater yep definitely upset something stretching when getting up. Also sleeping wrong and waking up with a sore neck 😭
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@pjf lol this so good! The track and the video.
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@cliffle huh, I would have thought the Linux option would have lasted longer. My current S0ix only machines can barely go 12 hours, compared to previous S3 supporting models that were able to go a few days. What a mess.
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@hailey@hails.org I'm surprised that the CPU would not already clock up when opening an application in Windows. Surely that constant CPU demand would make it run at full speed. I guess not.
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@ireneista this is all I've been able to find about Yes and No so far.
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@tj@howse.social a blessing and a curse 😅
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@uncomfyhalomacro@fosstodon.org who/what sent you the email? I could probably use something like this.
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@k0w0m4n yes, another fine choice.
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@dpk wasn't sure how to do it with Ok, and Cancel
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@uncomfyhalomacro@fosstodon.org ahh, cool