Ruben Schade 🔰 🇦🇺 @rubenerd@bsd.network

📌 Another post I’m going to pin:

If you started following me, I’d love to know why! Please ping me and say hi, it makes my day :).

Took all weekend, but finally got the desk sorted! I have the 32-bit corner, the current corner, and the 8-bit corner!

The nest of upscaler, KVM, and input selector cables is truly horrifying. But it all works!

We’re looking at moving into somewhere bigger soon, so we can have a proper “computer lab”. But super happy for this for now :’)

(And 16-bit stuff like an Amiga or Atari 1040ST would be incredible, but also no space right now!)

#retrocomputing #hashtags

I'm copying my pinned post from Twitter which reminds me of fun times with lovely people. I'd just left an AsiaBSDCon dinner with everyone in Tokyo:

#FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD? :'D

Hey, you. Yes, you! Have you bought @brynet a pizza yet? You should, he's awesome.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

Feeling so vindicated for thinking that Harry Potter was a bit rubbish when I was a kid.

I’ve decided to spend more time talking about and sharing things that are awesome.

FreeBSD is especially awesome for storage and hypervisors.

NetBSD is especially awesome for anything old and small, but can still grow with you.

Xen is especially awesome as a Linux hypervisor.

Tribblix is an awesome illumos OS, not just for those nostalgic for Solaris tooling.

OM System (ne. Olympus) still make especially awesome fun cameras.

Coffee is especially awesome for taste and alertness.

FLAC, turns out, is especially awesome when your ears have been fixed up.

This is a non-exhaustive list.

Fingers crossed for @decryption and @beau who’s Qantas flights were both just cancelled. Fun! :/

Getting a lot of spam claiming to be Anthropic saying my Claude subscription is expiring, and to renew my payment details.

It’s obviously a scam, but if you use Claude, your security posture is already compromised, so maybe it’s genius targeting.

Wild electrical storm out of nowhere, and within minutes power is out in the whole neighbourhood. At least AusGrid send the advisory SMSs out quickly 🥲 #sydney

Been on back-to-back calls for almost five hours. Pray for Mojo.

Writing scripts for the BSDs makes one keenly aware of cross-compatibility. I'll aim for POSIX(ish), then when behaviour deviates (cough GNU), I'll write a basic case statement to handle other platforms.

It... really isn't hard? But most scripts thesedays just assume Linux.

This is the *forth* time AGL has tried to bill us for a disconnected gas line. Once again, asked them to provide evidence of a signed contract, and gave them our disconnection notice from Jemena. Le sigh.

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Confirmed a real conversation, not a phishing attempt.