Profile for rl_dane
- Display name
- R.L. Dane
- Username
- @rl_dane@polymaths.social
About rl_dane
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- Check out my blog! :D
- https://rldane.space
- My scripts
- https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts
- Pronouns
- he/him/my good fellow
- Politics
- justice and mercy
- Faith
- Christian, but not the angry, cringey, tragically hilariously oblivious kind
- My alts:
- @rl_dane (former alt account, now migrated here), @rl_dane (BSD.Cafe #snac server), @rl_dane (Pixelfed), @RL_Dane (bookwyrm)
- Mood
- Snarky, but kind
Bio
My blog: https://rldane.space/
My scripts: https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts
#Fediversian since late 2018, full-time #fediholic since early 2022.
First-wave #twexodee.
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Imported profile from fosstodon:
Involuntary time-traveler, recipient of offensive grace. Quasi-technical Linux and FOSS enthusiast. Armchair privacy advocate
Profile pic is my own, copyright me.
Header image courtesy of NASA: https://unsplash.com/photos/Q1p7bh3SHj8
My #interests:
#StarWars
#StarTrek
#Linux
#UNIX
#Bible
#Christianity
#Jesus
#AmateurRadio
#Bash
#Dallas
#Writing
#Poetry
#Space
#KSP
#Tea
#FountainPens
#Journaling
#TabletopRPG
#RetroComputing
#ClassicMac
#uxn
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Lady at church has a hoodie on that says "I HOPE YOU KNOW HOW LOVED YOU ARE" on the back.
Somebody gets it. 🥹
As long as you know an awk from a henshaw. ;)
I DID IT. I AM THE MELANCHOLY DANE!!!
IT ONLY TOOK ME THREE YEARS TO INCORPORATE A HAMLET JOKE INTO MY TOOTS!!
HOLY FREAKING COW, LADS!!!! 🤣
@stefano @gabe_saltar @lcruggeri @as400 @justine
Now I'm pondering the alternate reality where I didn't spill tea all over my beloved MacBook Air in 2019. I wonder how long I would've continued daily driving MacOS. The hardware would've been supported by Apple until 2021, but I wouldn't have been motivated to buy a new one at that point.
I guess I'm glad the events worked out the way they did.
I have a hard time relating too much to me-from-ten-years-ago that happily used Google Chrome, Google Drive, and typed all his notes in Microsoft Word. 😝
- Loads #Fediverse notifications
- @Tusky whimpers
- Phone bursts into flames
- Spacetime folds in on itself
- I'm playing Pasur with Dave Bowman in the hotel room at the end of time
- The unnerving space fetus is keeping score
- Captain Picard's 42 palms are simultaneously placed on his forehead
- The universe is singing its song to me:
"Oooolwayyyz look on the broight soide of loife....!"
@twizzay, I feel this toot was worthy of you.
P.S., You know, I think I'll make a point of posting random #doodles from now on!
As it is also his birthday, I cannot let it pass without also honoring his memory. He would have been 18 today. (Ok, that breaks my brain a little 😅)
To my dear #FloofSon Hobbes. My very own Puss in Boots. 😸💗
Gen Alpha musicians be like,
🎼 "It don't mean a SHIZ if it ain't got that RIZZ! SKIBIDISKIBIDISKIBIDISKIBIDISKIBIDI!!" 🎶🎶🎶
"Ok, roll."
"What am I rolling for?"
"A spell."
"But I'm not trying to cast a spell."
"I know. Roll anyway."
"Ok, there."
"Excellent! You cast UNCONTROLLABLE CRYING."
"WHAT?!? Why in the world would I cast that? I mean, I know how I'm feeling right now, I want to cast CONQUER FOES, DESTROY EVIL, END INJUSTICE, or heck, UNLIMITED BOON AT RANGE. I mean, if I'm casting anything right now, it should be BERSERKER RAGE AT SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE!!"
"Sorry, but you cast UNCONTROLLABLE CRYING."
"WHY!??"
"Give me another roll."
"FINE. There."
"You look it up your spell book, and apparently, UNCONTROLLABLE CRYING is the normal response to really awful world events when you still have a heart and soul."
"Huh. Dang. So... no BERSERKER RAGE AT SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE?"
"Not without trading in your soul."
"Ok, I guess I'll keep it."
#ShortStory #FediShortStory #ThisIsWhy500CharactersIsntEnough #StoryTime #StoryTellers #DND #D&D #RPG #TTRPG
I got a new fedi account!
I will be posting occasionally on/as @RL_Dane, exclusively in #Esperanto.
Nothing there yet, but I'm warming up to it. 😄
"To achieve a stable flight without the need for fins, the rocket's heavy motor was located at the top, fed by lines from liquid oxygen and gasoline fuel tanks at the bottom."
Umm, actually, no. That's not how that works. That's what he intended to have happen, and it sounds like common sense, but this is actually the classic #PendulumFallacy of #rocketry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket#Pendulum_rocket_fallacy
Date: 2026 March 28
URL: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260328.html
Title: Robert Goddard and Nell
(No disrespect intended to Mr. Goddard. He was an epic pioneer, and the very best of us learn by making mistakes and analyzing the outcome to learn from them.)
I don't much like #WebMail, and I like #Google even less, but I gotta say that #Gmail's new Subscription manager is a game-changer.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sub
Gmail is no longer my primary email provider (thankfully), and I'm more than happy to pay out of my own pocket for email hosted by a reputable company, but I still have work email and my personal "junk drawer" email accounts hosted by the "don't be evil, lol" company. ;)
lol, not moody at all, #Duolingo
(Don't knock me for using AI-Lingo, I'm not giving them any money. 🤪)
lol we've reached peak webdev, gents. ;)
Any thoughts on #CreditKarma or alternatives out there?
I used to like using it, but now that it's owned by Intuit (a company I despise), I'd rather look for alternatives, or just do without. XD
I remember in the olden days, before iCloud was much of a thing, the Notes app in MacOS and iOS would sync to your email account, so they were always in sync, and even somewhat viewable from your ordinary email client, IIRC.
Just curious, in case something happens to #SimpleNote or my favorite client, #sncli, is there a cross-platform solution for syncing notes with email? Something that can work on #Android, #GUI, and #TUI/command-line?
Being able to browse most full websites and even YouTube (via invidious) on the terminal, with images still feels so wizard to me. XD
#TIL you can get amazing deals with your ISP if you call to disonnect.
Like, lady, what you're offering is amazing, but I've already switched. XD
Ooof, I forgot that #knäckebröd expands in your stomach.
Not something you want to just inhale, even though it's really tasty and crunchy.
Silly me grew upon American "toast," that has about as much substance as, well, our cable news.
Ow. Urp. Ow.
Sure, #Android, suuuuuuure... 🤦🏻♂️🤣
Added "bsky.social" to my #filters.
Just kind of tired of people implicitly bridging the #fediverse with that poser corporate network. :P
Just a gentle reminder to go have a nice day at the park this July 4th ;)
(We won't have another Saturday July 4th for 11 years)
rld@Intrepid:~$ for x in {1970..2099}; do cal july $x |grep -q "^ *1 2 3 4 *$" && echo $x; done
1970
1981
1987
1992
1998
2009
2015
2020
2026
2037
2043
2048
2054
2065
2071
2076
2082
2093
2099
rld@Intrepid:~$
cc: @amin
P.S., interestingly, it follows a repeating pattern of 11, 6, 5, 6:
rld@Intrepid:~$ y=0; for x in 1970 1981 1987 1992 1998 2009 2015 2020 2026 2037 2043 2048 2054 2065 2071 2076 2082 2093 2099; do ((y!=0)) && echo $((x-y)); y=$x; done
11
6
5
6
11
6
5
6
11
6
5
6
11
6
5
6
11
6
rld@Intrepid:~$
It seems that's the pattern for all repeating calendars. I tried the same with January, and it had the same pattern.
I'm increasingly convinced that my #FloofDaughter's love language is "You stay over there, and I'll deign to be in the same room as you." 😽
