Combat Unicorn @kurtm@bsd.network
Long-time #OpenBSD user, now OpenBSD developer. Formerly Systems Administrator at a university. Struggles with: ADHD, anxiety, depression, burnout
"You just ruined art, Kurt." -sng
"This is why I go to galleries alone." -Pamela
"Kurt just takes all the fun out of burglary, right here." -Michael W Lucas
"You Ruined Speedometers" -Pamela
#nobot
Joined Jan 2018
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If you decide to follow me because I like OpenBSD or write tips about vi, be warned:
I believe:
-CoCs are good
-LGBTQA folks are awesome and deserve rights just like any of us
-Women and minorities have been screwed in tech and we need to fix it
-Nazis deserve punching
-As a white dude, if you/I get called out on something we did, the best response is to apologize and stop talking
-Meritocracies aren't
If you take issue with any of these statements, this place is not for you.
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Stopping git naming the first branch "master":
reducto$ git config --global init.templateDir ~/.config/git/template
reducto$ mkdir -p ~/.config/git/template
reducto$ echo "ref: refs/heads/main" > ~/.config/git/template/HEAD
reducto$ mkdir newRepo
reducto$ cd newRepo/
reducto$ git init
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/kurt/newRepo/.git/
reducto$ git status
On branch main
No commits yet
nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
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I know that @pamela drew this to shut me up, but it's *great*!
Flying fin is best fin. 
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Warning - feels and tears
This is an unbelievably touching little story.
https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/185655991846/threefeline-corancoranthemagicalman
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vi tips - Exiting vi
First, just hit the Escape key for good measure before any of these. If you are in an insert mode it will exit it, and if you're not it doesn't hurt (except for maybe making a beep).
:q
-Quit, unless I changed the file
:q!
- Quit. Now. Discard any changes.
:x
-Write the file if it changed, and then quit
ZZ
-Write the file if it changed, and then quit
:wq
-Write the file and then quit
(Feels wrong to capitalize vi, but trying to help screen readers)
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Was DB Cooper a trans woman in boymode, who used all the money, gambling in Reno, by 1977, and spent the rest of her life as a quiet librarian who loved to fly and skydive until 2002?
https://www.mentalfloss.com/crime/woman-who-might-have-been-db-cooper
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git blame, or as they say in france, g'accuse
subtoot about no one here
"Welcome to my space. I want it to feel safe and for everyone to feel welcome."
*me builds up camraderie with community*
Loop:
*troll comes in*
*troll behaves badly*
*troll gets warned*
*troll behaves badly still*
*troll gets muted temporarily*
GOTO Loop
Me: "Is there a reason this troll hasn't been banned like other trolls?"
Host: "They act like this in my friend's channel too and she hasn't banned then. This is my channel. You can get bent."
Ok then.
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kurt: no I had some peaches
me: did you have millions of them?
kurt: no I didn't have that many
me: ... that joke I just made was thirty years old
kurt: I brought you cherries and you depressed me?!
Willy went outside.
He loved to breathe fresh air
But he went outside anyway
-The Story of Willy
King Missile
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Tech CEOs should be asked if they want to be waterboarded. Their options are “Yes” and “Later.”
In case you aren't sure if the AI hype is 100% bullshit, just look at how accurate the generated captions are on videos?
Also: We're supposed to trust computers to drive cars when they can't properly translate audio to words? I'm not even talking tricky homonyms or the like. The captions still miss basic shit.
Why are spellcheck lists so woefully incomplete? What, we can spare gigabytes for bullshit, but not a few bytes for a more complete spellcheck dictionary? 
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Please boost my shameless posts for pizza, rent, & ThinkPads. 
I could use some help, friends. I'd really appreciate sharing. 
If you can help out with the occasional pizza, that would really mean a lot to me. Monthly gifts would take care of a lot of my financial stress/anxiety as well.
https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQJC48GUPB3UU&source=url
Progress: $557 / $2500 CAD (monthly goal)
If you aren't able help with PayPal, I have an Amazon .ca wishlist with some odds & ends, computer hardware: https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2E7N6O3GTI6JF?sort=custom
(Native SegWit): bc1qzkchnc25yeqt9p24edsu5ln0mvh8hqdzdznlk2
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Authenticity Problem
Bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/064.html#bonus
It was so thoughtful for Brett Goldstein and Jason Sudeikis to get @pamela and I a new season of Ted Lasso for our 20th Anniversary.
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Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260804054218 #openbsd #vmm #vmd #virtualization #virtualmachines #testing #newcode #development #security #freesoftware #libresoftware
The whole "smash or pass" thing gives the Incredible Hulk a _very_ different vibe.
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I just saw a video of an AI executive saying that people will connect their brains to the cloud so they can have 1,000 times more thoughts.
Neurotypical people. Please listen to me. I promise you, with all the ADHD in my body-
You really do not want 1,000 more thoughts.
You may think you do, but you extremely do not.
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Support for the loongson platform has been retired in #OpenBSD -current and has now been unhooked from the build. 7.9 is the last release for this platform.
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Help test OpenSSH 10.4 ahead of its release: https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=178278879685375
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Chuck Schumer
"See! Today's Supreme Court news shows that the system works! SCOTUS stands up to Trump! Vote for me for more leadership!"
Also Chuck Schumer
"🤔These Dem Socialists keep winning! But how?"
Still Chuck Schumer
"Damn! These kids are on my neck! They want me gone! What'd I do to them?"
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Three days fighting Rust in CMake so KDE Plasma 6.7 can land in OpenBSD ports, then back to httpd & relayd. My g2k26 hackathon writeup: https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/g2k26-netherlands-openbsd-hackathon/
re: minecraft, trivia answer
Magma Cube
I knew this because I had just dealt with this in a tunnel I made in the nether.
Got "That was a really fast answer" XD
Long-time #OpenBSD user, now OpenBSD developer. Formerly Systems Administrator at a university. Struggles with: ADHD, anxiety, depression, burnout
"You just ruined art, Kurt." -sng
"This is why I go to galleries alone." -Pamela
"Kurt just takes all the fun out of burglary, right here." -Michael W Lucas
"You Ruined Speedometers" -Pamela
#nobot
Joined Jan 2018
