{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":9,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl","displayName":"Dr.  Matt Lee (1800www.com)","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/115062-original-tmp20230427013907.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/115062-96-20230427013907.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/115062-48-20230427013907.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/115062-24-20230427013907.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"115062"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/115062-96-20230427013907.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Public figure\/idiot. Old UNIX, TV, Music, OldHammer, Mantic, Amstrad CPC, open source, monkey movies, Skeletor sings TMBG.  Blocking people talking about GenAI and LLM stuff every day. he\/him. New England Aquarium\/Cyberspace\/Cyberslice.","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mattl","displayName":"Dr.  Matt Lee (1800www.com)","note":"Public figure\/idiot. Old UNIX, TV, Music, OldHammer, Mantic, Amstrad CPC, open source, monkey movies, Skeletor sings TMBG.  Blocking people talking about GenAI and LLM stuff every day. he\/him. New England Aquarium\/Cyberspace\/Cyberslice."}},"content":"RT @mattl @vwbusguy @brouhaha @mattl based fedora user and respecter of other Linux distros \ud83d\ude0e ty for using Fedora for so long!","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl\/statuses\/114996424520384208\/activity","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991841799241295","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha\" class=\"u-url mention\">@brouhaha<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a><\/p><p>To be clear, I still respect Debian to this day.  They have some truly incredible community members.  Most of my personal raspberry pi stuff still runs some manner of Debian.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991841799241295","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-08-08:objectType=thread:nonce=566c4aa06b1fc371","notice_info":{"local_id":"10740718","source":"ActivityPub","repeat_of":"10740716"}},"published":"2025-08-09T02:23:40+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"title":"mattl repeated a notice by vwbusguy","verb":"share","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl\/statuses\/114996424520384208\/activity"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/brouhaha","displayName":"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 haxadecimal 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#Verilog #SDR (SW Defined Radio)#retrocomputing#nonpareil HP calculator simulation at #microcode levelMaker (with John Doran) of #NixieTube #RPN #calculatorCHM PDP-1 Restoration Teamcis maleatheistDamned dirty apeNot a tame programmerSome assembly requiredNo user serviceable parts inside","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"brouhaha","displayName":"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 haxadecimal \ud83d\udeab\ud83d\udc51","note":"Proud to be Antifa, like my grandfather, who was killed fighting fascism in WWII, and was posthumously awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.#microcontroller #firmware #C #CPlusPlus#FPGA #VHDL #Verilog #SDR (SW Defined Radio)#retrocomputing#nonpareil HP calculator simulation at #microcode levelMaker (with John Doran) of #NixieTube #RPN #calculatorCHM PDP-1 Restoration Teamcis maleatheistDamned dirty apeNot a tame programmerSome assembly requiredNo user serviceable parts inside"}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\" class=\"u-url mention\">@vwbusguy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a> <br \/>I was worried when Red Hat announced that their non-enterprise distribution was going to become the community-driven Fedora, but it's worked out amazingly well.<br \/>If I didn't use Fedora, I'd probably use Debian.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/brouhaha\/statuses\/114991776390263406","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/brouhaha\/statuses\/114991776390263406","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\" class=\"u-url mention\">@vwbusguy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a> <br \/>I was worried when Red Hat announced that their non-enterprise distribution was going to become the community-driven Fedora, but it's worked out amazingly well.<br \/>If I didn't use Fedora, I'd probably use Debian.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha\/114991776390263406","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991572315993413","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991572315993413"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-08-08:objectType=thread:nonce=566c4aa06b1fc371","notice_info":{"local_id":"10740713","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-08-09T02:23:30+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social 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powers for good or for awesome?Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views\/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast.  Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22Hoosier currently living in California. Pixelfed: @vwbusguyVideo game talk: @vwbusguy","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"vwbusguy","displayName":"Scott Williams \ud83d\udc27","note":"Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views\/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast.  Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22Hoosier currently living in California. Pixelfed: @vwbusguyVideo game talk: @vwbusguy"}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a> Nice! Fedora Core 4 was where I truly started my Linux journey.  I remember literally staying up all night until the dawn getting ndiswrapper setup so wifi could work.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991572315993413","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991572315993413","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a> Nice! Fedora Core 4 was where I truly started my Linux journey.  I remember literally staying up all night until the dawn getting ndiswrapper setup so wifi could work.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991572315993413","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl\/statuses\/114991499152024523","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\/114991499152024523"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-08-08:objectType=thread:nonce=566c4aa06b1fc371","notice_info":{"local_id":"10740712","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-08-09T02:23:30+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991572315993413"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy","displayName":"Scott Williams \ud83d\udc27","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8597-original-tmp20220904063727.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8597-96-20220904063727.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8597-48-20220904063727.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8597-24-20220904063727.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"8597"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8597-96-20220904063727.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views\/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast.  Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22Hoosier currently living in California. Pixelfed: @vwbusguyVideo game talk: @vwbusguy","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"vwbusguy","displayName":"Scott Williams \ud83d\udc27","note":"Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views\/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast.  Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22Hoosier currently living in California. Pixelfed: @vwbusguyVideo game talk: @vwbusguy"}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha\" class=\"u-url mention\">@brouhaha<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a><\/p><p>To be clear, I still respect Debian to this day.  They have some truly incredible community members.  Most of my personal raspberry pi stuff still runs some manner of Debian.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991841799241295","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991841799241295","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha\" class=\"u-url mention\">@brouhaha<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a><\/p><p>To be clear, I still respect Debian to this day.  They have some truly incredible community members.  Most of my personal raspberry pi stuff still runs some manner of Debian.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991841799241295","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991826523960504","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991826523960504"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/brouhaha"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-08-08:objectType=thread:nonce=566c4aa06b1fc371","notice_info":{"local_id":"10740716","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-08-09T02:23:29+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991841799241295"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy","displayName":"Scott Williams \ud83d\udc27","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8597-original-tmp20220904063727.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8597-96-20220904063727.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8597-48-20220904063727.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8597-24-20220904063727.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"8597"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8597-96-20220904063727.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views\/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast.  Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22Hoosier currently living in California. Pixelfed: @vwbusguyVideo game talk: @vwbusguy","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"vwbusguy","displayName":"Scott Williams \ud83d\udc27","note":"Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views\/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast.  Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22Hoosier currently living in California. Pixelfed: @vwbusguyVideo game talk: @vwbusguy"}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha\" class=\"u-url mention\">@brouhaha<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a><\/p><p>Fun personal fact: First time I tried to install Linux, I downloaded and burned Fedora *source* isos which didn't work (5 discs, IIRC).  I then successfully downloaded and installed DEBIAN (only 1 disc), but got a command line prompt.  After testing every DOS\/NT command I knew, I never got a GUI, so I went back and burned the proper Fedora Core installer (another 5 discs).<\/p><p>In an alternative reality, I would have been a Debian loyalist.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/tags\/Linux\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#Linux<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/tags\/Fedora\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#Fedora<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/tags\/Debian\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#Debian<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991826523960504","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991826523960504","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha\" class=\"u-url mention\">@brouhaha<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a><\/p><p>Fun personal fact: First time I tried to install Linux, I downloaded and burned Fedora *source* isos which didn't work (5 discs, IIRC).  I then successfully downloaded and installed DEBIAN (only 1 disc), but got a command line prompt.  After testing every DOS\/NT command I knew, I never got a GUI, so I went back and burned the proper Fedora Core installer (another 5 discs).<\/p><p>In an alternative reality, I would have been a Debian loyalist.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/tags\/Linux\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#Linux<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/tags\/Fedora\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#Fedora<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/tags\/Debian\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#Debian<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991826523960504","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/brouhaha\/statuses\/114991800175360585","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha\/114991800175360585"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"debian"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"fedora"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/brouhaha"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-08-08:objectType=thread:nonce=566c4aa06b1fc371","notice_info":{"local_id":"10740715","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-08-09T02:23:29+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991826523960504"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/brouhaha","displayName":"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 haxadecimal \ud83d\udeab\ud83d\udc51","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/29084-original-tmp20221117050505.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":375,"height":375},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/29084-96-20221201235519.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/29084-48-20221201235519.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/29084-24-20221201235519.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"29084"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/29084-96-20221201235519.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Proud to be Antifa, like my grandfather, who was killed fighting fascism in WWII, and was posthumously awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.#microcontroller #firmware #C #CPlusPlus#FPGA #VHDL #Verilog #SDR (SW Defined Radio)#retrocomputing#nonpareil HP calculator simulation at #microcode levelMaker (with John Doran) of #NixieTube #RPN #calculatorCHM PDP-1 Restoration Teamcis maleatheistDamned dirty apeNot a tame programmerSome assembly requiredNo user serviceable parts inside","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"brouhaha","displayName":"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 haxadecimal \ud83d\udeab\ud83d\udc51","note":"Proud to be Antifa, like my grandfather, who was killed fighting fascism in WWII, and was posthumously awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.#microcontroller #firmware #C #CPlusPlus#FPGA #VHDL #Verilog #SDR (SW Defined Radio)#retrocomputing#nonpareil HP calculator simulation at #microcode levelMaker (with John Doran) of #NixieTube #RPN #calculatorCHM PDP-1 Restoration Teamcis maleatheistDamned dirty apeNot a tame programmerSome assembly requiredNo user serviceable parts inside"}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\" class=\"u-url mention\">@vwbusguy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a> <br \/>My first Linux distribution was Yggdrasil. When that went away, I tried Debian, but back then the Debian install process was like playing 20 questions, except that it was a lot more questions, many of which totally stumped me, despite my having been a Unix user and programmer since 1984. (Clearly Debian fixed that at some later date.) Red Hat Linux was easy to install, which continued with Fedora.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/brouhaha\/statuses\/114991800175360585","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/brouhaha\/statuses\/114991800175360585","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\" class=\"u-url mention\">@vwbusguy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\" class=\"u-url mention\">@mattl<\/a> <br \/>My first Linux distribution was Yggdrasil. When that went away, I tried Debian, but back then the Debian install process was like playing 20 questions, except that it was a lot more questions, many of which totally stumped me, despite my having been a Unix user and programmer since 1984. (Clearly Debian fixed that at some later date.) Red Hat Linux was easy to install, which continued with Fedora.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha\/114991800175360585","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/brouhaha\/statuses\/114991776390263406","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha\/114991776390263406"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-08-08:objectType=thread:nonce=566c4aa06b1fc371","notice_info":{"local_id":"10740714","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-08-09T02:23:29+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@brouhaha\/114991800175360585"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/fedora","displayName":"Fedora Project (F43 is OUT)","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/76352-original-tmp20251204013703.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/76352-96-20251204014459.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/76352-48-20251204014459.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/76352-24-20251204014459.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"76352"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/76352-96-20251204014459.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"This is the official feed for the Fedora Project, a global free &amp; 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Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22Hoosier currently living in California. Pixelfed: @vwbusguyVideo game talk: @vwbusguy","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"vwbusguy","displayName":"Scott Williams \ud83d\udc27","note":"Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views\/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast.  Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22Hoosier currently living in California. Pixelfed: @vwbusguyVideo game talk: @vwbusguy"}},"content":"<p>I just realized that as of this summer, I've now been a <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/tags\/Fedora\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#Fedora<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/tags\/Linux\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#Linux<\/a> user for 20 years.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991263186827735","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991263186827735","objectType":"note","content":"<p>I just realized that as of this summer, I've now been a <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/tags\/Fedora\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#Fedora<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/tags\/Linux\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#Linux<\/a> user for 20 years.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991263186827735","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"fedora"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"linux"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-08-08:objectType=thread:nonce=566c4aa06b1fc371","notice_info":{"local_id":"10732111","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-08-08T05:31:02+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991263186827735"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl","displayName":"Dr.  Matt Lee (1800www.com)","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/115062-original-tmp20230427013907.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/115062-96-20230427013907.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/115062-48-20230427013907.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/115062-24-20230427013907.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"115062"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/115062-96-20230427013907.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Public figure\/idiot. Old UNIX, TV, Music, OldHammer, Mantic, Amstrad CPC, open source, monkey movies, Skeletor sings TMBG.  Blocking people talking about GenAI and LLM stuff every day. he\/him. New England Aquarium\/Cyberspace\/Cyberslice.","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mattl","displayName":"Dr.  Matt Lee (1800www.com)","note":"Public figure\/idiot. Old UNIX, TV, Music, OldHammer, Mantic, Amstrad CPC, open source, monkey movies, Skeletor sings TMBG.  Blocking people talking about GenAI and LLM stuff every day. he\/him. New England Aquarium\/Cyberspace\/Cyberslice."}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\" class=\"u-url mention\">@vwbusguy<\/a> Nice. When I first started at the FSF we used a bastardized version of Fedora Core 2 or 3 I think for quite a while before finally getting something else Debian based but I ran Fedora on my ThinkPad for around 2 years from 2009-2011 before switching to Ubuntu until 2021. I really liked how Red Hat 9 looked with the Bluecurve thing but I understand people working on it didn\u2019t like that.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl\/statuses\/114991499152024523","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/mattl\/statuses\/114991499152024523","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\" class=\"u-url mention\">@vwbusguy<\/a> Nice. When I first started at the FSF we used a bastardized version of Fedora Core 2 or 3 I think for quite a while before finally getting something else Debian based but I ran Fedora on my ThinkPad for around 2 years from 2009-2011 before switching to Ubuntu until 2021. I really liked how Red Hat 9 looked with the Bluecurve thing but I understand people working on it didn\u2019t like that.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\/114991499152024523","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy\/statuses\/114991263186827735","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@vwbusguy\/114991263186827735"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/vwbusguy"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-08-08:objectType=thread:nonce=566c4aa06b1fc371","notice_info":{"local_id":"10732112","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-08-08T05:31:01+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@mattl\/114991499152024523"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/5468700","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}