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   huch (2ch@touhou.vodka)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 05:07:04 JST huch
   computer is frozen and oom killer isn't doing anything :cirno_pout:
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 05:07:02 JST pistolero

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     @2ch Is the browser thrashing?
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     huch (2ch@touhou.vodka)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 05:14:21 JST huch

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     @p nah it's my shitty script taking 100+GB RAM :rokalife:
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 05:16:06 JST pistolero

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     @2ch I generally turn off overcommit to avoid this kind of problem.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 15:10:16 JST pistolero

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     • Judge Dread
     @judgedread Slackware makes Gentoo look bloated, https://crux.nu/ makes Slackware look bloated.
     
     No getting around browser bloat, regardless.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 15:10:17 JST Judge Dread

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     • pistolero
     Has the browser stopped thrashing, Clarice? Do you think if you install Gentoo you can silence that terrible thrashing of the browser?
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     Beer Microdoser (sampler@freebeerextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 16:36:10 JST Beer Microdoser

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     @p @judgedread
     What is crux, slackware lite?
     (simple tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts)
     
     If it has a package system like slackbuild that is pretty cool.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 16:43:45 JST pistolero

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     • Beer Microdoser
     @sampler @judgedread
     
     > What is crux, slackware lite?
     
     It was started as a kind of "What if we just did a really tiny thing and put a ports system onto it?" and it has done a very good job since then.
     
     > like slackbuild
     
     Before Slackbuild existed, I used to graft a CRUX /usr/ports onto most of my Slackware installs. (Prior to adopting CRUX, I used to do the same with the NetBSD pkgsrc.) Slackbuild more or less came from the BSD-style ports systems, same place CRUX did. CRUX's ports are a lot simpler than Slackbuild: you define a "build" function to compile the package and put it into the prefix. There's /etc/pkgmk.conf and it's just a script that is sourced before calling build().
     
     Most of the places I used Slackware, I ended up using Arch or Debian, but Arch constantly fucks itself over so I just did CRUX everywhere. I use Slackware in places now (fedilist/media.fse are running on a Slackware box now). FSE and associated services are running on an arm64 cluster using a CRUX image that I built for my DevTerm, and my desktop machine (CURX) currently lives in the server rack so I'm on a Radxa Rock5b that graf gave me and it's also the same CRUX image. (The RISC-V DevTerm is running Slackware. I didn't want to build a lot of packages on-device so I built out a small Slackware image, it runs fine.)
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 18:36:27 JST Judge Dread

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     Lynx?
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 18:41:47 JST pistolero

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     • Judge Dread
     @judgedread w3m is more my speed; I use w3m on the RISC-V box (single-core at 1GHz, 1GB RAM; does everything I need done except a browser), or mothra when drawterm'd into the Plan 9 box (mothra was written by :tomduff:, with whom you might be familiar, because he worked at LucasArts before/after his stint at Bell Labs writing the rc shell for Research Unix that became the default shell for Plan 9, as well as writing the mothra browser; 9front re-added the webfs support, so you can mount a webfs that speaks to a proxy, so it's easy to run one mothra that talks to Tor and one that talks to the clearnet). netsurf has some minimal support for JS/CSS but I hardly use netsurf.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 18:44:52 JST pistolero

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     @judgedread Actually just using FediBBS in acme for this conversation. No browser required.
     fedibbs.gif
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 18:53:56 JST Judge Dread

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     That's beautiful, man.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 18:59:35 JST pistolero

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     • anime graf mays ?️?
     • Judge Dread
     @judgedread Works locally, but there's still `ssh bbs@fsebugoutzone.org`. There's a DSMC deployment also but not open access; vague plans for a Poast roll-out exist (cc @graf) now that there's a reasonable(?) way to do that ( https://git.freespeechextremist.com/gitweb/?p=fedibbs;a=blob;f=doc/install;h=e3b5d1c97bdc5410ab990283da2f40e2ce912d97;hb=HEAD#l78 ). It is still, as far as I know, the only text-stream interactive client, and the only client of any kind that can post its own source code.
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     anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 19:04:32 JST anime graf mays ?️?

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     • pistolero
     yeah I'll pop it on just not right now (i have to piss and then maybe get a drink)
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 19:05:41 JST pistolero

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     • Judge Dread
     @graf @judgedread Deployment is complicated. I can pass a binary if needed but the Linux build script *should* work now. (It embeds a tarball of the source in the binary so that `interject` works. The `rumor:` and `rumor` commands were stolen from Enigma Half.)
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     anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 19:09:24 JST anime graf mays ?️?

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     • pistolero
     im sorry pete you can pass a what
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     RW Fren Squads (catmanmancat@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 19:14:43 JST RW Fren Squads

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     • pistolero
     Tbf I'm more interested in his tar balls. We could really party with those.
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