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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 15:18:56 JST 
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lmao.
When I finally met Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick in person?
And I learned that he had wanted to write his doctoral dissertation on something more related to the BSD stuff he had been working on (e.g. the BSD TCP/IP stack) as a grad student, but instead was told that doctoral thesis stuff needed to be more 'theoretical'. So I guess he ended up writing something about MC68000 register optimizations? He made some offhand remark about "probably only six people read it." I heard that and was like, "wait a second, that sounds familiar." I later looked up the doctoral thesis and was like, "oh yeah, I definitely read this decades ago when I was trying to improve my MC68k asm skillz".
So humbling.
Also, apparently I am a huge nerd. Just, not one with any renown or impact on the level of McKusick.
The exasperated sighs I exhale when I encounter some really promising code, that is totally PhD "research grade" and full of Linuxisms is a bane of my existence! I suppose the blow is somewhat softened given that most of them have at least leveled up to Linuxisms from ye olde SunOS and IRIXisms or (pick your $proprietaryOSBSflavorhere) of yesterdecades that I had to trudge through. I have an enormous distaste for academia to the point where I am not sure how to feel when I get cited in others' Masters' and PhD' theses.
Like, I don't want to go through that level of work (I am not a masochist, I only have a B.A.) but I kind of respect the grind for those who have gone that far?
It would probably hurt less if I didn't feel as if a lot of my past efforts were appropriated by postdocs without attribution (and apparently those kinds of abuses are not uncommon within the hierarchies of academia).
But please I thought I had bad skillz with Makefiles! How do you [the "royal" you, not you personally] have published RFCs (PLURAL) and I can't fucking build your code from source on a real UNIX® system?! Why do you hate me/us/the world that much!? Why do I suffer through such things to try to make your code function on something mere mortals might encounter in the real world? Meanwhile, nmap apparently builds on Amigas and Fyodor doesn't even seem to have ever owned an Amiga! Be more like Fyodor! Please PhDs, please! (OK though really how many of us can claim our code has had cameos in multiple movies? nmap is way beyond 1337, no wonder Fyodor has a vibrant volunteer dev community)
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 10:12:17 JST
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I found it vaguely hilarious (mostly ironic) that some of the most heated online discourse about "real" vs "emulation" has been within Amiga communities.
It's as if they missed that when the Commodore Amiga was demonstrated at that black tie gala event with Blondie and Warhol? It was also shown emulating IBMPC software.
Like, before you could even BUY one, one of the apparently selling points was emulation.
For a while, Amax II blew my mind, because it ran the Macintosh software from my parents' computers on my friend's Amiga faster and in color.
I've read from some (though never owned one myself) that the fastest MC68k era Macintosh was an Amiga (presumably one of those 1337 A4000 systems which shipped with MC68060s), with an Emplant board. I have no reason to doubt that.
I mean, I get it, I want a "real" Amiga (and I will not part with my Amiga 1200 and wonder what happened to my Amiga 2000). I have tried MorphOS on PPC G4 PowerBooks and it is not the same.
But, I would also be totally into a CPU upgrade. Sure there are MC68060 upgrades for my Amiga 1200. There are even vintage PPC upgrades (that cost an arm and a leg) that I would probably enjoy! But, in more recent years folks have come up with all sorts of FPGA Amiga CPU accelerators (what is a 68080? I don't know, but it's apparently FAST) and even more recently some ARM based CPU accelerators. Alas, I am not made of money, but a hot rodded Amiga, even if not "period" to me, still seems as if it would be friggin awesome, regardless of how "real" it is? Also, presumably such after market things are removable and it can be returned to stock.
These are microcomputers after all, swapping engine blocks in cars is a lot more effort based on the mass and tooling required; with price points to reflect it.
Similarly, if someone, someday, comes out with an Amiga laptop? I would be ALL OVER THAT! Even if it were "emulating" some things. Well, if I could afford one. Which, is dubious.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 06:52:03 JST
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That's the thing about feral cat girls, you can open the door to let them in, offer treats and pets, but whether they stay? Such whimsical creatures! It's anyone's guess what such futures entail. =^.-=
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 16:17:42 JST
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There are so many (decades) of excellent demos!
The "blending adjacent frames together for YouTube is definitely cheating" reminds me of the quip from a Razor1911 prod, "Insert No Coins" (https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55991):
"Our intro looks better in realtime than on YouTube"
Some relatively recent (within the last decade or so) favs of mine:
Neonsky by Ephidrena (Amiga, AGA): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=67789
subside by Unique (Amiga, AGA) I dig mostly because it takes a sample, "Computers aren't the thing; they're the thing that gets us to the thing." from Halt & Catch Fire (which I mostly hated as a show) and puts it to good use: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=67140
"another one"/"Number One" by CNCD & Fairlight (this was ostensibly made in @notchvfx@graphics.social [as were some other more recent CNCD & FLT prods like ziphead maybe?] It inspired me to get a laptop with an RTX1080 to take a class back in 2019 which was a fun couple of days! Now, if only I could figure out how to do that sort of stuff for income instead of a happy money sink? I sold that laptop in 2020 though, so I would need something newer [hopefully lighter?] with a decent [presumably now better?] GPU for such fun. ;) : https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=77399
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 03:26:57 JST
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I think when I looked it up, it was only 3% too.
At a time when boats were the fastest way to get things from overseas.
I can't think of any tax as low as 3% anymore.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 04:14:47 JST
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I was having some vegan chilaquiles the other day for brunch and the thought crossed my mind: "this is more of a savory breakfast and while not terribly 'spicy' to my palate is at least closer, I wonder if skinnylatte is into such things?" -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 01:28:16 JST
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Do you like Tartine in SF? I had a friend who did, and I remember accompanying her and the scent of butter assaulting my olfactory senses when walking through the door. Definitely not my cup of tea, but it might be to your liking. -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 03:32:04 JST
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I wonder how he would enjoy Eritrean/Ethiopian coffee ceremony?
It's the best way to enjoy coffee in my experience. Albeit, I'm not a coffee person, but it seems pretty reasonable to me that the place where coffee originated would have the best coffee culture.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:21:15 JST
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Haha, get thee to alt.sysadmin.recovery stat! ;) -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:20:39 JST
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(curse words) g.f.d. CloudFlare.
There are SO MANY OTHER CDNs! I wish people/orgs would stop using the terrible ones.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:44:21 JST
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As an aside, when I browse to https://comam.es/snac I can't help but notice a lot of repeats of your 2.69 boost announcement.
Also, it seems as if all the repeated boosts have the same username? I am guessing, whomever last boosted it (it was Jay Hannah previously I think, but now since I boosted the release announcement toot, I see my handle on all the repeat boosts). I don't remember observing behavior like that before, so I thought I would mention it. -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 11:13:56 JST
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“vast majority of people who have studied both cognitive science and modern linguistics would concur”
Having studied an awful lot of Linguistics as an undergraduate, I do concur. It was vaguely fascinating how grammatically correct nonsensical sentences could be generated.
Another undergraduate professor I had in computer science was renowned for some earlier “AI” iterations (before the 1990s when I was his student) and as one of my fellow classmates “joked” about that professor’a lectures, it was as if he had internalized his own “AI” routines, spouting off words which all seemed correct syntactically, but were completely meaningless.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 18:26:17 JST
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Thank you (and to others such as nowster, hb9hnt and dheadshot) for the continued improvements to snac!
I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.68 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27332
GitHub Continuous Integration checks are running (two out of three completed successfully, which is a good sign, here's hoping the last one has no issues as well).
As usual, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 18:57:22 JST
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Believe me, as someone who had two devices pocket "smart" phones die on me this year, so-called "device instability" is a real problem.
But educating me? I'm only on a first name basis with a handful of PhDs in cryptography.
Good thing I am also still a student and open to education.
But might I ask: have you ever been incarcerated or had all of your physical possessions forcibly removed from you?
Because I have and I was still able to regain access to accounts despite that.
Some authentication choices are chosen deliberately for threat models that I don't think passkeys are even beginning to try to comprehend.
There are a lot of authentication mechanisms I avoid because they have extremely bad failure modes.
But I am not here to teach lessons in those to people who think that I need more education, unless you're paying my tuition for me because I already am in debt and homeless.
Meanwhile, to borrow a phrase from a past coworker: "we now have more people [developers] creating problems than we have people [ops] capable of fixing them."
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 18:04:00 JST
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I'm happy to do my small part. Thankfully, others have been helping to improve the MacPort as well. For example, ryandesign/Ryan Carsten Schmidt spotted the error with the man page Warning and provided a fix here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27188#pullrequestreview-2520020203
I had indeed, messed something up! Though thankfully it should be fixed before the update is rolled out to MacPorts' users? -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 12:22:45 JST
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I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.67 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27188
Two of three GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks passed, which is a good sign; hopefully the others will pass without issues.
As usual, it's up to others with commit access to merge it!
Thanks again for your and others' continued improvements to snac! Specifically I noticed shout outs to nowster and Shamar in the RELEASE_NOTES.md and I seem to recall watching the discourse about the PID locking suggested and discussed rather collaboratively too!
(My apologies for the delay. The Makefile was slightly modified, which in turn broke the $files/Makefile.patch applied by MacPorts so I needed to rework that which took me a bit longer than usual given other work obligations I have had today.
Though not a concern for upstream, for MacPorts users I also noticed the following warning when running % port test:
"Warning: violation by /opt/local/man
Warning: snac violates the layout of the ports-filesystems!
Warning: Please fix or indicate this misbehavior (if it is intended), it will be an error in future releases!"
Though, it appears as if the man pages are where I think they should be for MacPorts? I have never seen that Warning before, so my guess is something about MacPorts intended prescriptive behavior has been changed but I am not exactly certain what the expected behavior is supposed to be now? I will look into it further, but hopefully it isn't a concern for users at the moment; just thought I would mention it for the sake of being thorough!
However, it's entirely possible I messed something up too; so if others with greater wisdom than I see that Warning and know what to do to correct it, or if they encounter any other issues with MacPorts' snac, others are more than welcome to submit Pull Requests with improvements! Or feel free to open up an issue on MacPorts Trac instance at https://trac.macports.org and I'll look into it.)
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 13:03:35 JST
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I wandered around tonight to see what the winter walk dealio was.
It was: a let down.
A guy on a Zamboni on the ice rink was probably the most interesting thing?
Some xmas tree and menorah in giant form.
A couple of stages: with no performers! Just big speakers playing crummy Muzak (wirelessly? Bluetooth?)
Some absolutely unappetizing food trucks.
Someone selling overpriced cocktails.
At least I didn’t waste a lot of time wandering, it was sparsely attended.
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 17:23:06 JST
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I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.66 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27028/
2 out of 3 of GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks have passed (and the third is running and hopefully will as well).
As in the past, I don't have commit access, so it's up to someone else to merge it.
Thank you for the continued improvements and bug fixes!
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 10:06:25 JST
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IMHO, it's very telling that the FBI is recommending specifically WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Signal.
All of which use Axolotl/Double Ratchet.
Moreover, writing as someone who personally knows Moxie and another Signal dev, as well as having previously worked with an individual who later became CSO at Facebook.
sigh Let's just say that I don't think Crypto AG or NIST's Dual_EC_DRBG examples of backdoored cryptography were unique nor the last we've seen of such things. I would be extremely leery of anything the FBI ever recommended in E2EE apps. -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 06:25:29 JST
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That would be my dream living situation; somewhere rural in the trees with a babbling brook/rambling river/hot springs and fiber. ;)
I might forgo the fiber if it were remote enough and the flowing water were good enough.
Also would be great to not be within earshot of planes overhead. Alas, I think satellite light pollution is now global, but I miss being under starry skies.
Let us know how the install goes!
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