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I'm a graybeard geek with a love for technology old & new, a love for music, and greater love for my family. (he/him) 🇺🇸 🇦🇷

No, not *that* Claudio Miranda. 📽️ 🚫 😝

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Blog: https://claudiomiranda.wordpress.com
SDF: http://claudiom.sdf.org
Tilde.institute: https://claudiom.tilde.institute

RESIST! 🪧✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🪧:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=IKOW2ZikGW8

#nobot 🤖🚫

BSD?OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD
Linux?Fedora, Slackware
Other?Haiku/BeOS
Music?Yes! 🎶

Finally finished watching this episode from @TechConnectify, and I'm glad I did. A great episode, and in total agreement with the additional content after the main content if you so decide to watch it. 💯

https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?si=1HcEp5aqupAjJXfk

You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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Half-day completed, time to go home. 

Well, this sort of bums me out. 

https://blendit.bsd.cafe/post/2551153

Looks like I'll have to find another instance for federated news and posts. 

Retiring BlendIT: the BSD Cafe's Lemmy instance - BlendIT - BSD Cafe

After careful consideration, I’ve decided to retire BlendIT, our Lemmy instance, effective 1st May 2026. This is not a decision I take lightly. Every service at the BSD Cafe is something I care about, and shutting one down always feels like closing a table in the bar. But part of being a responsible barista is knowing when something isn’t working - for us. Lemmy is a valid and interesting piece of software, and I have respect for the project and the people behind it. However, managing it in a context like the BSD Cafe has proven to be more difficult than I can sustain. The resource demands, particularly around media storage and retention, grow in ways that are hard to control, and the maintenance overhead has become significant for what is, ultimately, a community-run infrastructure with limited resources. There are also concerns around GDPR compliance, as the software’s approach to media retention makes it difficult to ensure that data is handled and removed in accordance with European regulations. On top of that, we now have Billboard, a federated forum that fits naturally into the BSD Cafe’s ecosystem. With Billboard available, maintaining two overlapping solutions for the same purpose no longer makes sense. Rather than spreading our energy thin, I’d rather focus on what works best for us. None of this is a judgment on Lemmy as a project - it simply isn’t the right fit for us, here, now. If you have content on BlendIT that you’d like to save, please do so before 1st May. After that date, the instance will be permanently shut down and its data removed. Thank you to everyone who used and contributed to BlendIT. The table is closing, but the bar is very much open - and there’s always room at the counter. Stefano, your Barista

@gareth Oh man, that's awesome! I love "modem mode." 

Ok, today’s xkcd is glorious!

[edit] I should probably mention you need to visit the site for the full effect, it’s more than just a comic today!

https://xkcd.com/3227/

Creation

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@AkaSci Saw that this morning and it was a very serene view. 

The serene view of the Pale Blue Crescent from the Artemis II Orion Integrity spacecraft this morning, now located 70,920 km away in its elliptical orbit, high above the Pacific Ocean, west of Peru, as the astronauts grab some sleep after a hectic day yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs
23/n

#MorningAll & #TZAG G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!

Once again I’m super late saying hello to y’all!

I just can’t get my brain into gear of a morning at the moment - very squirrelly bouncing from task to task!

On the plus side it’s a wonderfully sunny day & I’ve done all that I have to so we’re having a “For All Mankind’ fest - rewatching season 3 as it’s been a while & then motoring on from there.

Cashew later Peeps, have a fabulously nutty day #Today ! 😊🫶🖖

#WeirdFolks #SquirrelsOfMastodon #TheMammutMoves