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Security professional breaking corporate AI for fun and profit, roleplayer, father, AR/VR dev amateur, HEMA practitioner, motorcyclist, European🇪🇺 of proud antifascist heritage🇮🇹, friend of cats. 日本語でも少し話せる

AvatarA man with a white cat on his shoulder. The cat has mismatching eyes, blue & green.
X-Clacks-overheadGNU Terry Practhett
LikesRaindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, reading at sunset, riding at dawn, sword fighting, cooking, rigging and taking pictures, spiders, Truth, Freedom, Justice, Reasonably Priced Love, and a hard boiled egg.
DislikesGlobal warming, the Overton window moving further right every day, fascists in general, fascist tech billionaires in particular, NFT/crypto goons, football.

progress update regarding my LibreWolf Web browser port for OpenBSD:

https://codeberg.org/vimuser/librewolf-openbsd-port/commit/0ef4312b427a4e61484c2f933141c1e50ac638b9

I now have LibreWolf 149 for OpenBSD -CURRENT.

The version I implemented for OpenBSD 7.8 is available in the "stable-7.8" branch of that repository, and uses LibreWolf 143.

The *master* branch shall now track OpenBSD -CURRENT at all times.

I await my build test on OpenBSD 7.8 to complete, then I will switch my test machine to -CURRENT and test the master branch, with LibreWolf 149.

Rolling release.

bump to librewolf 149.0-1 from upstream · 0ef4312b42

this now matches OpenBSD CURRENT's firefox version, and so shall it remain; when a new stable release is done of openbsd now, i will (until it's merged in openbsd proper) simply make a new branch. additional patching done to policy, matching further hardening done by openbsd on firefox; these a...

Codeberg.org

Fire in the sky: one awesome cover for a lovely issue of Dragon magazine.

This is easily my favourite cover of all the ones I've seen of the sadly long-departed Dragon. March 1989's spectacular cover always evokes images of Shadowrun's Awakening event, especially of the air battles with Fierschwinge as she appeared over Germany.

But yeah, gorgeous stuff from artist Denis Beauvais.

There's also a bit of a landmark article on Pools of Radiance, with AD&D video games truly coming of age to the mag's delight.

#DND #Dragon #TTRPG #80s

Fear the Disk Change!

Xenomorphs and beige towers in rendered form for Cryo's (yep, that Cryo) oddball Aliens game: Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure.

#DOS #PC #Retrogaming #videogames #90s #retrocomputing #aliens

Hundreds of motorcyclists join priest in Portugal's Easter on wheels

Hundreds of bikers joined Father Avelino in Sintra for the 19th Easter motorcycle procession, blending Catholic tradition with roaring engines. #EuropeNews

euronews

Absolutely wild how many men make patronising comments on linkedin posts and have the "open to work" flag on, to not even have the sense to think prospective employers might be women and will scan your activity on there is something else

tldr this is why I don't block them

Thinking about music, vague memories of, many many years ago, when we did a "What's your top ten albums?" thingie at work.

Coupla things that stand out - the marketing director who chose the Roses' "Second Coming" as the best album EVAH and got very upset when we all pointed out the obvious fact that, beyond anything else, literally their *own first album* was objectively better in all measures (Second Coming is still fantastic, don't @ me)

Also, the gap year lad who chose Coldplay's second album as his favourite, commenting "It's a guitar album for people who can actually play guitar"

He's now in his 40s and is interim CEO of a bank.

I suspect these things are unrelated, but who is to say? Not me, for sure.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"Lol," said Gandalf. "Lmao."

"It works, but I hated it." #AI is the new dumb factory work. Good-Bye Coding!
"There's a fundamental problem with these tools...: the tool requires expertise to validate, but its use diminishes expertise and stunts its growth. How does one become an expert? There are no shortcuts; there is only continuous hard work and dedication. I was once told of writing, great writers learn how to break the rules in new and ingenious ways by first learning the rules."
https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

The true meaning of Easter, by Stephen Collins (who writes his own amazing #AltText)

"PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!

BECKY: You mean … Jesus …?

PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky."

I made an ebook reader out of an old heltek v3! Fun little afternoon project:

Documented the process and reasoning here: https://piefed.social/c/meshtastic/p/1951961/ebook-reader-out-of-a-heltek-v3

#meshtastic #ebook #ebookreader #DIY