Mastodawn

Phillip Vuchetich 1d ago

Vero B (Veroluna)1d ago

You really want to watch the video in this article, especially if you are a fan of @pluralistic

#enshittification

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/norway-rails-against-enshittifcation-deliberate-tech-deterioration

‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devices

The Guardian

Phillip Vuchetich 4d ago

Michael Dexter 6d ago

The “BOY HOWDY!” heard around the room:

A #FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT boot environment on a 15.0-RELEASE made with OccamBSD imagine.sh and propagate.sh, which use makefs(8) and mkimg(1) internally, and packaged base…

We can have nice things!

I’m sure there are remaining rough edges but IT CAN BE DONE.

You’re welcome.

Phillip Vuchetich 5d ago

Michael W Lucas

5d ago

The last day to back @RobCornell's deliciously messed-up novel and get not one, not two, but THREE books!

Seriously, this the most fubar book I've read since PKD's VALIS, yet positive and hopeful.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robcornell/a-shadow-full-of-stars-a-mind-bending-fantasy-novel

A Shadow Full of Stars: A Mind-Bending Fantasy Novel

The TWILIGHT ZONE meets ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST when a musician is offered a "life transplant" to cure his depression.

Kickstarter

Phillip Vuchetich 6d ago

Graham Perrin Mar 10

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157

call for testing

Sylve - FreeBSD management plane

At <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpzri3/call_for_testing_sylve_freebsd_management_plane/>, @hayzam wrote:

＂We just pushed a big update to Sylve and are doing our first call for testing.

Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage bhyve VMs, FreeBSD jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI. Development is currently funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. …＂

Docs: https://sylve.io/

@FreeBSDFoundation

#FreeBSD #sylve #OpenZFS #ZFS #bhyve #CFT

Phillip Vuchetich Mar 10

Is Kdenlive the best tool for editing/splicing multiple video clips together?

...or is there a better open source tool for nonlinear video editing? I am not a professional video editor, so simplicity rather than features is more important for me at this time. I can run it on FreeBSD, Linux, or MS Windows, and it isn't worth spending $$ on this for me.

I recorded an esports match via OBS (.mp4) for one of my kids in college, but MS Windows crashed 4 times while recording, so I need to crop and splice the videos together and remove the unnecessary stuff from multiple recordings - nothing fancy - just clipping and splicing.

Usually I just save and share the file without editing - the few people who watch it will skip around to the parts they want to watch. Last time I had two recordings and just merged them (ffmpeg), but this time it is more annoying with several files and a lot of crashes, so I don't just want to merge them without clipping out the junk.

Thanks!

Phillip Vuchetich Mar 5

Marcia MacDonald Mar 5

I'll remember this quote from @pluralistic tonight:

"Shopping your way out of a monopoly is like recycling your way out of a wildfire."

#CdnPoli #enshittification

Phillip Vuchetich Feb 28

Since online review sites are full of biased and inauthentic reviews, are there any personal recommendations for a point of sale + online payment processing and reservation system for a new, tiny nonprofit in the US? About 20 or so local artists will be part of 501(c)(3), which will have scheduled classes, recurring membership fees (for access to studio resources), and retail sales of local artist work (need to track per-artist inventory / commission). Initially they are looking at Square Plus because some of them are already familiar with the hardware, and it seems to meet all the requirements, but a post on payroll processors by @coreysnipes reminded me to look at alternatives. Basic CRM/marketing (probably just bulk email to existing customers about upcoming events) would be needed, but can be separate. The price point of $300 POS hardware and $50/month + <=3% credit card fees looks like an amount that could be budgeted. They are making a Wordpress website, so it could either be integrated with that or just link to another site. Thanks!

Phillip Vuchetich Feb 26

@hayzam Not sure if you are active on here, but I think that it is your blog post that came up on the Bhyve user call today - https://hayzam.com/blog/02-linuxulator-is-awesome/
I looked at the VS Code extensions for Remote SSH, and there are multiple extensions that include "Remote SSH" in their names. Could you identify which specific one that you've used? This sounds like it would be really useful for me as well.
Thanks!