🔰 🇦🇺Hi 👋 I’m a human, blogger, technical writer, IaaS engineer, weeb traveller, urbanist, third-culture kid, profile list enumerator, and retro computator in Sydney, Australia, formerly Singapore. He/them. Friend. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Runs #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, #illumos. Slings #Xen and #QEMU at work. Co-host of #BSDNow!
I am bad at replying; sorry.
| Weblog | https://rubenerd.com |
| Lunchbox | https://codeberg.org/rubenerd/lunchbox |
| Lands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eora |
| Wiki | https://www.sasara.moe/wiki/ |
Two rude emails last night, but got a comment from a gentleman saying he'd retired many years ago, and that he drinks his tea while reading my blog every morning.
This image of a father figure in a dressing gown on his porch in the rural US reading my silly words on his iPad just... fills me with more joy than I care to admit.
(Also, hey look, imposter syndrome! I must have tricked him somehow into reading my stuff).
"The chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied ... Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway."
Just did a `brew update`. Allow me to summarise:
==> New casks
blocked-toilet: AI-powered developer platform
flcahsgtsai: Native desktop AI assistant
boiled-lake: Open-source local AI
torment-poker: AI enhancement for automation of AI
Free marketing recommendation: do not give the new AI product all your users are inevitably going to hate a name that is easily confused with the name of the completely unrelated flagship email product that keeps the lights on
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/mozilla-thunderbolt-ai-client
Just had to use Slack for the first time in years. I'm the last person to discover this, but it barely supports Markdown?!
Heck, even Mattermost does a better job.
Aaaaah I was finally able to track down a 1986 PAL 250466 revision Commodore 64 motherboard! Someone local too.
Decided will be going in my “Aldi” 64, which until now has only been a case and keyboard. Originally was going to put a modern board in it, but couldn’t pass up chance to have an original :’)
The 250466 was the last of the longboards, with only two memory ICs. Also been told it has a very clear VIC-II.
View of the sun against the backburning sky is wild.
@darth I have only BSD computers that I use as "daily drivers": A laptop and a tower, both running FreeBSD.
In addition I run NetBSD on every computer I own that can run it, from an old 486slc2 and am Am586 via a Nintendo Wii to a couple of dual Pentium Pro machines. All but the 486slc2 are equipped with full GUI and set up so I can do Real Work(TM) from them.
I have my laptop full of BSD stickers, Once - and there are witnesses - I was in an Irish pub here in Oslo, and one of the waitresses who had walked past our table a few times stopped, looked me in the eyes and asked "Are you running BSD on that thing or are you just bragging with those stickers?"
Turns out she used to be a network engineer in Cambridge.
Wait isn't spring Sep to Nov… oooh you forgot about the Southern Hemisphere. 🤦♂️
Again wishing people (mostly USAians) would stop tying things to the seasons.
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