Dan McDonald
danmcd@hostux.social
<p>Dad&Husband, <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>illumos</span></a> :illumos: core team, 2nd-wave Internet settler, early IPsec & IPv6 builder, and now at Edgecast working on <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/SmartOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SmartOS</span></a> ( <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hostux.social/@smartosorg" class="u-url mention">@<span>smartosorg</span></a></span> ) & <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Triton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Triton</span></a> ( <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hostux.social/@triton_dc" class="u-url mention">@<span>triton_dc</span></a></span> ).</p><p>Michigan ( <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/goblue" class=
Posts
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Post #4233169
Time for my occasional reminder that the #illumos ptools are amazing and highly productivity enhancing. On my MacOS workstation this is a common work flow: ssh $ILLUMOS 'pwait `pgrep something`' ; say {-a other-speaker} SOMETHING IS DONE Can work on other things until I hear shouting.
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Post #1884503
56 year old Dan: This is cool! Nice retrocomputing exercise! 16 year old Dan: Pfft, my Atari 800XL could do it faster! https://imapenguin.com/2026/03/breaking-enigma-with-index-of-coincidence-on-a-commodore-64/
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Post #1884502
This looks VERY cool, and I wish Big Ag would think about something like this. I wonder if actual-farmer @sarahtaber may have an opinion on this?
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Post #1884501
The fine folks at @SystemsAppr posted this beaut. I do feel officially old now. https://systemsapproach.org/2026/04/20/not-your-fathers-internet/
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Post #1884500
THANK YOU 2FA! My Apple devices pinged me to &quot;reset my Apple Account Password&quot;. I refused. I&#39;d LIKE to know what events (and what IP, etc.) triggered that Apple Account Password reset. Any ideas on how to diagnose how far someone got? Is it just knowing my email, or more?
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Post #1764271
THANK YOU 2FA! My Apple devices pinged me to &quot;reset my Apple Account Password&quot;. I refused. I&#39;d LIKE to know what events (and what IP, etc.) triggered that Apple Account Password reset. I know some of you WORK there... any ideas on how to diagnose how far someone got? Is it just knowing my email, or more?
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Post #505933
Local special election so I'm heading out to vote remand immediately after start my poll working shift. Thanks @mattblaze@federate.social for the inspiration.