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R.L. Dane (snac)

@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe
snac 2.94
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This is my alt/backup account.
My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social @rl_dane@polymaths.social

My blog is https://rldane.space/
100 Followers
84 Following
15 Posts
Joined March 23, 2025

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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · 5d ago
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net
@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net @skewray@mathstodon.xyz https://vim-classic.org/ You're welcome. ;)
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · 5d ago
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @skewray@mathstodon.xyz
@skewray@mathstodon.xyz @synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net I spent some time learning ed in May, which of course made my understanding and use of sed explode. But it also gave me an appreciation for vanilla vi (nvi). Its feature set is really quite impressive, considering how old it is (a 1994 re-write of a 1976 editor). I need to try compiling "heirloom vi" some time, although I must admit I'm spoiled by nvi2's Unicode capability.
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · Aug 07, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net
@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net @skewray@mathstodon.xyz Um, hello, ed is the unix editor. 😄
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · Aug 07, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @skewray@mathstodon.xyz
@skewray@mathstodon.xyz @synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net Scripting in csh? 😨 I mean, sh, ksh, even bash, fine, but csh? 🫣
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · Jul 28, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @Radio_Azureus@ioc.exchange
@Radio_Azureus@ioc.exchange Do you also get the mystery-incredibly-high-system-load iowait disease when your SSDs are going out?
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · Jul 27, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe

Playing with #NetBSD on a hand-me-down Dell Inspiron with a spinny disc.

So far, it's a joy to use, even though #S3 #Suspend isn't working.

The spinny disc sounds are actually kinda therapeutic XD

                 `-/oshdmNMNdhyo+:-`    

y/s+:- `.-:+oydNMMMMNhs/- OS: NetBSD 11.0_RC7 amd64 -m+NMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNdhmNMMMmdhs+/- Uptime: 8 hours, 12 mins -m+NMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmy+: Packages: 124 (pkg_info) -N/dMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMds: Shell: ksh v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 -N/hMMMMMMMMMmho: Terminal: /dev/pts/5 -N/-:/++/:.` CPU: Intel 686-class (4) :M+ Memory: 16234MiB / 16281MiB :Mo :Ms
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · Jun 20, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
#snac users, What's your preferred clients for the Unix terminal (must be cross-platform, not Linux-only, for goodness, sake! 😅) and Android? I've noticed that @tut@fosstodon.org and @pachli@mastodon.social (and other @Tusky@mastodon.social forks) don't quite like snac, and tend to act a wee bit cagey. ;)
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · Jun 20, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @bpl@snac.bsd.cafe
@bpl@snac.bsd.cafe Except for ufetch assuming a dark theme (grrrrr!), I wouldn't call that awful at all! If not for the very mousey interaction model, I think the default #wm in #NetBSD is pretty darn slick! ;) Then again, I'm old(ish). ;) cc: @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · May 31, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Federation's broken on polymaths.social again, how's my #BSD folk doing this fine Sunday? XD

I started off about six days ago deciding to switch from neovim to nvi (clone of original vi), and somehow that snowballed into learning ed XD
(using ed write now to write this toot!)

Here are a bunch of toots from my very first discoveries/explorations until today. XD —

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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · May 10, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @pluralistic@mamot.fr
@pluralistic@mamot.fr "The Claude Delusion" oh my, I just caught that. BRILLIANT. 😂
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · May 07, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza Ah, I didn't realize that. ;)
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · May 07, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza dwl? https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · May 07, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @flipper@mastodonapp.uk
@flipper@mastodonapp.uk @pluralistic@mamot.fr His ability to be impressed with the output of a gigawatt-siphoning brute-force dialectical Mechanical Turk is very unimpressive.
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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · May 05, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
#PSA for my #OpenBSD peeps:

I have a simple script called pkg_size that lets you query the size of a package and any dependencies that would need to be installed* without installing it.

* (it totals the sizes that pkg_add -s reports for every mountpoint and converts it to usable SI units, not just bytes)

https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/pkg_sizeIt has no dependencies outside of base* (I just reworked it to use /bin/ksh instead of bash).

* (Actual dependencies/external binaries called: basename, bc, grep, mktemp, pkg_add, pkg_info, rm, sed, tee)

Example:

$ pkg_size qemu
quirks-7.147 signed on 2025-10-10T23:15:26Z
qemu-10.0.2:capstone-5.0: ok
qemu-10.0.2:libssh-0.11.3: ok
qemu-10.0.2:dtc-1.7.0: ok
qemu-10.0.2:libiscsi-1.20.0: ok
qemu-10.0.2:qemu-ga-10.0.2: ok
qemu-10.0.2:libslirp-4.7.0: ok
qemu-10.0.2: ok
/dev/sd1a on /: 1946 bytes
/dev/sd1h on /usr/local: 882110457 bytes
qemu 841.24 MiB
Usage: pkg_size package1 [ package2 [ package3 ... ] ]

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R.L. Dane (snac) @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe · Mar 19, 2026
R.L. Dane (snac)
@rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

This is my alt/backup account. My primary is @rl_dane@polymath.social https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane My blog is https://rldane.space/

snac.bsd.cafe
Replying to @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk Love the super key sticker!
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