Didn't take too many pictures of Sydney, since it rained pretty much the entire time I've been here. I think they need the rain more than I need the sun though. So no photos of the succulent garden (who wants to see a wet cactus?) or sad elephants at the zoo. And I've got pictures of pretty much everything on my other, other phone anyway. Also discovered my newer phone has the disagreeable habit of changing screen brightness as I'm framing a shot, so some of the exposures are all wrong. Ah well. Adios!

Clock o'clocks

This is a real place.

Somebody might actually support something other than rsa for http signatures? 2020 could be the year of 21st century crypto!

All you see is past

DZ: pants ahead

I took snippets of the DEC BASIC-8 manual for the TSS/8 operating system and inserted them into a poetry generator. This is the poem. (The randomizer runs the same every time (no seeds though I could fake it) so this is in a sense *the* output.)

Enter here

The blue banded bee & torenia flower

This is a nice overview of the digital clock aboard the Soyuz spacecraft. It was made in 1984 and it was a remarkable look at Soviet era electronics

http://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyuz.html

#RetroHardware

"Yeah, but it's a warm rain" is even dumber than "it's a dry heat".

It's just as ridiculous in person.

Distributed denial of decorum attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22075336

One thing you can say for scrum, it has elegant solutions for a lot of the problems it introduces
GonzoHacker

I suppose I need to announce that I never told you to use honk, so if you do, that's your fault, and none of this "but you promised" bullshit when I stop working on it.

Welcome to fedi! To finish your application, please differentiate between circles, groups, lists, and aspects. Your usage license should be available shortly after approval.

I went after the nameserver hiding in usr.sbin/bind/lib/dns ​

67 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 87889 deletions(-)

which brings the total since I started up to:

574 files changed, 2082 insertions(+), 165046 deletions(-)

Build time is now down to 1m23.94s real from about 2m05

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Really hope the AUD exchange rate is about what I think it is.

New pseudo-driver dt(4): dynamic tracer

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157920008000433&w=2

#OpenBSD

Multicore OCaml will ship this year guaranteed or your money back" -- KC Sivaramakrishnan

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/where-is-multicore-development-happening/4997/8

Wish this had been 4 years ago I would have lapped it up now I’m not sure how I would fit this in … next year perhaps!

Mission report: I believe I've made contact with the local honker.

Location: -33.87 151.21

Rain jacket acquired. Good thing I didn't pack one or now I'd have two.

Heh, the pine phone has serial over headphones. I've got one of those cables somewhere around the house.

Welcome to sunny Sydney.

Location: -33.88 151.21

Welcome to sunny Sydney.

Location: -33.88 151.21

Need to add no images mode to honk for edge data speeds.

Oh man, flight is overweight and they need sixteen people to fly tomorrow.

16 packets transmitted, 11 packets received, 31.2% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 804.789/1146.421/1579.524/245.577 ms

If I had real system monitoring setup, instead of grepping log files every few weeks, I'd probably fix things faster. But then I'd have more stuff to do.

I'm looking into what it takes to build a silent PC, and... A 25 foot HDMI cable is $15?

There is now a red dot on my Firefox icon. Starting it gives no indication of what the trouble may be. But the dot remains, stubbornly persistent. I love software.

Sometimes I reply to someone's post to increase visibility, then I remember mastodon hides replies. Oh well.