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Josh Grosse @jggimi@bsd.network

I'm leaving Twitter. Not because it is a foul, awful, antisocial cesspool. Which it is.

Nope. I'm leaving it because 1) the Tweetcaster application decided to issue a tweet without my knowledge, will, or consent, 2) I cannot find a suitable replacement app for Android, and 3) the web interface is the unholiest of hells.

My son asked me to turn an old netbook into an extremely simple, browser-only workstation.

OpenBSD/chromium with no window manager at all, then? Sure, kid, have a "Chromebook."

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#Alexa self awareness check: Let her control her own power outlet via smart home and order her to turn it off.
If she refuses, she is conscious.

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@ed1conf @mwlucas For the May workshop at SemiBUG, one of the steps I will be teaching is the use of a multi-line piped echo(1) string with ed(1) to alter the provisioning of a filesystem in an fstab(5).

You're welcome.

In the last 10 days here:

14F. 73F. Snow. Sleet. Rain. Earthquake.

What's next? Rodents of Unusual Size?

I'm a new gym-goer, just intimidated by another customer. I'm feeling like an old, fat, balding, sweaty old geezer. 😰

* 3x my speed on the elliptical next to mine.

* 3x my resistance level.

* 1/3rd my age.

She wasn't even breathing hard.

I cleaned my bathroom yesterday, and thought of Sir Alec Guinness.

It was a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

I am waiting for my VP to execute an approval in an IT system. It's been several days since his approval was recorded in meeting minutes.

I plan on sending this to his admin.

iruntheinternet.com/lulzdump/i

It is not intuitively obvious, but it is much faster to heat a Marie Callendar soup on the stove top than in the microwave.

The latter requires an additional 10 minutes to clean up from the resulting explosion.