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  #OpenBSD 8.0 fans in #berlin? Spotted this multiple times in Prenzlauer Berg.

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  Little known fact: #ThinkPads are actually related to jellyfish and share a similar lifecycle. ThinkPad eggs hatch in the corporate environment and enter their floating, planula larval phase. During this time they're sexless, and helpless, running a rudimentary operating system called #Windows. They're at the mercy of the corporate tide, feeding off of primitive spreadsheets and Java. Many won't survive this experience, but those that do, eventually drift down to the refurbishment p...

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  Now I've had the #Fujitsu #Lifebook #U7311 for a little while, and tested it with 3 #linux distros, #HaikuOS and #OpenBSD, I can report. I'll break it down to several posts, to follow:

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  I have, in recent years, begun acquiring old textbooks from University Library sell-offs. They're generally a bit worse for wear, making them cheap. They give up information about how they were used. Which pages are well thumbed? Who left a pencil note? Exactly where did the spine crack? For example. My copy of "Exploring Computer Science with Scheme", by Oliver Grillmeyer, 1998. It came from the Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz and falls open thus:

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  @ljrk@todon.eu I think the best advice on dating oneself is contained in the song “Better Off without a wife” by Tom Waits.

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  @mason@partychickens.net I do like the way lazy-ffi uses read syntax, though you could of course do something similar with normal macros. I’m slowly exploring the forces on the Haiku API and I’m tempted to make a syntactic shortcut for this stuff. I won’t go too early though. Premature macroisation can really spoil things.

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  @fuzztech@infosec.exchange the ridiculous volume of such issues with German brands using English makes me wonder sometimes if this isn’t done elaborate joke that Germans are all secretly engaged in. They didn’t mention it during the process of acquiring citizenship, but you know, German humour defies explanation.

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  You think you've got it bad, don't you know there's a Diet Coke shortage in India?

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  @shriramk@mastodon.social *SPOILERS* in the end, the tortoise gets the girl. (Cut to a devistated Achilles)

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  René Magritte would be truly proud of the work going on at my local Wertstoffhoff (“ valuable substance centre”). In English we don’t lie to ourselves, this place is simply “the dump” ;-)

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  #Trump being unimpressed by Friedrich #Merz might just be the closest he’s ever come to being right about something.

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  @shriramk Hungary was “open” even in the Soviet era. In 1988 I joined an Esperanto club at school. I was terrible at languages, but that club took an annual trip to Budapest. Sadly, my year never got to Budapest because our teacher got arrested entering the DDR - the stasi having grown suspicious of his annual transit through eastern Germany and Czechoslovakia to Hungary. It never occurred to me to wonder why he took that route rather than going through Austria.

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  @shriramk ha! Love the photo. I dub this album “Spline!” by the Klein Bottle Spelunkers

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  @cdegroot fabulous - ordered a physical copy from Lulu. Congratulations. I'm looking forward to reading it!