bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

lol

The American government condemns "air strikes on... critical infrastructure that have left thousands of civilians without power and clean water."

The 500,000 Iraqi children killed by the American destruction of critical Iraqi infrastructure that left millions of Iraqi civilians without power and clean water could not be reached for comment

Of all sad words
Of tongue or pen
The saddest are these
/pol/ was right again

explorations: I found the most recent ants9front iso available, at https://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/9ants/ (9ants5.64.iso) and decided to give it a test-drive. Installation was a breeze and having access to venti/fossil was a welcome sight during the installation. I also found a discussion started by mycroftiv himself, https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta5071137bc09d294-M34f4c8d6b760d986a6fe1a53 , which gives a subjective but valuable history of the reasons for 9front and the things that changed since that fork. I really like reading mycroftiv’s writings, there’s a good person in there who just wants to have fun with his computerator.

The install went great, but things like sysupdate are still using mercurial, and using the deprecated mercurial repositories at https://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front – and if these were both git repos I’d be perfectly cozy just changing the scripts to use a different origin, it’s moving from hg to git which is a bigger step I think. gridstart and the rest of the gridchat stuff doesn’t work out of the box anymore with 9gridchan.org having fallen to the scalpers after mycroftiv’s frustration with “chan culture”. So it updates, but the last time the hg repo had been updated was more than a year ago. Nonetheless, grio and hub work a charm; for reasons beyond me at the moment the rio-themes.patch doesn’t seem to want to work anymore, as it looks for files that seemingly don’t exist? So I’m just riding the soothing teals and black-on-white at the moment. It really is a shame that 9front didn’t run with the 9ants stuff after mycroftiv; he basically giftwrapped for them a means to bring if not agreement, options to the non-owned plan9 forks. But that last bit is just my opinion so far.

I’m not quite sure where to start on transitioning the entire filesystem from hg-sourced to git-sourced, but if I can do that then I have 9front 64-bit with ANTS and the ability to update to the most recent changes, barring any unforeseen branch conflicts.

But that’s for later. Need a little break.

// @p @dubh

fedi is fun and all the right people are upset they cannot control it

@cell Hearing the difference now isn’t the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don’t want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.

@selea I've always loved how companies block smaller email domains like Tutanota and others for "spam", yet Gmail has more spam than all of them combined, and rarely puts any actual effort other than automation to solving it.

@bonifartius Memorizing IPv6 addresses could be a thing. Introduce it in kindergarten and promote it to a national sport.

Someone please make one.
LoRa, packet HAM, gopher and Gemini over LoRa also please and thank you.