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I am presently torturing myself with CDE. It's in FreeBSD's pkg repo and ports tree, and it provides a functional desktop, but it's too broken to be usable. The right-click menu is often incomplete, some tools crash and dump core, and Information Manager errors out with a configuration-related error message the 'Net has never written about.

That last one is sad because its command, dtinfo, runs just fine from the terminal emulator and reveals a complete and comprehensive help system library.

TIL Apple iOS will sometimes randomly alter a Mail account's IMAP settings, changing the SMTP authentication method from "Password" to "NTLM" for no reason.

@mavica_again This reads as both a depressing reality and a determined mission statement.

So apparently Fred Rogers Productions just started a new YouTube channel where they'll be uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

youtube.com/@misterrogersneigh

#Television #Children #Parenting #MisterRogers

me: i would like to see more dogs when i’m out and about. it really brightens up my day

the universe: say no more chief

posix protogens blushing: >////<
windows protogens blushing: >\\\\<

A random stranger said I reminded her of a girlfriend she had in her younger years. I don't know how I should be feeling, but I feel gender and happy.

The enemy in feminism is the patriarchy and toxic masculinity.

Not men.

Read that again.

Men also suffer under patriarchy and plenty of women reinforce toxic masculinity in men.

Hating men is not in fact part of feminism.

Why is it called "selfhosting" and not "subsistence server farming"? ​:neocat_think_owo:

Some POSIX resources I've had bookmarked since before the question needed to be asked:

Rich’s sh (POSIX shell) tricks: etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html

GitHub - dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible: 📖 A collection of pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes. · GitHub: github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-

POSIX Shell Tutorial: grymoire.com/Unix/Sh.html

I want smaller programs with fewer features that take longer to write by people who are happier to do so and I’m not kidding

@JulieSqveakaroo 1. Integrating the I-inclusive progress pride flag into a pac-roo is brilliant. :3

2. NO, DON'T EAT THE INTERSEX PRIDE DOT!

3. Okay, wait, is that actually some sort of new pride power pellet instead?

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