Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

#inktober #inktober2019 day 3: bait. When you're fishing for starfish (starfishing?), what better bait can reach the stars where starfish live than a star balloon?

Despite resigning from the FSF, rms is still the leader of the GNU Project. Today, project members released a statement saying that maybe he should go. https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/

One of the #FreeBSD maintainers replied on birdsite to my upgrade woes a few weeks ago, and I forgot to remark here what became of it: This is apparently a regression, and I have a bug open on it. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240760

I think I can sustain two quick ballpoint drawings a day. #inktober #inktober2019 day 2: mindless. If you follow the news at all, read it at your pace, don't watch it at the TV's pace.

It's been so long since I drew anything on paper, & I'm way late. #inktober day 1: ring. My av in feline form has bells on the end of her tail, & I never showed any detail of how the band (ring) holds them on.

Every programming tutorial on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MAlSjtxy5ak

#FreeBSD upgrade from 11 to 12 weekend-destroying gotcha: If your zfs-root geli passphrase has runs of uppercase letters, you can't use the caps lock key anymore because it counts as a keystroke now, & your system won't boot past the new kernel.

Need to upgrade your hard drive? Here's what you were looking at 21 years ago, courtesy of CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9806/12/harddrive.idg/

Trivia: Did you know that, until 1973, #Unix reset the Epoch every year? The first epoch was 1971-01-01, the second 1972-01-01, & the third 1973-01-01, & time from all three were measured as 60th of a second, guaranteeing an overflow every 2 years. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11573024/when-was-unix-epoch-time-revised-from-1971-to-current-1970-value

The OS I use daily is turning 50, depending on how you define its start. #Unix50

On #Unix's 40th birthday, the IEEE's Spectrum magazine told of its start like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20190228090043/https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix/0

The 50th anniversary of Unix is particularly reminding me of my age because I was born within days of its manual's first edition: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html

Thankfully, *that* anniversary is still 2 years off. :p

"Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure": https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/unix-at-50-it-starts-with-a-mainframe-a-gator-and-three-dedicated-researchers/

Huh. Following the boot splash instructions in the #FreeBSD Handbook https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-splash.html burned me because, for whatever reason, my PC starts up at 1920x1080, not vesa, before the boot menu. I think it kernel-panicked because it kept rebooting.

To boot successfully again, I had to get a loader prompt (option 3) & type:
disable-module vesa
boot

Why does it take me so long to muster the courage to do something as simple as saying hi to someone?

pictured: my computer den
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6yZq6liDeM