Jeff Armstrong @jeff@toot.rainbow-100.com

Episode 65 of the Jeff Reads His Book #podcast is finally up! Have a listen and write in with your suggestions for fantasy inn and pub names!

https://jeffreadshisbook.com/?name=2020-06-13_jeffreadshisbook_b01_e65.mp3

Starting to populate all this disk space!

Mounted my MFM emulator in the #Rainbow with a little window so I can see the blinkies

I have never seen that much disk space on a #Rainbow!

The #nwsl accepted a $1M to $2M loan under the PPP. Interesting, and less than I thought.

https://pppreport.org/company/national+women+27s+soccer+league+l+l+c

Finally! One #Rainbow is finally formatting a 67MB hard drive (albeit via an emulated drive)

On my #Raspbian desktop I added a workspace switcher to the panel, which resulted in all window manager controls no longer working (maximize, minimize, close, moving, etc.). Removed the workspace switch, but the problem persists. #linux sucks.

Minor LR-87 #gemini client updates to add timeouts to read operations from servers. It's been driving me a little nuts...

New snaps are pushed for amd64 and armhf Linux, still need to get the win32 builds out...

Looks like #pkgsrc 2020Q2 was released today. The OSF/1 (aka DEC/Compaq/HP Tru64) platform bootstrap bug still exists, so you can't actually *use* it on OSF/1, though it's a "supported platform..."

I can't ever imagine using #netbsd in production again. It's just so flaky and untested. Much like #pkgsrc...

Set up a #NetBSD cloud server about a month ago, and I’ve been lightly testing it. First day I took it live? Corrupted filesystem, whole thing crashed while serving static files via lighttpd. Why do I give this OS a chance anymore?

Modern machines are tied up with some release testing, so...

My Mac Mini kernel panics every time it’s on. I cannot comprehend how people use this OS. Didn’t happen pre-Catalina...

I turned on my Windows machine this morning only to be spammed by “the New Edge” with a literal full screen ad and now Edge icons everywhere. WTF?

Kitchen remodel lunch!

Drastic speed improvements to my LR-87 #gemini (or @gemini) client related to laying out text with long paragraphs. Dumb renderer also no longer displays its "END OF FILE" marker.

Damn cool demo of an #atari Hotz system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU0-cb-EOfY&t

Something just blew in my DEC VR241 monitor: no picture and it smells bad.

Episode 65 of the Jeff Reads His Book #podcast is finally up! Have a listen and write in with your suggestions for fantasy inn and pub names!

https://jeffreadshisbook.com/?name=2020-06-13_jeffreadshisbook_b01_e65.mp3

Roasted tomato stew