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evgandr

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Hello! My name is Eugene, I'm a software engineer earning money with #java and having fun with #c and #lisp.

Here I'm writing about my main hobbies: #cycling #diyelectronins #dragons #leathercraft #photography #retrocomputing. Also, there are toots about #FreeBSD and #Emacs. Some of my toots will be autodeleted every month.

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Move slow and fix things

#noai #nobridge

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@evgandr@bsd.cafe avatar evgandr , to random

Funny, that in the output displayed as "CBET4000" — the same letters used for the word "Light" (свет) in Russian. So, I read this line as "LIGHT4000" :drgn_blush_giggle:

The AwesomeWM with Solarized Light color theme and blue accent color (for thick window borders, etc). The system icon theme and cursor are taken from Haiku OS. The main panel a vertical and placed on the left. There are, from top to bottom: icons for workspaces, list of opened windows, violet colored widgets for CPU, RAM, temperature and battery, yellow widget for network information. And a clock. There are two windows: fullscreen Emacs window on the background, with opened json file with fastfetch configuration. The small xterm window on the foreground with the fastfetch output in it.
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@dmark@hachyderm.io avatar dmark , to random

Do you have a very old computer hooked up to the internet, and want to browse the web like it's 1996 again? Normally this is practically impossible, because a 1996 browser will choke on modern html, css, and javascript. And because most everything is encrypted with TLS 1.3.

Enter the http proxy server that solves both problems: Macproxy Classic

Well, this is in fact no news. The original Macproxy was created by Tyler Hicks-Wright in 2013. I created my fork in 2021. Another super cool fork, Macproxy Plus, emerged in 2024.

What is new today is that I combined the best of all forks, touched it up with some bug fixes and improvements, and polished it to a shine.

It's good stuff, I promise!

tarball: https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy_classic/releases/tag/v25.11.1
container image: https://hub.docker.com/r/rdmark/macproxy

wikipedia page
npr article

npr article
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evgandr ,
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@dmark Nice! A proxy for old browsers, which could be used with e.g. and didn't require C# runtime for operation :drgn_aww:

I'll definitely try to spin it up on my box :drgn_3c_evil:

@stf@chaos.social avatar stf , to random

we mapped 38ha in the local residential area, in total we found 410 cameras, with about 80-90% of those being ring or similar doorbell cameras. all of these pointing at the public sidewalks, all completely illegal. there is no way in this 'hood to move around without being tracked. people don't deserve the GDPR.

I imagine Bezos sitting at home and doing real-time tracking of individuals just based on facial recognition running on AWS.

fucking worst of all cyberpunk futures i hoped for. 😞

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@nicotentin @everydoor @stf The mode for adding POIs (left button with the tree icon on the bottom menu) should be selected and the map should be zoomed in enough — then the points for surveillance cameras will be displayed on the map in the Every Door.

As I know, currently there are no programs, which could display information about cameras from OSM DB, only the beforementioned site 🙁
The @CoMaps or doesn't display this sort of information, even in some sort of layer 🙁

Screenshot from EveryDoor application. There are map with bus stop and nearby road, and some colored dots for POIs (cyan dot near the bus stop) On the bottom there is description of the colored dots: Sea-colored dot: Trash can Red dot: Crossing with pedestrian signals Yellow dot: Yield sign Violet dot: Trolleybus stopping location Bright green dot: Trolleybus stop Cyan dot: Surveillance camera Black dot: Other
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    • @lw@bsd.cafe avatar lw , to random

    i use…

    evgandr ,
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    @lw I'm even use ps -aux instead of ps aux :drgn_blep:

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

    The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

    This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

    Source
    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

    Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it

    A screenshot of support.mozilla.org Forum name: SUMO community discussions Title: End of Japanese community Text by user named marsf that reads: Hi, I am a locale leader of SUMO Japanese community. I have contributed to the Support over 20 years, before the beginning of support.mozilla.org. Today, November 4, we decided to end our SUMO Japanese community. In October 22, the sumobot was introduced to Japanese KB articles. I cannot accept its behavior and no words. * It doesn't follow our translation guidelines. * It doesn't respect current localization for Japanese users, so they were lost. * It approves its direct English MT immediately for All archived KB articles. * It approves only in 72 hours after its updates, so we lost our work to train new contributors. * It has been working now without our acceptance, without controls, without communications. * Over 300 Knowledge Base articles are overridden by sumobot. They are all happened on the product server, not on staging server. I understand that this is mass destruction of our work and explicit violation to the Mozilla mission, allowed officially. Therefore, I (marsf) declare: * I quit to contribute to support.mozilla.org. * I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for SUMO bot and AIs. * I request to remove all my translation from learned data of SUMO AIs. However, individual Japanese contributors may want to work in their responsibility. It is their choice, we don't care nor support. Bye.
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    @nixCraft as Hayao Miyazaki said (when there was a storm of LLM-generated pictures reusing the Ghibli Studio art style):

    "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

    I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves."

    I think this quote also fits in this situation with too :drgn_sigh:

    @evgandr@bsd.cafe avatar evgandr , to random

    Pretty interesting how an old hardware works well and compute well in the strange configurations.

    Prereqs: Intel Atom N2800 1866 MHz and 2 Gb RAM.

    Since there are no NetBSD builds of xray-core and v2raya — I spin up a FreeBSD VM inside the Qemu and without NVMM accelerator (not supported by my CPU). Execute these programs inside this VM — and the server still running and even doesn't overload :drgn_shocked:

    Load average graph from Munin. Overall usage were at near 0.3 but raised to 0.8 at 11:30. With one visible spike to 2.8 at near 12:50
    The memory usage by category graph. It shows rise of anon memory from 0.3 Gb to 0.8 Gb at near 11:00 or 12:00.
    Processes graph from Munin. It shows that there are near 53 processes before 11:00 and near 65 processes after this time.

    Processes graph from Munin. It shows that there are near 53 processes before 11:00 and near 65 processes after this time.
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    @evgandr@bsd.cafe avatar evgandr , to random

    Ski slope in Kavgolovo

    B&W artificial ski slope in the Kavgolovo. There are black woods and artificial slope, and the white sky.
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    @evgandr@bsd.cafe avatar evgandr , to random

    VLC!

    An orange road cone with white reflective strip in the middle of it. The dust and sand are on the background.
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    @evgandr@bsd.cafe avatar evgandr , to random

    https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/10/10/emacs-ditch-use-package.html

    Inspired by this https://piaille.fr/@Zenie/115337522067362666 @Zenie toot and corresponding blogpost, I rewrite my configuration in the "old style" and wrote a blogpost about it:

    It works, my problems with some configuration bits are disappeared, but Emacs now starts slower. But this is not a problem for me because I'm using Emacs daemon and all my configuration loads in 8 seconds even in the X220 with i7 :drgn_happy_blep:

    @evgandr@bsd.cafe avatar evgandr , to random

    Photo of the light blue wall lit by the sunset. The window frame and the railings cast warm shadows on the wall. The light and the shadows are placed diagonally, from the left up corner of the photo to the down right corner.
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    @aesthr@wandering.shop avatar aesthr , to random

    USB Type B (full-size) is a good connector and CompactFlash is the perfect size for removable storage media. Personal technology should be operating on that scale of things.

    I will die on this hill.

    a compact flash card

    a compact flash card
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    evgandr ,
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    @randahl @aesthr So, looks like we successfully outsmarted these greedy folks :drgn_blush_giggle:

    @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org avatar frameworkcomputer , to random

    Playing with Omarchy on Framework Laptop 12 https://omarchy.org/

    Screenshot of Krita and system activity in Omarchy
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    @frameworkcomputer Huh, pretty inreresting shell functions in this distro, I need to steal some of them for my Eshell :drgn_wrench:

    https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/58/shell-functions