Awesome! Thank you!

I was making an effort at updating MacPorts' to 10.4p1, yet @Schamschula beat me to it!

The MacPorts' pam.patch and launchd.patch have been removed as they are no longer necessary.

Meanwhile: I also submitted a story to undeadly.org though I'll let the other editors check it for errors and publish it.

#OpenSSH #SecureShell #OpenSource #MacPorts #Encryption #Cryptography #PostQuantum

CC: @Damien Miller

IMHO, DynamicLand's "cummunal computing" is the coolest thing I have probably encountered in decades:

https://dynamicland.org/

The YouTube video intro is kind of a useful overview I guess? I was blessed to visit their earlier location in Oakland and WOW!

I haven't encountered their newer location in Berkeley yet. Someday hopefully!

There's something about being in physical proximity to your co-creators, that is absolutely transcendent. Not to disparage open source and such, yet it can feel very abstract and distant and impersonal.

And unfortunately, very often predated upon by those who are not active participants within a core community (e.g. Amazon, Alphabet Inc., FB/Meta/IG, etc.: all use Linux yet: where are Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg's code contributions? [no, I do not want Sapling, since I was personally friends with the author of mercurial, and knew him well enough to know he turned down job offers from some of the "Big Tech" companies, so why the fuck would I want to use Meta's fork?])

CC: @tante

Wait, what is the newest dirt with Bandcamp?

It saddens me, that their old office in Oakland aren't even vacant anymore.

It sickened me that Epic bought them, presumably in what more or less amounted to a pissing match with Apple, only to sell them off to Songtradr, which more or less fired all the remaining original Bandcamp employees (who were trying to unionize IIRC, too little, too late I guess).

TL;DR, to me at least: Bandcamp was gutted years ago.

I think Mirlo is trying to be a newer saner alternative? I dunno, I pitched in financially to some fundraiser years ago; though as a nerd, when I looked at their codebase, I kinda turned up my nose a little bit; it seems as if maybe in the ensuing years they're starting to get a little bit of traction?

Yet: I am not up on whatever the "current" is with Bandcamp. Near as I can discern, it's basically operating from the bones that were built by people who have long since been fired, and the musicians using it, probably are all none the wiser, since they're mostly musicians, not nerds like me.

CC: @Ramses Revengeday :revengeday:

I haven't explored much in the way of varying graphite in a while, yet spent a lot of money experimenting and have determined, at least among Pentel: I really dig their Graphgear 1000 metallic mechanical pencils; relative to their other plastic things; it has a tactile feel with some nice knurling that pleases my fingers.

I've observed some other mechanical pencils which have fascinating mechanisms to I guess rotate the graphite to facilitate more even wear? I have not gone down that rabbit hole yet. So many choices, so little financial wherewithall.

Nonetheless, thanks for sharing your finds! In particular, I have been desiring a better eraser; I'll give that Staedler-Mars a go!

CC: @tom jennings

My favorite were HuCards for the PCエンジン「enjin」which was also the first console with a CD-ROM attachment (and those are darned decent too, even decades later).

There are folks, in more recent years who have made ODE (Optical Disk Emulator) hardware to replace the failing moving parts CD-ROM drives; some have added additional functionality such as RGB output and whatnot. It's glorious!

I still have a sinking suspicion that some of those HuCards may have been rewritable, somehow? Mostly because I once owned some prototypes which had different games on them, than what the outer labels suggested. Those were purchased from a friend, who was friends with the son of someone who worked for NEC, so their provenance was not sus (aka they were not bootlegs) though the methodology of how that media may have been rewritten, was definitely not public knowledge; even in decades of dev circles and warez scenes, I have not heard so much as a peep.

CC: @Dio9sys

Similarly: I appreciate case insensitive filesystems as a user; yet as a coder and sysadmin, please: give me that case sensitivity.

Moreover as a polyglot who reads and writes in orthographic systems which are not alphabetical at all, the kneejerk "reaction" by some security wonks to insist on ASCII as a way to "mitigate" homograph attacks is all kinds of awful and I do not have sufficient screams for how upset it makes me feel when I encounter that level of dumbing down.

CC: @Deborah Pickett @🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑

Yeah, for me catgirls were an anime trope originally.

Though, as far as anime girls go: there are many more to choose from and that makes them all the more enticing for おたく「otaku」. Demon horn girls (e.g. ラム「ramu」"Lum" from うる星やつら「urusei yatsura」"Those obnoxious aliens" being a classic example from the late 1970s/early 1980s and a more recent reboot/remake)

CC: @Andrew Zonenberg @erin (dyke type)

Good to know! Thanks for the insights! I'll make a note of that in the PR.

CC: @Howard Chu @ Symas

Awesome! Thank you!

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' LMDB to 1.0.0 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/33380

GitHub's Continuous Integration checks passed OK.

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

#LMDB #LightningMemoryMappedDatabase #MacPorts #OpenSource
CC: @Howard Chu @ Symas

Don't forget the classic, Matthew 19:24 "And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." ;)

CC: @Danielle Foré @Keith Wansbrough

My condolences.

CC: @Miah Johnson