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zev honked back 25 Jun 2025 13:02 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/114745236375503041

@rk @cks ext4 on Linux still does!

$ man mke2fs
...
       -m reserved-blocks-percentage
              Specify the percentage of the file system blocks reserved for
              the super-user.  This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-
              owned daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function
              correctly after non-privileged processes are prevented from
              writing to the file system.  The default percentage is 5%.

zev honked 14 Jun 2025 23:57 -0700

Among the highlights from today's No Kings in Seattle...

zev honked 07 Jun 2025 03:49 -0700

Okay iproute2, what fun do you have in store for me tonight...

$ man ss
...
       FILTER := [ state STATE-FILTER ] [ EXPRESSION ]
              Please take a look at the official documentation for details regarding filters.
...

Uhm...is this man page I'm looking at unofficial? If so, where is the official documentation? My dogged searching culminated in...a yacc grammar. Which yes, I can read, but...I was sort of hoping for something in a natural language, not a collage-like mixture of C and EBNF.

zev honked 29 May 2025 23:36 -0700

Thought: the similarity between classic BASIC multiple-of-ten line numbers and common practices in MX record priority numbering

zev honked 23 May 2025 00:29 -0700

The echoes of Casablanca in Andor season 2 episodes 8 & 9 are the fan service I am here for.

zev honked back 16 May 2025 15:41 -0700
in reply to: https://federate.social/users/mattblaze/statuses/114519630743347693

@mattblaze @Disputatore Oh wow, this reminded me of something I hadn't thought of in quite a while...

In college a friend's chemistry lab group had a report due, and after each doing their respective parts, one of them was tasked with the final document preparation and hand-in. The other two found out some time later (after getting some concerned questions from the professor), that hand-in guy had apparently been quite high while doing so (on exactly what I don't know, possibly LSD?). At the time I saved copies of the actual files from my friend and managed to dig them up, and it's really quite something. (Some choice excerpts pictured here.)

So yeah, don't give LSD guy final edit...but sometimes LSD guy can take you by surprise.

colorful screenshots of a chemistry lab report by a student tripping absolute proverbial balls

colorful screenshots of a chemistry lab report by a student tripping absolute proverbial balls

colorful screenshots of a chemistry lab report by a student tripping absolute proverbial balls

colorful screenshots of a chemistry lab report by a student tripping absolute proverbial balls

zev honked back 22 Apr 2025 04:15 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/4vYhmmPL2mgjFnxXWR

Also, while I felt sort of silly photographing a car (and not even a terribly rare one here) while walking through a historic neighborhood of Kanazawa, when we walked back the same way an hour later I was amused to see someone else taking a picture of the very same one (though I'm not sure what his reasons for doing so were -- I'm guessing probably not the same as mine).

zev honked 22 Apr 2025 04:05 -0700

Data links are of course very important, but the creators of this vehicle felt so strongly about it that they named the whole car in honor of one.

small Japanese car emblazoned "CANBUS"

zev honked 19 Apr 2025 05:10 -0700

We really went in the wrong direction trying to rename French Fries as Freedom Fries; Japan did a much better job on the properly red-blooded, USA-friendly nomenclature.

Japanese food truck with a large sign advertising "American Long Potato"

zev honked back 11 Apr 2025 12:48 -0700
in reply to: https://social.kernel.org/objects/405efa4c-5ecf-4aa7-9dcf-6ec2ab8c12e5

@paulmckrcu @rw Oh neat, is someone producing prints of that now?

Also, looks like the Internet Archive has a couple others like it ("Unix Feuds", "Unix Views") that I don't think I've ever seen before: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Overacre%22 -- though I'll confess I'm not sure I entirely "get" the Views one...might someone with more historical knowledge than I be able to shed some light?

zev honked 07 Apr 2025 20:05 -0700

"I think all the things I cooked individually taste good, but I don't know if putting them together was the right move."

  • my wife, introducing dinner

zev honked 30 Mar 2025 00:58 -0700

Delicate Steve at Tractor Tavern this evening -- remarkably non-deafening, and with a great deal more dynamic range than a typical club show. Sort of missed the bass player that was part of the band last time I saw him/them (I think, it's been a while), but still a cool, very enjoyable time.

Delicate Steve playing live on stage