Ah yes. OpenBSD. Well known for bloat…

Come on.

This.

I suppose tar stands for tape archive. It hadn’t occured to me.

Just like t hadn’t occurred to me that x86’s popcnt instruction stands for “population count” :)

Find something broken/unimplemented and fix/implement it.

If you can’t code, you can help with documentation or by reproducing/expanding existing, but incomplete, bug reports.

This sounds fantastic!

Just imagine the ad-serving possibilities…

Maybe not exactly what you are after, but: https://sr.ht/

I hate my knees touching when I sleep too! What pillow do you use for knees?

See also https://maxima.sourceforge.io/

This was my go to software for experimenting with linear algebra etc. Haven’t had the need recently though.

I like the duckduckgo browser for android.

Also has a vpn built in to block app trackers.

It can’t be worse than tex!

Gah. I thought we were talking llamatron 2112.

I’m on Revelation Space.

I don’t really have a fav, but I’ve enjoyed lots of sci fi authors over the years.

• Frederick Pohl (especially Gateway, but not the sequel)
• J. G. Ballard
• Phillip K Dick
• Alfred Bester
• William Gibson
• George Orwell
• Andy Weir
• Strutgasky Brothers (Loved Roadside Picnic)
• Paolo Bacigalupi
• China Meiville

The list goes on

I’m reading my first Alastair Reynolds now and I can see why fans of Banks might like it.

With or without the “M”? :)

This has been tried a few times now. Why will this one succeed?

I used to eat baked beans cold from the can when I was a student.

You know that the food is cooked in the sealed can at the factory, right?

I watched a documentary about the heinz factory and that was one of the surprising facts I took away from it.

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