Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

Friday Night Vibes

Layer Zero, Friday, 14 February (19:00)

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/friday-night-vibes-134

there are 2 types of man page

No manual entry for skelington

or

NAME
skelington [havxhc]{%^%%%},dffqq0&&&@“&” -jcndnknn
haha, this is a cool program i came up with on an acid trip in zimbabwe in 2014. it all started when i was charged by a wild GNU, which gave me a distaste for the acronym. anyway, that’s how i met richard stallman! he was shortly trampled to death thereafter, and i saw his “skelington” haha. and wow, the tool has really grown over time. let me document every single itty bitty tiny flag that 1 person on the fringe has ever used and never talk about the 99% usecase.

FLAGS
-a Wow, this one does it all really. Well except when you use it with -c, then it functions kinda like -d. be sure to put this flag last! there’s a data integrity bug otherwise (you risk rm -rf) good luck!

-b boy is this flag handy dandy, it adds bytesize slice info to the output buffer!

-c cake - this outputs CAKE in allcaps (mixedCase if you use -m), but the ordering is not consistent unless used with -o

-d delete

-o order things, including flags! flags are ordered last.

-m (not implemented yet) munge data (inject random data) so that tou can fuzztest your output, very useful for developing. fuzztest reads from /proc/fuzzy/boi and injects 1 datum of horseshit per bitwise integer! that way you can quantize your garbage instead of just shoveling it down ur throat (put down the cheetos)

-M this is actually supposed to be -m but for historical reasons it’s -M. anyways, it stands for “murder” - you figure out the rest

AUTHOR
Written by me, jes ( @j3s) and nobody else, copyright 2025, i love god, juice, and jeans! sheesh

REPORTING BUGS
just don’t please, i barely have enough time to live as it is

EXAMPLES
fuck examples! this is a “man”page, not an “example”page. if you want examples, go ask reddit neckbeards, or catgirl hackers on discord. actually, nevermind reddit.

my friends & i created a podcast called “torment nexus” where we talk shit on the tech world. enjoy, if you must. https://tormentnexus.gay/@tormentnexus/posts/22913a83-cebd-4b36-b465-56e4e6c1a9fd

I wonder if they would still use jimbo wales' picture and name in wikipedia fundraising drives if more people knew he was also the guy who created wikia/fandom.com

tried to restore an ipod and it wasn’t appearing at all on a modern mac so i had to try the old macbook. my backlight is busted but im thinking so different rn

PSA: if you're on a mega-instance like mastodon.social and want to move to a better instance but you don't want to leave your history behind, I will personally help you run my SQL script that loads your account export into a gotosocial database

https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/masto-gear-solid

IRL SOUPCHAT 3

Layer Zero, Saturday, 11 January (11:00)

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/irl-soupchat-3-1

@FediPact

pronouncing .gitignore like it's an Italian word

Docker

The Onion please buy the New York Times next

self-hosting
community-hosting

Repurposing Chromebooks: a general method.

A bit more than a year and a half ago, I bought around 10 cheap Chromebooks to better understand how they can be turned back into regular PCs. Here are the notes I took. I just wanted to remember the overall idea and not a detailed list of step-by-step instructions, as it differs from each model. Basically, I just quickly documented the installation pattern, so I can do it again next time, or teach others to do it.

https://moddingfridays.bleu255.com/Repurposing_Chromebooks

Maybe this can be useful for others, who are looking for a rough TL;DR process, or are contemplating the idea to do the same and would like an overview of the different main steps.

#chromebook #chromeos #laptop #permacomputing #google #linux #coreboot