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  1. Probably the most useful piece of code I've written to make my life easier is an Enum generator for Ruby.

    https://mroach.com/2026/03/enum-types-in-ruby/

    #ruby #rubylang

  2. @mroach Yup, that's basically the point of my original post.
    - Mainstream folks had no clue who #AlexHonnold was up until #FreeSolo
    - People outside of #paragliding bubble hardly ever heard of #ChriglMaurer
    - Unless you're into awesome trail performances, the name #KílianJornet quite likely does not ring a bell
    - etc.

    The assumption that because something is popular (in my bubble) that people will generally know about it, is quite likely not true.

  3. @mroach Yup, that's basically the point of my original post.
    - Mainstream folks had no clue who #AlexHonnold was up until #FreeSolo
    - People outside of #paragliding bubble hardly ever heard of #ChriglMaurer
    - Unless you're into awesome trail performances, the name #KílianJornet quite likely does not ring a bell
    - etc.

    The assumption that because something is popular (in my bubble) that people will generally know about it, is quite likely not true.

  4. @mroach Yup, that's basically the point of my original post.
    - Mainstream folks had no clue who #AlexHonnold was up until #FreeSolo
    - People outside of #paragliding bubble hardly ever heard of #ChriglMaurer
    - Unless you're into awesome trail performances, the name #KílianJornet quite likely does not ring a bell
    - etc.

    The assumption that because something is popular (in my bubble) that people will generally know about it, is quite likely not true.

  5. @mroach Yup, that's basically the point of my original post.
    - Mainstream folks had no clue who #AlexHonnold was up until #FreeSolo
    - People outside of #paragliding bubble hardly ever heard of #ChriglMaurer
    - Unless you're into awesome trail performances, the name #KílianJornet quite likely does not ring a bell
    - etc.

    The assumption that because something is popular (in my bubble) that people will generally know about it, is quite likely not true.

  6. @mroach Yup, that's basically the point of my original post.
    - Mainstream folks had no clue who #AlexHonnold was up until #FreeSolo
    - People outside of #paragliding bubble hardly ever heard of #ChriglMaurer
    - Unless you're into awesome trail performances, the name #KílianJornet quite likely does not ring a bell
    - etc.

    The assumption that because something is popular (in my bubble) that people will generally know about it, is quite likely not true.

  7. @mroach @MisuseCase @fluffykittycat @eff

    The thing is: there _are_ better solutions out there to verify age online without compromising #privacy (and I'm disappointed by the #EFF complaining, but not proposing alternative solutions).

    Sometimes #Math can help ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology to promote privacy in age assurance (Google, July 2025):

    blog.google/technology/safety-

    #ZeroKnowledgeProof #Cryptography

  8. @mroach @kalleboo I managed to bring up a Microsoft Mail 3.0 server in the Digitopolis zone. The server is a faceless background extension; all configuration happens in the client by logging into the magic "Network Manager" account with a magic default password (which I changed, obviously.) When new mail comes in, you get a big notification alert.

    #GlobalTalk #AppleTalk #MARCHintosh

  9. I found documentation for AppleTalk on Windows 2000 to be a bit scattered and there are some gotchas along the way, so I documented my findings so far.

    Once I figure out the guest file access issue on 2000, I'll have found feature parity between it and NT 4.

    mroach.com/2025/04/windows-200

    #appletalk #windows2000

  10. I finally made my own car livery in Gran Turismo 7. I was plane spotting at Copenhagen airport and the security cars got my wheels turning. :playstation:

    #GranTurismo #PlayStation

  11. I finally made my own car livery in Gran Turismo 7. I was plane spotting at Copenhagen airport and the security cars got my wheels turning. :playstation:

    #GranTurismo #PlayStation

  12. I finally made my own car livery in Gran Turismo 7. I was plane spotting at Copenhagen airport and the security cars got my wheels turning. :playstation:

    #GranTurismo #PlayStation

  13. I finally made my own car livery in Gran Turismo 7. I was plane spotting at Copenhagen airport and the security cars got my wheels turning. :playstation:

    #GranTurismo #PlayStation

  14. I finally made my own car livery in Gran Turismo 7. I was plane spotting at Copenhagen airport and the security cars got my wheels turning. :playstation:

    #GranTurismo #PlayStation

  15. Of all the fancy cars available in Gran Turismo 7, I get a kick out of things like driving a delivery van around a race track and doing scenic photoshoots with it. :playstation:

    #PlayStation #GranTurismo

  16. Of all the fancy cars available in Gran Turismo 7, I get a kick out of things like driving a delivery van around a race track and doing scenic photoshoots with it. :playstation:

    #PlayStation #GranTurismo

  17. Of all the fancy cars available in Gran Turismo 7, I get a kick out of things like driving a delivery van around a race track and doing scenic photoshoots with it. :playstation:

    #PlayStation #GranTurismo

  18. Of all the fancy cars available in Gran Turismo 7, I get a kick out of things like driving a delivery van around a race track and doing scenic photoshoots with it. :playstation:

    #PlayStation #GranTurismo

  19. Of all the fancy cars available in Gran Turismo 7, I get a kick out of things like driving a delivery van around a race track and doing scenic photoshoots with it. :playstation:

    #PlayStation #GranTurismo

  20. Another day, another 30 year old computer getting in on the IPv6 action. This time it's an SGI O2 running IRIX 6.5.

    It only took me a few hours to setup a network installation server for the software and remember how to use inst and find the right systune but hey, now we're golden. :sgi:​

    (Install eoe.sw.ipv6, reboot, systune ip6_enable 1, reboot)

    #IRIX #SiliconGraphics #IPv6

  21. I got bored of trying to make AppleTalk sing and dance on Windows NT and 2000 so I switched to an OS with a good native implementation: IRIX. :sgi:​

    #GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh #SiliconGraphics #SGI #IRIX #AppleTalk #AUNIXSystemIKnowThis

  22. Yak shaving is a hard to avoid.
    I'm wanting to get this little Rails app out into the world but of course I'm thinking wait, I'm going to self-host this, so why don't I just self-host Gitea and a container registry?

    So, new homelab self-hosting project is getting in the way.

    #homelab #selfhosthing #gitea

  23. Today I needed to write a passphrase generator and I was looking around for a good word list for this. The EFF publishes a list of words that are a good fit for passphrases for reasons they explain. Very nice!

    https://www.eff.org/dice

    Dead-simple Ruby code to generate some passphrases that are 3 words long, include a digit, capital letters, and dashes.

    words = 3.times.map { word_list.sample.capitalize }
    ix = rand(words.count)
    words[ix] = format("%s%i", words[ix], rand(9))
    words.join("-")
    

    #Ruby #RubyLang

  24. I've been messing around with AppleTalk on Windows 2000 via C and C++, two languages I'm just not proficient in and not super enthused about learning. I was considering doing this in Rust, a language I am more enthusiastic about. Just to make sure I wasn't reinventing a wheel, I did a little search for doing cross-platform AppleTalk with Rust and someone published a WIP project *yesterday* that does exactly this!

    https://github.com/FeralFirmware/TailTalk

    My goal, I think, is to be able to write most of this on Linux and cross-compile for Win32

    #MARCHintosh #AppleTalk #Rust