Earlier today, I published a 10,000 word deep dive into Sun Microsystems's ecosystem of the late 2000s - covering their final SPARC workstation (the Ultra 45), awesome expansions like the SunPCI IIIpro (an entire x86 PC on a PCI card!), the Sun Ray thin client environment (including all the real hardware and working setups), and much more, on @osnews.

https://www.osnews.com/story/143570/living-my-best-sun-microsystems-ecosystem-life-in-2025/

This was a ton of work, and consumed my life for a few months. Few websites publish stuff like this anymore, and I'm glad I happen to run one where people still appreciate meticulous writing like this. If you want more, feel free to donate to our Ko-Fi or become a Patreon:

https://ko-fi.com/thomholwerda/
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That being said, none of this would've been possible without the insanely generous donations from @kdedude and @vab - I can't emphasize enough how grateful I am to them. ♥️

The US loves white women who claim their privilege has been threatened.

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2025-11-17 1000: @cubicgarden - #Founder and #firestarter of cubicgarden.ltd. Previously at #BBC RD,.

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🇪🇺✅ SUCCESS: We've prevented mandatory #ChatControl through the back door!🎉 A big win & THANKS to everyone! 🙏

But ⚠️: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year!

https://chatcontrol.eu

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 56,349: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-16/trump-buys-another-82-million-of-corporate-and-municipal-bonds

Australia has issued passports with X gender markers as a matter of standard practice since 2011. Yet, 14 years later, the Australian flag carrier won’t let me check in using their app or kiosks like everyone else, and I have to wait in queue for the check in desk—a problem I’ve never had with Air NZ.

Automatically blocking any account that uses Harry Potter to farm engagement. It is time to move past Harry Potter as a society, we do not need to keep maintaining JK Rowling's cashflow or propping a series that actually is not very well written and chock full of offensive racial stereotypes and literary cliches.

#bookstodon #movies #books #films

Mostly posting here so I will have a place to link it to a friend...

Just want to point out that none of those important and powerful billionaires stepped up during the government shutdown to make sure people were still being fed or didn’t get evicted from their homes.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist. There is no justification for that kind of hoarding.

This one covers porting to #bevy 0.17, moving to Avian for physics, and a lot of QoL fixed. #rust #GameDev #indiedev

Lots of images and videos in this one. https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-11-16/

So the inside plastic of my washer-dryer had a crack for a while.... One or two drops found their way in the inside... But now out of nowhere it now has three cracks in total.

Does anyone have any idea how and with what I could glue this? It has to last a few months...

Will throw it away when I move next year... So it doesn't have to look good...

#diy #RightToRepair #FediHelp #bastler

@futurebird @TheBreadmonkey @KevBot Thank you! I used to have really nice mid-century furniture, but it got destroyed by movers when going from Detroit to Chicago, so I just sort of gave up on nice things since I move a lot.

But the sturdy little metal doodads have survived, so I'm happy to lug them along with me.

I also have a lot of cool vintage projectors (both slide and film), but I rotate them out whenever I move depending on whatever can fit wherever.

In this apartment, I only had a narrow space for an end table so I found this little thing and my two Airequipt projectors happened to fit perfectly on the shelves.

I found the green one first and then the brown one years later. The green is my favorite, but I figured I'd pick up the brown one so they wouldn't be lonely.

https://itsfoss.com/rust-alternative-cli-tools/

14 Rust-based Alternatives to classic Linux CLI tools

- exa: Alternative to ls
- bat: Alternative to cat
- dust: Alternative to du
- fd: Alternative to find
- ripgrep (rg): Alternative to grep
- duf: Alternative to df
- procs: Alternative to ps
- tldr: Alternative to man
- broot: Alternative to tree
- zoxide: Alternative to cd
- lsd: Alternative to ls
- bottom: Alternative to top
- hyperfine: Alternative to time (and more)
- xplr: Alternative to nnn

#Linux #CLI #Rust

I don't like hitting bystanders with a hammer, but hitting bystanders with a hammer isn't going anywhere, it's just how the world works now.

#mozilla #opensource #ai

I would like to point out at this time that there are no email exchanges between Epstein and drag queens.

Tell me you've never watched Star Trek without telling me

#STTOS #StarTrek