Will these AI contraptions clean gutters? That would be awesome. Thx
Michael Dexter
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Dexter's Law: Only proprietary software vendors want proprietary software and only fascists want fascism. Toots are my own. Self-employed. Father of three.
I aim to keep this to technical topics relating to bhyve and OpenZFS, and the occasional humor and Latvia.
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Wait. They’re all inside stock trading deals? 😐
Not that you asked about… word processing in 2026 but:
🥚LibreOffice now speaks markdown! But it strips out comments, as there isn’t a standard
🥚Word does not yet speak markdown, but does support ODT files
🥚Google Docs can now export markdown and makes comments into footnotes
🥚LibreOffice supports password-protected ODT files, but nothing else reads them
🥚Password-protected .docx files are supported by LibreOffice and Google Docs either offers “Preview” or strips the encryption for editing, while TextEdit shows AES encryption noise
🥚BBEdit can open .docx files, though they are not exactly user-friendly
🥚Collabora and OnlyOffice (Sveiki!) reportedly support encrypted .docx files
(I rarely use file-level encryption but it has its place and readability is important)
🥚Word mail merge is very broken while LibreOffice’s worked quite well (used for the BSDCan 2025 badges)
🥚I hope the spreadsheets aren’t making up numbers and I fear the interoperability of presentations
🐣Converted documents will gladly jump from say, 128KB to 1.2M with the exact same content. Consider copy/paste to the format of choice.
🐣RTF has no T.
😐It’s 2026 and I still don’t know how best to sit down and make a to do list that is available on my phone and desktop.
Of course you want a console-based word processor! I have some good news and some bad news…
The good: WordGrinder!
The bad: “DEPRECATED: broken since 2023, maintainer AWOL”
Might you have a series of sqlite3 scripts to dedupe and manage Chrome browser history and session chaos?
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Did UNIX/Unix tapes have live file systems to dump in or tree of resources to pull from? Or something else!
@Tubsta Make noise. Show your work. Post to lists. Reach out to individuals. Maybe even join a podcast.
It’s an imprecise process either way.
Putting on my storage hat…
Windows hasn’t supported native NVMe UNTIL SOON!
The hell?
It’s an open-enough standard.
People have been buying “premium” drives for years.
And all a bunch of SCSI emulation? 😳
The recording of the January 15th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the EDK2 port update, virtio-scsi improvements, Windows NVMe driver surprises, bhyvectl(8) IPC changes, Unix domain socket support for the frame buffer, MAJOR unprivileged bhyve updates, MAJOR PCI hot-plug updates with demo, bhyve/ARM64 news, CPU pinning, #OpenZFS ARC management, and more!
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@h3artbl33d u mean like @bsdtv has been nudging?
@encthenet @bsdtv @h3artbl33d Docs?
I have been curious about IPFS but never seen it in action.