hpr4581 :: Sharp Intake of Breath City (A.K.A.) How I learnt to stop worrying about the fork bomb

My journey into the magickal world of beastie bits on disks and daemons all the way down...

Hosted by not_toby on Monday, 2026-02-23 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
freebsd, openbsd, apple, woz, BMX, magick, esoterica, skateboarding, yoga, arthritis, hpr. 1.

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Duration: 00:36:31
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Note: The following code `:(){ :|:& };:` was replaced with Fork Bomb in the title.


Ever wanted to hear a middle age man waffle on incoherently for half an hour about how he went from BMX bum to BSD botherer (1) ????

Well then, you've come to the right place :-) Behold my banal FLOSS adventure of 15 very odd years in all it's hax & glory!

You're got to give it away to keep it ;-)

  1. Weirdly there is a wonderful Scottish BMX brand called BSD... If you ever want some cool BSD stickers or T-Shirts they make some funky stuff...

P.S. Apologies for the endless extravagant sharp intakes of breath... to be fair it's a better filler than "like" or "do you know what I mean"... :-/


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Comment #1 posted on 2026-02-17 10:56:14 by Archer72

First episode

Hi, not_toby

This was an interesting first episode, with a lot to unpack.
- yes, Microsoft did ruin everything
- BMX and skateboarding might be an interesting topic
- Would like to hear more about automation scripts, definitely of interest to hackers.
- Computer is the bicycle of the mind - 100% yes
- BSD's and Macbooks is interesting
- Linux Outlaws - Thank you for reminding me of these guys
- Good comparison and contrast of OpenBSD vs FreeBSD

Cheers,
Archer72

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