Gerard Braad

Gerard Braad

My opinions are my own. They do not reflect those of my employer.

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 𝑨𝑴𝑰𝑮𝑨, MegaDrive, MiSTer
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 | Principal Software Engineer
 & Manager, Software Engineering working on DevTools
 | Opinions are my own!
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Public soapbox account of:
 • @gbraad (Dutch)
 • @gbraad (private)
 • @gbraad (pixelfed)

Gerard Braad boosted:
2025-06-22

look mom, it's an #Amiga500 !! *scnr*

Image of a Sinclair PC200 compact computer
Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22

@danielalbu if that didn't make you feel old, what will...

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22

@lkundrak @NanoRaptor

Maybe one of the first stacked chip setups; a microcontroller with an eeprom.

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22
Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22

... e se non va in panic, puoi morire contento.

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22

Vedi Napoli, compila Linux e poi muori.

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22

@Wintermute_BBS @BlackICEBBS

The translation must have been terrible, but it is something we say, as our country is small.

Scheveningen is always nice.

This summer, when visiting family back home, we will also go there. Not sure if we can visit the computer museum, as my eldest rather likes to see Van Gogh and just drive around (he loves the sound of my mom's old Mini).

Share some photos of your favourite/beloved systems ;-)

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22

@Wintermute_BBS @BlackICEBBS

Veel plezier in ons kleine kikkerlandje

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22

... but it might be too late

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22

I predict that in 10 years we have a resurgence of Natural Intelligence...

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22

@jorge a flatpak application has access to the home folder, and when advertised as "a more secure solution", this can give people a false sense of safety...

But any application installed from the main repository could still pose the same threat. They do not have enough eyes to test and assure all their packages are safe.

It is very disingenuous, as they aren't anymore secure.

Gerard Braad boosted:
Jorge Castrojorge@hachyderm.io
2025-06-22

LOL Linux Mint's #flathub warning is so disingenuous.

Do they honestly think that this doesn't apply to their entire archive?

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-22

@vwbusguy

link shorts in the old format, otherwise they do not get expanded in a message

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-21

is your... eh... publication.. eh eh... the same... that... eh... got a... eh ... for eh... false ...

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-20

if apps obsidian check user; then
apps obsidian run user
elif apps obsidian check appimage; then
apps obsidian run appimage
elif apps obsidian check flatpak; then
apps obsidian run flatpak
else
echo "Obsidian is not installed."
fi

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-20

I interact with my VMs and containers as follows:

dev dotfedora exec zsh -c "dotfiles source; dotfiles update; apps list update; apps code install user"

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-19

Already loving this:

github.com/gbraad-dotfiles/app

$ apps codium install
Executing install for codium using block: install
Executing install for codium using block: user-install
Created symlink '...' → '/home/gbraad/.config/systemd/user/codium-server.service'.

instead of github.com/gbraad-vscode/code-

Gerard Braadgbraad
2025-06-19

the helper script:

github.com/gbraad-dotfiles/ups

which is part of my dotfiles, so I can easily do a:

ssh gbraad@... "dotfiles source; apps bundle/essential install"

on any of my machines

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