hobbyist sysadmin and tech support person, still occasionally seen on IRC
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Last Notes npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity It turns out that you can just compile the PciSioSerialDxe.efi from EDK2 and load it via your fs0:\startup.nsh to make the EFI Shell show up on a generic PC's serial port npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity openssh.git is down, glibc.git is down, gnupg.git is down, libssh.git is down... I don't like the world where I have to fall back to Github mirrors. especially if github also keeps going down npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity @nprofile…jsss I mean it's still dynamically linked to external libraries in general, just the *Haskell* parts are statically-linked (like aur/git-annex-standalone), without the libHSxxx.so stuff npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity huh, turns out /usr/bin/git-annex on Arch takes over half a second just to *load all of the libraries* since it's built dynamically-linked (while on Debian it's statically linked and the same invocation takes 0.015s instead of 0.6s) npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity @nprofile…h6ty @nprofile…j9hp tbh those two could be one and the same - I can imagine something like logging in to a walled BBS that happens to also gateway to a dozen other walled BBSes, like FidoNet or FirstClass or Hotline or something such... (and meanwhile, most Git repositories and platforms are rather walled nowadays. Like all the gitlabs with "signup disabled due to spam, sorry" or the single-user forgejos without any signup at all.) npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity would be neat if youtube allowed you to search by transcript npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity In theory I like using Harica as our CA, especially given that it's run out of a university, but they definitely need to find someone to re-do their whole frontend... npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity valid Bash syntax (to confuse C programmers with): npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity I discovered https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/ npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity bit late to post a Friday screenshot but I thought it was funny npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity had a thought: what happens to the kernel when the *major* version number gets too big for Linus? npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity ...on the topic of argv[0] being mutable https://social.treehouse.systems/@grawity/114910244850655560 npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity @nprofile…duyn To be fair. My boss (head of IT) did once discover that his computer got turned into an FTP server. ("I need a public IP because I want to RDP from anywhere" ended real fast that day.) npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity Every time I turn on one of the PCs at work with GIGABYTE mainboards, I keep thinking: npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity @nprofile…f4xf unfortunately, the way Audacity's autosaving works, I recall 1-2 years ago it led to a bug where merely opening an old project with new Audacity would immediately corrupt the project... and looking at their GitHub, they now just recently had a similar bug *again* npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity @nprofile…84gr make sure to run termshark under systemd-run -p MemoryMax=1G or something such, before it accidentally OOMs your whole server. termshark does that sometimes npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity 1) this is the first time I've seen a pull request attributed *entirely* to an 'AI' account, with its driver's name only found partially hidden in commit metadata, 2) on the positive side, the response by Oracle employee was surprisingly direct npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity If a building burns down, is it more appropriate to delete it from OpenStreetMap or to tag it with building:fireproof=no? npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity @nprofile…8nxg makes sense, at least now that I found out that enabling "ip6tables" also makes it do the same NAT for IPv6 as well. (v26 requires manually specifying the IPv6 prefix and doesn't say what kind it prefers – only v27 seems to pick a private IPv6 prefix automatically, but v26 is what Debian has) npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity setting up docker for the first time, am I supposed to assign it a routed /24 from the overall LAN, or am I supposed to let it use the default 172.17 and rely on it NATing things? npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity Finally found a post explaining to dumbasses like me why modern 2 GHz CPUs are so much faster than old-gen 2 GHz CPUs. npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity here's another htop at 10 fps, and here's some of the worst C code I've written (also I got all the raw frames off someone else's Github) npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity I was going to test if my projects compile on ppc64be, but basically nothing is installed, so I got distracted npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity sorry to anyone looking at the ppc64 server's htop right now npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity Arch's been splitting packages a lot recently. this looks ugly but overall I think it's actually good because now users can rely on the package manager enforcing dependencies, instead of "oh the GUI crashes? well it's your own fault for not reading the new optdepends clearly mentioned in the middle of the 2000-line pacman output when you did the -Syu last week" npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity well this is an Ethernet connector I've not seen before https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/745922/identify-4-pair-krone-plug npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity @nprofile…m3qg @nprofile…g98g no, I do like ~/bin being my personal stuff and not clutter from pip/cargo/cpan (*especially* the pip/cpan stuff that comes with some modules and never gets run); that definitely goes into a dotdir (or into ~/lib/bin at most; I used to use ~/lib but now prefer ~/.local) npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity systemctl migrate @nprofile…xc3l to an instance that supports longer posts npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity @nprofile…cgs9 on that thought, I keep trying to figure out the right ffmpeg or vlc incantation to re-stream a YouTube livestream as someting that could be watched through the actual RealPlayer on Win98... (Not much luck so far, although RealEncoder can convert static .mp4's fine.) npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity so Mikrotik now explicitly states their update policy in their docs: npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity my archlinuxing is going well npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity I might have found the earliest instance of curl|bash (it predates curl by a year) npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity everyone else: the class constructor is called initialize() or construct() npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity salt.exceptions.SaltClientError: Got a bad pillar from master, type str, expecting dict: npub1a8e0nqsgnztx5n8jt5kpy20efakfllwxulh3r5adhg6uv2mjel5sfrq8r7 grawity @npub1pxy…htpa in that case, wasn't this once the purpose of extra/jshon?
