Today’s project: Put 2 failing hard drives in RAID 0 and boot from it. What could go wrong?
RIP LocalMonero. You will be missed.
The IBM PC110 (486 palmtop) hosting this website reached 3 years of uptime a couple weeks ago. Impressive! http://pc110.yyzkevin.com/
Garage, an “open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting”: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
Viddy, a modern watch(1) alternative with paging, visual diffs, and history: https://github.com/sachaos/viddy
I’m starting to embrace containers on my PC for software I want to use once without littering my home folder with junk files. It’s nice.
Come on guys, can’t we just do Btrfs RAID5/6 already?
The mystery airship phenomenon of the late 1890s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship
Come on guys, can’t we just do IPv6 already?
https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate added support for Edge and Safari a while ago and I didn’t realize. Very cool!
Finally broke down and installed Pipewire. Bare ALSA is only good if you only use one physical sound card ever. Don’t even try Bluetooth.
BunsenLabs is just a delightful distribution.
Playing with Wireguard and network namespaces today. Resisting the urge to redo my server.
Why Monero: https://benkaiser.dev/why-monero/
My hacky shell pipeline was flawed. Flexo actually saved ~689 MiB of bandwidth, or 35.7% of my total package downloads.
Since install, Flexo has saved ~417 MiB of bandwidth, or 21.7% of my total package downloads in that time.
TRIM on Btrfs on LUKS on a sparse disk image served with NBD actually works. I love free software.
Spring cleaning came early at McKinley Labs. I just removed 475 unnecessary packages from my laptop totaling ~3GiB. Not bad.
KTeaTime: A customizable tea steeping timer application from the KDE project: https://apps.kde.org/kteatime/
Trying out Flexo, a caching proxy for Pacman: https://github.com/nroi/flexo
Pro tip: Don’t run out of space on Btrfs.
Canada + Cryptocurrency = Ehthereum: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/
Zoom (2001) is Jeff Lynne’s ELO before ELO was “Jeff Lynne’s”. There are some great songs on there. It’s a shame the sound is so awful.
A word of advice: Never swing and grind at the same time.
Great writeup on New Outlook, even though it’s a biased source: https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service
I saw a Cybertruck earlier. I’m no fan of Tesla, but that thing is pretty cool.
This is the year of the GNU/Linux desktop
We’ll make our own driver! With blackjack, and hookers! https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-holiday-update.html
I didn’t realize what I was doing with a command and now my entire music library is tagged as hip-hop. It’s time to stop for the night.
This is why people go full Kaczynski. https://weel.bike/
Note to self: Don’t restart the NBD daemon while a computer has booted from it.
Jeffrey Paul: Apple OSes Are Insecure By Design To Aid Surveillance: https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveillance/
Grep for network connections: https://github.com/jpr5/ngrep
How to download and install Linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install
How did I just find this program? Reptyr: Reparent a running program to a new terminal: https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr
Another digital license plate sighting today. It’s an epidemic!
I just lost ¾ of a really good blog post by typing :q! without thinking and I’m having a really hard time rewriting it.
Love was changing the minds of pretenders…
Play the sounds of a buckling spring keyboard as you type: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
First try!
If you’re reading this, this is my first automated twt. I added a line to twtxt.txt, typed ‘make’, and everything else was automatic.
The Ladybird XHTML bug is fixed. index.xhtml and blog/index.xhtml are now generated with a Makefile, XSLT, and a bit of Python. Feels good!
RIP Terry.
Free Public WiFi: https://computer.rip/2023-07-29-Free-Public-WiFi.html
Currently compiling the Dolphin emulator because the Arch package is broken. Wish me luck.
Mount iOS devices on GNU/Linux, great for photo backup: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse
Happy 4th! I added fireworks to my ASCII art on https://mckinley.cc/
Microsoft’s trickery department strikes again: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/b0e1a1c1-bd62-462c-9ed5-5938b9c649f0
In other news, I modified my XSLT stylesheet so it can be used for both of my Atom feeds.
My hidden service is somehow already on some lists for crawlers. That’s impressive.