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Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@zhenech that was the one. Thanks!

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I was enjoying a blog post on the Fediverse about Canonical’s recruitment process but I only half read it and my mastodon client has lost it. Does anyone know which one it might have been? Thanks!

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@lproven @bloor @neil that’s likely who I mean, yes!

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@lproven @bloor @neil the Prague-Brno train (the one run by students) remains my best train experience *ever*. Leaves first class uk trains in the dust

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Rapidly trying to read up on School refusal :(

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@brittcoxon if it’s a wire break (e.g. in the band) it’s likely possible. Other kinds of failure lower chance unfortunately

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I've spent *hours* poking at podman behaviour when remapping UIDs (--userns=auto) and weirdness around file descriptors. Good news is it was fixed sometime between 4.9.3 and 5.4.2

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Since I'm poking at httpds-inside-containers, I re-discovered Apache HTTPD's abuse of SIGWINCH. Resize the terminal running the apache container, and it dies: https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50669

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@mhoye the relevant tool is feh, and my script appears to be feh --no-fehbg --bg-fill --randomize /path/to/dir/of/wallpapers

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@mart_brooks Yes I lean towards any logging going to stdout or stderr. If a user wants to distinguish error log from access log they should need to configure accordingly, provide a volume mount, etc.

Sordid Amok! SordidAmok@mastodon.social

The antidote to materialism isn't minimalism; it's maintenance. Keep things. Fix them. Mend them. Grow old with possessions you know well because you've cared for them.

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Should a containerised httpd log to standard error/out (and let the container system handle logs)? For errors? For accesses?

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@mdione @arrjay @mhoye I do that! But I tend to edit down copied-out history anyway (remove my hostname etc), so I might as well not be doing it

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@mhoye I’ll dig them out first thing tomorrow. Sorry for the tease (not near the computer)

mhoye mhoye@mastodon.social

Linux nerds, a question about your personal machines:

What is your favourite quality-of-life tweak you've made to your system?

An alias? A utility, a setting, something in .bashrc or ~/bin?

I'd like to know.

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@mhoye quake3 on a hot key, configured to a given map, skill level, and 5 minute max match length. Fantastic palette cleanser

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@mhoye oh another really good one: adjust the key repeat delay interval from the default (in my case reduce it a lot: something like xset r rate 200 30. No idea for wayland). I think that’s Like being bitten by a radioactive spider

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@mhoye a keyboard shortcut to change my wallpaper to a random one from a list

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New blog post: Linux Mount Namespaces https://jmtd.net/log/mount_namespaces/ #containers #linux

Biglesp biglesp@mastodon.social

The final issue of has been released. After 25 years the magazine is going out with a bang. Interviewing the old staff members, and looking back at old Linux distros (Corel Linux, I used that a long time ago. I've been with LXF since 2011 (writing the community page) and freelancing with them since 2013. The Raspberry Pi User section started with the Pi 2, and it carried on til the very end.
https://linuxformat.com/category/final-issue.html

The cover of Linux Format 329 - The Final Issue

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