@dx @Lazarou @cstross what really put me off that book was it avoided referencing any SF exploration of the problem space

THe plot thickens: I need to add "PortAudio" to the mix (and: https://github.com/PortAudio/portaudio/issues/425)

@derf Just kidding. I voted accordingly (403). My Hetzner VM is in Finland FWIW

@derf -bash: curl: command not found

Worried I’ll leave mic open and someone will hear something inspired by the imperial March

Tempted to write a theme tune for each of the dramatis personae in team meetings

Things I’ve used my synth for in 2025 so far: debugging Linux audio

@atoponce I’m fairly sure only humans get the credit for this

@metacosm @fred a long time ago my first manager at redhat worked really hard every year on a summit keynote. How times have changed

@metacosm @fred I wonder if any of our BU is present or visible at summit?

@fred @metacosm could develop a drinking problem

Are Google IO and red hat summit really happening at the same time?

Did a nasty reverse proxy hack as part of a server migration (for acme). Proud

A story as old as time
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Let’s outsource our $THINGs to $VENDOR!
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Geez we’re spending a lot at $VENDOR
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migrating away from $VENDOR is prohibitively expensive
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Let’s “archive” half our $THINGs!

@werdahias so the bad news is I seem to have already switched to pipewire but it is only the PA interface causing issues. If I can get my normal desktop stuff (Firefox etc) to use pipewire api (or even alsa) I could turn off the PA API

@nowster that doesn’t bode well!

Started diagnosing the audio issues I have with recording on Linux. As soon as I disabled the pipewire/pulsaudio service, it all worked swimmingly. Need to dig deeper. I wonder if I can live without the pulse audio layer at all now

I’m *very slowly* setting up a new VM. It at least has a name now https://luv.redmars.org/

Huh. I was hoping to look at (ab)using HTTP compression for crawler mitigation, but are CRIME/BREACH exploits still requiring us to not compress HTTPS?

@jzb yeah same. FB proved the only way I learned about a friend’s suicide, and kept in touch with his family. I loathe it, but there was that.