@purpleidea @miek @federicomena no expert here either :-) Either way, just checked my /bin/su and it does it too
@purpleidea @federicomena @miek in front of a computer now. Just checked: it's systemd. If you kill the process before submitting the typed password:
$ systemctl daemon-reload
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.reload-daemon ====
Authentication is required to reload the systemd state.
Authenticating as: Jonathan Dowland,,, (jon)
Password: Terminated
$ the password I wrote but did not submit is echoed here
@purpleidea @miek @federicomena I’ve seen that exact same bug somewhere before… either original sudo or systemd. From what I recall it isn’t considered fixable and wasn’t issued a CVE.
@jwildeboer @_elena I picked mine up about 10 years ago. Mildly modified (sd card storage, rockbox open source software, and recently a replacement battery). Feels really good to be away from the incessant upselling of the Internet
A few months ago I was bemoaning the inablity of my 4k@60 display (LG 27UD58) to do 4k@60 on its HDMI inputs.
Today, quite by accident, it IS doing 4k@60 on one of the inputs.
No idea why, or how, but I'd like to repeat the trick!
@DukeDuke @jwildeboer I love those flasks. Have you ever had to replace the gasket in the lid?
@jwildeboer I drink a lot of tea. 20 cups a day. I’m considering going decaf or at least better understanding whether or how I’m relying on caffeine to regulate myself
re: password manager PSA (keepassxc)
@argv_minus_one @hazelnot I quite like the global/shared menu bar approach that macOS uses, and I think KDE still supports. A bit of the best of both worlds: distinct without costing vertical real estate per window
I've been building a tiny lego set for a couple of years, I know that's weird, but I just finished it on Wednesday. This little fish tank: http://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/fish-tank-31122.
Finally I'm done! And then, this was announced: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/tropical-aquarium-10366
@babe small gods was the one that tipped me over into convincing my dad to read them (and he’s very glad I did)
New blog post: inert media, or the explotation of attention https://jmtd.net/log/inert/ #computing #vinyl
Brb writing a business case justification to present in the plan9 dev room https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/plan9/
No Java/openjdk dev room at Fosdem (for the first time in 20 years or something?)
I'm out of touch with 3d printing developments. Looked at the price of printers now and truly shocked to see the Prusa Mini+ is more than twice the price of the Bambu equivalent, and ~30% more than I paid for it a few years ago. What's going on?
I submitted my PhD thesis corrections yesterday afternoon. I am (probably) finally done!
Down to my last chapter for PhD corrections. Quite close to the wire to graduate this December. Pushing on...