Start the Week today was excellent. Naomi Alderman, Corey Doctorow and Oliver Moody https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002md19
True story: I once spent an afternoon scrolling through someone's Facebook account to find out when he had acquired each of his cats because he had named successive releases of a software package he maintained after the damn things in the order in which they joined his family and I needed to know whether Pickles came before Chocolate or vice versa.
@etchedpixels @Gina in the UK, a significant problem IMHO is you can book flights and thus plan travel 6+ months ahead of time but not UK mainline rail tickets (approx 3 month horizon)
PSA: a test throwing a stack trace on failure is not friendly. Related: tests which reference deeply-nested dictionary keys without checking the components exist are hostile to people debugging with them.
A blog I just discovered: Version Crazy: “Celebrating vinyl / CD / cassette / memorabilia releases of musical gems and curiosities from the punk era onwards”
http://www.versioncrazy.com
http://www.versioncrazy.com
I thought I would power through some stuff today on a MacBook Pro but things didn’t go according to plan. Xcode refused to install metal sdk which is mandatory for OpenJDK (I think), and I couldn’t resolve it so ended up ssh’d into my threadripper instead.
@fazalmajid @neil oooh their N100 (8”) is the class of device I’m looking at. Hadn’t heard of them before. Thanks!
@neil I’m on a quest for something a bit like this; the closest I’ve seen in modern stuff is a 7” GPT Pocket clone or something styled similarly. Not a phone though
@mirabilos @harrysintonen this is a pretty widespread behaviour in existing tooling: systemctl and bin/su suffer it as well. It wasn’t thought worthy of a CVE for those. I’m actually surprised OG sudo doesn’t
A wayland bug I keep meaning to debug more but haven’t got around to it: on Debian trixie, with KDE and wayland, it crashes as soon as I press any keyboard key.
@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!