why did they call it "Blue Lives Matter" instead of "Assigned Cop At Birth"?

Some works of early-2000s SF date faster than others. In ten years time will anyone even get the "slash and a dot" reference?

#nixos tip : when rsyncing build products (disk images etc) around the place, remember the -I flag. Otherwise rsync looks at date (1-1-1970) and file size (probably the same size as last time) and skips the transfer

Help.me, Fediverse: is this wood, or cardboard, or something in between, or something else completely?

Using emacs tramp with remote nixos hosts: add to your .emacs

(require 'tramp) (add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path 'tramp-own-remote-path)

to make it use $PATH instead of resetting to include only /run/current-system/sw/bin and nothing else useful (doesn't include packages in your profile that you added with nix-env nor anything in users.users.yourname.packages)

https://ww.telent.net/2021/6/26/just_enough_nixos_for_kodi

I blogged again, and it's still not about NixWRT (although it is about cross-compiling Nix stuffs, so I suppose almost on topic)

"In a way, Ikea is kind of like the Bitcoin of furniture: the company uses universal designs, meaning its hardware and measurements are uniform across most of the developed world." I'd like to propise this for Worst Analogy This Week, where do I send it?

https://thehustle.co/the-thriving-business-of-ikea-hacking/amp/

https://gist.github.com/telent/dcbcccf06d0b044823a214b1be43ee48 gradually working towards NixElec, a.k.a "just enough nixos for Kodi"

Aperiodic reminder: clean the dust out of your PC fans, if you have them and there is any. My CPU temps under load have dropped from 80° to 35°

creative use of xargs -0 flag:

$ cat /proc/41262/environ |xargs -0 -n1 echo

(the "environ" files in proc directories show the process environment with ASCII NUL (\0) characters between each entry. We can use xargs -0 to break it into lines)

@climagic@mastodon.social

Sometimes if you haven't driven your SBC for a while it won't start, and you have to jump start it from another one

(For the avoidance of doubt, no, not really)

I read recently that they'd discovered ancient waterproof trousers near Mount Ararat, thought to have been worn by Noah. If this is true, they'll be Waders of the Lost Ark

"age is just a number," said nobody for whom it's a low number

Motorola G5 Plus (potter) runs nixos! Waiting for PR review https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/359

#issuecomment-851418520" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/359#issuecomment-851418520 eventually persuaded mobile-nixos to produce a boot image small enough to flash to the motorola potter (G5 Plus) boot partition. Little bit of cleanup still required (touchscreen powerup and calibration) but hopefully soon this will be good enough to merge

Replaced gear hanger on daughter's bike and now she can change into every gear from 1 to 7, whereas previously it wouldn't enter or exit gear 1. I am quite pleased with this diagnosis as the hanger was not visibly bent at all.

I asked Sinead O'Connor to measure 3.5 inches, but she refused. She says that nothing compares 2U?

#postmarketOS just turned four!

More about that and the whole #alpineconf pmOS track with Q&As appended in the blog: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2021/05/26/four-years/

An unexpected degree of early success with mobile nixos on moto g5 plus (potter). Touchscreen isn't working yet

becaus if i'm going to run python on my watch, I might as well be running the same language on the android companion app

https://mobile.twitter.com/telent_net/status/1395878567402217476

RT @offlinemark@twitter.com

Here's my favorite git feature that no one knows about:

You can reference commits using the commit message instead of the hash. The ":/" syntax accepts a regex that matches any part of the commit message, returning the youngest matching commit.

https://git-scm.com/docs/revisions/2.29.0#Documentation/revisions.txt-emlttextgtemegemfixnastybugem

: https://twitter.com/offlinemark/status/1387833240321417222

Look what just came in the post :-) #pinetime #pine64 .

On the one hand, new highest speed on my regular skating loop. On the other hand, I just know that when I dig into the data I'm going to find out it was a downhill

Dont understand why you would name your filesystem to sound like a syscall error https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/erofs.html

TIL about c++ references. At least, a little. I am hoping that my mental model of "do this voodoo to avoid pass-by-copying semantics" is sufficient to avoid my arduino sketch crashing due to inadvertently creating two mqtt PubSubClients