I hope this helps clarify the matter

"The procession is led by an individual carrying a duck — originally dead, now just wooden " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard_Song

"I'm addicted to yew but I know that it's toxic"

"generally vague handwaving that sounds like an appeal to authority, but the authority is what someone might call a teenage libertarian's idea of how markets might behave."

'Markets, discrimination, and "lowering the bar"': https://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/

Reading the Phoenix Project, because I found it in my Calibre library (no recollection of how it got there) and some people at work claim it's good.

Not going to talk about whether the advice is good or novel, but the literary style is one long continuous "as you know, Bob"

"5 things that music makers need to know about Apple’s switch from Intel to silicon processors" says https://www.musicradar.com/news/5-things-that-music-makers-need-to-know-about-apples-switch-from-intel-to-silicon-processors

Not gonna take my Mac apart to check, bit reasonably sure that the Intel chip inside it is made from silicon ...

Realised the other day that I no longer have a favourite (or even least unfavourite) programming language, and I'm not sure how I feel about that

terse.telent.net was down for about 12 hours, because I rebooted the VPS it runs on and forgot it was still running in a tmux session rather than as an actual service :-(. #NotAProfessionalSysadmin

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasilyRenameYourGitDefaultBranchFromMasterToMain.aspx

Although I am tempted to rename all my master branches to "amster" because 80% of the time that's how I typo it

TIL there are three kinds of target for violent acts: people, property, and police

Essex chief constable, Ben-Julian Harrington issued a tough declaration: “We will not tolerate violence in our communities, whether that’s against people, whether it’s against property or, indeed, against police officers"

Weird phrasing. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/11/blm-organisers-call-off-london-event-to-prevent-clashes-with-far-right

https://github.com/telent/clap-hands first code release of my marginally less awful Withings healthmate app. Be kind, it's my first time writing Python and all I know about idiomatic coding in that language is what I learned by running pylint

I just booted #postmarketOS!

Next step is mobile-nixos.

#NixOS

Easily distracted? Me? No, of course I didn't just spend the weekend trying to render data from my wireless IoT bathroom scales while learning Python and D3

I like to read The Guardian because their biases are so often congruent with mine

the daughter of a New York real estate billionaire opined: “In my own life, I have found that my greatest personal growth has arisen from times of discomfort and uncertainty.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/ivanka-trump-cancel-culture-kansas-speech

Madame s'est fait volé son vélo électrique Star Si vous voyez passer un vélo star à vendre à #rennes faites passer l'info... Le plus chiant c'est le découragement pour elle qui s'y était mise, toute contente à utiliser son #vélo depuis 10 jours

First (for me) successful launch of Weston on mobile-nixos, woo. fbdev backend, not attempting to divine how/whether dri works just yet

They say you should never watch laws or sausages being made, if you want to respect the result. The boy[*] next door is a wannabe DJ inflicting his practice on his neighbours, and I think the same may be true of club music

Perhaps it's just me but this sounds messy, dangerous and probably lethal.

having successfully helped mesa over its "can't find wayland-scanner" crisis, it now seems to be building aarch64 libxcb - which I can't help but hope is not really necessary

hacking randomly in a nixpkgs checkout to see if I can make it crosscompile weston (x86_64 => aarch64). Right now it's crosscompiling gcc, which is historically correlated with good things happening eventually

I did not expect when I sat down this evening to write a quick script to download my withings healthmate data, that I would instead spend two hours debugging dhcp6/networkmanager config

If you can find a way to make networkmanager release a dhcp6 lease (by which I mean, not request the same wrong address again next time) you're hardier than I am

(I'm only running it because gnome objects so strongly to running without it. And I'm only running gnome because it seems to be the least worst desktop with wayland and hidpi support. Hapily gnome doesn't seem to have noticed that I have now added my primary network interface to the unmanaged list)

Because obviously I need yet another distraction #nixos #mobile-nixos https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/147

adb pull /proc/device-tree if this works it'll be kind of cool

what is nconf (in a linux kernel config context) and why is it apparently spinning on cpu every time I save and exit?

ok, I sort of know the answer to the first part, but wth is it doing here?

``` PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 26192 dan 20 0 245780 31048 2480 R 99.7 0.2 2:57.56 nconf

```