Its January, meaning New Years Resolutions. Over the past week and a half I have attended four #yoga classes in person, done two yoga YouTube vids, and now while pruning rose bushes pulled a muscle somewhere near my left shoulder blade. Fucking ow, but also rather embarrassed
Can anyone point me at good current info for running #nixos on odroid c2 (amlogic, arm)? Getting fed up with making changes to this libreelec box then forgetting what they were
i have a very efficient metabolism i can sustain myself for days on a single boost
MNT Reform will be a test case for DIN SPEC 3015 (new open hardware standard) and we will work with Fairtronics to determine component fairness. Also looking into the Grüne Punkt as recycling program for the packaging
I had planned to spend 20 minutes this morning looking over my first attempt at writing a haskell program to implement the programming assessment task we use for interviewing candidates at $WORK
(Can tell you now, (a) I probably wouldn't have a job here if I'd attempted the task using Haskell, (b) not only did it take a very long time, it's not very Haskelly code either)
That was at 09:30 and I haven't actually started yet. When I got my laptop out of my locker I realised it's still on nixos 19.03 and I need to upgrade firefox before anything bad happens
I must admit to some surprise just how much of a struggle I'm having using haskell in nixos (example: I want to use the net-mqtt library). I thought haskell was approximately a first-class citizen of nix
Using haddock version 2.22.0 found on system at:
/nix/store/hg3na12737n7wws1kndxvs95ai88fgn8-ghc-8.6.5/bin/haddock
No happy found
Checks out :-(
"/tmp/mvnix-update.VwPvz4/src/common/message/target/protoc-plugins/protoc-3.6.1-linux-x86_64.exe"
Fulfilling the Java promise of Write Once Run Everywhere, albeit for significantly suboptimal values of "everywhere"
Not done a whole lot of nixwrt implementation lately, but the next thing I want to do is make it talk to an actual ISP (PPPoE) and I can't exactly test that without unplugging the real router, which will make many (well, maybe about 4) people quite unhappy.
Or maybe I can, if I set up a stub ISP. Welcome to Nixwrt OnLine: https://github.com/telent/nixwrt/blob/master/nol.nix
Build images for embedded MIPS SoCs using NixPkgs (experimental) - telent/nixwrt
GitHub
Thus ends this year of public wonder and mischief to this nation, and, therefore, generally wished by all people to have an end.
End-of-the-month (and year!) Pine64 update over on our forum. It's not as long-form or polished as the normal 5th-of-the-month blog posts, but there's still lot of info here!
#ukpol
I'm not a big fan of change.org as a platform, but this seems like a worthy cause. As the architect of "Universal Credit", awarding IDS a knighthood is a slap in the face for pretty much everybody who's ever had recourse to our social safety net
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Change.orgIain Duncan-Smith should not receive a Knighthood
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Lately I've seen some incorrect statements and facts about Linux on mobile being thrown around, and I decided to write a blog post to give some more correct info. Please give it a read https://fam-ribbers.com/2019/12/28/State-of-Linux-on-mobile-and-common-misconceptions.html 
If you see any mistakes I've made, please correct me!
[1227/215535.119660:ERROR:frame_sink_video_capturer_impl.cc(197)] Invalid resolutions constraints: 0x0 must not be greater than 0x0; and also within media::limits.
Last time I checked 0 was not greater than 0, but hey, I realise this stuff is not universal
There are definitely other things I could say about ath9k and ath10k and wireless regulatory domains in embedded Linux, but this blog post is too long already and it would probably require having more than the handwaviest idea of what I'm talking about. Plus I'm sick of it. Happy Christmas, if that's your bag.
me: i wonder what would happen if i trained the neural net gpt-2 on christmas carols?
me: ...
me: oh NO
https://aiweirdness.com/post/189845472982/the-ais-carol
Getting 2.4GHz and 5GHz running at the same time has taken much longer than I expected; I could (and will) write a blog post on what I've learned about Linux vs WiFi regulatory requirements
Experiencing the same linux mainstream kernel fun with the gl-ar750 as I did with the mt300a last summer - glad I took notes https://ww.telent.net/2019/5/6/nixwrt_next_words
For people who know kernel stuff: (1) to have a hope of seeing the hardware at all, ath9k needs an of_match_table entry with a compatible that matches the dts file; (2) this gets us an error of the form ath9k 18100000.wmac: no platform data specified which probably means I need to teach it how to find the ART MTD partition
I had never until now noted the similarity between the Free Software Song ("Join us now and share the software") and the popular Christmas song "Deck the Halls with boughs of holly" when played very slowly
Success with #nixwrt and ath10k! It sends radio waves!
(Low signal strength because it's at the other end of the house to my phone, this is probably not a setup problem)
Hypothesis: my kernel build blows up with target pattern contains no '%' when CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE contains a filename with a : in it. Because Makefile
Screw this, I'm going to bed
Google play store won't let you purchase an app without having a device attached to the account. So even logging in with a real account on #aurorastore you are unable to actually purchase an app without logging in using the real play store on the actual device... Which is not possible on a device that has no google play services. Does anyone know of a workaround? Maybe have to put my spare phone back to stock and buy the app through that then download through aurora on this device. Ugh.
I'm not saying it works, because it doesn't, but my ath10k wireless at least appears now to exist in #nixwrt. This is progress and it makes me happy
```
/sys/class/net/wlan0
carrier phy80211 phys_switch_id carrier_up_count uevent name_assign_type queues gro_flush_timeout address carrier_changes dev_port device ifindex tx_queue_len duplex statistics wireless type power flags dev_id addr_assign_type phys_port_id addr_len carrier_down_count speed link_mode netdev_group phys_port_name broadcast subsystem iflink operstate dormant ifalias proto_down mtu ```
two laptops adjacent on my desk. One says the connection speed is 66Mbps, the other is running Zoom and keeps telling me I have low bandwidth