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The masto.host instance seems to be working well. Going to migrate over to https://mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm
This is a neat use of #QNX https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2023/01/25/raspberry-pi-powered-treadmill/
@DavidBlue Yes I understand, and you are right. However, there's only so many energy I can expend on issues like this. For me, running Pleroma is becoming a chore. I'm at the point where I'd just like to be able to use a nice UI on my phone and not have to worry about hosting concerns.
Ivory is on the app store 🎉 Sadly it doesn't seem to work with my Pleroma instance, same with @icecubesapp. Not at all unexpected—makes sense to focus on the most common instance type. I'm wondering whether it might be time to just run Mastodon, perhaps even delegating that to https://masto.host/ 🤔
https://tapbots.social/@ivory/109745562673796762
https://tapbots.social/@ivory/109745562673796762
The AU reseller of @BlueSCSI was out of stock and the shipping was going to be crazy on international options so I made use of it being open-source and placed an order with JLCPCB for boards with the microSD socket pre-soldered and one with Mouser for the rest of the parts.
@dstaley Ahh cool, that looks better. I like that it's just a microcontroller and not a whole Raspberry Pi
@dstaley Need to do a bit of research into modern SCSI replacement devices. Something like https://github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi might be an option.
The Power Mac lives! The hard disk sounds like it’s toast though and it will only boot from CD. #VintageMac
@sunfish oh my bad I missed the “US Remote” at the top.
@sunfish would the role require working in a US friendly time zone (I’m in UTC+10, which can be a challenge)?
Wow the header image on https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/
@thejpster yeah it seems there’s not much option but to buy a Mac or rent one at a pretty high rate (needing to install everything each time it’s recreated)
@schlink Based on the number of newsletters I receive that are published with it, I reckon it's still a good pick. (It's also what I'd use if I were to start a newsletter).
@Aranjedeath 🤦 I answered my own question by clicking on the link you shared. It requires you to sign in.
@Aranjedeath I never browse signed in to my Google account, does this still work in that case?
The only time I'm signed into Google is for YouTube and I have that open in a specific Firefox Container tab.
The only time I'm signed into Google is for YouTube and I have that open in a specific Firefox Container tab.
Personally don’t see much use for these cloud IDEs as I already run Linux and have a decent desktop machine. One use case I could see is enabling folks without Apple hardware to do iOS/Mac development but none of them seem to have Mac hosts. I’m aware that Apple places certain restrictions on Mac VMs, so maybe it’s not possible. Feels like a gap in the market if it is though.
P.S. I’m aware of Mac Stadium, EC2 Macs etc. no need to point them out.
@mirabilos looks like it was added in FF103
Sick of those annoying Sign in with Google pop-ups (I never want to sign in with Google)? Here is some Stylus #CSS to hide them.
Note that it uses the :has selector, which is not on by default in Firefox yet. Enable by toggling layout.css.has-selector.enabled (the usual caveats about poking around in about:config apply). #degoogle
![CSS to hide the popups: #credential_picker_container:has(iframe[src*="accounts.google.com"]) { display: none; }](https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/pleroma.decentralised.social/80aa5357a02ac82ade25d5762183b1c14f9da03c2d23fcc66274f33f24e4ce70.png)
https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-lisa-apples-most-influential-failure/ on its 40th birthday the CHM received permission to release the Apple Lisa source code. #RetroComputing #AppleLisa
This is such a clever idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0csHZveVvY
@andrewrock Used to hear this outside my room as a kid—scared the bejesus out of me.
@schlink Hmm not sure what the "best choice" is. I've used elefren on Read Rust since 2019 and it has served me well. However, its repo was deleted some time in 2021 and the crate has not been updated for over 2 years so I'd go with one of the other options.
@hailey 🤯
@tommythorn it’s been exposed to something corrosive (not battery or capacitor related) which is why I wanted to clean it. I tried to get distilled but could only easily find demineralised locally.
Gave the Power Mac a wash with PCB cleaner followed by a rinse in deionised water, isopropyl alcohol, and a lot of air duster to blow the water out from under things. Check out the colour of that water! I’ll be putting up a video of the process on my YouTube channel when it’s done.
https://youtube.com/@mooretech
#RetroComputing #VintageMac
https://youtube.com/@mooretech
#RetroComputing #VintageMac
“Wildebeest is an #ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server whose goal is to allow anyone to operate their Fediverse server and identity on their domain without needing to keep infrastructure, with minimal setup and maintenance, and running in minutes.
Wildebeest runs on top Cloudflare's Supercloud, uses Workers and Pages, the D1 database to store metadata and configurations, Zero Trust Access to handle authentication and Images for media handling.” https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest
Wildebeest runs on top Cloudflare's Supercloud, uses Workers and Pages, the D1 database to store metadata and configurations, Zero Trust Access to handle authentication and Images for media handling.” https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest
@Amirography that’s almost what I do. Mine is in Markdown, I convert it to HTML then convert it to a PDF with Prince and an associated style sheet.
Back in the day when you used to get CDs on classic Mac oriented magazines they often had icon sets, music mods and sound effect clips. As a kid I remember finding this clip on one. I didn't know where it was from at the time (it's obvious to me now) but was amused that it had my name in it.
Today I found out about Discmaster. A project where some folks have indexed a bunch of old data on the internet archive. Curious I searched for wesley and sure enough there it is from an old MacPower magazine disc. http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/10325/MACPOWER-1995-12.ISO.7z/MACPOWER-1995-12.ISO/AMUG/music/SndSampler%202.0%20folder/SndSampler%EF%BD%AA%20%EF%BE%84/Icon%E2%86%B5/Icon%E2%86%B5.rsrc/snd_25846_Shut%20Up%20Wesley.wav
Today I found out about Discmaster. A project where some folks have indexed a bunch of old data on the internet archive. Curious I searched for wesley and sure enough there it is from an old MacPower magazine disc. http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/10325/MACPOWER-1995-12.ISO.7z/MACPOWER-1995-12.ISO/AMUG/music/SndSampler%202.0%20folder/SndSampler%EF%BD%AA%20%EF%BE%84/Icon%E2%86%B5/Icon%E2%86%B5.rsrc/snd_25846_Shut%20Up%20Wesley.wav
@markwyner They're so well done, especially when you compare them to other 1-bit icons of the era and later (in mobile phones for example).
I subscribe to an #RSS feed of links posted to HN from my domain via hnapp.com and have Feedbin set up to send me a push notification whenever there’s a new item in that feed. That way I always know when I’ve been linked on HN 🎉
Quoting @Gaelan: https://queer.party/@Gaelan/109678390656891402
Quoting @Gaelan: https://queer.party/@Gaelan/109678390656891402
@ltriant It sure makes it hard!
@pbone Yes, looks like a generic version specialises the 32-bit version to drop the branch. The 64-bit one remains the same https://rust.godbolt.org/z/4oYKEKzhn
@pbone right the PDF I linked had the same results. It seems on newer CPU generations there is less difference but on older ones it could be huge.
@brion oh so you can do 128-bit/64-bit and 64-bit/32-bit?
New post! I delve into some assembly to understand how a divmod function is optimised https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2023/divmod/
@Sidneys1 Hmm I suppose it would. It's designed to be soldered through but I imagine the layer would prevent continuity checks. A sharp probe would probably pierce it. Perhaps I should hold off on that until I confirm it's all working. Unless you had other suggestions for protecting the board?
@sdw Glorious!
I'm thinking of washing the whole PCB with https://www.jaycar.com.au/pcb-and-parts-wash-cleaning-solution/p/NA1070 and then giving it a coat of https://www.jaycar.com.au/circuit-board-lacquer-spray-can/p/NA1002. I'll clean the shielding and perhaps treat it with some Evapo-Rust before also giving it a protective coating (contact cleaner or similar). Does that seem reasonable? #RetroComputing #VintageMac
Took a look inside the Power Mac this morning… it's going to need a good clean and corrosion protection. Looks like it was in a corrosive environment at some point. The backside of the PCB seems to be worse than inside. It doesn't look like it's penetrated the protective coating over the PCB and the PRAM battery seems intact too (although I'll be aiming to replace it).
Seems it was made after Jan 1996 as the CD drive has a manufacture date of then. The HD is 4Gb. #RetroComputing #VintageMac
Seems it was made after Jan 1996 as the CD drive has a manufacture date of then. The HD is 4Gb. #RetroComputing #VintageMac
@schlink I think restic is probably fine for the average computer user.
@schlink Yeah Tarsnap is more a managed service versus DIY with restic. Colin Percival who runs Tarsnap is the ex-security officer of FreeBSD and wrote a paper describing spectre style side-channel attacks more than a decade before they were properly understood—so you’re in good hands with Tarsnap. I found it got a bit pricey for personal use so stopped using it a few years ago.
@schlink @myersjustinc 30Gb would be $7.50 a month with Tarsnap (at $0.25/Gb). I use restic with Backblaze B2, which would be $0.15/m for 30Gb ($0.005/Gb)
@brendan nice! The ones in our estate are shedding their leaves and turning red at the moment. Out driving yesterday I saw a massive one on a roundabout. Must be very old as it was gum tree tall with a super thick trunk.
Went for a little 3 hour road trip this morning to pick up my new Mac… a 1995 Power Macintosh 9500/150 supposedly in working order! 16” display, keyboard, mouse, and Zip drive included. RAM and HD info currently unknown. They’re all in need of a good clean and some retrobrite to restore that platinum exterior to its former glory. According to MacTracker this machine cost US$4699 when new, or about $8669 in todays money.
#RetroComputing #VintageMac
#RetroComputing #VintageMac
Lots of interesting project proposals in the list of grant recipients https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/community-grants-program-awards-announcement-introducing-our-latest-project-grantees/
Woot! New Fediverse related features in Feedbin (this post was posted from within Feedbin to my Pleroma instance) https://feedbin.com/blog/2023/01/05/mastodon-and-microposts/
@klardotsh Surely there are some, but I don't know any off the top of my head.
@klardotsh yes I was very surprised to see them too. I've never asked/been asked these things before in my 19 year career.
@dottorblaster Yes, sorry I can see the confusion, should have put quotes around it.
@dottorblaster Oh I don't work there. I was quoting the job description.
👀 We are building a new team to focus on the Rust programming language and its ecosystem on Ubuntu.
https://canonical.com/careers/4383713
https://canonical.com/careers/4383713
Oh there may _finally_ be some actual contenders for a single display to replace my pair of 4K 24" displays. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/dells-new-ultrasharp-monitor-is-a-6k-powerhouse-for-pros/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/samsung-viewfinity-5k-ces-2023/
@mikaeleiman @thejpster that’s true but also Apple hasn’t had a dozen UI toolkits in that time, so Cocoa apps tend to get the new look for free whenever there is a visual refresh. Whatever Microsoft are doing seems to make apps a snapshot in time visually.
@geal yes! Sounds useful
Saw this on a local slack today and then on my daily walk the guest on the podcast I was listening to happened to be the editor of the book (@glennf). He was gushing about the effort the author has gone to for it over the last 7 years as well as the efforts they’d gone to, to find good paper to print on and the use of stochastic printing and the amazing quality it produces. Anyway, consider me interested. https://shifthappens.site/
@interru well mine only has 4Gb 😅 Pleroma was running fine for years on it until the recent influx of activity.
@interru "S3 is too damn expensive." Heh S3 costs me $1.50 a month and most of that is from the Gbs of images from the Mattermost instance I host. I'll have do some digging into the database after work using the things you suggested.
@interru The server uses an SSD. The images are stored in S3 in an australian region, and the server is hosted with Vultr in Australia. I suspect that might make them slow for you.
Is RUM needed for functions other than search?
Is RUM needed for functions other than search?
@latk the main thing I’m after is compile time guarantees that my templates won’t blow up at runtime. That the libraries that offer this also tend to be extremely fast is a nice side benefit.
Does anyone know of a #Rust templating (HTML) crate that can do the dynamic/interpreted thing in development but generate Rust code for release? Kinda like if you used tera for dev but switched to askama for release (and it was one library).
Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU by Martijn de Vos https://devos50.github.io/blog/2022/ipod-touch-qemu/
Some fun PC history:
https://computer.rip/2022-12-17-the-keyboard-controller.html
> These keyboard controllers were known to have a number of undocumented commands, the details of which depended on the mainboard vendor. And most interestingly, since they were general-purpose microcontrollers and had spare capacity after handling the keyboard, the 8042 in practice served as more of a general-purpose embedded controller. The term "keyboard controller" is a misnomer in this way, and it would probably be more accurate to call it an "embedded controller," but that term wasn't yet in use in the mid '80s.
https://computer.rip/2022-12-17-the-keyboard-controller.html
> These keyboard controllers were known to have a number of undocumented commands, the details of which depended on the mainboard vendor. And most interestingly, since they were general-purpose microcontrollers and had spare capacity after handling the keyboard, the 8042 in practice served as more of a general-purpose embedded controller. The term "keyboard controller" is a misnomer in this way, and it would probably be more accurate to call it an "embedded controller," but that term wasn't yet in use in the mid '80s.
Oh this was fixed: when #Rust introduced the ? operator the generated code was more generic but didn't optimise as well as code using its predecessor the try macro. Well, I just saw a pointer to this PR from August that fixed it! https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/100693
Original issue here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/37939
Original issue here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/37939
@michaelbach That's reasonable. I think my intended usage is slightly different here though: it's intended to grab your eyes, the whole animation is 1s and I'm not really expecting it to be read while it's moving. What is shared is the raw animation but when used in the video it will remain static on-screen showing the last frame for a while, that's when I intend it to be readable—which is to say the animation is more about how it gets on screen. Does that sound any better?
Working on some motion graphics for my next video. I wanted a quick way to show commits without needing to make folks sit through actual committing. Also need it to be data driven since the graphic for each commit is unique.
This is what I have so far. Built with a tool called pan, which is implemented in #Nim but you write the animations in #Lua. It's pretty cool. https://github.com/liquidev/pan
This is what I have so far. Built with a tool called pan, which is implemented in #Nim but you write the animations in #Lua. It's pretty cool. https://github.com/liquidev/pan
I find survey results like these interesting. These are from the #Gleam and StackOverflow survey results. They show Linux is more widely used among developers (that respond to these surveys) than macOS.
@ash I though so :)
New video! A quick intro on how to build a #Rust project that can be compiled to #WebAssembly and deployed to #Deno Deploy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1wfCnRINkE
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy Wow this is just baffling. There is no way this helps the platform in the long run. It’ll only alienate more people and make them move off the platform. He seems actively intent on driving Twitter into the ground as fast as possible.
@algo_luca would love to see a summary of the results after your first campaign
@ozkriff that thread is how I found out about the rust-analyzer feature :) Added a thumbs up to it earlier today.
I mostly use CLion for coding in Rust but this new feature of rust-analyzer that shows the size and alignment of types is super cool. https://rust-analyzer.github.io/thisweek/2022/12/12/changelog-159.html
The “holiday from open-source” is an interesting idea from the gotosocial folks:
We’re taking a little holiday
From 19 December to 02 January, we’re going to be closing shop. What this means:
We’ll make the Github repository read-only for those two weeks so no new issues or PRs can be opened (except by the core team, if they’re suddenly possessed by a fervor to work for some reason).
We’ll make the channels in the Matrix space read-only too, so you can still scroll through messages in the help channel, for example, but you won’t be able to post anything new there.
This will give us some time to chill out, see friends, do some knitting, play video games, and take some wintery walks. Sloths need breaks too!
Well I needed to read some hints on Reddit to solve day 11 part 2 of #AdventOfCode (in #Rust). Not a huge fan of requiring a "trick" to solve the problem with basically no leads to go off. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/bin/day11.rs
I made a YouTube video! It's pretty niche but hopefully it's the first of many I have in the pipeline. https://youtu.be/4N_hHfpEoHY #rc
Fun to see that jcs' Amend version control system has been added to Infinite Mac https://system7.app/
Back to #gleam for day 10 of #AdventOfCode. I particularly liked how you were to determine your answer for part 2. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_10.gleam
@NanoRaptor I love that 1-bit photoshop toolbar on the wall.
@neofight78 @conrad Ahh signum, I looked for something like that but didn't find it it. Ended up writing my own.
#AdventOfCode day 9 went a lot smoother than day 8. Opted to use #Rust for this one—ahh the simple pleasure of controlled mutation. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/bin/day9.rs
From the Tiny Glade game’s FAQ:
Any plans to support Linux / Mac? We will support Linux on release! For Mac, however, we are not sure yet. It will depend on how well the launch goes.
What a time to be alive! 🐧
Day 8 of #AdventOfCode: part 1 one took me a long time and I almost gave up on #gleam but I slept on it and got it working this morning.
Since Gleam only has a List type that is not optimised for index based access I implemented part 1 in a way that does not index into it and also pre-calculates the max values in each direction to avoid having to make repeated scans in all four directions.
When it came to part 2 I just did the index based scanning thing and it was a lot quicker to write and also still ran in well under half a second so definitely a case of premature optimisation on part 1.
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_8.gleam
Since Gleam only has a List type that is not optimised for index based access I implemented part 1 in a way that does not index into it and also pre-calculates the max values in each direction to avoid having to make repeated scans in all four directions.
When it came to part 2 I just did the index based scanning thing and it was a lot quicker to write and also still ran in well under half a second so definitely a case of premature optimisation on part 1.
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_8.gleam
Well today's #AdventOfCode (Day 7) got a bit out of hand. I decided to do it in #Rust and implemented it with a zero copy approach but in the the end the file names weren't even needed. Nonetheless it was a fun exercise building a tree with parent-child links in Rust with just the standard library. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/bin/day7.rs
@mjk that’s a very clever approach 👍
Day 6 of #AdventOfCode in #gleam! This one was certainly a lot more straightforward than yesterday. My solution came together pretty nicely—the built-in `list.window` sure helped.
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_6.gleam
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_6.gleam
@voltagex Scorptec. I had them build me a system a few years ago and they did a good job.
@dystroy this is great! I was considering building something like this to backup my posts on this site before I migrate to different software.
Well #AdventOfCode day 5 was certainly a test of my #gleam/functional programming skills. Kinda missed regular iteration constructs and mutable vectors in this one but I got there in the end.
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_5.gleam
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_5.gleam
@awakecoding OMG I think it worked! The timeline in Metatext appears to match what I see in pleroma-fe
https://github.com/wezm/decentralised-social/commit/9d2be938371ffa9800ab377a665f54c982a99d56
https://github.com/wezm/decentralised-social/commit/9d2be938371ffa9800ab377a665f54c982a99d56
@awakecoding No I'm using the stable/tagged releases
@awakecoding oh no my Pleroma instance must know I’m talking about it. Seems notifications are broken now.
@awakecoding @firstyear yes I much prefer forums, GitHub issues things like that. More searchable too.
@awakecoding no haven’t looked into that. My experience with project specific chat is usually pretty bad because of my time zone—there’s rarely folks online the same time as me.
@awakecoding Pinafore seems to suffer the same problem. This is the Pleroma issue: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/issues/2503 at this point I think I might just patch my Pleroma instance and then I can use any client and it will work sensibly.
@awakecoding I’ll give it another look, thanks. I tried it when it was first released but ended up back on Pleroma-fe for some reason.
@awakecoding heh that’s what I’m replying to you with :) Doesn’t do the filtering though so my home timeline is a mess. I was going to try patching it but my Mac is too old to run the version of Xcode it requires. Oh well I’ll keep waiting. It’s my intention to move to gotosocial eventually.
@awakecoding It looks like their list is a bit out of date. Amaroq and Fedi are no longer available on the App Store and they are the only two iOS apps listed.
@awakecoding excuse the interruption, you seem knowledgeable about Pleroma. Do you know of any iOS apps that work well with Pleroma? All the ones I’ve tried show all replies in the timeline and provide no way to filter to only posts and replies directed at me.
@baweaver ahh right. My manual approach wasn’t all that different (more <= 😅)
@baweaver hah I looked at that but (probably incorrectly) concluded it didn’t accept a Range as its argument and ended up doing it manually.
#AdventOfCode day 4 done. I tried to optimise for time to completion more with this one. I solved it in Ruby then went back and ported it to #Gleam afterwards. I took 12:53 to do part 1, which still only landed me in 6123rd place!
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_4.gleam
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_4.gleam
@dalan Oh, no set sounds like it would have made sticking to the stdlib a bit of a pain. I asked a question on the Gleam discussions to see if there's a better way to do the char to int mapping, no responses yet. https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/discussions/1877
#AdventOfCode day 3 done. This one took longer mostly because I took a while to see if there was a way to turn a character into a number in #gleam (I couldn't work out how) and I got stuck on a compilation error in part 2 (I had a silly mistake in the definition of a function and it threw me off). https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_3.gleam
@kellan Nice!
#AdventOfCode Day 2 done! I may have gone a little overboard parsing into types, but it made the case expressions easy to read at least.
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_2.gleam #gleam
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_2.gleam #gleam
@schlink yeah you should be able to do it again.
@schlink In that case there should be a security options button in the dialog when you choose Erase in Disk Utility
@schlink I don't think those options are present/needed when the disk was encrypted. The data on disk is ransom gibberish. The decryption key is stored in the secure enclave so "erasing" the disk is: erase the key from the secure enclave, then reinitialise the disk.
@dcreemer my first time writing it so I’m learning too 😅
Righto day 1 of #AdventOfCode done.
This year I'm attempting to implement the solutions in #gleam https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_1.gleam
This year I'm attempting to implement the solutions in #gleam https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/src/days/day_1.gleam
@ekuber bad but also:
The ping process runs in a capability mode sandbox on all affected versions of FreeBSD and is thus very constrainted in how it can interact with the rest of the system at the point where the bug can occur.
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - one library at a time https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem/
@penguin42 I have ligatures enabled in my IDE and the font I use has them for a bunch of symbols.
@Amirography pretty sure that’s every job: doctors, builders, chefs
@tehpeh \o/
@rudelm I have the badge turned off :) I subscribe to a huge amount of feeds so I no doubt missed something interesting by marking all read but that’s ok—can’t read them all.
@jeremysiek Oh! This looks extremely relevant to my current work. Will there be avenues for purchase aside from Amazon (deciding whether to pre-order there now or not)?
@hailey The problem appears to be Rust doesn't behave in exactly the same was as C and we couldn't possibly explore alternate ways of achieving the same goals.
Urgh https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/1105 stuff like this reinforces my desire to cobble together a Linux distro (derived from an existing one) where people are free to experiment without this sort of pushback.
It’s surprisingly difficult to get text rendered via TrueType fonts but without anti-aliasing for that genuine 90s OS feel on the web. Paul and Caitlin pulled it off for their Vistaserv project though and the result is delightful https://www.vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts-modern-browsers
It’s surprisingly difficult to get text rendered via TrueType fonts but without anti-aliasing for that genuine 90s OS feel on the web. https://www.vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts-modern-browsers
@brion Yes absolutely.
@brion yes I suspect that there's a specific use-case in mind. I imagine the main one is being able to run untrusted code, especially in the context of "edge computing".
Interesting that Docker is testing being a WebAssembly runtime that can run WASM apps alongside conventional containers https://docs.docker.com/desktop/wasm/
Encountering a lot of Greek in my work reading about type theory. This is a good one page presentation of the Greek alphabet for reference. https://public.csusm.edu/aitken_html/mathhistory/GreekAlphabet.pdf
Pehaps https://github.com/imgix/luminous as well
https://github.com/biati-digital/glightbox might be an option
@brion I am 100% on board with this approach and the project currently has no other JS deps but I think there’s more to this that it initially seems, hence wanting a lib that has dealt with things like:
- works on mobile (scales images, touch/swipe support, doesn’t go crazy when the page is zoomed
- keyboard navigation support
- visible alt text (like Twitter)
- prevent page behind from scrolling while visible
- dismiss when image is clicked or Esc pressed
- video support
- screen reader support
@papertigers Might work for a simpler app but I think I really need access to the full Xcode env to do the usual code, build, simulate cycle. I didn't think of this before but I also need to get the app onto my phone... so it kinda needs to be a local machine. I can probably borrow my partner's for a bit.
@lopta Yeah AWS have Mac instances (min 24 hours). There’s also others like Macstadium but I think that’s more a monthly arrangement.
I would like an app to use with Pleroma but I need it to do client side filtering of posts (so that I don’t see every reply the people I follow post). I thought I’d had a genius idea that I could patch one of the open-source Mastodon iOS apps. Opened up the metatext repo in Xcode and it doesn’t build because I can’t run the latest Xcode on my MBP 😢. Admittedly my MBP is almost 10 years old—it had a good run, but I have no plans of buying another Mac.
@janriemer Thanks, really great to hear you enjoyed it!
Time for an #introduction! (even though I’ve been on the fediverse since 2017).
I’m Wes, a software developer from Australia. I moved from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast at the end of 2020 because I hate being cold.
I’m love coding in #Rust and am a serial project starter, sometimes project finisher 😬. I run readrust.net and blog at wezm.net
I’m a fan of #opensource and have been 100% in on desktop #Linux since 2017 after more than a decade on Mac OS X. I wrote about that journey on bitcannon.net. Also a #BSD observer but I seem to get deeper into Linux as the years go on.
I’m slowly trying to become an #rc airplane pilot and enjoy tinkering with hardware (microcontrollers etc) too.
I’m a recovering mechanical #keyboard collector. Most recently adopting a Keyboard.io Model 100.
I’ve self-hosted decentralised.social, a single user Pleroma instance since 2019.
@ollej this is cool! What was your motivation for building it/how do you imagine it being used?
Do any of the Mastodon compatible iOS apps have functionality for #Pleroma to do client side filtering to only show posts and posts with mentions?
Pleroma’s API responses include all posts by default and it’s super annoying. The web UI has an option to filter client side but Mastodon proper filters on the server.
Pleroma’s API responses include all posts by default and it’s super annoying. The web UI has an option to filter client side but Mastodon proper filters on the server.
@hailey You have a fingerprint reader that works in Linux! I'm three laptops in since my move to Linux and none have worked (all different manufacturers). I guess that's another point in favour of the Framework—if only they had AMD options.
@isaac https://write.as/ is almost that. The blog posts can be federated via ActivityPub and people can reply to those posts. I don't think the replies show up on the original post page though
@cecton oof, good job kitty.
You might already know about them but if not, Neovim has some features that can recover from these situations. There's undolist (https://neovim.io/doc/user/undo.html#%3Aundolist) for accessing the undo tree, but it's more easily used via https://github.com/mbbill/undotree. There's also https://neovim.io/doc/user/undo.html#undo-persistence for persisting the undo tree even after exiting.
You might already know about them but if not, Neovim has some features that can recover from these situations. There's undolist (https://neovim.io/doc/user/undo.html#%3Aundolist) for accessing the undo tree, but it's more easily used via https://github.com/mbbill/undotree. There's also https://neovim.io/doc/user/undo.html#undo-persistence for persisting the undo tree even after exiting.
@brendan love the ladders :)
@zkat Huge milestone indeed! Great work
@jbowen bsd.network is a good source of BSD people. Although I’m not sure their local timeline is visible without an account.
@be A wise choice. So many of the /r/rust posts are people asking questions that should be in the question thread.
Swapped the switches on my #keyboardio
Model 100 from Kailh Hush BOX Silent Pro Islet (tactile) to Gateron G Pro 2.0 Brown switches. The new ones are a lot clackier, quite a bit smoother, and a lot subtler as far as the tactile bump goes. Stem wobble seems about the same.
Model 100 from Kailh Hush BOX Silent Pro Islet (tactile) to Gateron G Pro 2.0 Brown switches. The new ones are a lot clackier, quite a bit smoother, and a lot subtler as far as the tactile bump goes. Stem wobble seems about the same.
@tedu The Oracle model :)
That Time I Tried Porting Zig to SerenityOS - sin-ack's writings https://sin-ack.github.io/posts/sycl-talk-20221007/
@phryk I think there are more and more things coming out that lack *BSD support. E.g. Dart, Electron, Docker. There are workarounds in some cases but in others the projects basically just don't care and have no intention of supporting them.
@phryk Feels like it gets harder and harder to use *BSD these days.
@kitsonk Nice 👍
@kitsonk Right I suppose it helps when you're not the only one in the "other" time zone.
@kitsonk How do you manage that time zone offset? When looking at job ads I have mostly dismissed US remote due to the offset but sounds like you've made it work.
@schlink yeah maybe. In Rust MoveError would be:
enum MoveError {
NoOpenOfThree,
OutOfBounds,
AlreadyOccupied,
Unreadable,
};
enum MoveError {
NoOpenOfThree,
OutOfBounds,
AlreadyOccupied,
Unreadable,
};
@schlink Really good write-up. Only bit I didn’t follow was the bit on error handling.
This seems the same as Rust except you didn’t have to declare the error type in the signature?
E.g.
fn execute_player_move(this_move_position: usize, player_number: u8, board: [9]u8) ![9]u8
vs.
fn execute_player_move(this_move_position: usize, player_number: u8, board: [u8; 9]) -> Result<[u8; 9], MoveError>
@RL_Dane Yeah Wikipedia says the Plus had a numeric keypad. jcs might be using the smaller keyboard so the trackball is closer.
I built a command line tool in Rust over the weekend. It facilitates generation of RSS feeds from web pages where the elements to extract are selected via CSS selectors. https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2022/generate-rss-from-webpage/
@ndpi Strong agreement from me. Always thought Ruby did well with the consistency here.
This is a good observation. After a bit of iteration after switching to Linux I settled on Arch + Awesome in Dec 2018 and my desktop has remained pretty much the same ever since.
Cool desktops don’t change by Tyler Cipriani https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/06/15/choose-boring-desktop-technology/
Cool desktops don’t change by Tyler Cipriani https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/06/15/choose-boring-desktop-technology/
Amusing write up from @Gankra_ :
Everything Is Broken: Shipping rust-minidump at Mozilla - Part 1 https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/everything-is-broken-shipping-rust-minidump-at-mozilla
Everything Is Broken: Shipping rust-minidump at Mozilla - Part 1 https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/everything-is-broken-shipping-rust-minidump-at-mozilla
Quick look at Rosetta on Linux by @never_released https://threedots.ovh/blog/2022/06/quick-look-at-rosetta-on-linux/
@schlink Ahh I haven't used any of the themes. I made my own theme for https://www.wezm.net/v2/ and I ported the Hugo theme I created for https://bitcannon.net/ to Zola.
@schlink I moved my sites to Zola from Hugo after Hugo updates broke things, sometimes silently, on more than one occasion.
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery https://guidebookgallery.org/
@brendan Yeah good not to centralise on a single giant instance. At least account migration is a thing now so if you need to move again it's not so bad.
@brendan of course there's a Mastodon instance for programming language theorists and mathematicians :)
New post!
Monitoring My Garage Door With a Raspberry Pi, Rust, and a 13Mb Linux System https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2022/garage-door-monitor/
Monitoring My Garage Door With a Raspberry Pi, Rust, and a 13Mb Linux System https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2022/garage-door-monitor/
Historical Operating Systems: Xerox GlobalView https://rakanalysis.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/historical-operating-systems-xerox-globalview/
I was dismayed to find that my new Kobo eReader did not render monospace text. Here's how I fixed it and got it to use the one true monospace font.
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2022/monospace-kobo-ereader/
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2022/monospace-kobo-ereader/
GitHub - kutometa/carnet: A Tool for Sandboxing Cargo and Buildscripts https://github.com/kutometa/carnet
[Keyboard] Inverse-T History, by Jim Burrows http://www.eldacur.com/~brons/NerdCorner/InverseT-History.html
@brion Yeah it's pretty weird
@brion it actually used to do this:
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/2205
but then they removed it:
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5327
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/2205
but then they removed it:
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5327
New post in which I ponder why Twitter, GitHub, Discourse, etc. have ASCII centric of username requirements, but others like Discord and Slack do not. https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2022/usernames/
Rust Port of Linux's RamFS File System https://austincminor.com/20211030000942-ramfs_rust.html
@brainblasted Oh those old notifications were the worst: they would always obscure the top of the file list—the part I was using! Looking forward to the improved ones.
@schlink Yep, that's what I meant.
@schlink I think you should be able to swap ErrorKind::Other with ErrorKind::AlreadyExists in your existing code. That is you need to still call io::Error::new
Porting Rust's std to rustix
“A second reason this is cool is that it's a step towards a Rust toolchain on Linux that doesn't depend on libc.”
https://blog.sunfishcode.online/port-std-to-rustix/
“A second reason this is cool is that it's a step towards a Rust toolchain on Linux that doesn't depend on libc.”
https://blog.sunfishcode.online/port-std-to-rustix/
(mac)OStalgia – reimagining modern apps is OS 9 applications http://swallowmygraphicdesign.com/project/macostalgia
A few About boxes from vintage Mac applications https://systemfolder.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/about-box/
@amacd31 Welcome to the fediverse!
v2 of the patch set to add Rust support to the Linux kernel has been posted to the LKML https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211206140313.5653-1-ojeda@kernel.org/
Oxide Computer have open-sourced their platform for embedded systems: Hubris #rust https://oxide.computer/blog/hubris-and-humility
maxmcd/bramble: Purely functional build system and package manager https://github.com/maxmcd/bramble
@Sandra Yes the article wasn't 100% accurate on a few of the finer details of Unicode. I thought it still raised some interesting concerns though.
(I had a lot of fun wading into the finer detail of emoji when I implemented support for reading emoji fonts and generating PDFs with them last year for work—https://www.princexml.com/)
(I had a lot of fun wading into the finer detail of emoji when I implemented support for reading emoji fonts and generating PDFs with them last year for work—https://www.princexml.com/)
@binarycat yeah
@binarycat I think problem is that particular graphemes are missing from Unicode so there is no way to represent them (or type them)
@brainblasted Interestingly this is pretty much how Electron apps behave.
@alienghic yeah kind of sobering when you read their "greco unification" analogy.
@meena it’s possible that the specific situation with Bengali has improved but I suspect the composition of the Consortium is much the same.
An interesting read on Unicode from the point of view of someone that writes Bengali.
I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name (2015) https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name
I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name (2015) https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name
How humid a day will feel is now more front of mind since I moved to Queensland. So I made a web app to view the dew point forecast for a location. Check it out at https://dewpoint.7bit.org
It's built with #rust and Rocket
and is open-source too—see link in the footer.
It's built with #rust and Rocket
and is open-source too—see link in the footer.
Fascinating. I did not know apk worked like this.
Why apk-tools is different than other package managers by @ariadneconill https://ariadne.space/2021/04/25/why-apk-tools-is-different-than-other-package-managers/
Why apk-tools is different than other package managers by @ariadneconill https://ariadne.space/2021/04/25/why-apk-tools-is-different-than-other-package-managers/
Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust https://seiya.me/writing-linux-clone-in-rust
Rust on Espressif chips - 18-10-2021 https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-18-10-2021/
A short post on attending RustConf this year: https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2021/rust-conf/
@xorowl Agreed
This was totally me in high school. I learned assembly and C through my TI-83 and I can say with confidence that this contributed to me becoming a software developer:
The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2021/10/ti-calculator-innovation/
The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2021/10/ti-calculator-innovation/
Really well written post on debugging a time related performance regression in Linux.
The Speed of Time by Brendan Gregg https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-09-26/the-speed-of-time.html
The Speed of Time by Brendan Gregg https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-09-26/the-speed-of-time.html
Built a Rust firmware for my @Clueboard LP using Keyberon https://github.com/wezm/clueboard-rust-firmware
Impressive @rustembedded project by @gregdavill: 2,400 LED Icosahedron (20 Sided) https://gregdavill.com/blog/d20
Interesting log of adding stable SIMD support to a Rust project. Covers some gotchas and how they were diagnosed.
Using SIMD acceleration in Rust implementation of tac http://neosmart.net/blog/2021/using-simd-acceleration-in-rust-to-create-the-worlds-fastest-tac/
Using SIMD acceleration in Rust implementation of tac http://neosmart.net/blog/2021/using-simd-acceleration-in-rust-to-create-the-worlds-fastest-tac/
@yala yeah I saw that. I have friends that don’t have nor would they create a Twitter account. If Twitter go ahead with requiring login I would definitely want something like Nitter to be able to share tweets with them.
@bugaevc Sorry I'm not aware of anything else in this genre (Rust or not). I probably should poke around see what I can find.
Curious why you not excited about Nim? I have no strong opinion except that when it comes to hosting third-party software I prefer running things that have a compiler that generates binaries involved (with a preference for Rust).
Curious why you not excited about Nim? I have no strong opinion except that when it comes to hosting third-party software I prefer running things that have a compiler that generates binaries involved (with a preference for Rust).
@aynish Yeah there's definitely some things I should have considered before setting it up.
New post: Burning 2.5Tb of Bandwidth Hosting a Nitter Instance https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2021/nitter-bandwidth/
@rubenerd My domains with them all auto-renew. Perhaps a silly question, do you have a card on file with them to charge.
@amdt Same. My photo workflow was never the same after it was discontinued.
Ohh GoToSocial is an ActivityPub server written in Go. https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
Scott Mabin will be joining Espressif full time to work on Rust support for all of Espressif's chips, past, present and future! https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-espressif/
I’m generally not into artisan key caps but these are cute https://www.keebmonkey.com/products/keebmonkey-mac-modular-artisan-keycap
@SharksOnCoffee It's not as hard as it may seem. Practice on some things first and you'll be fine. My finance build a Planck keyboard and she had never soldered before. https://didoesdigital.com/blog/build-your-own-steno-keyboard-its-easier-than-you-think/
The Micropad is a small macro pad keyboard with open source PCB, case, top plate, and custom firmware implemented in Rust http://blakesmith.me/2021/05/22/micropad-final-prototype-update.html
This page is hosted on a Casio fx-9750GII graphical calculator, running a SuperH SH4 processor. http://fxip.as203478.net/
Neovim News: The 0.5 release https://neovim.io/news/2021/07
Ohhh a new Folklore entry https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=What_Hath_Woz_Wrought
@Mehrad I wonder how that monetisation model is working for them. 🤔
Chimera Linux | A Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM https://chimera-linux.org/
@nolan I feel like these alerts are more trouble than they're worth a lot of the time.
@epilys Cool, yeah I think mine (if it eventuates) will be a while off. GUIs and Rust are hard 😧
@epilys Just rendering so far but GUI is the plan.
@schlink I think it's this:
Deleted files get sent to the graveyard (/tmp/graveyard-$USER by default)
Deleted files get sent to the graveyard (/tmp/graveyard-$USER by default)
The new thinner stroke iconography in the upcoming Firefox redesign has a distinctly Windows 10 vibe to my eyes but I think they look clear and fresh. The tab bar though... that's a mess. The active tab is clear enough (but weird). The inactive tabs kind of run together as there's no real divider between them. I suppose I'll get used to it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@kornel great thanks 👍
@schlink hmm I suppose that part is a very small part of the process
@schlink No worries. There's probably some more gains to be made through less copying of Strings, pre-allocating collections, and representing the unsafe word list as a Vec of structs or enums so that you don't have allocate a Vec for each element.
@schlink I profiled the code and it was spending a lot of time in `is_on_list`. For large word lists it's iterating over a large portion of the list every time it needs to see if it's on the list. Switching to a HashSet instead of Vec yields a big speed up as testing inclusion in the list is now a constant time operation. Using a set also makes `make_clean_list` much easier too.
https://github.com/wezm/csafe/commit/16517121d120679eba965b813082f101440adaf2
https://github.com/wezm/csafe/commit/16517121d120679eba965b813082f101440adaf2
pistorm uses a Raspberry Pi to emulate the 68k CPU in an Amiga bringing speeds somewhere around a 70-80 MHz 68030 https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm
Thanks for answering my question in a post. I think I need to make it more of a regular habit. I have no shortage of things to post about, but tend to only do it sporadically due to each one taking a long time (hours). It would be good to get into a routine where I could whip one up in less than 30 mins.
@rubenerd Re: Feedback from Thomas Jensen
I also subscribed to your blog in the last couple of months (for BSD things I think) and have have been enjoying and been impressed by your post volume too. Perhaps Thomas was curious as I am, if you had any tips for being able to write so regularly?
I also subscribed to your blog in the last couple of months (for BSD things I think) and have have been enjoying and been impressed by your post volume too. Perhaps Thomas was curious as I am, if you had any tips for being able to write so regularly?
@edavies that’s a keen eye you have. It is part of the source: https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/38bd9b3326c02e43f244623f97a622b11f074415/src/renderer.c#L42
I’m not affiliated with the project at all, just thought it was interesting. If you think there’s an problem it might be worth opening an issue on the repo
I’m not affiliated with the project at all, just thought it was interesting. If you think there’s an problem it might be worth opening an issue on the repo
@njoseph_1 Yes, I believe so. It's listed in the features on https://gitlab.com/famedly/fluffychat and I was able to go through the verification process with Element to verify the client for E2EE messages.
FluffyChat is a cross-platform, open-source Matrix chat client implemented in Dart https://fluffychat.im/
Scripting in Rust with self-interpreting source code http://neosmart.net/blog/2020/self-compiling-rust-code/
After some fighting with Nim on Alpine Linux I am now running a Nitter instance. The motivation was the main instance seemingly being rate limited most of the time these days https://nitter.decentralised.social/wezm
As an added bonus it's now a lot faster for me (and other Australians), since that's where my server is.
As an added bonus it's now a lot faster for me (and other Australians), since that's where my server is.
@uoya wow site does in fact load _very_ fast. Nice work.
https://www.freethegameboy.info/ a platform powered by solar and button presses that emulates a GameBoy and checkpoints the running game so that when power drops happen (due to lack of battery) the game can be resumed from FRAM.
Delta Chat is an open source instant messaging app built on email. The core is written in Rust. There are native apps for iOS and Android, as well as a desktop app. https://github.com/deltachat
@zack Yes looking for micro-blogging specifically. I'll check out the ones you mentioned.
Working Off-Grid Efficiently https://100r.co/
nonymous + bore(1): DNS toys for Rust — fun deep dive into the development of this project https://www.azabani.com/2021/01/03/nonymous-bore.html
Allsorts Font Shaping Engine Year in Review https://yeslogic.com/blog/allsorts-rust-font-shaping-engine-2020-review/ #Rust
menyoki is a screencast and screenshot utility that can also perform various image related operations such as making/splitting GIFs and modifying/analyzing image files.
Currently X11 is the primary platform but some features work on other OSes.
https://menyoki.cli.rs/
Currently X11 is the primary platform but some features work on other OSes.
https://menyoki.cli.rs/
cargo-mobile: Rust on mobile made easy! https://dev.brainiumstudios.com/2020/11/24/cargo-mobile.html
This looks handy:
> Ventoy creates a bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
With ventoy, you just copy the image files to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many iso files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them.
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
> Ventoy creates a bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
With ventoy, you just copy the image files to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many iso files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them.
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
@epilys No just saw it and thought it was worth keeping an eye on.
Precursor is a Mobile, Open Hardware, RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) Development Kit by bunnie Huang
The SoC is actually an FPGA and the OS it runs is built with #Rust.
A Guided Tour of the Precursor System on Chip (SoC) https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates/a-guided-tour-of-the-precursor-system-on-chip-soc
The SoC is actually an FPGA and the OS it runs is built with #Rust.
A Guided Tour of the Precursor System on Chip (SoC) https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates/a-guided-tour-of-the-precursor-system-on-chip-soc
mold: A modern linker. By one of the authors of lld. Aims to be able to link Chromium in 1 second, for a 12x speed up over lld, 50x speed up on GNU gold. Significant for #Rust as link time is often a significant amount of what folks see as compile time. https://github.com/rui314/mold
Going to need to find a place with fewer trees until I get better at this RC plane thing.
Video in case you want to see the crashes https://youtu.be/eMfK1i0Ebr8
Video in case you want to see the crashes https://youtu.be/eMfK1i0Ebr8
@adam Thank you!
@mmstick Yes there's many more but I'm happy not having to create a screenshot/video on a daily basis for a while :)
I thought the process and considerations that went into building the #100binaries blog post might be interested so I wrote it up.
Come with me on a journey involving xargs, curl, jq, ffmpeg, pngcrush, and a couple of little custom built #Rust binaries. https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/turning-one-hundred-tweets-into-a-blog-post/
Come with me on a journey involving xargs, curl, jq, ffmpeg, pngcrush, and a couple of little custom built #Rust binaries. https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/turning-one-hundred-tweets-into-a-blog-post/
@brainblasted Oh no! That's a shame.
I recently completed a #100binaries series on Twitter wherein I shared one open-source #Rust tool or application each day, for one hundred days (Jul—Nov 2020). I've collected up all the content and turned it into a blog post:
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/100-rust-binaries/
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/100-rust-binaries/
Ubuntu Linux jail on FreeBSD https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails
@cfenollosa Great post. Totally agree that folks should not expect to migrate from Twitter, but instead make new friends.
@shi thanks! I’m aware of /e/ but even though the phone I have is supported by Lineage it isn’t supported by /e/ so I haven’t been able to try it out. I’ll definitely do so if a build becomes available.
@aynish Thanks! Sadly the size of the task kind of deterred me from making much progress past the initial post.
Shine of the Rainbow volume control by 40% Keyboards http://www.40percent.club/2020/09/shine-of-rainbow.html
@x I tried out Aurora Store yesterday. I was able to install few Google Play apps. One worked, the other did not. This is an interesting option, although it does clearly state you're in violation of the Terms of Service when using it.
There also appears to be no way to pay for apps, or in app purchases. I'm a big believer in software sustainability, open-source or not, and not being able to compensate developers for their time is a bit of a deal breaker for me. 🤔
There also appears to be no way to pay for apps, or in app purchases. I'm a big believer in software sustainability, open-source or not, and not being able to compensate developers for their time is a bit of a deal breaker for me. 🤔
KeySeeBee — a split, open-source keyboard with a @rustlang firmware by Guillaume P. https://github.com/TeXitoi/keyseebee
New post: Finding an Alternative to iOS
Fuelled by Apple’s recent uptick in hostility towards developers and general greediness I attempt to find an alternative smartphone platform I’d be happy to use. https://bitcannon.net/post/finding-an-alternative-to-ios/
Fuelled by Apple’s recent uptick in hostility towards developers and general greediness I attempt to find an alternative smartphone platform I’d be happy to use. https://bitcannon.net/post/finding-an-alternative-to-ios/
@retiredguru its flys really well and quite easily. Given it’s size it does get blown around by wind so it’s best suited to calm days or days with only a slight breeze.
It needs more space than I expected — at least when starting out. Choosing too small a space is why I crashed the first flight. I then went to a more open area and it was much better.
It needs more space than I expected — at least when starting out. Choosing too small a space is why I crashed the first flight. I then went to a more open area and it was much better.
CCS811 Indoor Air Quality Sensor Driver in Rust by Diego Barrios Romero https://blog.eldruin.com/ccs811-indoor-air-quality-sensor-driver-in-rust/index.html
@simper Thanks 😊
@omasanori Thanks 😊
@melmc
I derived mine from https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/alpine_linux_en/ there are instructions for a bunch of systems there.
I derived mine from https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/alpine_linux_en/ there are instructions for a bunch of systems there.
Migrated bitcannon.net from Hugo to Zola. Hopefully I'll publish some new posts in the next few weeks.
Upgrading an iSight webcam with a RaspberryPi Zero https://onezero.medium.com/todays-webcams-are-boring-so-i-brought-back-a-classic-291cc7c94c76
Keyboard with IR backlighting that can control a TV http://www.40percent.club/2020/08/invisible-backlight.html
Unbricking a $2,000 Bike With a $10 Raspberry Pi https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi/
gherkin express: A tiny credit card sized TMK powered keyboard http://www.40percent.club/2020/08/gherkin-express.html #keyboards
@penguin42 no it’s a desktop so it’s never really been front of mind. I think I’ll try suspending it more now, but in the past I repeatedly ran into a NULL pointer error in the amdgpu driver that would hang the system.
@schlink Yep
Busted out the watt meter and hooked it up to my Ryzen box:
- Switched off it uses about 2.3W (USB is still powered)
- Idle (with Firefox open) it sits between 62.5~70.0
- Suspended: 2.6W — I probably should start suspending again to see if that amdgpu bug is fixed.
- Clean build of Prince varies between 165W up to 215W for the well parallelised bits (load average ~10.6)
Games
- A Short Hike: 120W
- Factorio: 125W
- Transport Fever 2: 145W
@brendanzab @SharksOnCoffee It's ok. I've run into more dynamic language bugs than I'd like but I haven't found a better alternative that's equally or more lightweight.
@brendanzab Welcome to the Fediverse 👋 (How cool is it that I can talk to you from my own self-hosted server running a completely different code base to Mastodon 😀)
@cadey Super cool. I love how response times in Rust webapps are measured in µs. 😃 What motivated the re-write?
@fribbledom outstanding!
@markosaric highly recommended. It changes your whole clipboard workflow and saves you from accidental loss if you accidentally copy over something you had on the clipboard.
@markosaric Awesome. Once you get used to having a tool like it you’ll wonder how you ever went without. See also clipboard manager
@ashfurrow Awesome! Hope you can get it working.
8 months after I became aware of it I finally set up espanso today — replicating the snippets functionality I had on macOS with Dash and Alfred.
espanso is a powerful, open-source text expansion tool implemented in Rust for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
https://espanso.org/
espanso is a powerful, open-source text expansion tool implemented in Rust for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
https://espanso.org/
@mort Maybe TCL https://www.tcl-lang.org/about/language.html I was looking for something similar at one point and built a little language inspired by tcl. Here's an example from the repo: https://github.com/wezm/tcl/blob/master/tests/pkg.tcl
New AU$500 bounty! Help bring emoji to life by fixing a limitation in the Cairo graphics library, which causes emoji to be rendered as black silhouettes in the Evince PDF viewer. 😊https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/bounties/
@sindastra oops 😬
@sindastra oh no. Have I created a, “can’t unsee”, situation for you!?
New post! GitHub detects Linux user-agents and replaces emoji with images of Noto Color Emoji, which I find unpleasant. This post shows how to easily work around this to get GitHub to use your system emoji font.
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/github-emoji-linux/
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/github-emoji-linux/
@epilys I shall keep you in mind 😃
@epilys Thanks for sharing. I'll add these to the pool of inspiration. Monaco is very nice. The font in the image I shared is a place-holder. I need to find a better one. Something that has the character and weight of Chicago, but free. I may end up commissioning some fonts eventually to be able to get good Unicode coverage.
@mhoye Yeah getting good partial updates seems like a bit of a dark art.
@mhoye I was researching large (12–14”) black and white displays yesterday. It seems there’s not much out there in the way of LCDs and e-ink at the size is quite pricey. Would be cool though.
Thanks for getting back to me.
I don’t actually know much about Haiku, but maybe that’s also indicative of the reasons
That’s interesting, especially coming from someone like you that appears to dabble quite a bit in OS related dev. Seems perhaps Haiku could benefit from wider awareness.
And no, SerenityOS is not Windows-inspired.
I was mostly think visually. I see a task bar and I think Windows 😁. My early computing experience was all Mac OS.
@bugaevc Hey Sergey, was just watching the May SerenityOS update on YouTube. I see you've been contributing. It got me wondering about why this project seems to be doing so well compared to Haiku, which I think has a lot of similarities. I was wondering if you had any thoughts? I posted a more expanded version of my thoughts on Lobsters too: https://lobste.rs/s/nwgkqo/serenityos_update_may_2020#c_bvdlh4
New post! This week I learned ports like HDMI support different pixel formats — some better than others. Unfortunately, the Linux amdgpu driver doesn't let you choose one so I resorted to hacking the EDID of my display. Read on for the full story. https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/linux-amdgpu-pixel-format/
ktrl is a Linux keyboard programming daemon.
ktrl is heavily inspired by the amazing open-source keyboard firmware project QMK. You can think of ktrl as an attempt to re-implement QMK as a Linux daemon.
https://github.com/ItayGarin/ktrl #Rust
ktrl is heavily inspired by the amazing open-source keyboard firmware project QMK. You can think of ktrl as an attempt to re-implement QMK as a Linux daemon.
https://github.com/ItayGarin/ktrl #Rust
@ebassi Thanks, this looks quite nice.
@sorin Ahh nice. I was not aware of this application.
@amdt Yep it's definitely a great example.
@bilelmoussaoui interesting that you were still able to do it without subclassing. It seems the Rust GTK binding makes have some subclassing support now. Do you know if that been added since your work on Contrast it was it inadequate? Also thanks for your replies and answering questions, it’s most appreciated.
@bilelmoussaoui indeed. How much custom UI did you do for this, and if you did, how hard was it?
@sir_tronics I’m not sure I’d consider it especially well designed. And that it doesn’t properly support HiDPI hints at not sweating important details.
The RSS ecosystem seems to be thriving if this Lobsters thread is anything to go by. So many diverse workflows and clients, each tailored to that person’s use cases and preferences.
https://lobste.rs/s/hwhptd/which_atom_rss_reader_do_you_use
https://lobste.rs/s/hwhptd/which_atom_rss_reader_do_you_use
@js yeah they said that in the post. Seems like they learnt a bunch from it and that alone is a great thing.
@js it seemed their main objection was that building BSD libc took too long because you had to do a make world and musl could be built in isolation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Adventures of porting MUSL to PS4 #FreeBSD https://dayzerosec.com/posts/adventures-of-porting-musl-to-ps4/
gourami: An intentionally small, lightweight ActivityPub microblogging service written in #Rust https://github.com/alexwennerberg/gourami
The second bounty is AU$200 to update the emoji list in the Mattermost server. Mattermost is a self-hosted group chat application written Go. 3/3
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/bounties/#update-mattermost-server-to-support-emoji-added-after-unicode-9-0
#Go #Golang
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/bounties/#update-mattermost-server-to-support-emoji-added-after-unicode-9-0
#Go #Golang
The first bounty is AU$500 to implement emoji reactions in Fractal, a Matrix client written in Rust. 2/3
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/bounties/#emoji-reactions-in-fractal
#Rust #GNOME
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/bounties/#emoji-reactions-in-fractal
#Rust #GNOME
I don't have time to build all the things I want to, so I've created a bounties page on my blog. I'll pay you if you implement them. Starting off with two emoji related ones to see how this goes. 1/3 https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/bounties/
@wzhd Sorry, I'm not following?
@rmpr Ok, I'm put off by them wanting me to pay for spellchecker support anyway.
@rmpr Does it use multiple windows?
@icyphox I've tried some alternatives UIs but I miss the GUI. I like inline link previews, images, etc.
(The fact I never really used IRC may be showing here)
(The fact I never really used IRC may be showing here)
@jrorci Yeah I really wanted SN to work because so much of their approach aligns with my values.
I tried Joplin but it was cluttered and clunky to use.
I tried Joplin but it was cluttered and clunky to use.
I signed up and paid for the 5 year Standard Notes plan yesterday but by the end of the day I had requested a refund under the terms of their 30 day trial. The app was far too slow on my (still fast) iPhone X. Plus whenever you use anything but the plain editor on the phone, you lose a lot of system text exiting behaviour: selection was wonky, spell check and corrections are missing.
I shared feedback with my refund request and the person noted there is room for improvement with the mobile app.
I shared feedback with my refund request and the person noted there is room for improvement with the mobile app.
Hmm @hugo may have been right. The editor thing is a novel concept but in practiceit's not great. The Markdown Pro editor isn't too bad in browser but is slow and breaks spellcheck on mobile. 😕
@hugo Well I've signed up for their 5 year plan... and have 30 days to decide if I want to stick with it!
After 10 years using SimpleNote I think I'm going to switch to StandardNotes. The most recent update to SimpleNote has made the editing experience really bad. While typing it will randomly jump to different notes, sometimes completely messing them up in the process.
SimpleNote appears to have no business model aside from being funded by Automattic, which I'm always wary of. StandardNotes has the benefit of open-source, encryption, and a business model.
SimpleNote appears to have no business model aside from being funded by Automattic, which I'm always wary of. StandardNotes has the benefit of open-source, encryption, and a business model.
Scheduling in NetBSD – Part 1 by manikishan https://manikishan.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/scheduling-in-netbsd-part-1/
@sir_tronics Alpine
Glad my server is glibc free and I don’t need to worry about this. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes
Other apps like ImageOptim also have no Linux version.
Check out https://trimage.org/ it’s a decent alternative with a very similar user experience.
@schlink @bugaevc https://os.phil-opp.com/async-await/ is also a pretty decent intro to how async/await works in Rust.
Revisiting the businesscard raytracer by Fabien Sanglard http://fabiensanglard.net/revisiting_the_businesscard_raytracer/index.html
@QuietMisdreavus I liked how you factored in initials to the selection. VM is pretty great!
Over the years I’ve shared a few of your posts on Read Rust. Would you like the author attribution updated? https://readrust.net/search?q=QuietMisdreavus
Over the years I’ve shared a few of your posts on Read Rust. Would you like the author attribution updated? https://readrust.net/search?q=QuietMisdreavus
@unfa Interesting. I have a fairly weak GPU but a lot of CPU cores, would be good if it could shift the load somewhat.
@unfa great, it’s good to hear it’s working for you despite the alpha status. Any tips for faster exports? I have a 12 core Ryzen 9 and it seems to only use a couple of cores while exporting. I tried manually setting the thread count but that didn’t help.
@unfa Hi, I'm learning about video production on Linux and I watched your video about kdenlive 18 yesterday, which was helpful, thank you. I tried a bunch of editors and have concluded that Olive is the way to go for my basic needs for now. I was wondering, what are you using for video editing now?
rebuilderd: Independent verification system of binary packages. Currently tracking the Arch Linux package index.
https://github.com/kpcyrd/rebuilderd
https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2020-April/001905.html
https://github.com/kpcyrd/rebuilderd
https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2020-April/001905.html
@emacsen Great post, thanks for writing it.
I friend of mine left his job to try his hand at indie game development earlier in the year. Here's the first sneak peak at the puzzle game he's building.
He's also got a low traffic mailing list with updates and details on indie game developer life if it looks interesting. https://mailchi.mp/011bce332510/updates-from-mischka
He's also got a low traffic mailing list with updates and details on indie game developer life if it looks interesting. https://mailchi.mp/011bce332510/updates-from-mischka
@venko pixels or using wgpu directly perhaps.
https://github.com/parasyte/pixels
https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-rs
https://github.com/parasyte/pixels
https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-rs
“Glacies is an operating system composed of the Eltanin userland and the Linux® kernel.”
The Eltanin userland appears to be permissively licensed (Unlicense) too.
https://eadwardus.site/blog/2020-04-06
The Eltanin userland appears to be permissively licensed (Unlicense) too.
https://eadwardus.site/blog/2020-04-06
@alexbuzzbee anything but info (typically that means a combination of --help and man).
Ohh the creator of the fish shell has built another new shell and language in Rust: Crush https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ftb7fc/new_project_crush_a_command_line_shell/
@tedu See also --vcs
@chpio Actually no that wasn't it but it's fixed now.
@chpio Hmm looks like the access token expired. Thanks for letting me know.
@ltriant wat!?
@kensanata @codesections Cool. My previous website design had a similar thing at the bottom of a post (you can see it here https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/10/useful-command-line-tools/#respond). Perhaps I should bring back something like that.
@codesections Any thoughts on how to make it more obvious that I'm on the fediverse? I currently only have a small link in the footer.
@codesections thanks 😊
@Eggfreckles what new iMac?
New Post: Comparing Alternatives to top Written in Rust https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/rust-top-alternatives/ #Rust
@icyphox ahh right. Working well for you?
@jaze the suggestions were decent but mostly distros I currently or previously run 🙂
@Ajz great suggestion I actually have it installed on the laptop already with an elementary base. I was planning to sacrifice it for this experiment.
@icyphox Cool. I need to do some research/practice doing a semi-manual Alpine install so it doesn’t erase my entire disk. Do you use it on the desktop?
@icyphox 👍 I’ve been following KISS since it came out. Might be a little too extreme on the minimalism for me I think.
@george_ ahh yes good suggestion. I tried it in a VM a couple of times when 1.0 first came out. It was a bit flakey then. I’m hesitant to try it without a trial run in a VM again first.
What’s a weird Linux distro I should try on my laptop. It’s currently dual booting Windows and Void Linux musl. I just tried the FuryBSD Xfce live environment but the trackpad doesn’t work. I use Arch elsewhere so ignore it and derivatives.
Requirements:
- Up to date software (no Debian derivatives)
- Compact default install: I’ll install software I need. I don’t need a word processor etc. installed by default.
Alpine might be an option. My server runs it. Never tried it as a desktop.
Requirements:
- Up to date software (no Debian derivatives)
- Compact default install: I’ll install software I need. I don’t need a word processor etc. installed by default.
Alpine might be an option. My server runs it. Never tried it as a desktop.
@gueorgui It's nice that they still seem interested in desktop computing. Anything in particular get you excited?
zectl ZFS Boot Environment Manager for Linux by John Ramsden https://ramsdenj.com/2020/03/18/zectl-zfs-boot-environment-manager-for-linux.html
@hugo Yes it's a capybara with babies! Awesome is my window manager.
@djsumdog nup mobile site is frustrating as ever.
The best thing about the new GitHub mobile app might be that I can finally tap on a link to a repo and actually read the entire README right there.
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Dependent Types in Typescript by Javier Casas http://www.javiercasas.com/articles/typescript-dependent-types/
@jaycie I run Read Rust where I curate interesting blog posts from the community. You can follow @readrust subscribe via RSS, or just visit the website to check it out. https://readrust.net/
Reverse engineering a router's firmware with binwalk by Sergio Prado https://embeddedbits.org/reverse-engineering-router-firmware-with-binwalk/
@maiki it’s the same way Rust itself is licensed and a lot of libraries in the eco system do the same.
@dragfyre Hmm not really… which is why I built my own 😃 That's not to say there aren't some out there, just none that really suited me.
@dragfyre Hah! That would be cool but is a little out of scope 😄
🍃 I made a little task tracking app to replace my use of Wunderlist. It's called Leaf. I use it to remember posts I read on my phone for publishing to @readrust. Leaf is written in Rust using Rocket and uses CSV for persistence. https://github.com/wezm/leaf #Rust
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Blargh the Hugo 0.6 release silently disabled raw HTML in Markdown. So for ages I've had chunks of https://bitcannon.net/ missing. It was done in the name of "security" 🙄. I'll move it to Zola when I have a moment.
Project Sandcastle — Android on an iPhone https://projectsandcastle.org/history
It’s times like these I’m glad I build my Ryzen box:
11:24:08 up 3 days, 20:38, 1 user, load average: 29.87, 23.21, 12.18
Running a test were I subset ~60,000 fonts, then read each one back and check that it’s valid. ETA is about 10 mins.
fd '\.(ttf|otf|ttc)$' ~/Downloads/Font\ Collection | sort | parallel --bar ./subset-validate {} | tee subset-validate.txt
ilpianista/arch-audit: An utility like pkg-audit for Arch Linux. Based on Arch Security Team data #Rust #ArchLinux https://github.com/ilpianista/arch-audit
Going to take the opportunity to swap the OS disk for an SSD while I’m at it.
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@abyxcos yeah I looked at a few options and I have no desire to run a Java/Node/Python tool along with the resources they demand.
As a Rust dev/fan person I have a preference for Rust tools. The language eliminates classes of errors (like no nil) so I have more confidence in tools being more reliable. I’m also more readily able to contribute if the need/want arises.
As a Rust dev/fan person I have a preference for Rust tools. The language eliminates classes of errors (like no nil) so I have more confidence in tools being more reliable. I’m also more readily able to contribute if the need/want arises.
My NAS has remained off and largely unused for the past 3 years. It has FreeBSD 10 on it. This weekend I want to reinstall the OS to get it up to FreeBSD 12.1 and ensure all my photos from the last 3 years are copied there (I have a zfs fs on it with copies=2 just for photos).
Then I might look into making it possible to stream music off it with Polaris https://github.com/agersant/polaris
Then I might look into making it possible to stream music off it with Polaris https://github.com/agersant/polaris
Today I am meeting the creator of CSS, Håkon Wium Lie who is a member of the board:
Wium Lie has also promoted the concept of printing from the web. The third edition of his book on CSS, co-authored with Bert Bos, was produced from HTML and CSS files. These files were then converted to PDF by the Prince HTML + CSS formatter. In 2005, he joined the board of YesLogic, the company that makes Prince.
@cdc they mention that they’re waiting on some PRs so I expect it will happen eventually.
Sherbet: an ergonomic gaming keypad – Fail Fast https://www.billiam.org/2019/05/29/sherbet-an-ergonomic-keypad
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Woot! A segfault I reported in tig in 2016 has been fixed https://github.com/jonas/tig/issues/523
@farhan I run the musl variant on my laptop. It works well and haven't run into any major issues. I wrote about it here https://bitcannon.net/post/huawei-matebook-x-pro-void-linux/
Installed NetBSD 9 on my alix3d2 yesterday. It was an adventure in PXE booting and net installing but I got there in the end. Just waiting for binary packages to be available now.
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@ltriant Yes it's extremely well done. I read it on my phone too — totally usable and functional there as well.
Gears – Bartosz Ciechanowski https://ciechanow.ski/gears/
Wiki - LetsBeRealAboutDependencies https://wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAboutDependencies
Bizcat - an 8x16 bitmap font by Robey Pointer https://robey.lag.net/2020/02/09/bizcat-bitmap-font.html
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Some progress on my Wunderlist replacement. Experimenting with a plain old form approach (no JS).
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- Bedrock Linux post hijack of elementary
- Showing the version of Neovim in the elementary/Ubuntu repos vs. the one I installed from the Arch repos with pacman.
No VMs, no containers, all running together on the same system.
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Mint aims to combine the developer experience of Elm and the expressiveness of React to create the perfect language for building single-page applications.
https://www.mint-lang.com/guide
https://www.mint-lang.com/guide
@farhan Preview
cursedfs: Make a disk image formatted with both ext2 and FAT at once https://github.com/NieDzejkob/cursedfs
After 3 years going to give @elementary another try on my laptop (not my primary device). I’ve installed it alongside Void and Windows.
I’m toying with the idea of using Nix or pkgsrc to help manage the installation of up to date dev dependencies and preferred tools.
@kinsey voted other. I do builds manually with makepkg with a little assistance from auracle for cloning.
@gueorgui Oh cool! It's super satisfying to know they're worth the time that went into writing them. 🙂
@gueorgui it’s not terrible but if the motivation for publishing content is for folks to read it I think it makes sense to make it easy for them to read it in the comfort of their RSS reader.
@hugo oh wow, who?
@hugo no, but I used to work there. Small 🌏
Data transfer in GTK4 – GTK Development Blog https://blog.gtk.org/2020/01/29/data-transfer-in-gtk4/
After nearly 10 years with the previous version I've redesigned my website! The new version is built with the Zola Rust static site compiler. https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/new-design/
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The real world is mutable (and consequences for system design) by Chris Siebenmann https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/RealWorldIsMutable
Building a Spotify player for my Mac SE/30 by ants https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/55998-building-a-spotify-player-for-my-mac-se30/
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@epilys Hi 👋 just wanted to let you know that there seems to be an issue with meli.delivery. It’s not loading (SSL error).
@annika yeah seems like a pretty good deal
Wow, love the keyboard in the reform 2, especially the little OLED display. I made a prototype USB keyboard with one on breadboard a while back, great for status info. https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-01-18-finishing-reform.html
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@badtuple very interested to hear the results of your experiment.
Trying out the Pinebook Pro - a $200 ARM Laptop by Jeremy Morgan https://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/linux/pine64-pro-laptop-review/
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Firefox content process sandboxing with Capsicum: it’s alive! by myfreeweb https://unrelenting.technology/notes/2020-01-09-01-37-51 #FreeBSD
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Docuum performs least recently used (LRU) eviction of Docker images to keep the disk usage below a given threshold.
Docker's built-in docker image prune --all --filter until=… command serves a similar purpose. However, the built-in solution isn't ideal since it uses the image creation time, rather than the last usage time, to determine which images to remove. That means it can delete frequently used images, and these may take a long time to build.
https://github.com/stepchowfun/docuum
Docker's built-in docker image prune --all --filter until=… command serves a similar purpose. However, the built-in solution isn't ideal since it uses the image creation time, rather than the last usage time, to determine which images to remove. That means it can delete frequently used images, and these may take a long time to build.
https://github.com/stepchowfun/docuum
Unicode is Awesome https://eng.getwisdom.io/awesome-unicode/
This looks handy (if you use Windows): Windows Sandbox https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-kernel-internals/windows-sandbox/ba-p/301849 /via @unrelenting.technology@unrelenting.technology
A little tower cooler for Raspberry Pi 😄
ICE Tower CPU Cooling Fan for Raspberry Pi https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Raspberry-pi-Support-Pi-4-p-4097.html
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ICE Tower CPU Cooling Fan for Raspberry Pi https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Raspberry-pi-Support-Pi-4-p-4097.html
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The polygons of Another World by @fabinou https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/index.html
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Measuring Mutexes, Spinlocks and how Bad the Linux Scheduler Really is | Probably Dance https://probablydance.com/2019/12/30/measuring-mutexes-spinlocks-and-how-bad-the-linux-scheduler-really-is/
tetrominoes by 40% Keyboards https://www.40percent.club/2019/12/tetrominoes.html #keyboards
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New post: Software Contributions 2019
Open-source software has a sustainability problem so I try to contribute back where I can. This post aims to encourage others to do the same if they are able, and to highlight interesting people and projects (many of them #Rust oriented).
https://www.wezm.net/technical/2020/01/software-contributions-2019/
Open-source software has a sustainability problem so I try to contribute back where I can. This post aims to encourage others to do the same if they are able, and to highlight interesting people and projects (many of them #Rust oriented).
https://www.wezm.net/technical/2020/01/software-contributions-2019/
@schlink I haven’t played it for a while but I’ve enjoyed it in the past. I’ve never actually launched the rocket though. I’m sure you’re smart enough. I watched a few YouTube videos early on to help get the hang of it.
@algernon I run a Mattermost instance. Being a Go app it’s delightfully lightweight. The experience isn’t as polished as Slack but it gets the job done for my little group of friends.
@algernon Flarum is what I have in the back of my mind should I ever want to run a forum. https://flarum.org/
I did day 14 part 1 of #AdventOfCode today. Think I might throw in the towel at this point. As the problems get harder and take longer it's no longer as fun. Better for me to invest that time coding actual software I think.
Cinderella: Lightweight continuous integration for raw git repositories written in #Rust (without a Docker dependency, so potentially BSD friendly) https://github.com/aufziehvogel/Cinderella
Day 13: This one felt like a nice balance between resuse of previous solutions plus new problems — without taking too long to solve. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2019/src/bin/day13.rs #AdventOfCode #Rust
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Rustysd: A systemd-compatible service manager written in Rust https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/e9o724/rustysd_a_systemdcompatible_service_manager/
@ltriant Very cool!
Does anyone listen to any Linux oriented podcasts that are technical or developer oriented, with hosts that really know their stuff?
Most of the ones I’ve tried so far are quite end-user “stable” distro focussed and often discuss major upgrades, time things will take to make it to LTS distros, etc. — all stuff that I just don’t have to deal with on Arch and Void.
Most of the ones I’ve tried so far are quite end-user “stable” distro focussed and often discuss major upgrades, time things will take to make it to LTS distros, etc. — all stuff that I just don’t have to deal with on Arch and Void.
The 16 core Z80 ZedRipper: Part 1 by Chris Fenton http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-zedripper-part-1/
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@gueorgui beautiful!
Day 11: Well they're getting harder eh. This one took me a bit over an hour. Lost some time working out minor bugs in both parts.
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/672b0964a103b0abcca662c1575d1e5064202ee6/2019/src/bin/day11.rs #AdventOfCode #Rust
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https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/672b0964a103b0abcca662c1575d1e5064202ee6/2019/src/bin/day11.rs #AdventOfCode #Rust
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@george_ I think I've hit the same thing on day 10 part 2 regarding the puzzle instructions. You can implement the described behaviour but if you don't do it the way the exact way puzzle generator expects you may get subtly different results.
I've done day 10 part 1 but my answer for part 2 is wrong. I think I need to tweak my approach. I may have taken, "This line of sight can be at any angle", too literally. #AdventOfCode
@gueorgui Zola is my favourite at the moment (having used nanoc, Hugo, and cobalt)
Day 9: I jumped on this one as soon as it was released but I lost time due to a bug in my updated read implementation meaning I ranked > 1000.
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/6b9f91c1008cfea65a029132b256733dd5613edb/2019/src/bin/day9.rs #AdventOfCode #Rust
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https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/6b9f91c1008cfea65a029132b256733dd5613edb/2019/src/bin/day9.rs #AdventOfCode #Rust
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Day 8: I found this one easy and the stars aligned so that I was able to attempt it almost immediately upon release. I got on the leaderboard for both parts. № 776 for part 1 and № 667 for part 2. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2019/src/bin/day8.rs #AdventOfCode #Rust
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@evan Yep that's more or less what I settled on too.
Day 7 part 2 now done: It was a bit of a mission to work out how to connect all the inputs to outputs but I got it working eventually. Curious to see other implementations of this one. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/92d9e9fa100196fd7fdc4cc4f19bf2b4a83a4be4/2019/src/bin/day7.rs #AdventOfCode #Rust
Day 7 part 1: Spent most of the time working out how to generate the phase settings, which would have been simple if I'd read the description properly. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2019/src/bin/day7.rs #AdventOfCode #Rust
Day 6: this one flowed pretty smoothly owing to having some prior experience with trees in Rust. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2019/src/bin/day6.rs #AdventOfCode #Rust
Day 5: required a bit more up front work to refactor the Intcode computer, but after that was done it flowed pretty well. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2019/src/bin/day5.rs (most of the code is in the new computer module) #AdventOfCode #Rust
@markosaric ahh I tried that for a while but it was hard to filter out all the bots. So many bots. I’m using GoatCounter now. It’s basic but enough to see what’s popular and where traffic is coming from.
@markosaric great article (and nice design). What do you use instead of Google Analytics?
@schlink yep it ruined my streak of completing each one on the day of release.
Explore Magic Cap, a smartphone OS from a decade before the iPhone by Matthew Goodrich https://learn.adafruit.com/magic-cap-the-smartphone-os-from-the-90s/overview
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Oh tl;dr is from a user on Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/bufolq/authentication_vulnerabilities#c_wwwecs
OpenBSD login vulnerability that allows you to trivially bypass password. Has been there for some 18 odd years.
TL;DR didn’t sanitize usernames which could contain “-“ making them parse as options to the authentication program. Exploiting this, username “-schallenge:passwd” allowed silent auth bypass because the passwd backend doesn’t require a challenge.
@markosaric very interesting read
@evan very tidy 👍
Does anyone know of a Pleroma compatible iOS app that can do client side filtering to only show replies to people I follow. Currently Pleroma sends all posts and it’s very noisy. Pleroma-FE has a setting to only show replies to people I follow but it filters client side. There is an open issue to fix this but in the meantime if there was an app that did this it would be ideal. #Pleroma
Day 4! Part 1 was fun. Part 2 was messier but that's ok.
https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2019/src/bin/day4.rs #AdventOfCode #Rust
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@ltriant yeah I think it’s not a great name. I think index would be more obvious but given there’s an Index trait that might get confusing.
gnome-shell to get Rusty!
> This is the start of #1934. This branch puts the libcroco sources inside src/st/ and removes the meson dependencies for the external libcroco. I'll be replacing it with Rust code in an external module in other MRs.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/861
> This is the start of #1934. This branch puts the libcroco sources inside src/st/ and removes the meson dependencies for the external libcroco. I'll be replacing it with Rust code in an external module in other MRs.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/861
@markosaric Pleasantly surprised to see it's not electron based.
@george_ Fancy! Looks good to me. Mine was a lot less sophisticated. https://github.com/wezm/advent-of-code/blob/master/2019/src/bin/day2.rs
@schlink yeah they could be generic over FromStr but there’s been no need for that yet. I’m optimising for time to write the solution this year so it doesn’t turn into too big a time sink. I’m also a fan of YAGNI 😁 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
Thermal testing Raspberry Pi 4 - Raspberry Pi Blog https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/thermal-testing-raspberry-pi-4/
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LoRa smartphone messaging by sqij https://www.instructables.com/id/LoRa-Mesh-Radio/
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The Coming Supremacy of AR by Allan Pike https://allenpike.com/2019/the-supremacy-of-ar
@eloisa thank you! 🎉
@codesections it’s on my todo list to see if Sequoia can replace gpg for me. https://sequoia-pgp.org/ might work for you too.
Listening to a Linux podcast and they’re talking about distro hoping due to things breaking or the problems with upgrades... I can’t really relate. People use so called stable distros yet seem to have these issues. Meanwhile on Arch everything is just always up to date — no big bang upgrades — and despite any supposed reputation it just works for me.
A Look at PureDarwin - an OS based on the open source core of macOS by Jamie Scaife https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/a-look-at-puredarwin/
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Are we Wayland yet? by Samuel Walladge
https://www.swalladge.net/archives/2019/10/14/are-we-wayland-yet/
Where Wayland in this case is sway
https://www.swalladge.net/archives/2019/10/14/are-we-wayland-yet/
Where Wayland in this case is sway
Screencasting with OBS Studio on Wayland by Georges Stavracas https://feaneron.com/2019/11/21/screencasting-with-obs-studio-on-wayland/
@Huggles way back when I did this sort of this with a PIC in assembly to talk to my TI-83 the delays were done with loops where you could count the instruction cycles the loop would take and convert that to real time. Given you need fairly precise short times a busy loop like this might be the way to go. Main challenge with Rust given it doesn’t have inline assembly is making sure the loop doesn’t get optimised away by the compiler.
The Firefox UI is now built with Web Components - Brian Grinstead https://briangrinstead.com/blog/firefox-webcomponents/
@Huggles
>Could be problematic with chips that don't have fast enough timers though.
Yes I suspect that's why it's not present. There's no issue in the repo currently, might be worth dropping one in.
>Could be problematic with chips that don't have fast enough timers though.
Yes I suspect that's why it's not present. There's no issue in the repo currently, might be worth dropping one in.
The Rust font parser and shaping engine that my colleagues and I have been working on over the last two years was open-sourced today. Super exciting! 🎉 https://yeslogic.com/blog/allsorts-rust-font-shaping-engine.html #Rust
@alexbuzzbee @puckipedia been keeping an eye on this too. Would love to run an AP server with compile time guarantees.
Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices by Ben Cox
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/userspace-usb-drivers
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TROS: How IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers by Ken Shirriff http://www.righto.com/2019/11/tros-how-ibm-mainframes-stored.html
@Sassquatch its so that you can use sdcards as storage with old computers
@Sassquatch I didn’t write the article, just shared. The author need them for a floppy emulator they’ve designed.
DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector https://www.bigmessowires.com/2016/06/04/db-19-resurrecting-an-obsolete-connector/
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@frainz sorry, not sure
unveil support added to Firefox on OpenBSD https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=157325338020502&w=2 #OpenBSD
Sulis is an open source game built with Rust. The game is currently fully playable and includes the first act of The Twin Expanse, an old school RPG campaign in the vein of classic games such as Baldur's Gate, but mixing in modern elements from titles like Divinity: Original Sin and Pillars of Eternity. https://sulisgame.com/
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Rust 1.39.0 is out with async/await syntax. Huge release this one 🎉 https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/11/07/Rust-1.39.0.html
foss.technology - A pleroma instance for FOSS projects to announce news and updates http://foss.technology/about
How to make your C codebase rusty: rewriting keyboard firmware keymap in Rust · houqp https://about.houqp.me/posts/rusty-c/ #keyboards #Rust
The Project Jengo Saga: How Cloudflare Stood up to a Patent Troll – and Won! https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/
Back to windows after twenty years - Signal v. Noise https://m.signalvnoise.com/back-to-windows-after-twenty-years/
Building a keyboard from an old portable (electronic) typewriter http://cowlark.com/2019-11-03-keyboard/ #keyboards
@tedu oh my the GitHub issue thread is the same. Some suggest appealing and telling Apple it’s ok because they’re using electron and it’s internal API, others suggesting all they need to do is remove the offending calls in chromium, without considering that they will need to replace the behaviour of the removed calls.
FullContact probably has a huge profile of personal data on you collected from social media profiles, GitHub, and more. Mine included avatars, phone numbers, work history, education and many email addresses. Opt out by clicking “Own Your Personal Data” at https://www.fullcontact.com/privacy-center/#privacy-policy
mrustc 0.9 - Now with rust 1.29.0 support https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/dqi1u1/mrustc_09_now_with_rust_1290_support/
They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken by Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert https://pointersgonewild.com/2019/11/02/they-might-never-tell-you-its-broken/
AVX-512: when and how to use these new instructions – Daniel Lemire's blog https://lemire.me/blog/2018/09/07/avx-512-when-and-how-to-use-these-new-instructions/
TIL
> gcompat, a library which provides glibc-compatible APIs for use on musl libc systems. This library is designed to be used for binaries that are already compiled against glibc.
https://code.foxkit.us/adelie/gcompat
> gcompat, a library which provides glibc-compatible APIs for use on musl libc systems. This library is designed to be used for binaries that are already compiled against glibc.
https://code.foxkit.us/adelie/gcompat
@schlink Alfred has a quick action to lock the screen. Alternatively you can add a hot corner to lock the screen in System Preferences. Lastly in Keychain Access you can enable a menu item to let you lock the screen. All these achieve the same thing. Your user session remains but the computer is locked. You may want to turn on the setting to prevent the computer from sleeping when on power too.
Monolinux: An embedded Linux distro with a single statically linked executable https://github.com/eerimoq/monolinux #Linux
@adasauce I have a Filco Majestouch Ninja. It was one of my first boards and still one of my favourites.
@federicomena Wow nice improvement!
Apple macOS 10.15 vs. Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Performance Benchmarks on a MacBook Pro https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos1015-win10-ubuntu&num=1
Illumos (v9os) on SPARC64 SunFire v100 https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/illumos-v9os-on-sparc64-sunfire-v100/ #Illumos #sparc
You Choose by Brent Simmons https://inessential.com/2019/10/29/you_choose
@tedu Pleroma preserves it
@tedu Pleroma preserves it
Interesting post, aligns somewhat with my own assessment of the pros and cons https://blog.habets.se/2019/10/OpenBSD-in-2019.html
New post: An Illustrated Guide to Some Useful Command Line Tools https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/10/useful-command-line-tools/
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Firenvim turns your browser (Firefox or Chromium) into a Neovim client allowing you to edit text in textareas in an embedded Neovim instance https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
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Boosting the Real Time Performance of Gnome Shell 3.34 http://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/boosting-the-real-time-performance-of-gnome-shell-3-34-in-ubuntu-19-10/13095?u=vanvugt
@brion this was going to be solved by “placement new” but that RFC was unapproved due to unresolved issues in the implementation. It seems this is the bug tracking this now https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53827
A future in which web applications could be written in Gleam would be pretty cool. https://github.com/lpil/gleam
Where Rustc Spends Its Time https://wiki.alopex.li/WhereRustcSpendsItsTime
@fribbledom I backup my home directory but exclude a bunch of stuff. Mostly cache and other garbage that has been put in the wrong place by misbehaving software.
@nolan i think a lot of people are doing this with react native, which is kinda web tech but it’s not really native either.
@federicomena first time I’ve actually seen it as a growing plant. 😀
Mindustry sets a new standard for Open Source videogames — simone-robutti
https://write.as/simone-robutti/mindustry-sets-a-new-standard-for-open-source-videogames
https://write.as/simone-robutti/mindustry-sets-a-new-standard-for-open-source-videogames
New pathfinding algorithm in Factorio https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317
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Curious seeing all the Ubuntu 19.10 and OpenBSD 6.6 posts today. Big releases upgrades are just not something I experience on my personal computers these days. They’re just always up to date. Thanks to Arch & Void #Linux 👍
@codesections given how easy Void makes it to contribute to the void-packages I’d suggest submitting a PR for updating the package.
@nolan I agree with using the system controls and not rebuilding them in JS but wowee the new ones almost all lack any character. Just flat black out lines. They almost look like wireframes.
Probably worth noting in the context of this sudo flaw, this is why diversity in operating systems and software is useful. OpenBSD uses its own privilege escalation program (doas) and is not affected by this flaw. A good mix of OSes and software helps prevent a single flaw from impacting as widely. This is part of the motivation behind my interest in things like musl libc.
@trashheap I think there was some relationship but it’s not the same people.
Project Trident Proposes 2020 OS Migration To Void Linux https://project-trident.org/post/os_migration/ #FreeBSD #Linux
The Rust ecosystem’s dedication to correctness, performance, and “mechanical sympathy” really speaks to me. https://tokio.rs/blog/2019-10-scheduler/
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@julienxx the shift to laptops for most people has hidden some of the recent CPU advances. I’ve gone back to using a desktop at home and work because of how much faster (and expandable) they are.
r/freebsd - Project Trident moving on from FreeBSD to a different OS https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/dh1l77/project_trident_moving_on_from_freebsd_to_a/
Designing Your Workspace https://garrettdimon.com/2019/designing-your-workspace/
@pinafore I voted yes with the assumption it works with Pleroma.
OpenBSD on SPARC64 (6.0 to 6.5) https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/openbsd-on-sparc64-6-0-to-6-5/ #OpenBSD
A visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum by Ken Shirriff
http://www.righto.com/2019/10/a-visit-to-large-scale-systems-museum.html
http://www.righto.com/2019/10/a-visit-to-large-scale-systems-museum.html
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical-issue-moss-audit/
During the audit, ROS identified a critical vulnerability in the tmux integration feature of iTerm2; this vulnerability has been present in iTerm2 for at least 7 years.
When I "discovered" a useful project that I'd already starred yet again I wondered if there was a GitHub stars organiser. Turns out there is and it's quite nice. https://astralapp.com/
@codewiz They tune everything for Intel CPUs. Software is build with a recent GCC with optimisations enabled for modern Intel CPUs. The drawback is that it’s less compatible that Ubuntu. The Clear installer has does a compatibility check before proceeding to make sure it will run on the target machine.
Clear Linux OS is highly tuned for Intel platforms Clear Linux OS optimizes across the whole stack: the platform, kernel, math libraries, middleware layers, frameworks, and runtime.
@trashheap 👍 fair enough. It’s not for me either but it seems to really click for some people.
@tonyarnold Welcome. Sorry about the weather.
@garbados ohh this sounds useful.
@trashheap it’s a shame desktop FreeBSD doesn’t get more attention. It’s these papercuts that make it not quite nice enough to stick with. Have you tried OpenBSD?
There’s going to be a FreeBSD miniconf at Linux.conf.au 2020. That almost makes up for my Rust miniconf proposal being rejected :-) https://linux.conf.au/programme/miniconfs/freebsd/ #FreeBSD
New post: Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro https://bitcannon.net/post/huawei-matebook-x-pro-void-linux/ #Linux
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Now that my little iPhone app, SymbolMate is no longer on the App Store I've decided to shut down its Rails based info website at https://binarytrance.com/
In the spirit of not breaking links/the Internet I've replaced it with a static archive of the content for posterity.
In the spirit of not breaking links/the Internet I've replaced it with a static archive of the content for posterity.
@atroche Actix doesn't include:
- Authentication
- Rendering/templates
- Email
- Database/ORM
- Session/cookies
You can do all those things but you have to work out how to hook them all up to your app and manage state (db connection pool, api clients, etc). All the while using futures 0.1 in an ecosystem that it moving to futures 0.3 and then async/await.
My existing Rust implementation is using actix but I was spending too much time on things that framework should handle for me.
- Authentication
- Rendering/templates
- Database/ORM
- Session/cookies
You can do all those things but you have to work out how to hook them all up to your app and manage state (db connection pool, api clients, etc). All the while using futures 0.1 in an ecosystem that it moving to futures 0.3 and then async/await.
My existing Rust implementation is using actix but I was spending too much time on things that framework should handle for me.
@atroche If you keep the app updated with new Rocket releases they aren't too far away from an async, stable implementation. I would expect that to be available in the next year.
https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/1065
https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/19
Don't get me wrong I think the Rust web ecosystem will get there. It's just all a bit in flux at the moment.
https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/1065
https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/19
Don't get me wrong I think the Rust web ecosystem will get there. It's just all a bit in flux at the moment.
@atroche Yes but you have to use a nightly compiler and I don't want to rely on that.
@atroche They are something to go on. If you filter by full stack framework and Rust you'll note that only Rocket is left and it has 543,677 errors in the test.
It's not that I need the performance per-se but I feel that there is extra effort using Rust for web dev at the moment and if it's not giving me the performance it's worth considering other options, which I did.
It's not that I need the performance per-se but I feel that there is extra effort using Rust for web dev at the moment and if it's not giving me the performance it's worth considering other options, which I did.
@atroche performance of the non-async frameworks is pretty mediocre, which I feel is one of the reasons to use Rust. If I’m not getting the performance then I think it makes sense to explore other options that are more mature and batteries included. Also the only batteries included framework in Rust, Rocket currently requires nightly a compiler and I have no desire to go there.
Been working on a new backend for Read Rust on and off using actix-web. I worked on it some more today but I’ve decided to park that implementation until there’s an async/await native, batteries included Rust web framework that works on stable.
As a replacement I started porting it to Lucky, which is written in Crystal. As a past Rubyist with plenty of Rails experience it feels familiar but with strong types and a compiler generating performance native code to back it up.
As a replacement I started porting it to Lucky, which is written in Crystal. As a past Rubyist with plenty of Rails experience it feels familiar but with strong types and a compiler generating performance native code to back it up.
@alexcleac Definitely recommend SimpleNote but you're right that you don't get direct file access. I can't recall if StandardNotes gives you file access but it might be worth checking out. https://standardnotes.org/ Otherwise Editorial is an iOS app that edits text, Markdown, and Taskpaper notes in Dropbox, so if you're ok running Dropbox on your Linux machine the files will be accessible. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/editorial/id673907758
@floppy Pleroma
Drone, an Embedded Operating System for writing real-time applications in Rust. Drone is a
free software, dual licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0.
https://www.drone-os.com #Rust
free software, dual licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0.
https://www.drone-os.com #Rust
@atroche sentiment analysis to get a feel for the “vibe” on the fediverse?
Can’t recommend the fnm (fast node manager) tool enough. It’s a single, fast native binary with zero runtime dependencies (fully statically linked) so it works on all distros, even musl libc based ones. https://github.com/Schniz/fnm #nodejs
I went through the Svelte Tutorial this morning. I like that there is a complier that generates efficient JS from the input. The built-in animation and transition support looks great too.
Not so much a fan of the additional syntax and sigils. I get that they’re needed for the compiler but it feels a bit noisy and adhoc. Syntax is a minor detail that I try not to put much weight on though. Still not sure I’d choose it over Reason React for a new project. #js
A SPARC in the night – SunFire v100 exploration https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2019/09/22/a-sparc-in-the-night-sunfire-v100-exploration/
For a few years I upgraded my iPhone every year — I like new tech and I put aside the funds in my budget. I didn’t upgrade last year though and don’t think I will this year. The non-Pro makes the most sense for me but has several compromises compared to the iPhone X it would replace:
- No OLED display
- Larger physical dimensions
No 2x lens
- The wide angle one would be nice but I would miss the 2x one for zooming in on detail.
No 3D Touch
- I use this a lot for cursor positioning
Fun embedded Rust talk from RustConf https://youtu.be/PXaSUiGgyEw
Taking a Step Back to Consider the Roadmap https://uld.wezm.net/taking-a-step-back-to-consider-the-roadmap #uld
@skilar none of the recent updates have made me look twice. I recently built a small form factor PC with a 12 core Ryzen 9 in it. I suspect this is the type of machine many Mac users would like but Apple seems unwilling to make: Compact, high performance, quiet, upgradable, visually appealing, and not outrageously expensive — the proverbial xMac. Building this machine was a great reminder that I’d made the right choice. https://arstechnica.com/staff/2005/10/1676/
GNOME and gestures, Part 1: WebKitGTK
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2019/09/13/gnome-and-gestures-part-1-webkitgtk/
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2019/09/13/gnome-and-gestures-part-1-webkitgtk/
@skilar probably not. The hardware was the reason I left in the first place. When the 2016 MacBook Pros came out with only USB-C ports and the Mac Pro had gone years without an update I started looking into other options. I covered it a bit in this post https://bitcannon.net/post/finding-an-alternative-to-mac-os-x/
@trashHeap Nice! Seems like the type of machine Haiku would be perfect for.
@DmytroGladkyi I’ve only used it a little so far. Probably 8 or 9. The click isn’t as nice as a MacBook but the surface and tracking seem good so far. Of the trackpads I’ve used I’d rank them as follows:
10. MacBook
8/9. MateBook
7. XPS 15
5. Thinkpad T470s
10. MacBook
8/9. MateBook
7. XPS 15
5. Thinkpad T470s
@MereLinuxMortal congrats. Gentoo installs are a great learning experience
@amdt yes I’m very impressed with it so far. It was the laptop I was looking for 2 years ago but didn’t exist.
My internet is being shaped at the moment. It makes this a slow process.
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@tho rustup self update
@hugo HiDPI, only way of life ;-)
@federicomena that was one of the ones I saw too. Certainly a positive way to look at it 👍
@federicomena that was one of the ones I saw too. Certainly a positive way to look at it. 👍
@federicomena I’ve seen 3 people speaking of rejections today. Curious to see the ones that were selected.
Woot! New rustup supports musl based hosts (such as Alpine and Void Linux) as well as NetBSD https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/d1qxj4/rustup_1190_released/ #NetBSD #Linux
@trashHeap Cool, I've been following the project for a long time but have never tried it on actual hardware. I did run BeOS back when they were still alive and you could download it for free (might have been a trial — I don't remember.
The single user thing is a bit of a drawback.
The single user thing is a bit of a drawback.
@trashHeap how’s it running? Any obvious things missing?
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/277/impatience/ GNOME extension to speed up animations via https://rokpovsic.com/efficiency-hacks-for-programmers.html #gnome #linux
@dottorblaster It's replacing an XPS 15 with Arch. I'm looking to downsize in size and weight. In the two years since I got the XPS new CPUs mean that I can now get a quad core 13" laptop, which wasn't possible when I get the XPS. I'm also now using desktop PCs as my primary machines at work and home so the laptop is mostly for travelling or if I happen to want to tinker on the couch, smaller and lighter is nicer for this.
Building a Bluetooth DAC with Raspberry Pi Zero W https://pagefault.blog/2019/07/31/building-a-bluetooth-dac-with-raspberry-pi-zero-w/
sysdeps: dl_platform detection effectively performs "cripple AMD" https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24979
New blog post: Visualising Operating System Derivation https://bitcannon.net/post/visualising-os-derivation/ #linux
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Wrote up the steps to install a graphical Alpine Linux KVM guest. It’s straightforward now that I’ve worked it out (setup-xorg-base was the secret).
https://linkedlist.org/alpine-linux-kvm-graphical-guest #linux
https://linkedlist.org/alpine-linux-kvm-graphical-guest #linux
What's Up With These 3-Cent Microcontrollers? (A Review of the Padauk PMS150C AND FRIENDS) https://jaycarlson.net/2019/09/06/whats-up-with-these-3-cent-microcontrollers/ #embedded
Trying out a few Linux distros in VMs. Clear Linux has a very nice installer (written in Go)
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Anyone interested in my Olimex TERES-A64-BLACK DIY laptop? AU$100 + shipping? https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/KITS/TERES-A64-BLACK/open-source-hardware
Note that it does have the "annoying sound" described in this post but Olimex have sent me the capacitor that can be used to fix it (if you're up to soldering it onto the board) https://olimex.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/teres-i-update-first-feedback-from-our-customers/
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Note that it does have the "annoying sound" described in this post but Olimex have sent me the capacitor that can be used to fix it (if you're up to soldering it onto the board) https://olimex.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/teres-i-update-first-feedback-from-our-customers/
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The Ports Tree Build Tool https://uld.wezm.net/the-ports-tree-build-tool
In which I describe the tool I'm writing to compile packages from the ports tree for my Untitled Linux Distribution.
In which I describe the tool I'm writing to compile packages from the ports tree for my Untitled Linux Distribution.
Good day to work from home home and take a lunchtime walk
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@epilys 😉
Pricing niche products: Why sell a mechanical keyboard kit for $1,668? https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/
Leon Sans is a geometric sans-serif typeface made with code in 2019 by Jongmin Kim. It allows to change font weight dynamically and to create custom animations, effects or shapes in the Canvas element of HTML5. https://github.com/cmiscm/leonsans
Thirty Years of Fetch https://fetchsoftworks.com/fetch/news/thirty-years-of-fetch
@tonyarnold I don't understand the appeal of Discord at all. It was designed to serve the needs of gaming communities, not technical communities.
@ihabunek oh look it’s me 👋 toot looks great BTW
Discovered the KISS Linux Distribution today. Shares a number of goals I have in mind for the distro I’m working on but diverges in others. Interesting nonetheless. https://getkiss.org/
I’m off to a conference today with my XPS 15. I realised that I’ve had it for 2 years now. Might be interesting to write a two year follow up to my original post https://bitcannon.net/post/replacing-a-macbook-pro/
piz pad: 3 key phat for the Raspberry Pi Zero https://www.40percent.club/2019/08/piz-pad.html #keyboards
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I’m selling my Eve V 2-in1 computer and some keyboards in case anyone is interested.
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@hugo yay!
@malin I’ve heard similar arguments about learning Haskell. Along the lines of, if you learn programming through Haskell it’s not hard. It’s unlearning imperative/OO programming that is in fact the hard bit. I can’t confirm though as I learnt imperative first so Haskell feels hard to me.
@Sturmflut they came through this time https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat-linux-kernel/
@musicmatze yeah I love all the tools he’s created
pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. It supports many different color formats and color spaces like RGB, HSL, CIELAB, CIELCh as well as ANSI 8-bit and 24-bit representations. https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel #Rust
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Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection By Jonathan Mayer and Arvind Narayanan https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/
distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-distri/ #Linux
@schlink I think that's a pretty natural place to plateau. You can do most stuff with that knowledge.
@sir :-( I have been a proponent of your work. I’m a paid up yearly supporter of Sourcehut and have recommended it to friends and other projects. I’m also a fan of Rust. I’ve tried to ignore these sorts of comments but i can not longer do so. You’ve lost a supporter.
@half_cambodian_hacker_man Nice 👍
@schlink I use egg-mode for Read Rust. It has decent api coverage but I haven’t checked your specific needs.
@half_cambodian_hacker_man which Wayland compositor are you using?
Victor Mono is a free programming font with semi-connected cursive italics symbol ligatures (!=, ->>, =>, ===, <=, >= ++) and Latin, Cyrillic and Greek characters.
https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
NVIDIA has released public, freely available (MIT licensed) documentation of portions of its GPU hardware interface. This is a work in progress; not all interfaces have been published.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Open-GPU-Docs
Technical vision for Qt 6. Re: QML
Introduce strong typing. Weak typing makes it hard for our users to apply large changes to their codebases. [..] Also, we will be able to generate much better-performing code and reduce overhead.
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Make JavaScript an optional feature of QML. Having a full JavaScript engine when using QML can complicate things and is an overhead…
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In 2017 I paid for €199 a font — Pragmata Pro by Fabrizio Schiavi. A privileged position for sure but it's a stunning font and as a programmer I look at it for hours a day. It continues to improve too! The massive 0.828 update was released yesterday. https://www.fsd.it/2019/08/02/pragmatapro-0-828-runes-teletext-graphics-and-all-the-html5-entities/
@fribbledom A new desktop environment for open source operating systems.
@dwc feels like anyone using a traditional window manager (openbox, Awesome, i3, sway, etc.) does this whether they like it or not :-)
Lots of good updates coming in NetBSD 9 http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_0_release_process #NetBSD
@shpuld oh how I miss summer.
@measlytwerp It’s a bit of an acquired taste. I’m case you feel like reporting the bug still, the bug trackers for the various services are under Drew’s account: https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn
Great interactive article on Alpha Compositing https://ciechanow.ski/alpha-compositing/
DragonFlyBSD Project Update - colo upgrade, future trends http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2019-July/358226.html #DragonflyBSD
@juliobiason yeah that doesn’t seem right. The Arch package is, 788.0 KB, 5.1 MB installed https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gnome-calculator/
@poisonous I work a 4 day week and would definitely recommend it. I have Monday off and typically work on side projects and open source.
Not liking this fan and have ordered a Noctua U9S as replacement. Rust compile times are good though.
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This was a lot harder than planned but it’s done and working. Will do the Arch install tomorrow.
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@bithive haha I knew someone was going to comment on it 🙂
@farhan Abiword, Gnumeric?
Today I learned about:
- The Decentraleyes extension for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/?src=featured
- setting security.cert_pinning.enforcement_level to 2 via https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/wnuKAhACo3E/cbxRVMkxDwAJ
- The Decentraleyes extension for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/?src=featured
- setting security.cert_pinning.enforcement_level to 2 via https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/wnuKAhACo3E/cbxRVMkxDwAJ
@alexcleac I run nginx in a container. I decided to keep the static files out of the container and bind mount them in from the host. This makes updating my websites a simple rsync.
Last night I learnt about OpenBSD’s signify and the alternative implementation minisign, and its pure Rust alternative implementation rsign2.
I think I’ll use rsign2 to sign binaries I publish in the future.
- https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan-signify.html
- https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/
- jedisct1/rsign2: A command-line tool to sign files and verify signatures in pure Rust.
#OpenBSD #Rust
I think I’ll use rsign2 to sign binaries I publish in the future.
- https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan-signify.html
- https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/
- jedisct1/rsign2: A command-line tool to sign files and verify signatures in pure Rust.
#OpenBSD #Rust
@tindall Holy crap. That’s horrifying.
Interesting results. Hardware mitigation was one of the reasons I got interested in building a new AMD system (hopefully my 3900X arrives in time for the weekend):
Spectre Mitigation Performance Impact Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen 3700X / 3900X Against Intel https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-zen2-spectre&num=1
Spectre Mitigation Performance Impact Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen 3700X / 3900X Against Intel https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-zen2-spectre&num=1
Back to work. Was relatively productive weekend:
- Fixed some bugs in my stenography engine and added Mac OS CI
- Built a small tool to upload build artefacts from CI to S3
- Updated to Pleroma 1.0.1
- Added a favicon to desktop.institute
- Updated the home page and projects page on wezm.net
- Set up a VM with 4K graphics for testing KDE (and found and reported some bugs in the arch installer script I was using to make the process faster)
@sir love seeing the steady improvement month over month.
Apollo Guidance Computer: Dipstiks and reverse engineering the core rope simulator http://www.righto.com/2019/07/apollo-guidance-computer-dipstiks-and.html
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@yaaps thanks for writing this and also for publishing an easy to find RSS feed for the series.
@tindall I was building an ActivityPub implementation in Rust for a while and posed this same question. AP and LitePub are so hostile to compile time guarantees and non object oriented languages. I ended up with an Object struct that had id and type fields and then one to hold the json blob. Object could then be converted to more specific types when needed.
@dzuk I recommend Toot! Its killer feature for me is that it remembers your position in the timeline so you can read it in order instead of backwards. Works fine on iPhone X. Not sure about models with smaller displays.
It seems that filtering to show top level posts only (instead of replies as well) in Pleroma is done client side. This means that clients like Toot! don’t honour the setting. Is there a way to have it done server side instead? #Pleroma
This type of thing is part of the reason why we’ve been building a new font parsing and shaping library in Rust for Prince. https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/74V5P31245J81nZ4hy
So I drank a bottle of wine and in my intoxicated state I had a genius business idea. I build PCs basically the same as the one I’m building (Streacom DA2 case, Ryzen 9 3700X, 16 or 32 Gb RAM, 512 or 1Tb SSD) with your choice of Linux or BSD pre-installed for ~AU$3000. Very few customisation options like Apple but cheaper and straightforward with a nice website. Bulletproof yes?
Rust Is Leading Most of the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks (New Round 18) https://www.techempower.com/blog/2019/07/09/framework-benchmarks-round-18/ #Rust
CUI/C99 mastodon client https://github.com/taka-tuos/nanotodon
@feld Agreed. I changed the setting to hide replies immediately on my Pleroma install.
@Sturmflut We’ll see, but the Microsoft of today doesn’t always operate the same as the Microsoft of yore.
@Sturmflut That post says that, "Ky said he has started an internal discussion at Microsoft over the possibility of getting Microsoft's blessing for exFAT in the Linux kernel". That sounds like a decision has not yet been made to me. Is there more info somewhere?
TIL PCIe is a serial bus
Raspberry Pi 4 B+ - PCI Express http://mloduchowski.com/en/blog/raspberry-pi-4-b-pci-express/
Raspberry Pi 4 B+ - PCI Express http://mloduchowski.com/en/blog/raspberry-pi-4-b-pci-express/
Run your own social: How to run a small social network site for your friends by Darius Kazemi
https://runyourown.social/
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@ebassi I use Toot! but it doesn’t have the Tootdon feature you liked. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toot/id1229021451?mt=8
@sir I did some tinkering yesterday on an implementation of this for Rust code. I doesn't work yet but I did set up the JSON generation and source parsing. The next step is to traverse the AST and generate the actual annotations.
https://git.sr.ht/~wezm/annotate-rust
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The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising The Bar https://www.anandtech.com/show/14605/the-and-ryzen-3700x-3900x-review-raising-the-bar
Running Arch Linux using OpenBSD vmd(8) /via @vermaden https://www.tumfatig.net/20190705/running-arch-linux-using-openbsd-vmd8/
Comparing Wayland and X11 Display Server Protocols in Full-screen Applications https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ca60wg/comparing_wayland_and_x11_display_server/
@Ste1lar try making the image float: left;
One post down: https://desktop.institute/posts/values-features-preferences/
In this post I talk about values, then describe some concrete desired features, and finally some personal preferences.
In this post I talk about values, then describe some concrete desired features, and finally some personal preferences.
Hoping to get a post or two written for desktop.institute today. It’s taken me longer than I wanted to get the first follow up published.
@farhan Pleroma. It lets you choose to post in Plain text, HTML, Markdown, or BBCode.
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@farhan I think that if you saw an interface like that in any other software project it would be considered a bad design and definitely not following the single responsibility principle. It not bad per-se — it works after all. It just does too much and is a bit of a dumping ground (junk drawer) for functionality.
@farhan I think because it's so massively overloaded. It does tty things, network things, file things will different structs and number of arguments.
Case for my new work PC has arrived — Streacom DA2. Hanging out for new Ryzen bits and pieces to be available after 7 July to buy the insides.
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@bn4t the small parts of the Mastodon code I’ve looked at were fine to me. I recently set up a Pleroma instance because there’s fewer moving parts — Mastodon is a fairly typical large Rails apps and needs several things to be running (db, app server(s), background job workers, streaming server) . I don’t think the user experience is as polished though.
@alexcleac where are you migrating to?
WebRender: Primitive Segmentation https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/webrender-primitive-segmentation/
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@bugaevc looks like a handy reference, thanks for the link.
Another Attempt At Reducing GNOME's Mutter Input Latency https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Another-Mutter-Input-Latency-2
[GNOME] Material-Shell *Beta* (Tiling extension) https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/c8le62/gnome_materialshell_beta/ #gnome
Constraint layouts – GTK Development Blog https://blog.gtk.org/2019/07/02/constraint-layouts/
@sir seems like there is room for a middleground between IRC and Slack
@sir I had similar thoughts watching this video of a Z80 based "laptop" (Amstrad NC200) from the early nineties yesterday. It starts instantly. Seems kind of crazy that most computer systems don't do that these days.
Does anyone know if it's possible to search for statuses in Pleroma. I've seen various references to it but can't seem to find it in the UI. #pleroma
Ads can’t be trusted and Google makes a business out of selling these creepy ads. Use an ad blocker or a browser that has your back by default such as Firefox or Safari. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386487/why-is-stack-overflow-trying-to-start-audio
@farhan there used to be an official port, which I tried at the time. Perhaps you can use it for hints and tips on how to make it work.
https://www.freshports.org/net-im/mastodon/
See also:
- https://www.kithop.ca/2018/12/13/updating-mastodon-under-freebsd-12-0-release/
- https://www.myconan.net/blog/posts/4478/
https://www.freshports.org/net-im/mastodon/
See also:
- https://www.kithop.ca/2018/12/13/updating-mastodon-under-freebsd-12-0-release/
- https://www.myconan.net/blog/posts/4478/
Alyssa Rosenzweig – GNOME Meets Panfrost https://rosenzweig.io/blog/gnome-meets-panfrost.html
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@farhan Try bundle install -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) --deployment --without development test
Student Nora Keegan, 13, has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since she was 9 years old. Her research paper has just been published in Paediatrics & Child Health, Canada's premier peer-reviewed pediatric journal. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-student-nora-keegan-hand-dyer-research-decibel-1.5185853
@codesections @joseph I use it when I wanted to conserve battery. Means I can still chat with friends while coding without a browser running.
@amdg2 It's a node js app because it's better at that kind of thing but it's not great on RAM apparently https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/101536415732501115
@amdg2 I think it hosts the websockets that the front end uses
TIL there is a WIP Rust version of the Mastodon streaming server. https://github.com/tootsuite/ragequit #rust
Lots of good info in here regarding Wayland, Nvidia driver, GNOME shell, and Linux fingerprint scanner support.
On the Road to Fedora Workstation 31 — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fedora-workstation-31/
On the Road to Fedora Workstation 31 — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fedora-workstation-31/
Following on from my post, "A Tiling Desktop Environment", this weekend I built a new website to document my thinking and research as I consider the comments received, try out suggestions, and look into the state of open source desktop environments. It's called Desktop Institute. You can find it at https://desktop.institute/
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So many unique boards in here:
[Photos] Tokyo Mechanical Keyboard Meetup Vol.6 http://romly.com/archives/2019/05/tokyomk6_en.html #keyboard
[Photos] Tokyo Mechanical Keyboard Meetup Vol.6 http://romly.com/archives/2019/05/tokyomk6_en.html #keyboard
@zack I didn’t have any Elixir/Phoenix experience but I do have about 10 years Ruby/Rails experience. I’d say the set up process was about the same as Rails. However, Pleroma is easier than Mastodon (which uses Rails) because it doesn’t need any external nodejs process or worker system (Sidekiq).
Overall I think there’s still too many steps. My ideal would be: download code, compile, upload binary.
Overall I think there’s still too many steps. My ideal would be: download code, compile, upload binary.
“Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse” — Sam Safcron https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/03/31/why-i-stuck-with-windows-for-6-years-while-developing-discourse
Testing uploads now that I've switched the backend to S3 (TIL the acess policy needs PutObjectAcl)
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@farhan there's just far fewer moving parts.
@mischa I wanted to host my own instance. You know own your own identity and all that.