newnix@exile.digital @architect@linuxrocks.online
Just a guy that loves C, Illumos, BSD, filesystems, and all the low-level goodness he can get a hold of.
Blog updated when I remember at https://newnix.space
Alternatively, I really hope my bluetooth headphones work
Telco Evils Show more
Well, emergency stops to both my local Bes Buy and Tmobile were fruitless in trying to get me a new USBC → 3.5mm cable. Maybe if the new Xperia XZ Ultra is hackable enough I'll grab it to replace my Mi Mix2 while I work out how to make this Gemini PDA usable as a daily driver...
The sad realization after enabling spamd - the spammers were the only ones still sending me email 😢
I guess it's my fault for not having a proper backup ready to go (or for compromising on my hardware needs), but it's incredibly frustrating to have a USB-C → 3.5mm connector start giving out. Now audio changes as the cable moves, which is just terrible.
I have actually done this
“The secret to getting off of calls you don't want to be on is to hang up in the middle of your own sentence. Only a maniac would hang up on themselves, so you must have gotten disconnected.”
Every time I'm forced to use #Linux, I realize how much SIGINFO spoils me.
Such a simple, yet powerful, feature. <comment type="troll">Which is probably why Linux doesn't bother implementing it.</comment>
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Attention everyone else who loves alternative architectures: SPARC ain't dead yet!
https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/8u300k/its_not_the_end_of_sparc_chips_yet/
Good luck affording one, but it's still kicking! Now please excuse me while I look around for a while to see if there's any SPARC systems that I can afford in the nearish future.
I should look at making sure vfswalk works on Linux too. Currently spits out info on HardenedBSD, and DragonFly BSD. Would likely take much less time than my HAMMER2 pfs inspection tool, which is going to take a fair amount of research to get that working properly.
Planet Computers: Gemini PDA to run Sailfish OS (a mobile Linux OS).
A full QWERTY equipped Gemini PDA is a quad-boot mobile device, which is capable of booting into Android and various Linux distributions including Sailfish OS.
The official version of the OS, called Sailfish X, will be available in late 2018 after a beta release this fall.
--> https://blog.jolla.com/gemini/
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#Linux #Jolla #SailfishOS #mobile #Gemini #PDA #PlanetComputers #Sailfish3 #OTA
I'm thinking of writing an article on the current state of several FOSS solutions to make video calls with (especially Riot, GNU Ring, and one of the Tox clients) based on how they perform. However, I'm not sure who would be up for experimenting with them for a few hours.
So, I'm asking here, would anyone be interested in giving them a try?
Who would be up for a game of Quake 1 sometime? I have a server setup and I am setting up a zip file for the client for anyone who wants to play.
And here we see the #HackRFOne working flawlessly with #gnuradio on #HardenedBSD.
Next proper tool every serious Information Security team needs! The attribution dice. Whenever senior mgmt asks for someone to blame we can roll the dice.
Helpful tool number 3 after the "severity pendulum" and determining the root cause by reading goat bones.
We're back!
In case you are wondering why we'd disable #HyperThreading on a server, check out the #OpenBSD commit message https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99141.html
Or the article by El Reg: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/20/openbsd_disables_intels_hyperthreading/
I'm Speculating(tm), but expect further news about problems in those areas...
Thank you #OpenBSD for disabling HyperThreading on Intel. I could not agree more.
HyperThreading was a mis-guided attempt at improving performance of Java threads by copying the SPARC processors without having the SPARC architecture… as usual with these marketing-driven issues it is coming back to bite Intel (and us…).
I never, literally never, ran a piece of code benefitting from HyperThreading nor ever heard anyone brag about it.
In regards to my kitchen terminal idea. In addition to music control and mastodon cli client I think gopher could be a nice way to use it as a "kill some time" device. Are there any good indexes or lists of cool gopher sites or phlogs?
There are also some fun terminal games that I will certainly put on there to kill time as well.
