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Airsonic is abandoned

uh, #airsonic is abandoned/obsolete now :(https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic/commit/5ccca059d5cfe3dd19734c27861b434ea21b43d8time to look into moving to airsonic-advanced, which I hope will be a mostly drop-in replacementhttps://github.com/airsonic-advanced/airsonic-advanced

Trying GNOME again

Fedora dropped me in GNOME 40 today after I rebooted for updates instead of my normal Cinnamon.So I gave it a shot and after fiddling with keyboard shortcuts and the tweak tool it's....fine so far? I just need to get used to the menu bar on top instead on bottom.…

First merged Mailman patch

My first patch to #Mailman3 got merged today! https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/merge_requests/857And I already have another one on the way: https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/merge_requests/859

fridge-backup

Couldn't find a #btrfs snapshot backup tool that I liked so I just wrote my own: https://crates.io/crates/fridge-backupIt automatically takes daily snapshots and then you copy them to external drives, that's it. (Automatic cleanup is a TODO)Also, you should put your butter in the fridge so it doesn't go bad.

Debugging go templates

I spent a good amount of last week debugging go templates and finally discovered today you need to end the {{ template name }} block with a period so the variable context is passed through.I was going to complain that making a period at the end crucial to the meaning…

semver will not save you

https://hynek.me/articles/semver-will-not-save-you/ matches up exactly with how I feel about versioning and semver. Semver is great, but at the end of the day it's a best effort by maintainers and not perfect. It's also not applicable to literally everything and shouldn't be used as such.

Qubes OS survey results

The #QubesOS survey results are out!Personally, I'm a bit shocked that more people would prefer #Debian as the default and not #Fedora.https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2020/11/26/qubes-survey-results/

What we know about video conferencing with BigBlueButton

If you work remotely on the web, you're probably getting comfortable with multiple video chat tools. At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we've published a high-level comparison of some common video chat applications, and many others maintain detailed comparison spreadsheets to help you compare dozens of tools. We also wanted…

Learning Rust, week 5

I'm skipped writing a post for week 4 and then didn't do any Rust related things for a week, so this is my week 5 update. The main (published) Rust I've written since my last post is a port of my w.wiki statistics Toolforge tool. It reads through compressed plaintext…