Google Plus Profile Litigation
I received USD$2.15 from the Google Plus Profile Litigation class action settlement....yay.
Musings about Technology, free software and computers
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.
Signal group calls
#Signal has had group calling for a day now and my family keeps using it at every opportunity, it's fantastic.https://signal.org/blog/group-calls/
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/
Raspberry Pi 400
It arrived!! Now to figure out what to do with it...
Qubes DST fix
If your #Qubes machine didn't automatically handle the DST switchover properly, you can run sudo qvm-sync-clock in dom0 to fix it.
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…
Happy 27th birthday Debian!
Happy 27th birthday #Debian! Proud to contribute to and run the free software, universal operating system that's just slightly older than me!https://bits.debian.org/2020/08/debian-turns-27.html
Client-side Rust
It still feels a little magical, having #Rust run client-side. But I love it.
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…
Learning Rust, week 3
I'm a little behind with this update as it took me a little longer to prepare and launch my project: diff-libraries. I'm planning to write a more detailed post on that later, but it's my most involved Rust project so far. The webserver is powered by Rocket and it uses…