Child of 9: pt. x

#unix_surrealism #rabbit #acme #9front #comic #penguin #linux #foss

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Nine and Acme, the horse-bird, are listening to Rabbit's story. Nine: "That sounds a lot like that one book I read..." Rabbit, amused: "'Heart of Darkness.' Nothing gets past you, Nine." Nine: "It's a good story though." Rabbit: "I'll finish it tomorrow. Get some shut-eye."

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Nine falls asleep on top of Acme. Rabbit has a flashback. *...it's a good story though...* Young Rabbit in military gear, bloodied and shaken, aims a revolver at a penguin. Penguin, calmly: "Be a good soldier. Do it, rabbit. Pull the trigger and remember this moment. Remember what they made you do."

Findings at my parents' house, part 1: An IBM Tux, a souvenir from the Linux Expo 2003 in London.

#Linux #Tux #BlastFromThePast

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A plush penguin toy dressed in a blue scarf with the text "ibm.com/linux" printed on its belly. The penguin is posed on a flat surface, its arms extended outward. Gadget from the Linux Expo 2003 in London.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix permission check for host system apps in the Camera portal.
• Do not expose the Settings portal if there are no backends available.
• Disable sounds-related notification tests if the project is built without wavparse.

Enhancements:

• Start porting the test suite to Python tests. Once finished, this should break the cyclic dependency between xdg-desktop-portal and libportal.
• Install Python-based tests. This is mostly useful for distributions to run tests as part of their packaging process.

Flatseal won’t start by itself anymore, which is a known issue. I got it running by running

GSK_RENDERER=gl com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

and inspired by a response in the above linked issue, I wanted to add GSK_RENDERER=gl as a variable in Flatseal so I could open it without having to manually run this in the terminal.

However, I seem to have screwed that up, and written GSK_RENDERER=ng instead, because the application still won’t run, and now I get the following output anytime I try to open it by the method above:

(com.github.tchx84.Flatseal:2): Gsk-WARNING **: 22:09:54.997: Unrecognized renderer "ng". Try GSK_RENDERER=help
MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:782: FINISHME: support YUV colorspace with DRM format modifiers
MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:814: FINISHME: support more multi-planar formats with DRM modifiers
Gdk-Message: 22:09:55.406: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.

However, I can’t for the life of me seem to correct this. I’ve tried running the above command again, I’ve tried overriding it with flatpak:

flatpak override --env=GSK_RENDERER=gl com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

(which yielded a “permission denied”, and nothing happening after running with sudo)

I’ve reinstalled the applications several times, including removing the config files from ~/.var/app/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal and checked that /var/app/ does not contain any config files.

I just want to reset the user input changes I made to this flatpak and start over, but I’m getting no where…

This release adds the following features:

• Record the entire USB descriptor in the emulation data
• Return defined return code when network metadata refresh fails

This release fixes the following bugs:

• Add a new private flag of ‘delayed-removal’ to remove a footgun
• Added a more specific instance ID for qc-s5gen2 USB devices
• Add fadvise64 to the systemd syscall allowlist
• Add the Unifying bootloader VID/PID as a full instance ID
• Allow disabling zero-length packet for modem-manager devices
• Allow recovering Logitech Bolt receiver in bootloader mode
• Correctly parse CSV streams without trailing NULs
• Detect if network is reachable before downloading metadata
• Disabling reading the OptionROM device after dumping
• Do not claim kernel interface to avoid Parade downstream port resets
• Do not save BootOrder when measuring system integrity
• Enumerate child nordic-hid devices correctly
• Fix a possible critical warning for Mediatek scaler devices
• Fix Firehose padding for some modem-manager devices
• Fix UEFI capsule updates when using 4096 byte NVME blocksize
• Get the Dell dock update package version correctly
• Never read more of the composite stream from a partial stream
• Notify snapd about DBX updates
• Probe sd_mod before starting
• Properly handle FU_DEVICE_PRIVATE_FLAG_NO_GENERIC_GUIDS
• Remove the test for CSME 18 manufacturing lock
• Restore the Logitech compatibility UFY instance IDs
• Show the correct version when installing a same-device composite update
• Show updates with problems when using 'fwupdmgr get-releases’
• Split up the AMD GPU VBIOS P/N for the version
• Use attr USB4_TYPE rather than guessing from thunderbolt_domain
• Use the ISO date as a dbx version number for the Microsoft KEK
• Use the KEK to set the dbx vendor ID

I have the following kernels installed:

• linux-zen (Zen)
• linux-rt (RealTime)
• linux-hardened (Security Hardened)
• linux-lts (Long Term Support)
• linux-tr-lts (Realtime LTS)

When I boot up, I try the different kernels from time to time just to see if anything interesting happens. It never does.

My question: How do I actually physically notice the difference between these kernels? If I use RT, does Firefox spawn quicker (in my testing, no, not really)?

What are some use cases when I can really see the difference in these kernels?

9 like 9

#9front #comic #linux #penguin

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Penguin mom and her penguin child come across start9 linux. Child: "Mama?" Mom: "No, we have 9 at home." *9 at home* It's an old crt with `don't touch the artwork poster' in the background. The screen shows nothing but the gray background of rio and the 9 mouse cursor. Penguin child is ecstatic: "Sweet!" Penguin mom is happy.

About A comprehensive guide for Linux Network (Socket) programming

Link: https://github.com/nguyenchiemminhvu/LinuxNetworkProgramming
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756365

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Hello :)

There isn’t any community about note taking where I could post my question and no this is not a “What’s the best note taking app” question…

I’m getting tired of maintaining my Obsidian vaults… Somehow I’m fighting to get it right and obsidian seems to fight back. I’ve got 4 vaults of the same subject and I always end to make a mess out of it and make a fresh one… Also my notes a scattered in all direction and the more my knowledge base grows the less I seem to be able to find something…

This is probably a me problem rather than Obsidian issue. The way I’m taking notes are not compatible with Obsidian. IMO Obsidian’s defaults configuration are bad and visually not appealing. Sure customization in Obsidian is “endless” but digging in the HTML code to change the style or adding plugins to somehow get something visually appealing seems more like a chore than actually taking notes.

Here I’m again roaming the web for a Note taking app the could fit my needs and after trying a lot of different apps (please don’t suggest the already well known apps… I have probably already tried it…) I couldn’t find something that fits my workflow.

The only one that looked great and simple was osmosnote but it isn’t maintained anymore. There’s also dendron but it’s in maintenance mode. So there goes the only ones that looked promising from my perspective.

After giving it more thoughts, I was looking for something that could:

• Keep my scripts updated
• Simple markdown text
• No database
• Local first
• Open source
• If webapp self-hostable
• Back-linking
• Keep track of changes

Except for back-linking, a self-hosted Forgejo with git seems to fit all my needs, however I’m not sure if this is the right tool and I’m scared that in the long run I will mess it up the same way I did with Obsidian.

Does anyone here has some experience and is taking notes that way? I’m really curious on your experience and maybe your thoughts if it’s feasible ? Practical ?

Please don’t suggest Org.mode or Emacs ! They look very cool and very promising but they are WAY to much overkill ! And they also implement a totally new way of taking notes… Relearning on how to take notes will probably give me the last hit on abandoning to document anything !

Thank you for any helpful input !