Notices by see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io), page 2

@anomnomnomaly you did it!

... you convinced me to add the rickroll to my personal archive, just in case

With solar panel prices ever-falling, mounting and wiring had to overtake their price at some point, and based on this graph I think it was sometime in 2021.

So can install costs keep going down or do they plateau? Seems it will soon come down to innovation outside the panels.

Source: NREL via https://www.freethink.com/energy/solar-power-in-the-us

BTW, looking like my diy installation will be cheaper than the utility-scale 2021 cost.

pleased to see that git did get released last Friday, fixing the changes that broke #gitAnnex

@davidfetter my hail-damanged, 30-year-old, still in use solar panels say otherwise

@WEATHERISHAPPENING I am considering some repentance right about now

@ilmari @cjwatson how does a symlink into .git cause a write to a file in .git? git surely does not follow symlinks when updating the working tree. If it did, a symlink to ~/.bashrc would be a much easier exploit.

@nobodyinperson @mih @chrysn unfortunately I will not be able to even look at this until Monday.

It seems to me that the git developers must be aware of git-annex. Therefore, I wonder why they didn't reach out to me. They didn't. That's all I have right now.

@nobodyinperson @mih @chrysn it's interesting that the CVE that triggered this change has to do with symlinks in .git/, not symlinks TO .git/.

@nobodyinperson @mih @chrysn
While it's understandable that someone encountering a symlink related security hole may want to throw out the baby with the bathwater, what the git devs have actually done here is to only throw out the baby. This change will not prevent the class of security hole that motivated it.

@nobodyinperson @mih @chrysn worth noting that this same patch also presumably breaks pushing legitimate symlinks with link text > 260 characters to a Windows host, assuming git on windows is built with a typical Windows PATH_MAX. Such a symlink is entirely legal on linux of course.

I wonder who reviewed this...

https://github.com/git/git/blame/a33fea0886cfa016d313d2bd66bdd08615bffbc9/fsck.c#L1239

also its PATH_MAX check has a fencepost error; PATH_MAX includes the trailing NUL, so the maximum symlink link target is PATH_MAX - 1

#lazyweb question: Do either #firefox or #chrome have a way to display open tabs in a grid as mini windows?

On desktop that is... on mobile all web browsersdo it automatically! As shown in this screenshots of firefox.

FWIW I'm asking because I've been told this interface is very useful for someone with ADHD to keep on top of their tabalanche.

Long time ago, I remember my dad setting off in the dusk, driving north out of Tennessee to Virginia on country roads, toward the mountain, intently looking North to the horizon in hopes of catching an #aurora this far south. I don't think he saw it.

Just back from my own drive (to the same mountain range), where I saw ... a hint of pinkness to the sky. A faint vertical line. One or twice, a flicker of movement.

Not enough, but something. Tempted to drive to Dayton tomorrow.. looking North.

My phone is hopeless in the dark, I did see it a bit on another skygazer's there.

ah, switched opencamera to camera2 api and now I have noise reduction, low light, ISO, exposure settings so can finally take half-decent night time photos.. too late for the aurora. #fdroid

internetting some good internet this evening.. it still exists

#stackoverflow #slurry

@vorlon curl | /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /dev/stdin

(no it doesn't actually quite work ... sadly?)

@annika also in #haskell and with any number of underscores and zeros!

(0_____0) -- ribbit

my fun little surprise today was noticing liblzma in `ldd git-annex`

Pulled in via libmagic, which on Debian is patched to link to liblzma.

git-annex can be built without that (-f-MagicMime) but it does add a nice feature.

Anyway, interesting to know that Jia Tan's code is running in my processes forever unless xz gets reverted to the 2021 version.