Notices by NCommander (ncommander@social.restless.systems), page 2

Alright, you know, I'm went and installed factorio on my VPS, and I'm figuring out how to plug in a Discord bot. I think we can find a few people to pick away at a map if I set a goal like 1000 SPM, and it hopefully would avoid the problems I've had w/ Minecraft servers in the past.

This is arguably a problem with OpenSSH, and it was once fixed by SunSSH, and is masked by Ubuntu specific behavior.

The crash is due to a 10+ year bug in libreadline. The question is it the responsibly of the PTY generator to makesure LC_* is sane.

Tonight, I helped find a bug in libreadline, that required looking to the actual POSIX specification to determine what, if anything, is the sane thing to do if your locale is broken.

This is not the YouTube video I expected to make, but I just uttered the following in #illumos:

[2:50:09 AM] <NCommander> This is getting fairly close the eldritch tomes of lore that AT&T used to forge the One Ring deep in the heart of Murray Hill

@irenes Such an action will have consequences :)

Well, I have illumos going on an emulated single core Intel Core 2 Duo, simply because it hangs if there's more than one processor.

I've also got some really fascinating error messages along the way.

So, taking bets on how long this takes!

Downloading files via FTP to enhance your system, just like the good old days!

Oh that triplex ....

If you have a Sun employee you want to trigger in your life, send them this photo.

Thumbnail out for the next video. Out for patreons now, and dropping soon: https://www.patreon.com/ncommander

TIL that not all versions of Netscape supported DNS ...

There's something wrong in this photo ...

You'd think after as many miles that I've traveled, I'd be immune to homesickness :/

@mjg59

What frustrates me is the sheer number of vendors that didn't see this as a problem (or saw it as a feature), combined with ARM refusing to try and even address this problem when AArch64 is released.

It's difficult to say that ARM is a viable competitor in non-embedded spaces when you can't say that you'll be able to install an update six months down the line (and this is sadly not even a hypothetical ...)

Please give Eniko a follow, she is the owner of an indie game studio that's LGBT friendly, and is going to very much be affected by Twitter basically imploding:
@eniko

Her studio is publishing Kitsune Games, and has made a lot of rather cool things: https://kitsunegames.com/, go check them out.

so current thought on Mastodon after daily driving it for a week ...

I REALLY MISS QUOTE RETWEETS!

There's nothing like logging into a server and seeing "Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS", and an uptime measured in years ...

It's gone down hill from here ...

Anyway, hugops are welcome ...

So, this instance has been up for basically two days, and already at 4 GiB of media storage.

Going to likely end up redoing a good amount of the infrastructure in the days to cone I think

@LunaFoxgirlVT Are you going to use k8s, or containers, or just bare metal?

@LunaFoxgirlVT

mind posting a summary of what you plan to do? Cause you know, that would be a nice setup to have.