Notices by egregious philbin (ieure@retro.social), page 5

@technomancy They're probably verifying account ownership by using Plaid to authenticate against her bank, this is a pretty standard thing.

Definitely doesn't feel good, and definitely *can* be abused (the highest level of access lets you access transaction detail for the account), but it's also.... normal. Which is not at all to say "good."

@ajroach42 From dot social, naturally.

I took a sick day, because I am sick.

Two COVID tests say it's not that.

Whatever it is, it is not fun.

Checking in for a COVID PCR test, "are you experiencing any symptoms?"

Nope. I just have unconventional hobbies.

@trochee At more than one Agile shop, I have successfully agitated to interleave sprints with "moseys," generally on a two-sprint-one-mosey cadence.

The mosey is where you work on technical debt, documentation, or polish.

Not an Agile fan, but this honestly helps a lot.

@technomancy @aphyr Yeah, I have my daily driver EXWM setup, and when I occasionally need to use an external display with less hassle or whatever, I'll just log out and then into a Gnome session.

I feel like there should be a 15 letter long German word for the sense of dismay and regret you get when, having loaded a news website and seen that the images don't load because JavaScript is disabled, you enable JavaScript and everything below the second paragraph gets locked behind a shit-tier paywall.

@technomancy Yeah; I stood up Matrix more or less as an iMessage replacement when I dumped every Apple device. It's 99% for texting with my family and whatever friends are bent enough to agree to this. E2EE is table stakes for that IMO.

@technomancy I have tried ement, I couldn't get it working reliably enough. There's also a newer matrix-client.el by the same author, which seems promising, but is alpha.

There's no elisp implementation of the overly complicated encryption stuff, so neither support end-to-end encrypted messages, which I need. You can get around it by standing up Pantalaimon, which is a native proxy that deals with the crypto stuff and exposes it as unencrypted messages to the clients that connect to it. I have never gotten this setup working, it's all very finicky.

Okay, still Guixing over here. I'm making packages for my Emacs Weirdware, and it's honestly really delightful that five of the 19 things already have official Guix packages.

I have been told that I can solve my problem with these fonts by using something called a "computed origin," which is completely undocumented and (based on multiple responses saying "it's impossible to do this") not well-known.

This despite it being used for icecat, the least ridiculous browser Guix has packaged.

Some of this stuff, I thought literally nobody would have use for. So it's flattering that it was useful enough for someone to package.

More #Guix updates:

I have 90% of my Emacs config ported to Guix Home and working well enough that I'm only setting my hair on fire a couple times an hour, instead of every 30 seconds.

Packaged the rest of my weirdware.

Packaged the Jellyfin MPV Shim, which is working well. Legit really nice experience here, had to package three deps as well, it all took less than an hour.

Haven't set up the channel properly yet, but, soon.

Continued Guixposting:

I have created a package for LibreWolf[1] which appears to more or less work. That's extremely cool.

For this to be daily-driveable, I still need:

A Matrix client. I looked at Fluffychat, but it depends on "Flutter," which is a proprietary/binary-only build tool/toolkit. This is probably a non-starter, not necessarily because I have objection to it being proprietery, but because it seems like pain-in-my-ass weirdware. So probably going to tackle Element instead -- it's what I normally use anyway.

A working autofs setup. A good chunk of my NAS gets exported as NFS, which I use autofs to manage. There's an autofs package, but no way to configure it, so I'll be tackling some kind of service to do that.

Some of my Emacs packages. These are stuck in code review. I might dump these into a personal channel in the meantime.

[1]: LibreWolf is a fork of Firefox with all the ill-advised Mozilla Corporation junk removed; it will never, ever show an ad for Mozilla VPN. https://librewolf.net/

My daily driver is using Jellyfin MPV Shim from Flatpak and it is so, so much nicer not to have to deal with that stuff.

All this hacking to get the setup I want is definitely A Lot compared to more mainstream Linuxen. It's definitely not for everyone.

But it's also awesome that the system lends itself to this kind of hackability, for those inclined.

I keep vacillating between "Guix rules, actually" and "what the fuck is this nonsense."

I'm in the latter place today, as I found that an important part of the Scheme code doesn't work unless the path to the process it's running in ends in "bin/guix". This means that when you use Emacs and Geiser to run Guile to hack on Guix packages, it can't use any packages from any channel other than the default one.

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67290

Broke my Guix config in a way that prevented X11 from starting. SSH'd into the box, ran `sudo guix system roll-back' and it gave me back the exact previous working setup.

That's awesome as hell.

Okay, I fixed the Xorg config, but it's disgusting and hacky because the extension mechanism for this is jank.

But stuff scrolls the right way round now, and the video doesn't tear, and I have a package for LibreWolf that works.

In the unlikely event that you care about any of this stuff, code is here: https://codeberg.org/ieure/atomized-guix

I haven't been complaining about Guix lately, because I've mostly figured out how stuff works, or can figure it out when stuff comes up.

I submitted patches to add LibreWolf packages, which have been completely ignored, like most of the patches I've sent in. That's not great.

But I can just... drop that code into my own channel and use it. Or fork the official Guix repo and add it and run my whole system off that instead. So I am, and that's honestly pretty nice.