Notices by linear cannon (linear@nya.social), page 4

hah, wow. okay. OS/2 1.2 is very bare bones.

not that this is unexpected or surprising

cold take: the kids should be allowed to protest without having to face the threat of violence from the local viscount's private militia

OS/2 2.1 Special Edition (aka OS/2 for Windows) installation

today i am powering a soldering iron off of one of my solar panels in order to reattach a connector on my other solar panel

how is everyone else's day

if you or a loved one has suffered from building gcc, you may be entitled to compilation

i spent time yesterday tweaking my tiny Athlon 5350 PC, doing some coarse-tuned undervolting and stress testing to try and reduce its power consumption as much as possible. stock, it peaks at about 42w during boot; with my changes closer to 32, and there's definitely room for improvement. that's including the display, which is a small portable one powered off the machine's usb port

that system is running ArcaOS right now and i don't have display blanking or sleep working but i'm going to try to figure out both of those (even if it means writing code and/or doing some low level debugging)

been fixing up my little local solar harvesting rig since the place i'm moving next month has expensive electricity and i figure since i already have this, i might as well use it and save myself a few bucks

i haven't been using it much here since the grid power is solar anyway

once i get things tweaked a bit i'm pretty sure i can manage running almost all of my devices off of this, despite the limited wattage

@ncommander@social.restless.systems rc6 installed and booted on my vaxstation 3100/m38 just fine (havent upgraded to 10.0 proper yet)

@burgerbecky@mastodon.gamedev.place good eye doctors are like that.

i was having issues i didn't understand how to address and that were making it hard for me to work (i, like you, use computers for a living) and was extremely stressed about it, both because it was hard to read things due to the double vision and blurriness, and because it was painful. old eye doctor didn't help at all.

so i went to my childhood small-town family eye doctor, he took a look, and just started casually explaining to me that there was nothing to be worried about, he got me some "computer glasses", got my insurance to pay for them, and told me a specific type of eye drops to use and when/how to use them, and explained why the whole thing was happening (basically: eye infection a few years ago never properly recovered, surface layer of my eye kept getting re-damaged during the night as my eye dried out, in somewhat of a "feedback loop"; surface layer heals fine if you give it a little bit of help, and then it will also lubricate itself properly)

apparently a lot of issues he sees are like this, where people are worried and facing debilitating issues but there's a simple way to address it

@indigoparadox@mastodon.social [tv commercial legal disclaimer voice] Wireguard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld

it's official! NetBSD 10.0 is out now!!!

http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html

getting my own ASN and IPv6 range has turned out to be a rather fun hobby so far, and a surprisingly less expensive one than i thought it would be

i did not honestly expect, before i started poking at this, that if you go about it right you can do it for an ongoing cost of less than $50 USD a month

i'm paying a little more than that, but i'm also doing so in a way that allows me to collapse all my existing servers into this network and reduce the ongoing costs from those, so it balances back out to that again anyway

hurricane electric asked to peer with me :blobcatsurprised:

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me yep.

in netbsd, at least, the one in base seems to be from before this person became a maintainer

the version in pkgsrc is much newer, though

if you're looking at the lzma thing and trying to figure out if you should be concerned, and if you can do anything about it:

the answers are definitely yes, and probably not much, respectively

this is one of those 'off the charts' sorts of scenarios, because the impact isn't just the vulnerability itself (a remote ssh backdoor on some systems), it's that it was seemingly inserted intentionally into this library which exists on every linux distro by one of the maintainers of the library, in signed commits, with very thorough attempts to obfuscate it, and with what appears to be active efforts to mask side effects when they were noticed.

so even if your system did not fit the criteria that we believe are necessary to trigger that backdoor and/or you have reverted to an older version that didn't have the final piece, you are still running code written by the person who intentionally added that backdoor.

@suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish i don't know how they extracted the image of marion wheeler i had in my head and put it in this video but they sure did do that

@suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IiVeGAydE

so like, my pi zero w could suffice, and i could even run that off a battery, so i could like, take this setup to a park or something if i wanted

i have revitalized my keeb.io iris rev4

havent used this keyboard in a long time and both of my irises were missing keycaps/switches, but i really wanted to have something i could use comfortably wherever without fucking up my wrists, so i dug the newer one out and fixed it up

gonna take a bit to get used to it again, but it's already not too bad, i haven't lost that much muscle memory

part of the reason i wanted this is because i want to experiment with screen readers more, and in doing so i want to have a keyboard that is usable somewhere other than at my desk. and that i can still easily use without having to look at it. this is pretty good for that

the idea is that if im feeling migrainey or otherwise just dont want to stare at a screen but still want to be able to do computer stuff, this could provide a way to do that. the screen reader on my phone certainly has been great, but (and this is critical) i have had absolutely no success in finding a way to use a terminal emulator with talkback on android, and i genuinely do a surprising of computing in a terminal emulator on my phone, so that still leaves me unable to do many things

if i have an alternate option that only gives me the terminal emulator. well, that still limits me, but in a different way, and one that i'm more comfortable with