Notices by Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net), page 4

@bagder The email body texts show up as white on light gray for me, which is a tad hard to read.

I guess it tries to apply a dark theme, and fails? The links to github show up with black on light gray.

@Nihils Yes, defaults matter (ext4 now more than ext3). RHEL defaults to xfs, for some reason (and since it has worked at $DAYJOB, we kept xfs after switching to Ubuntu, even if the installer touts ext4).

Back to my failing harddisks, I have now realized that doing backups with rsync --delete isn't that good when the source is a slowly degrading file system. Seems I lost some digital photos from 10+ years ago.

#WWE have livestreamed the last few #SmackDown and #Raw episodes on #YouTube, instead of posting the Hulu versions the day after like they have done the last several years.

Unfortunately, there's a pause screen during US commercials. I hope they will do something like what #AEW on #TrillerTV is doing, with international commentary during commercial, interrupting matches with a pause screen is just...bad.

Screencap from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLncZJrxHz4

You know you're beginning to get #old half your #boardgame group need to change to reading glasses to read the cards...

Sometimes, starting to write a question on Stack Overflow points you in the right direction.

Finally, my digital photo archive has directory names in UTF-8 encoding!

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/convmv/convmv.1.en.html

#convmv #debian #unicode

We didn't need this post-match crap, though. This is just bad.

Wow, I did not expect that finish.

#AEWWrestleDream #BryanDanielson #JonMoxley

The good thing about #AEW PPVs is that they are action-packed from start to finished. The bad thing is that they tend to feel too long.

The clock being 5:15 in the morning whe the main event starts doesn't help.

#Ricochet vs #Takeshita vs #Ospreay is just amazing!

#AEW #AEWWrestleDream

It's 2 am and time for #AEW #AEWWrestleDream

I actually thought it was tomorrow, so I wasn't planning on watching live, but here we are.

Starting out strong with Hangman!

#TrillerTV #ProWrestling

@exahamza @debian_os The post that the bot posted is from August...

@root42 There is a Yacht game according Wikipedia, with this scoring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_(dice_game)

There are several similar, but not completely identical, rule sets for this game. This version is the common where I come from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatzy

Both score Full House as dice values, so always try to get it using 3x6 + 2x5 for maximum points.

Okay, time to schedule some major rewrites. I noticed the deprecation warnings when moving platforms to Ubuntu recently, and now the version removing the APIs has been released.

DeprecationWarning: 'cgitb' is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.13
DeprecationWarning: 'cgi' is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.13

Meanwhile, let's just change the shebang to "python3.12" instead of "python3"...

#python313 #deprecated #movingtarget

One power outage later, I've learned that #update-grub isn't enough when booting in #EFI mode and changing the partition that holds the grub menu configuration. One also needs to run #grub-install to update the EFI grub.cfg to point to the first grub.cfg

https://wiki.debian.org/GrubEFIReinstall

And of course, the power outage had to happen just as I had left for Germany and Spiel. Good thing the rest of the family wasn't home either...

@root42 Nothing says being an active developer as good as publishing unfinished beta versions on GitHub…

@root42 Embedded compilers are often trailing; we only just recently upgraded to a C++17 compiler at $DAYJOB. Can't get much further with the current hardware we're targetting as the CPU isn't supported by newer GCC or GLibC...

And there's also the thing about being mentally stuck to the version of C++ one learnt. I learnt C++ back in the late 1990s, and I still have some old code written from before namespaces that I just tacked "use namespace std;" on to be able to compile... 🙂

@root42 It came in with C++14, so ten years ago.

@nixCraft "ip a" is a little bit of what ifconfig displays by default; I often use it to get the packet statistics, including number of errors. I *still* haven't figure out how to get those out of "ip".

It must be in there, somewhere...

The file copying finished eventually. The tricky part was to switch to booting from the new Raid instead of the old, getting grub to read the correct kernel and pass the correct root. After a few rounds through booting from an USB image (#Ventoy ftw), and updating grub inside a chroot, it eventually worked.

Then I zeroed out the old RAID device, and ran mdadm with --grow and --raid-devices=2 to sync the new fs back to the old drive.

Took all day, and syncing those 2 terabytes takes a while longer still.

Let's hope this works out now...

The recent #CUPS #vulnerability and previous #XZUtils compromise show that my previously-held opinions about #Debian Stable vs Testing (and #FOSS / #OpenSource #security in general) were not entirely accurate.

In their own docs, the Debian devs say, "If security or stability are at all important for you: install stable. period. This is the most preferred way." (https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/choosing.en.html#s3.1) Personally, I'd always held the belief that trust in the package developers was sufficient, and that having the distro do extra checks was superfluous.

I now see that #Linux distros' approvals of #software is much like an enterprise #PatchManagement system: adding an extra layer of verification, checking for vulnerabilities/#threats, compatibility, and integrity within an environment as part of #DefenseInDepth #BestPractices against, among other tings, #SupplyChain attacks.

While my reservations about the age of Debian Stable's packages remains, that too may be changed some day. Security is all about learning and acting based on the best data and information available.