Finally upgraded my phone from CM14.1 to LineageOS (via the experimental migration build, everything went smoothly). Noticed a cool feature: partial screenshot (from the power menu).
Also apparently my phone is now supported by the upstream Linux kernelโฆ
Todayโs reason for an hour wasted on debugging: Ruby 2.0.0 enforces FD_CLOEXEC on file descriptors by default, need to pass --keep-file-descriptors to bundle exec to fix. What the hell? Apparently they were concerned about security. Okay, but doing that on interpreter level was super unexpected.
Noticed a worrying trend in web server libraries: lack of first-class support for running on Unix domain sockets and on user-supplied sockets of any kind. Sometimes it needs third party libraries with over 200 lines of codeโฆ but Erlang didnโt have native support for unix sockets until 2015!
In 2017, letโs make sure all web app stacks support opening Unix sockets, running on already opened sockets, socket activation and graceful shutdown! I made a thing that uses that kind of stuff and the only server that was completely ready out of the box was Rubyโs Puma.
Facepalm of the day: โwhy does my new Xen VPS boot FreeBSD thatโs installed via the providerโs console, but when I install it myself, it doesnโt boot?โ
Of course, I forgot about console="comconsole". It was booting, just not showing anything on the Xen console.
Wow, MongoDB still defaults to allowing all connections from anywhere?! This is amazingly terrible.
(Postgres only allows connections from 127.0.0.1/32, ::1/128 and 192.168.1.0/24 by default, which actually makes sense.)
Sometimes you can learn a lot from a thread on the orange website. TIL: diskinfo(8) (check out the BUGS section :D) and recoverdisk(1).
The Internet of Shit Expo is ridiculous. Air conditioners connected to cloud deep learning artificial intelligence over Wi-Fi! Why.
I look forward to Black Mirror showrunner Charlie Brooker's review of the year every year. 2016's is sharp as ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XanyPq5BcoA
Happy new year everyone!
Hereโs a tiny project I worked on today. Iโm also working on a container thingโฆ
Interesting commit: โRemove a death threat from the FreeBSD sourcesโ. Honestly โDO NOT, UNDER PAIN OF DEATH, [do X]โ doesnโt sound like a threat but itโs nice to see that many committers donโt want that kind of stuff in the source.
But why change #ifdef DONT_EVEN_THINK_ABOUT_IT to #if 0?
Wow. Windows will no longer require admin rights to create a symlink. Amazing.
The FreeBSD Foundation has a โUranium Donorโ now. I guess they need all that uranium donated to them :) Seriously though, this makes me want to use WhatsApp more. Thanks!
Wow, a researcher from a German university sent me a survey about copying code from Stack Overflow โ and not just randomly! Because they found a snippet in one of my repos.
So, SO answers are CC BY-SA licensed, which is terrible (you basically arenโt supposed to use it in BSD/MIT/ISC or CC0/Unlicense/WTFPL code!)
But that particular project was GPL licensed, which is compatible with Share Alike! And thatโs particularly amazing โ most of my projects are under Unlicense or ISC. I just decided to use the GPL for that one because it was an Android GUI app.
tfw you get a comment on a three years old github thread :)
I made Bluetooth Low Smart 4.0 Energy LE Thing work on FreeBSD! I mean, the node.js BLE thing that talks to the USB dongle directly through libusb, but thatโs what I needed for Node-RED :) Four PRs: node-usb node-bluetooth-hci-socket noble bleno