Daniel Barlow 🚴 @telent@mastodon.social
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NixOS, Linux, sometimes Clojure and Ruby, cycling, occasional inline skating. Gen X, not dead yet. A.k.a @telent_net in the bird place
Joined Apr 2017
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GONE AWAY. Follow me to my new place @dan
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Thinking about doing some #nixwrt dev #livestream some time this week (probably between 8-10pm UTC, after kids in bed). LMK if you'd join (and any tips on platform etc, esp. FOSS concerns)
GONE AWAY. Follow me to my new place @dan
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on which note, "what are you even doing with nixwrt, Daniel?"
Glad you asked. As of the day before yesterday approximately (sqrt sod-all) but I am trying to get back into it
I ordered a second gl-ar750 so I have a dev device as well as the one that holds the family's internet access together
I am randomly refactoring stuff to make it easier to build particular parts (e.g. the kernel) from the command line than currently. I sometimes find myself building the whole monolithic image and then using binwalk to extract the component of interest, which feels suboptimal
I am wondering if I can revive the qemu target and somehow make it useful (maybe it could have emulated ethernet with a tap device so I could write tests that talk to a pppoe server, or ... I dunno ... something)
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Went to rebuild nixwrt on my usual build machine and it started by compiling readelf. I think this probably means I garbage-collected the #nix store since last time I built it and therefore must build the mips toolchain/world ab initio. This in turn implies it's time to go to bed
(Another data point consistent with the hypothesis: right now it's building gcc)
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btw if anyone was wondering "have you actually switched to this account" the answer is "sort of". I check this account more often than mastodon.social, and I try to remember (not always successfully) to boost whatever I write so if appears on both, but I don't have microblog.pub running in what you might call a "production" config yet. Which is to say, it's running in a random docker container and has no backups.
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https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/master/target/linux/ath79/dts/qca9531_glinet_gl-ar750.dts
Oh, hey, this is good news. Linux (in OpenWRT) now has device tree support for my home router. Really need to snag another one so that I can port #nixwrt to it without losing the internet.
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@dan@terse.telent.net [dan@noetbook:~]$ strace emacs 2>&1 |grep connect connect(4, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = 0 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = 0 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path=@"/tmp/.X11-unix/X0"}, 20) = 0 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path=@"/tmp/.X11-unix/X0"}, 20) = 0 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/run/user/1000/:0"}, 20) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) yeah, er, right ... what?
@climagic have you seen "beets"? it's like notmuch for music. My music archive is on a machine called loaclhost, so to download tracks for local playback eslewhere I can do
ssh loaclhost "beet ls -f \\\$path playlist:oct2019 | cpio --no-absolute-filenames -o --format=ustar " | tar --strip-components=3 -xvf
Carrot on the left lists their interests as "Ghostbusters cosplay". Right hand carrot works undercover as a squid
Poseable carrots. Or, emissaries from the planet K'rgathongq IV. Unsure which
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Hello world from over here (microblog.pub test instance)
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Despite a number of new features brought to the table by #Ubuntu 19.10, the headlining feature is this: it just feels really fast, even compared to Ubuntu 19.04. That comes down to dramatic improvements in #GNOME 3.34, the desktop environment used on Ubuntu. And we finally have a wealth of information detailing exactly what those are.
Version 2 (WIP) of my computer-controlled USB power supply. Because the wires kept falling out of my breadboard, & also I had to give the Arduino Yun back
(Context: https://ww.telent.net/2018/7/20/power_play)
I had no idea NLnet uses so much #nixos. But then again, I didn't realise they'd stopped being an ISP either, so I'm kind of behind the times.
(Listening to #nixcon2019 live stream rn)
Sigh. Step away from the ebay. Just because I've been paid doesn't mean I need to buy a usb dj controller.
I do still need a 4 channel usb audio device.though ...
- code mausoleum
- https://github.com/telent/
- tools
- not left in this vehicle overnight
NixOS, Linux, sometimes Clojure and Ruby, cycling, occasional inline skating. Gen X, not dead yet. A.k.a @telent_net in the bird place
Joined Apr 2017
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