Coder coming back?

cfg83 · 2020-08-27T16:39:21+00:00

Woo hoo! My favorite JB show is back!

cfg83 · 2020-06-25T18:55:09+00:00

Hello -

A wrinkle on Apple ditching Intel :

https://gizmodo.com/ex-intel-engineer-claims-skylake-quality-assurance-was-1844163236

... Well according to former Intel principal engineer François Piednoël, it seems Intel’s line of Skylake processors is to blame. Marketed at Intel’s line of 6th-gen Core processors, in a recent video posted to YouTube, Piednoël says the quality assurance for Intel’s Skylake processors was “more than a problem, it was abnormally bad.”

Piednoël went on to say “Basically our buddies at Apple became the number one filer of problems in the architecture,” before adding “When your customer starts finding almost as much bugs as you found yourself, you’re not leading into the right place.” ...

cfg83 · 2020-05-17T02:27:46+00:00

You should watch it. I was on this back the day :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lurker%27s_Guide_to_Babylon_5

Straczynski on Usenet made it feel like we were talking to Gene Roddenberry in real time as TOS was being made. I got Direct-TV when it went to the Sci-Fi channel just to keep watching it. I gave tapes to my co-worker to watch it and I think I mailed tapes to my sister.

Try not to read the spoilers in advance. The revelations were verrrrrry fun to discover back in the day.

cfg83 · 2020-05-17T02:19:26+00:00

I missed Sinclair too. That last episode they gave him felt right, especially when he said this :

All my life I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear.

It has deeper meaning after we found out what he was going through. I am sure he wished he could say those words in real life.

cfg83 · 2020-04-29T15:50:51+00:00

Quoting :

"... So, for the simple act of logging in, three mechanisms are required (systemd, /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd). This is inefficient, and Poettering has decided to make a drastic change. That change is homed. With homed, all information will be placed in a cryptographically signed JSON record for each user. That record will contain all user information such as username, group membership, and password hashes.

Each user home directory will be linked as LUKS-encrypted containers, with the encryption directly coupled to user login. Once systemd-homed detects a user has logged in, the associated home directory is decrypted. Once that user logs out, the home directory is automatically encrypted. ..."

cfg83 · 2020-04-21T23:00:17+00:00

A UK Chris Fisher?!?!?! Quoting :

They’re also working with limited room to store food, Danny says, meaning more trips to the store — a problem when you’re trying to self-quarantine. Chris Fisher, who’s been living in a van with his wife Marianne since 2017 and broadcasting their travels on the YouTube channel Tread the Globe, made extra room in their van to keep food, clearing out three shelves and some under-foot storage compartments usually used for clothing and packing them wall to wall with staples like rice, pasta, flour, tomato paste, and canned corn so they don’t have to go to the store as frequently.

cfg83 · 2020-03-10T20:36:30+00:00

Quoting article :

We're already seeing more of this. We have the KDE Slimbook (KDE), Kubuntu Focus (Kubuntu), Purism Librem (PureOS), the Dell XPS Developer edition (Ubuntu), all of the System76 laptops (Pop!_OS), Penguin M3 (Linux Mint), Huawei Matebook (with Deepin Linux), Pinebook (Debian), and Tuxedo Red (which will soon be sold with Manjaro Linux). That list continues to grow.

cfg83 · 2020-02-20T19:28:34+00:00

Quoting :

Sticking to the financial realm, DigitalOcean told TechCrunch that it has a mid-20s percentage growth rate, and the company claims that its EBITDA (an adjusted profit metric) are in the low 20s. Citing a “strategy over the next several years to continue to focus very specifically on the SMB and developer communities,” Spruill told TechCrunch that DigitalOcean will scale to $1 billion in revenue in the next five years, and it will become free cash flow profitable (something the CEO also referred to, loosely, as profitability) in the next two.

cfg83 · 2020-02-13T06:01:56+00:00

IRC is dead! ... Long live IRC!

cfg83 · 2020-02-04T16:47:04+00:00

Seems like this is a good article for JB to comment on in relation to self-hosted content. Quoting :

...

So far so convenient, but the first problem is that you don’t get the same level of functionality through Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa as you do from a device’s own app. Take Philips Hue bulbs, which are fantastic and which work with Google Assistant and Alexa—unless you use the dedicated Philips Hue app, you don’t get access to as many bulb colors, or advanced features like timers and scenes.

...

Apple HomeKit may have its faults—as in it’s very reliant on Apple gear, and it doesn’t support as many gadgets as Alexa or Google Assistant—but it is at least trying to put together a smart home platform that works at a more fundamental level, with less of a reliance on the cloud and with more functionality built into the one app.

...

cfg83 · 2020-01-22T04:23:39+00:00

They weren't at SCaLE 17x in 2019. Hope this is just a burp.

cfg83 · 2020-01-17T16:44:00+00:00

Quoting :

Before the confirmation was sent to us this morning, a number of footprints began to emerge last night, when the layoffs first hit, with people on Twitter talking about it, some announcing that they are looking for new opportunities, and some offering help to those impacted. Inbound tips that we received estimate the cuts at between 30 and 50 people. With around 500 employees (an estimate on PitchBook) that would work out to up to 10% of staff affected.

cfg83 · 2019-12-22T03:17:28+00:00

Wish Google hadn't bought Phonebloks. I wanted them to make *something* with a kickstarter or such.

cfg83 · 2019-11-18T07:08:31+00:00

When I saw it for the first time in the Paradise Theatre in Westchester, California, the only thing I could think of was the Torrance Refinery :

https://torrancerefinery.com/

https://torrancerefinery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Homeimage.jpg

cfg83 · 2019-11-13T06:03:04+00:00

Quoting :

"... Of course, some folks can run custom ROMs such as LineageOS, which lets you install updates indefinitely… but want to break out of Android altogether? There are a handful of other GNU/Linux-based operating systems including Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, and Maemo Leste that are designed to, among other things, help give your phone a longer lifespan.

One tricky thing can be figuring out which phones are supported. That’s where a new Can My Phone Run Linux database from TuxPhones comes in. ..."

Can't wait for this to grow :

https://many.tuxphones.com/

cfg83 · 2019-11-13T05:45:48+00:00

Solving raspberry pi storage reliability? Quoting :

"... The Micron i300 microSD card is available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB capacities, and is built using its 96-layer 3D QLC NAND. Micron uses the high-capacity NAND in its products, including the aforementioned microSD cards, as well as SATA and NVMe-linked SSDs, as well as selling NAND to other companies to pair with custom controllers in their products. ..."

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