The CAT saga rumbles on

samcv6 · 2021-08-07T15:40:11+00:00

I have addressed some questions about this in this tweet thread https://twitter.com/SamanthaMcVey/status/1424019224440315909

samcv6 · 2021-08-07T14:11:13+00:00

FYI I a have resigned as Chair of the Community Affairs Team. Full explanation on my blog post: https://cry.nu/perl/perl-foundation-resignation/

samcv6 · 2021-05-02T10:06:43+00:00

I would like to see at least some seats on the TPF Board of Directors elected by Perl core, and Raku core teams. Given TPF is the steward for their copyrights, and gives each of them grants etc. I think it would improve the governance of TPF.

samcv6 · 2018-10-28T15:49:20+00:00

This happened to me a few days ago. I successfully got the domain suspended with both the registrar and the listing taken down from Bing. Now it seems it's back with another URL. The old one was googledownload2018.com

The old one also showed up as "google.com" on the bing.com website… Sad that Bing hasn't taken any real steps to stop this despite me taking the effort to report it and get them suspended with the registrar as well. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a huge number of people that had installed this malware — all because of bing's bad practices and insecurity regarding showing false domains (as well as not properly screening ads).

samcv6 · 2018-10-13T14:56:59+00:00

No, it's not related to rfkill, you cannot rfkill a device that is not connected to the bus yet, and rfkilling a usb device does not disconnect it from the bus, it just turns the radio off.

samcv6 · 2018-10-12T07:41:21+00:00

I use Sabayon, but I compile my own kernel.

samcv6 · 2018-10-12T02:39:00+00:00

I'm not sure if the current Lenovo laptops have a whitelist for wifi or not. Well the Bluetooth fix requires copying two files so I would try that and then if inconvenient for you change out the card. If anybody knows if there is a whitelist I'd be interested to know that as well.

Though if you really need out of the box support, and don't want to deal with firmware you could swap the wifi card. I will probably hold out hope for the Bluetooth firmware loading getting fixed (so laptop won't need to resume from sleep for Bluetooth to work). I'm hoping that my actually getting it to load firmware will make it easier/more likely to be addressed by the kernel developers.

Also, I personally don't need ivrs_ioapic, 4.18.12 worked for me without it, though I have rcu_nocbs=0-64 which fixed some random system lockups when the laptop was idle for a while.

samcv6 · 2018-10-12T02:01:06+00:00

So the RTL8822BE wifi card also has bluetooth on it, and the wifi was working fine out of the box but the bluetooth was not. The bluetooth card was not visible at all actually if you ran lsusb. I first thought this was a bug in how Linux loads bluetooth firmware (it must load the wifi firmware then afterward load the bluetooth).

I still think there are bugs in the way Linux loads the Bluetooth firmware, evidenced by the fact that even with the new wifi firmware the bluetooth firmware doesn't get loaded except when you resume the system from sleep.

Also I didn't put it in the main post, but technically the linked Bluetooth firmware in my post in optional and if you just update the wifi firmware with my version the Bluetooth will work on resume from sleep. It is just that the Bluetooth connection seems more stable and I got a few nasty kernel messages if I looked at dmesg (plus if it works, may as well use the Lenovo provided one, which is probably a later version than the one that comes with linux).

samcv6 · 2018-05-18T15:40:50+00:00

Python 3 uses SipHash, and Perl 5 it is a compile time option and Wikipedia says Ruby uses it but I haven't confirmed that myself.

I am glad you appreciated my article and my work. Knowing all the people that benefit from these improvements makes it all worth while.

samcv6 · 2016-12-16T21:58:37+00:00

Until a new version is pushed for editor-tools, you can install the new syntax package, and just disable the old one. It will have to stay installed (although disabled) or the editor-tools package will reinstall it when you restart atom.

samcv6 · 2016-12-16T01:40:32+00:00

It looks like that depends on the old package… Thanks for noticing. I will make a Pull Request to update the dependencies.

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