Sigh, (work) gmail and its clunky, weak-ass filtering. My kingdom for a procmailrc.
Things happen.
48-hour average TPD (tacos per day) currently sitting at 5.5. Feeling pretty good about my life choices.
zev
honked back 23 Oct 2024 23:00 -0700
in reply to: https://scholar.social/users/chalpin/statuses/113359597415824920
@chalpin While it's now been over 7 years since I had any even tenuous, tangential involvement with ATE, I still get my daily reminder of it every time I open the dog food bag to get Bowie his dinner.
Hot 8 Brass Band was every bit as awesome as expected at the High Dive on Saturday.
zev
honked back 20 Oct 2024 17:16 -0700
in reply to: https://social.afront.org/users/kwf/statuses/113341311562379093
@kwf Another option is a skirt of sorts to fill in the gap between it and the floor to fend of incoming tennis balls and such (I ended up doing essentially that with our couch a few years ago).
zev
honked back 20 Oct 2024 12:11 -0700
in reply to: https://federate.social/users/mattblaze/statuses/113339890488419111
@mattblaze I'm curious -- is that a lighthearted humorous observation of a pattern you see in your photos, or something you've done consciously & intentionally?
zev
honked back 19 Oct 2024 19:12 -0700
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/x4cj8P219FJ93ZrJ75
@benjojo yeah, that strikes me every time I'm there -- definitely one of the most off-putting aspects of the city, IMO.
zev
honked back 12 Oct 2024 20:16 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/regehr/statuses/113297076711127571
@regehr If you're into this kind of heat nerdery and don't already have one, I highly recommend acquiring a thermal camera. Fancy new ones can be kind of pricey, but with a bit of craigslist-watching I snagged a decent-enough used one for <$100 recently. All sorts of commonplace things are interesting to look at with it, like your "footprints" after walking across a floor barefoot. It's also useful for all sorts of miscellaneous troubleshooting (home, car, electronics...) and taking thoroughly eery photos of your pets.
The stories of anguish a single filename can tell.
Realized while making some updates to it that one of my most-used personal programs just turned 10 (as measured from its first commit). Extrapolating, by 2034 it could in theory have as many as three entire users!
zev
honked back 24 Sep 2024 18:40 -0700
in reply to: https://ozlabs.house/users/shenki/statuses/113192336507597991
zev
bonked 24 Sep 2024 18:32 -0700
original: VD15@pl.valkyrie.world
zev
honked back 24 Sep 2024 03:45 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/Bt2LsXVMGLtSDf71cM
Decently pleasant view from the office window, with fall foliage colors already beginning to show.
And thus begins day 1 of trapping the wily ion...
zev
honked back 24 Sep 2024 03:34 -0700
in reply to: https://howse.social/users/tj/statuses/113190490372414009
@tj
dc(1)
, or shell functions built thereupon:$ type rpn rpnf
rpn is a function
rpn ()
{
dc -e "${*//x/*} p"
}
rpnf is a function
rpnf ()
{
rpn 10 k "$@"
}
$ rpnf 329447664 9672 811 x /
42.0000000000
zev
honked back 23 Sep 2024 08:37 -0700
in reply to: https://aus.social/users/jk/statuses/113185191434984961
zev
bonked 12 Sep 2024 10:56 -0700
original: lmorchard@hackers.town
Hahahah "The thought came to me all at once, whole and fully crystallized, that I would like to slap a big ol' slice of bologna onto that Cybertruck." https://defector.com/i-would-like-to-put-lunchmeat-on-the-cybertruck
zev
honked back 09 Sep 2024 12:15 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/cks/statuses/113108452304727111
On the platforms I've developed BMC firmware for that's pretty much exactly how it's arranged. Yes, it's more moving parts between the physical button and actually powering on the host, though often mitigated somewhat by a "GPIO pass-through" feature of popular BMC SoCs (Aspeed parts, at least), wherein you can configure the GPIO controller to basically just bridge two pins together in hardware so there's no software in between and it acts like a direct connection, which can be useful for times when the software that usually manages those GPIOs isn't able to do so for whatever reason (like during the BMC's boot sequence).
In theory I guess you could have the (soft) power switch wired to the BMC as basically a GPIO pin and then the BMC controlling the 'power switch' wired to the PCH or wherever it would go
zev
honked back 06 Sep 2024 12:57 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/6g22S9x8FBwvDnG2bs
Some rocks just don't want to split even after extensive sledgehammering. Fortunately with the right blade a circular saw can make it a little easier. Also, wow that's by a wide margin the fastest I've ever drained a 4Ah battery (and given that I guess the thermal self-protection shutoff shouldn't have been a surprise).
zev
honked back 05 Sep 2024 21:30 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/njDJ9K9pGcMQp4bP9B
The verdict: very effective, would rent again (and probably will for the other half of the yard).
This week's project: back yard concrete demolition. Started out with a rotohammer and 42" bolt cutters for the rebar. It...worked, but was very slow going, so I decided to try renting a jackhammer instead. Found that the jackhammer was sufficiently heavy that setting it down and picking it back up (when switching between it and the crowbar) was a non-negligible fraction of the overall work -- turning the ladder and some scrap 2x4s into an improvised stand for it turned out to be a big win.
zev
honked back 04 Sep 2024 13:44 -0700
in reply to: https://social.afront.org/users/kwf/statuses/113080963009036228
@kwf These pictures made me sort of curious about that tool and so I watched a brief video review of it, which happened to mention that the blades are reversible -- perhaps you're already aware, but might they still be intact enough to flip around and keep going?
zev
honked back 04 Sep 2024 03:44 -0700
in reply to: https://infosec.exchange/users/dannyjpalmer/statuses/113078448547688214
@dannyjpalmer Oh wow, I hadn't thought about that game in a very long time! And I don't recall ever noticing the tagline on the paper, which is quite excellent.
zev
honked back 04 Sep 2024 01:15 -0700
in reply to: https://social.treehouse.systems/users/mxshift/statuses/113077629756880853
@mxshift @danderson Can I ask what you used them for? "GHz-capable discrete logic gates" sounds like an interesting space to be in.
I wonder how much energy could be saved globally by web sites not having gratuitous constant background animations burning CPU cycles on every single client that loads the page for as long as they keep the tab open. (This post inspired by my suddenly-audible CPU fan.)
zev
honked back 29 Aug 2024 11:35 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/mhoye/statuses/113046637711135833
@cks @mhoye ...except that's still prone to race conditions, because there's a non-zero (brief, but not entirely negligible) window of time between passing the point of no return on deciding to press a key or click a button and actually doing so, and if the focus-theft happens within that window you're still screwed. I think what I want is "no program can steal input focus ever, period".
IBM's really branching out these days
zev
honked back 26 Aug 2024 14:00 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/regehr/statuses/113029890280280127
@regehr ...and indeed, after a quick check so do both Seattle & King County public libraries -- DVD and streaming options, even! Nice, libraries for the win.
zev
honked back 26 Aug 2024 11:52 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/regehr/statuses/113029158596083263
@regehr @aleksorsist Oh man, I've been wanting to see that for many years, but never have -- and as far as I can tell none of the major streaming services have it available. Maybe I should check the local libraries...
zev
honked back 17 Aug 2024 10:28 -0700
in reply to: https://infosec.exchange/users/david_chisnall/statuses/112976484919529374
What's this? Signs of life from The Onion? Might it be...maybe...dare I even say it...a glimmer of de-shittification in the darkness?
Gary Clark Jr last night: pretty damn cool.
zev
honked back 13 Aug 2024 14:24 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/112956762705298080
@rk @sj Except You could also put secrets in anonyous tempfiles, but at least on Linux other processes could still access it via
rmdir(2)
is going to fail with ENOTEMPTY
, no? You can hold an open fd for an empty directory, but then creating a new file inside it via openat
on the directory fd still fails with ENOENT
(and similarly if you hold on to it by chdir
-ing into it instead of opening it and then creating things in ".")./proc/$PID/fd
.
zev
honked back 09 Aug 2024 16:51 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/1xYw1G6Kpb3zP56Cyv
@tedu spits drink What on earth is that from? The fact that
timingsafe_bcmp(a, b, n) != timingsafe_bcmp(b, a, n)
is a nice touch too.
zev
bonked 07 Aug 2024 20:30 -0700
original: dgar@aus.social
Roses are red.
Roses are blue.
Depending on their velocity
relative to you.
zev
honked back 06 Aug 2024 15:09 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/112917324620075255
@rk @mos_8502 In my experience AFS is mostly reasonable to use (modulo Kerberos complications and learning a new permissions system) and from an abstract design standpoint definitely the "nicest", but having once years ago briefly looked into what would be involved in setting up and running it myself I decided it made NFS look comparatively trivial and did not pursue it further. Realistically, for the kinds of usage I'm picturing from @mos_8502's post, I'd reach for sshfs -- the setup process is basically "run sshd on server, run sshfs on client" and you're done.
zev
honked back 06 Aug 2024 13:10 -0700
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/cliffle/statuses/112916883839000060
zev
honked back 01 Aug 2024 13:26 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/112888385613788076
@rk That's like...2/3 of business web sites I've seen in the last 5 years, I think. Perhaps there's some actual nugget of real utility buried somewhere in something they provide, but discerning what it might be is utterly beyond me.