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It's the first day of the merge window and, so far, there have been three pull requests with links to LWN articles describing the work. Nice to know somebody is reading all that stuff...:)
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/ZEbkqq1tvm1WHVHw%40bombadil.infradead.org/
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20230421-freimachen-handhaben-7c7a5e83ba0c%40brauner/
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHC9VhQEXm3XG7B1wJBVsd15xFNpMjyuyxWDEcTAGrSN6zWoaA%40mail.gmail.com/
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/ZEbkqq1tvm1WHVHw%40bombadil.infradead.org/
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20230421-freimachen-handhaben-7c7a5e83ba0c%40brauner/
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHC9VhQEXm3XG7B1wJBVsd15xFNpMjyuyxWDEcTAGrSN6zWoaA%40mail.gmail.com/
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Just updated the laptop to Fedora 38. It seemed to go mostly well, but GNOME 44 seems to have changed something with font scaling; both gnome-terminal and emacs came up the size of a postage stamp — and a small stamp at that. Nothing like trying to tweak parameters when you can't see the dialogs without a microscope...
Firefox, instead, came up as always. Weird.
Firefox, instead, came up as always. Weird.
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Sigh ... another important mailing list (fedora-devel) is about to go dark: https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/20230420212037.GA7197@mattdm.org/
I get it that email sucks, but forum systems do as well. The future we are headed toward seems to have every project in its own little walled garden, isolated from the others.
But at least we can get cute little badges ...
I get it that email sucks, but forum systems do as well. The future we are headed toward seems to have every project in its own little walled garden, isolated from the others.
But at least we can get cute little badges ...
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Chaco Canyon pictographs thought to record a highly visible supernova that occurred in 1054.
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When the passport office destroys your international travel plans, you might as well go and check out some of the local wonders. This is what's left of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, built in the years 850 to 1150.
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Today's addition to the list of "things that it never occurred to me could be a problem".
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A hard-earned lesson for US folks needing to renew a passport in the 2020s... there are two choices:
1) Send in an application, pay the "expedited processing" fee, fill in the blank indicating when you have travel plans. Then wait for over three months, spend countless hours in the State department's phone system from hell, and finally be told that there is absolutely no way to get a passport in time to salvage your trip.
2) Complain to your Senator's office. Hear back the next day with the time for appointment two days later to have a passport made on the spot. Actually showing up for the appointment is highly recommended.
I sure wish I'd known about #2 a week earlier. I'm still used to living in an America were government services (for the reasonably well off, at least) Just Work, and we're not there anymore.
1) Send in an application, pay the "expedited processing" fee, fill in the blank indicating when you have travel plans. Then wait for over three months, spend countless hours in the State department's phone system from hell, and finally be told that there is absolutely no way to get a passport in time to salvage your trip.
2) Complain to your Senator's office. Hear back the next day with the time for appointment two days later to have a passport made on the spot. Actually showing up for the appointment is highly recommended.
I sure wish I'd known about #2 a week earlier. I'm still used to living in an America were government services (for the reasonably well off, at least) Just Work, and we're not there anymore.
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The new(ish) solar panels on the roof came with an monitoring app from SunPower which, naturally, stores lots of information about the house in the cloud somewhere. I'm sure that their management of, say, the realtime consumption data is entirely secure, nothing to worry about there.
Today the app said that we were producing nothing, despite this being a beautiful cloudless Colorado day. Some digging into their web site turns up a page (https://us.sunpower.com/solar-resources/home-solar-system-troubleshooting-questions-and-answers) suggesting to log out of the app and back in; failing that, the trick is to uninstall and reinstall. Sure enough, that worked. Quality engineering there.
My intention to figure out how to get the data directly out of the monitoring system and short these people out is growing...
Today the app said that we were producing nothing, despite this being a beautiful cloudless Colorado day. Some digging into their web site turns up a page (https://us.sunpower.com/solar-resources/home-solar-system-troubleshooting-questions-and-answers) suggesting to log out of the app and back in; failing that, the trick is to uninstall and reinstall. Sure enough, that worked. Quality engineering there.
My intention to figure out how to get the data directly out of the monitoring system and short these people out is growing...
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So after something like eight hours spent on hold over the last couple of weeks, I'm now informed that there is no hope of getting my renewed passport in time for next week's trip. Three months and the full "expedited processing" fee, it seems, were not enough. So now I get to tear down all of my plans, pay all of those cancellation fees, and remain stuck inside a country that I am rather frustrated with at the moment.
Hopefully something will happen in time for me to get to LSFMM next month.
Hopefully something will happen in time for me to get to LSFMM next month.
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So #reddit seems to have decided today that the way to profit is to take away its nice "compact" mobile presentation and, instead, ceaselessly nag web users to switch to the app instead. The site has pretty much become unusable on mobile overnight.
The "request desktop site" option (*in the reddit settings*, not the browser equivalent) makes things a bit more tolerable.
My day to grumble, I guess.
The "request desktop site" option (*in the reddit settings*, not the browser equivalent) makes things a bit more tolerable.
My day to grumble, I guess.
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Grumble.
At the very beginning of January I paid the extra fee for "expedited processing" of my passport renewal. Now travel is approaching and I still have no passport...just spent an hour on hold, only to hear that nothing can be done yet.
Time to step away and go for a bike ride, I guess.
At the very beginning of January I paid the extra fee for "expedited processing" of my passport renewal. Now travel is approaching and I still have no passport...just spent an hour on hold, only to hear that nothing can be done yet.
Time to step away and go for a bike ride, I guess.
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They say that we can't control the weather, but I now have evidence to the contrary: just install solar panels on your roof, and you'll cause one of the cloudiest and snowiest winters in a long time...
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Sometimes I'll put out an article and the world seems to get excited. Then, other times, I write about direct-map fragmentation and seemingly put everybody to sleep. I've never understood why people don't find these things fascinating...:)
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Apologies if you were expecting email from me... Some days are just not meant to be spent at the keyboard.
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Since I haven't been yelled at enough recently ... https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315211523.108836-1-corbet@lwn.net/T/
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