The #LXC, #LXCFS and #Incus 6.0.1 LTS point releases are now out!
https://stgraber.org/2024/07/01/lxc-lxcfs-incus-6-0-1-lts-release/

Does anyone have a new (< 2 years) toughbook 55 (1000 nit display I believe), Dell rugged 5430 (1100 nit?) or GETAC with their quadraclear? My last toughbook had the transflective display with 6000 nits, and I'm wondering what I can get now that really will be outdoor viewable in sunlight. 1000 nit sounds like maybe not a match for Texas sun, but the polarization tech to reduce reflections sounds fascinating - if it works.

@corbet Jiminy cricket. Now you can tell the hackers from non-hackers - they're the ones getting a good night's sleep.

Credit where credit is due! I'd really like to take a minute and thank Jia Tan how they helped us to finally get sd_notify() support merged into OpenSSH upstream!

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2641

Thank you, Jia, you rock!

And we now have the announcement for #LXC 6.0 LTS ready!
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxc-6-0-lts-has-been-released/19567

The eldest among us remember the First Web, before search engines were Good Actually. They used secret magics to make sense of the chaos that was the First Web.

Site directories.

Web rings.

Home pages linking to trusted sites.

Homework and jello shooter recipes study notes.

Now that the Search Engines have fallen it is time to bring those ancient tools back, for ourselves and the youngest among us who never knew the First Web.

@brauner Were they at least upset that you were rejecting code they had written, rather than angry because you didn't also implement it for them?

The case I most often think back upon was back around... 2008... Yeah, that person was angry with me.

There's so much to say here. But the thought that's new to me, with this episode, is that choosing new maintainers is a more solemn task than I'd previously thought. I *really* hope that Lasse does not feel bad: he did the right thing here! He found someone willing to help who had shown competence in the past. If I were wanting to hand over maintainership of (let's not name a project), what would be the right steps? Insist on having met the person in real life? Would that prove anything, really? Have our pgp keys in the same web of trust?

Back in the days, feedback on applicants, both positive and occasionally negative was what the membership boards would consider when reviewing a member's application.

Given that particular applicant was mentioning him running Ubuntu mirrors as part of his application, it didn't feel like me bringing this up would be considered unrelated.

Oh well, certainly makes me miss the days of this process happening through IRC and mailing-lists...

I don't know what discussions may have happened behind the scenes, but from my point of view, I'm seeing the new Community Manager at Canonical making unilateral decisions on an Ubuntu Member application's content.

That would be a bit more reasonable if he had been elected on the Ubuntu Community Council or the Ubuntu Membership board, but he is neither, yet is removing data from that member's application.

As a very long time Ubuntu Member myself, this isn't making me feel good at all...

Interesting... Yesterday we noticed unauthorized (ab)use of our image server. Normally we'd just block the subnet of the person doing this and then move on.

But as part of that, I noticed that the person in question was running for #Ubuntu Mermbership.
Given that the Ubuntu Mermbership process asks for community feedback from fellow Ubuntu Members, I figured it'd probably make sense to report on this individual's behavior as it could negatively impact the project.

Well, that's what happened!

@securepaul @mpdesouza @brauner @monsieuricon oh Paul, Paul...

Hm, i want a curses interface - like tig - to my github account, to breeze through PRs/patchsets etc. Right now I start looking at a pr, almost always end up wgetting the PRNUM.patch and looking at that in terminal, then going back to make comments or approve in web interface... There used to be a command line interface, but that a) is probably obsolete and b) was cumbersome. Does what I want exist?

@corbet <3 notmuch

@stgraber wowza

RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/stgraber/statuses/111569518545685378

Also lets you search through tag names/layer hashes and annotation contents to find an image you want in a big layout.

https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/ These bring me joy.

@mikemccracken did you?

Note to the committee in charge of directing human evolution: a second thumb. Hear me out! When carrying a really hot cup of coffee, a second thumb would let you switch which one is touching the cup every few seconds, like you can do right now with the other fingers.

We've really been slack on the porcelain surrounding the "atomfs" images. No more! https://s3hh.wordpress.com/2023/09/08/atomfs-convenience-program-for-mounting-oci-squash-layers/ .