@LaF0rge all this will be important for rebuilding society after the next war

RE: https://chaos.social/@LaF0rge/113856213231658972

Who says that pair programming can't be productive?

#pairprogramming #dogsofmastodon

A giant Soviet telescope looks like a remnant of an older and more advanced civilization.

Its history matches this impression. The Kalyazin RT-64 radio telescope was developed to support communications with robotic missions to Venus and Mars and to prepare for possible manned expeditions to these planets.

The telescope is located near the city of Kalyazin, and still in operation today. Its scientific tasks include deep space communications and astrophysical research.

For the 2 weeks over Christmas + New Year, my work days were meeting-free. I got a lot of stuff done as a result. It was very freeing.

When I returned to a normal schedule this week, a sense of dread accompanied it. I considered why. It was meetings. Specifically, weekly obligatory pro forma have-em-because-they-are-on-the-calendar meetings. No-agenda meetings. The kind often organized by physics collaborations.

My resolutions for 2025: no agenda, no attenda. Only meetings with purpose.

Lots of recent picolibc news:

* Oliver Stannard at ARM got testing running on the FVP emulator for more rigorous AARCH64 validation.

* Eduard Tanase fixed a bunch of documentation issues.

* Joel Holdsworth added OpenRisc support.

* Jiaxun Yang fixed my janky tools situation by creating picolibc-ci-tools which auto-builds all of the extra bits we need for CI. They also add LoongArch and LatticeMico32 support. The latter uncovered GCC bugs which I had fun fixing.

Thanks to all of you!

📣 All Systems Go! 2025 will take place Sept 30th-Oct 1st. We are excited to move back to the venue we held the event at for the first 3 years, Alte-Münze in the heart of Berlin along the river Spree.
The 🗣️ CFP opens and 🎟️ ticket sales start in mid-March.
🎗️ If your organization wants to sponsor, please reach out.

Dumb legal question: if people generally do not read terms of service type documents, how are they valid as a legal vehicle?

A bit of a retrospective on #Incus in 2024 and what to look forward to in 2025!
https://stgraber.org/2025/01/04/incus-in-2024-and-beyond/

util-linux has merged support for statmount() and listmount() to list mounts:
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/3092#event-15865684400

This should be a nice performance improvement.

See https://brauner.io/2024/12/16/list-all-mounts.html for some details on listmount() and statmount().

#linux #kernel

Peeking at the recent CCC video list:

https://media.ccc.de/b/congress/2024

"BlinkenCity" - uh oh.

@petrillic Yikes, that seems to be very simple. Video: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacking-the-rp2350

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/113805844834383637

Here's a brief blog on my amateur radio publications last year: https://w7txt.net/2024/12/29/publications-in-2024/

- Investigating the Extended Frequency Range of the WA1MBA Millimeter Wave Quadrupler.

- Open Source Arduino Controller for Surplus Flatpack2 PSU.

#hamradio
#amateurradio
#microwave
#eme
#moonbounce
#electronics

I've written a post that shows how to list all mounts in all mount namespaces (all mounts on the system) using new apis we added to the #vfs last year.

https://brauner.io/2024/12/16/list-all-mounts.html

#kernel #linux #vfs

Here's a blog story with the links to all those #systemd257 stories on Mastodon:

https://0pointer.net/blog/announcing-systemd-v257.html

Enjoy! And stay tuned for #systemd258!

I'm also on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/jamesmorris.bsky.social

Seems to be growing for #amateurradio & related lately. Currently I'm randomly posting across X, here, and bsky.

What is the secret to getting tigervnc-server working under Fedora 40?

pathological enshittification achieved

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113539381334735295

1️⃣9️⃣ Here's the 19th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v257 release of systemd. #systemd257

A relatively basic feature of systemd's service management is the ability to automatically restart a service in case it terminates unexpectedly, configurable via the Restart= setting.

In v254 we added the RestartMode= setting that allows to fine tune the mechanism to use for restarting the service, i.e. it adds a logic to optionally avoid marking the service as failed between…

@spacetelescope definitely worth clicking through: the image holds a second discovery that’s easier to overlook. Examine the white elliptical galaxy at left. A faint red arc appears in the inset at 10 o’clock. This is a very distant galaxy whose light is bent by the gravity of the elliptical foreground galaxy – and its appearance is duplicated. The stretched red arc is warped where it reappears – as a dot – at 4 o’clock. These images of the lensed galaxy are so faint and so red that they went unrecognized in Hubble data, but are unmistakable in Webb’s near-infrared image.

RE: https://astrodon.social/@spacetelescope/113568009758709150

I've been seeing slow downloads from #Fedora mirrors yesterday & today, pretty sure my Internet connection is ok. Anyone else seeing this?