josephholsten

josephholsten, 1 month ago to pfSense

@garyhtech have you started a video about switching to Linux for #pfSense yet? https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-software-embraces-change-a-strategic-migration-to-the-linux-kernel

(Happy April 1)

josephholsten, 1 month ago to random

What are people planning to use the new #NetBSD 10 for? I have uses I like for FreeBSD, OpenIndiana, Solaris, plus a few Linux things for hardware support and a few unportable programs.

Surely there’s something I can do besides install it on Dreamcast.

josephholsten, 2 months ago to random

“I must begin by admitting, as is scarcely necessary, that I am at least several months away from being able to feed a new piece of French text into a computer and have an English translation come out at the other end.”

Brown, A. F. R. Language Translation. Journal of the ACM, Volume 5, Issue 1. 1968. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/320911.320912

josephholsten, 2 months ago to random

Washington grocery stores: there are other peppers available for your salsa besides jalapeño, habanero & ghost pepper. Or to put it a different way, flavors other than somewhat hot tomato, hot tomato, and stupid hot tomato.

I believe in you.

josephholsten, 2 months ago to Dragonlance

What’s the bookshelf speaker equivalent of Sony MDR-7506s or Shure SE215s? JBL 4312s with roots back to 1968? Sony SS-SC5 from 2014? Jones’ 2016 Elac Debut or earlier 2012 Pioneer BS22? Klipsch R series?

Should be:

• cheap as possible while not crap
• old enough that most folks know of it
• given above, it should be a common reference point when comparing other models

#audio #hifi #audiophile #askfedi

josephholsten, 2 months ago to FreeBSD

I am slowly beginning to understand why @mwl has explicitly committed to never writing LDAP Mastery. My personal doc for just being able to rebuild test infrastructure and to install, configure & validate realmd on #FreeBSD against different domain controllers is getting to thousands of words.
Admittedly, this is also documenting connectivity in RHEL clones (as a known “good” client) and the start of doc for integrating with samba & nfs file servers.

josephholsten, 3 months ago to random

@jacqueline random thought: have you dug into audiobook formats at all? I can imagine wanting a completely different UI (left as an exercise for early users) but is M4B something that works out if the box?

I also don’t know if chapter markers are an overdrive extension or in the standard because searching the internet about media file formats just lands me in content farms. (I suspect the aax to m4b convert tool I use can be improved, but I’d need to know the actual format…)

josephholsten, 4 months ago to random

Checking in on Stewart Brand’s “Maintenence: of Everything” and it’s yet more amazing. https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/

The M16 v AK-47 digression has so much knowledge that seems forgotten between the end of Vietnam and the rise of the mass-shooting epidemic.

josephholsten, 4 months ago to random Spanish

Listening to a Lawfare interview about CISA, Secure-by-Design, memory safety and software liability. They keep talking about all these “known problems”, but I wonder what their plan is for Unix & libc. Or if it’s just to hope @thephd magically fixes everything them (which still doesn’t fix Unix). I don’t think the rust-in-kernel folks even dream this big.

https://youtu.be/sO9dbxuAVPY

josephholsten, 5 months ago to webassembly

I’ve got to read more about plugins via #wasm, as seen in zellij, istio, lapce. It might be interesting to have a config manager’s plugins exposed via wasm; Would add a level of sandboxing not available in puppet or chef.

The trouble is: could I model the resources well enough to make them composable in different languages? Lua embeded extensions are one thing but I’m worried this is too galaxy brained.

I guess if it’s not meta enough, I can implement the default extensions in a lisp.

josephholsten, 6 months ago to random

I swear, everyone who intends to be a long term contributor to a unix flavor should take the time to attempt a linux-from-scratch to a usable workstation. You just cannot appreciate how magical eg poudriere or any other automated package build system is until you’ve burned weeks(?) of your determining dependencies and ./configure&&make-ing the infinite package builds and twiddling with failures.

josephholsten, 6 months ago to random

Love is sharing beautiful experiences with people who appreciate them. Sometimes that’s nothing more than a little comfort amidst pain.

Which is to say, all I’m trying to do here is love you.

josephholsten, 6 months ago to random

Ah, the sweet sound of a half dozen people coughing continuously.

Good morning, plague.

josephholsten, 7 months ago to FreeBSD

Don’t mind me, I’m just wondering how get my a USB-C hub to work with #freebsd & #illumos and trying to understand how the driver-chipset-device relationship works with USB & Thunderbolt controllers.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L05_xHCI.pdf

josephholsten, 7 months ago to FreeBSD

Of course, while I’m waiting for necessary hardware to arrive, I find another tangent I don’t have time to go down. But it sure would be lovely to get #FreeBSD & #illumos sharing some https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxKPI code to reduce the strain of getting ports available. Do I have any idea what that would require touching? Of course not! But getting iwlwifi and drm ported and maintained sounds nearly as hard as a linuxkpi red queens race.

josephholsten, 7 months ago to random

/*

• mkzombie - make zombie processes. Unix/Linux.
• This program creates one or more zombies and a daemon their leader.
• It can be used to replenish system zombies, or to feed the init monster.
• 23-Jun-2005, ver 0.80
• USAGE: mkzombie [-f] [number]
• The -f option feeds the zombies to init. On systems where init does not
• eat zombies, the -f option will create persistant zombies.
  […]

https://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/mkzombie.c

josephholsten, 9 months ago to random

It’s always DNS

josephholsten, 9 months ago to RaspberryPi

Got my #illumos braich image running on the #RaspberryPi, uart pins connected through the official debug probe, and am playing around with screen to talk to the serial console before I dig into minicom. I hadn’t realized how deep this rabbit hole goes. But I really want to understand how to get a minimal term wired to VGA.

But now that I have a working testbed, I have to be able to compile my own image. Guess I’m going to have to track down my missing header warnings.

#IllumosOnArm

josephholsten, 9 months ago to VintageOSes

“We know that the audience for articles on linking is not large, probably on the order of a few 10's, or low hundreds of individuals, world wide.”

#Solaris Linker Aliens blog archive: http://www.linker-aliens.org

via: @alanc
#illumos #unix

josephholsten, 9 months ago to random

@XOrgFoundation has anyone summoned the lawyers about the trademark infringement happening at the tirefire formerly known as Twitter?

josephholsten, 10 months ago to RaspberryPi

Sure, it’s needlessly antiquated. But it would be hilarious to have my #RaspberryPi serial console be over a traditional d-sub DE-9 with https://www.sparkfun.com/products/449

#IllumosOnArm

josephholsten, 10 months ago to RaspberryPi

Similarly, wow did everyone stop making TTL to USB chipsets? Is FTDI just the only one getting their chips into premade boards & cables? Looks like all the CP2102 & PL2303 based devices have been replaced with an FT232 or similar.

#RaspberryPi #IllumosOnArm

josephholsten, 10 months ago to random

The dev machine is operational! #OmniOS on OCI AMD processor, delightfully boring. I still want to come back to spinning up an #OpenIndiana instance as a real workstation, but this works enough to get a build running.
Once I have it kicked off, I’ll start adding basic repeatability scripting, asset uploading, etc. eg continuous integration like it’s 1999.
Also, I’m going to start using #IllumosOnArm just so I can find my messages later.
#illumos #arm

josephholsten, 10 months ago to RaspberryPi

Just realizing that the #raspberrypi desktop I set up for my monsters today is the one they’ll be nostalgic for, like I am for the first university lab computers I got to play with running #KDE on #linux.

I still preferred my terminal-only #slackware at home, but that little gear icon always represented the sort of machine real programmers used.

josephholsten, 10 months ago to linux

People frequently say they don’t want #ZFS on their workstation because it’s a server FS. But what’s the best workstation FS? #UFS, #Ext4, #HAMMER, #Btrfs, #XFS? What’s the going benchmark workload look like? What subjective aspects matter too? (And yes, I know about damned lies of https://fsbench.filesystems.org/)

#linux #bsd #illumos #unix