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philbaker1

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#GenX tech enthusiast and weather nerd. I have interests in amateur radio, home theater, MST3K and Formula 1.

Above all: Diversity, equity, inclusion and representation for everyone. ♥

I do not speak for my employer.

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philbaker1, to random
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philbaker1, to random
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At the risk of sounding preachy, the cloud is not backup. Now, to practice what I preach. 😬

Google Drive users angry over losing months of stored data
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-drive-users-angry-over-losing-months-of-stored-data/

philbaker1, to FreeBSD
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For history nerds like myself, here is a deep dive in the history of - a long list of mailing list excerpts, news articles and documentation from 1968 (pre-Unix at Berkeley) to 2003 (, , ):
https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/bsd.html

philbaker1, to random
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Ugh. Looks like 16 (East) has suffered a failure. Not sure how serious yet. This is the last image, timestamped 13 May 0016Z.
https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/status/messages/

GOES East status update from NCEP SDM: ...GOES EAST SAT IMAGERY STOPPED UPDATING... NESDIS reported the following via Email: "All products delivered to AWIPS, GRB, PDA -Issued: May 13, 2024 0100Z; Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 12, 2024 0019Z; Date/Time of Expected End: TBD..Details/Specifics of Change: GOES-16 All Products and derived products All Scenes delivered to AWIPS, GRB, PDA. Suspected Source of Anomaly is the Satellite/Instrument".

philbaker1,
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First thing that went through my mind... was this outage related to the solar storm? I don't feel qualified to even speculate. But the solar flux this evening isn't as high as the past two days.
https://www.spaceweather.gov/

philbaker1, to fedora
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39 looks awesome. Same with Ubuntu 23.10.

Tough problem to have, but GNOME's ever-increasing polish and refinement makes Firefox's GTK3 presentation look increasingly out of place.

It'd be great to have this core app updated to the standards set by the rest of the Linux desktop.

Looks like I'm not the only one with this observation: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/a-gtk4-firefox-with-libwaita-is-the-next-step-into-the-right/idi-p/12396

To whom should we donate to fund work on a GTK4 port?

Firefox "Save as" dialog (GTK3)

philbaker1, to random
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I'm this old.

Netscape browser logo that became animated when a page was downloading.

philbaker1, to random
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The FCC wants our feedback about ISP data caps.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/fcc-chair-to-investigate-exactly-how-much-everyone-hates-data-caps/

philbaker1, to Texas
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"Texas is uniquely vulnerable to power failures because it cannot draw electricity from neighbors in a crisis. It is the only state in the contiguous United States disconnected from the national grid, a deliberate move to avoid federal regulation."

https://wapo.st/3NshRxe

philbaker1, to tv
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There's a lot of misinformation out there about ATSC 3.0 / .
tl;dr: ATSC 3.0 is a DRM-encumbered anti-consumer hot mess and ATSC 1.0 will be broadcast for at least 10 more years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kjj5xVZ5nY

philbaker1, to linux
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The one question I have regarding the changes to RHEL source code accessibility: What happens to Oracle Linux? Oracle Linux's position doesn't seem any different than RockyLinux or Alama Linux. Oracle offers their own kernel, but other than that, isn't Oracle Linux a RHEL clone like Alama and Rocky?

"In the immediate term, our plan is to pull from CentOS Stream updates and Oracle Linux updates to ensure security patches continue to be released."
https://almalinux.org/blog/impact-of-rhel-changes/

philbaker1, to GNOME
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Looking forward to incrementally improved font presentation in on . I have a personal guideline against buying a laptop or desktop monitor that requires fractional scaling to look correct. Fonts on GNOME already look good with integer scaling, in my experience.

And of course, this quote is worth repeating: "Text rendering differences are always subtle and, to some degree, a matter a taste and preference"
https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/

philbaker1, to random
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I forgot to post this earlier. Monday's from the perspective of EGOES East.
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector.php?sat=G16&sector=smv

GOES East Band 3 imagery of the the 8 April 2024 eclipse, showing a path from northern Mexico through maritime Canada

philbaker1, to linux
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Many thanks to @jonathanspw of the team for landing wget2 into - it's now available for all EL9 users.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-5db6677580

https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2#gnu-wget2-introduction

philbaker1, to linux
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I've been experimenting with a mainline stable kernel on an VM
https://wiki.crowncloud.net/?Installing_the_Linux_Kernel_6x_on_AlmaLinux_9

philbaker1, to random
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"Dean is the second Boeing-related whistleblower to die in the past three months."
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/1248693512/boeing-whistleblower-josh-dean-dead

philbaker1, to memphis
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Well lookee there. I stepped outside and there it was. In the middle of .

philbaker1, to android
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As a longtime (now ) user, I couldn't care less what color the bubbles are in iMessage.

I do care that my texts to Android users are unencrypted. SMS is the telnet of messaging. It needed to die 10 years ago.

Apple is (purportedly) finally getting around to supporting . But I think the should nonetheless set a sunset date for .

'Green bubble shaming' at play in DOJ suit against Apple | NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241443505/green-bubble-shaming-android-apple-iphone?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

philbaker1, to chicago
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Population density / storm report density.

philbaker1, to GraphicsProgramming
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Idle AC power draw comparison of discrete GPU (Intel ARC 380) vs integrated on . Intel Core i3-12100 (4C/8T) with 64GB of DDR-3200 and two NVMe SSDs.

Integrated GPU: 27 watts
Discrete GPU: 47 watts

Picture of PC interior, showing Intel ARC 380 GPU
Kill a watt meter showing idle AC power draw of 47 watts when using discrete GPU

passthejoe, to linux
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AlmaLinux 9.4 beta is out: 4 reasons to consider it for your desktop | ZDNET https://www.zdnet.com/article/almalinux-9-4-beta-is-out-4-reasons-to-consider-it-for-your-desktop/

philbaker1,
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@passthejoe The latest long term support kernel (6.6 as of this writing) is also available for EL 9 distros, if one so desires.
https://elrepo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=kernel-lt

philbaker1,
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@passthejoe I agree completely. Although I don't use it much for desktop work, I have a low-end NUC that runs AlmaLinux very well in desktop mode. Wayland support out of the box and Flatpak there to provide the latest apps.

If one has bleeding edge homelab hardware, the latest mainline kernel from ELRepo runs great on Alma. Last I heard, kernel 6.9 (due out in May) will contain a complete rework of the CPU topology logic for heterogeneous CPUs (Intel 12th-gen and newer)
https://elrepo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=kernel-ml

passthejoe, to guix
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I'm as intrigued by as I was by , but ultimately I'm not sure the complexity is worth it for me.

Even has a ratio of complexity vs. benefits that fits well with my work (and play) flow.

, and all hide enough of the nitty gritty behind the scenes — updates happen without me needing to know it.

And traditional is so familiar and reliable, it's hard not to tap it for just about any use case.

philbaker1,
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@passthejoe I’m also intrigued by NisOS. But the barrier to entry is too high for me. I’m already overcommitted.

AlmaLinux just works for me. And it keeps my RHEL familiarity level up for my day job.

Still on my todo list: migrate my home NAS/Plex server from Ubuntu 22.04 to FreeBSD.

philbaker1, to random
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GOES East Fire Temperature RGB imagery showing fires over the high plains this afternoon.

GOES East Fire Temperature RGB product

philbaker1,
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Lincoln, NE was 81 F at 3 PM. Relative humidity 9%. Winds gusting to 38 mph. This is west Texas weather in eastern Nebraska. 80+ degree weather was unheard of in my childhood, growing up in Omaha and Lincoln.

The record high for today is 79, which breaks a 128 year old record by 2 degrees.

philbaker1, to infosec
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‼️Regarding the CVE-2024-3094 - backdoored xz, beginning with versions 5.6.0

Checking my boxes for xz versions:
AlmaLinux: 5.2.5
Fedora: 5.4.4
Debian: 5.4.1
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3094

philbaker1,
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"PLEASE IMMEDIATELY STOP USAGE OF ANY FEDORA RAWHIDE INSTANCES"

Fedora 39, the latest stable release, is unaffected.
All versions of RHEL are unaffected.
CentOS Stream 9 unaffected.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users

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