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good news: diversions aren't required to inject a custom key loader into initramfs-tools
bad news: im doing "sed -i $DESTDIR/scripts/zfs" and other assorted crimes in a hook instead

 Sun Nov 01 00:40:25 +0000 2020

the order form, actively loading off the website, says "DPD - EU Classic", but also lists "DHL Express tracking number:", and pasting it into DHL website lists my parcel; i didn't buy "DHL Express" for twenty quid, but "DPD - EU Classic" for a tenner; what does all of this mean

 Sun Nov 01 03:03:40 +0000 2020

moderately concerned that DHL disintegrates parcels often enough to warrant having a piece counter at each stage, and that mine has been outside our realm for 4 hours and 19 minutes

 Sun Nov 01 15:13:26 +0000 2020

caution
furry floor

 Mon Nov 02 13:11:44 +0000 2020

how is this dog

 Mon Nov 02 13:26:14 +0000 2020

dinner boy

 Mon Nov 02 13:32:50 +0000 2020

very cool how you can say plymouth show-splash and hide-splash, but you can't just ask plymouth what the splash's status actually is

 Mon Nov 02 16:24:50 +0000 2020

"causes severe burns, without an initial feeling of pain" ah yes, the good cement

 Mon Nov 02 18:19:04 +0000 2020

i appear to still have an upper respiratory tract and eyes, that's a war criminal in the books

 Tue Nov 03 09:43:10 +0000 2020

thinking about multics; might fuck around and revolutionise personal computing in a bit,, idk

 Tue Nov 03 10:49:42 +0000 2020

girls literally only want two things and they're fucking disgusting (kiss girls & smol compute)

 Tue Nov 03 12:45:57 +0000 2020

this e-mail has found you

 Wed Nov 04 18:53:39 +0000 2020

very confused so as to there being (a) an AAAA battery in general, (b) included, and (c) alkaline non-rechargeable, as well as an additional 30W US/GB/EU charger?

 Wed Nov 04 19:03:29 +0000 2020

a cynic though I may be, a lot of work was clearly put into making this an experience that /feels/ premium

 Wed Nov 04 19:14:47 +0000 2020

215g bottom half
425g whole box
681g computer

someone who's good at postage please help me budget this, my profit margins are dying

 Wed Nov 04 19:18:59 +0000 2020

the instruxion envelope is very clear, in that i will now be moving to fareasteurasia and wearing suits

at least the How To Use Computer booklet has some english in it, even if light grey on white

 Wed Nov 04 19:32:45 +0000 2020

[nasally, shifting vowels back and up] that's what they called me in college

 Wed Nov 04 19:35:00 +0000 2020

yeah, there *is* an equivalent charger in the box with an EU-compatible plug (and a Premium USB-C Braided Cable™), no idea how or why i got the white one

 Wed Nov 04 19:44:25 +0000 2020

comparative benchmark against a knife (1) and a Toshiba X40 (2,3)

 Wed Nov 04 19:48:41 +0000 2020

god, the hinges are so fucking cool

 Wed Nov 04 19:53:38 +0000 2020

the silkscreen(?) and booklet call this "TF", but the pictogram's microSD, and, indeed, a microSD card fits there, next to a USB C 3.1 Gen 2, USB A 3.1 Gen 1, micro HDMI, 3.5mm audio, outside of an i5-10210Y (1-4GHz, 4x2 CPUs), 16GB of two-channel LPDDR3, and a 512GB PCIe SSD

 Wed Nov 04 20:16:32 +0000 2020

it's very important to highlight /just how miniscule/ this computer is – barely bigger than my hand, and I have tiny hands

 Wed Nov 04 20:27:06 +0000 2020

on today's installment of "is this a bizarre ZFS bug, or am I just stupid": the documentation has hit a new record for being weird and misleading, but otherwise works as intended

 Thu Nov 05 13:20:27 +0000 2020

arguably, this means that a ZFS manpage has a bizarre bug, so all is right in the universe

 Thu Nov 05 13:20:54 +0000 2020

would be a wasted month without a ZFS PR (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/11158), but this also means that doing a single-disk zfs-on-root installation is viable, and, indeed, quite simple

 Thu Nov 05 15:01:43 +0000 2020

blogue poast!

a corollary to the zoot one but it's just one disk https://nabijaczleweli.xyz/content/blogn_t/005a-zfs-on-root-single-disk-corollary.html

 Thu Nov 05 22:12:10 +0000 2020

good question

 Thu Nov 05 22:15:54 +0000 2020

uhhh why is this in this register. maybe im old and jaded but i don't want a "super memorable password", or for "Cortana" to "talk" to me in a similar one

i guess the question i want to know the answer to is why Windows wants to be chummy with me; like, what is the purpose of

 Thu Nov 05 22:21:04 +0000 2020

top-notch design, with 94% of the screen taken by a useless pictogram and the input field almost entirely off-screen and no scrollbar

"make sure your answers are unforgettable" why is every piece of text in this setup written in this register; is Interface Dry unmarketable now?

 Thu Nov 05 22:25:11 +0000 2020

this is.. definitely a partitioning scheme?

 Thu Nov 05 22:29:19 +0000 2020

i know the reviewer did say that the screen is like this by default, but, well, AMIBIOS in portrait is definitely something lmao

 Thu Nov 05 22:38:29 +0000 2020

Package: Not Implemented Yet; need any more be said?

 Thu Nov 05 22:41:50 +0000 2020

secureboot disabled by default on a laptop in 2020, also no keys? is this provisioned properly at all?

 Thu Nov 05 22:43:51 +0000 2020

the firmware has an EFI shell boot option, so that's nice, it also understands NTFS somehow?

 Thu Nov 05 22:48:13 +0000 2020

so i booted into the efi application on the recovery partition and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh waht the fuckl what the acutal physical fuck is this

 Thu Nov 05 22:50:10 +0000 2020

literally no part of this is like it should be but why is the circle scaled like this; i've used my incredible image editing skills to scale that photo by 2x horizontally and it's suddenly circular, and the text readable. what the absolute hell is happening here

 Thu Nov 05 22:55:43 +0000 2020

i've killed this by power-buttoning for 4 seconds and now windows boots into it and pressing Continue Windows reboots

thank you OEM

 Thu Nov 05 23:16:41 +0000 2020

i also cannot disable quickboot or enable network stack so i can't netboot for some bizarre reason?? this is a quality firmware

 Thu Nov 05 23:17:17 +0000 2020

well, this is only slightly suboptimal

 Thu Nov 05 23:44:43 +0000 2020

?

 Fri Nov 06 00:47:51 +0000 2020

i have managed to unrotate it and im in love

 Fri Nov 06 02:07:42 +0000 2020

hehe fbcon go spinmy

 Fri Nov 06 02:12:32 +0000 2020

so i set secureboot to default which gave me some keys, but wHY on earth is the PK "DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK"

 Fri Nov 06 10:22:27 +0000 2020

the manufacturer website is just.. i odn't// what?

 Fri Nov 06 10:35:46 +0000 2020

oh my fucking god there's a dropbox link to a deleted file

 Fri Nov 06 10:42:23 +0000 2020

six (six) gigabyte multipart zip at 3 MB/s, why am i being punished like this

 Fri Nov 06 10:51:10 +0000 2020

AFAICT it's the Recovery Images partition and uhhhhhhh there's a Windows key embedded in it?

 Fri Nov 06 11:00:49 +0000 2020

holy shit thats so cool

 Fri Nov 06 11:55:05 +0000 2020

becoming a certificate authority, as a bit

 Fri Nov 06 11:56:14 +0000 2020

the menu system is, well, kinda bad, but it... works, and I can select files from either a USB drive or my ESP, and they get imported, and I get a reasonable readout of what happened? not what I expected from the three separate places where dmesg says Firmware Bug tbh

 Fri Nov 06 18:44:45 +0000 2020

also kinda surprised by just how easy it was to provision(?) the SB keys with my own, generating separate self-signed PK/KEK/DB certs and importing the Debian CA cert into DA means booting directly into a Debian kernel and signing ZFS modules with DKMS sign_hook Just.. Works?

 Fri Nov 06 18:49:14 +0000 2020

and I am incredulous at all this because having read a fair share of posts and attempted this under QEMU before, it seemed to be portrayed as (and was a bit of an) ordeal, but it kinda just worked this time? mayhap because I had an explicit goal or am sufficiently jaded at last

 Fri Nov 06 18:57:11 +0000 2020

it's bandcamp friday, and i'm therefore compelled to post that i have albums; three of them, in fact, and they're waiting behind this very link: https://nabijaczleweli.bandcamp.com/album/cinque! a combined two hours of electronic/drone(?) music at your paw pads' reach!

 Fri Nov 06 19:24:50 +0000 2020

started X and i3 doesn't respond to any input, nor can I switch VTs

cool

 Sat Nov 07 15:15:20 +0000 2020

also the fingerprint sensor doesn't show up on any bus at all that I can see? despite it being there and detected by Windows, which tried to get me to use it during setup. why is it like this

 Sat Nov 07 16:59:12 +0000 2020

this was a lie, lshw(1) can't see it, but I can: it's on an SPI bus with an ACPI entry pointing to it. AFAICT from reading fprintd bugtracker either fprintd or kernel doesn't support this; how fun

 Sat Nov 07 17:24:23 +0000 2020

oddly, though, sway just.. worked? now that's odd

 Sat Nov 07 21:15:38 +0000 2020

oh my fucking god im so immensely stupid, i didn't install xserver-xorg-input-libinput

 Sat Nov 07 21:48:07 +0000 2020

i already made a dubya gag but, well, that's a dub as well

 Sat Nov 07 22:02:35 +0000 2020

Desktop Computer, chassis=desktop, family=Default string

 Sun Nov 08 00:32:02 +0000 2020

spawned, got three kills around my bunkers, was immediately told I'm camping, not fourty seconds into the game, god i love CoD:UO

 Sun Nov 08 14:56:54 +0000 2020

it all comes full circle, doesn't it

 Mon Nov 09 12:19:52 +0000 2020

in which under WSL "cargo update" correctly resolves github dot com, but "cargo install-update" does not, across multiple restarts, until reported, when it suddenly starts working; why? it's a mystery https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/cargo-update/issues/148

 Mon Nov 09 17:25:05 +0000 2020

hm so i just realised that this keyboard doesn't have a right alt.
now, usually this is a good thing, the fewer nazis the better, after all, but I'm polish, so

 Mon Nov 09 23:59:45 +0000 2020

friends with stock options

 Tue Nov 10 01:45:03 +0000 2020

it is remarkable to see power from battery go from 2.5W to 34W just like that

 Tue Nov 10 11:21:42 +0000 2020

oops

 Tue Nov 10 13:52:52 +0000 2020

remapped the weird right shift to altgraph, and, idk, i expected to cry at least once, given the xmodmap name, potential power, and heritage, but it the manpage was clear and it was all but trivial? odd times we live in

 Tue Nov 10 20:30:35 +0000 2020

with Apple releasing a new innovative product line-up, I thought I'd pick up some light reading to get me up to speed :)

 Sat Nov 14 14:29:30 +0000 2020

see the figure where he's making out with the computer? the man was ahead of his time, for sure

 Sat Nov 14 14:31:29 +0000 2020

Andrzej Dyrek's "Od PC do Workstation, czyli jak zostać użytkownikiem systemu Unix" ("From PC to Workstation, or how become a user of the Unix system"), illustrated by Alina Mokrzycka, 1992, ISBN 83-900371-3-0

it's cute, it's fun, it includes peculiarities of SunOS from the time

 Sat Nov 14 14:55:49 +0000 2020

oh, the cool and fun thing about this sort of book is that when you google the author name, the first result is a news article detailing why the author's a dirtbag, without a damn miss.

 Sat Nov 14 14:59:02 +0000 2020

🤔

 Sat Nov 14 16:03:15 +0000 2020

so uh. if /usr/share/icons/Hackneyed/{index,cursor}.theme say "[Icon Theme] Name=Hackneyed", both lightdm and i3 pick the right cursors; but if they say "[Icon Theme] Name=Hackneyed (scalable)", i3 faults back to Xorg builtin. Why.

 Sun Nov 15 17:53:58 +0000 2020

life fucking sucks. why cant i be a unix squid??

(translations in alt text)

 Sun Nov 15 20:32:01 +0000 2020

haven't seen a process exhaust 126G total-vm/92G anon-rss and repeatedly OOM-suicide as quickly and gracefully as miri has the past few days, i'll give it that

 Mon Nov 16 00:23:10 +0000 2020

though apart from the tests that i physically don't have enough RAM for (and the one that grows eternally and is apparently a miri bug), I've now run all of image-rs test-suite through miri and found no UB besides what was originally reported, so that's good

 Mon Nov 16 00:32:28 +0000 2020

given how obviously-popular boob armour must have been back when white arm armour made sense (media would never lie to me), I am massively disappointed that the direxion for fire arms was formless vests instead of fitted bullet-proof bodices

 Mon Nov 16 04:21:42 +0000 2020

theoretically, english royalty skirts were vaguely the right sort of composition, what with the multiple layers of interleft woven fabrics; just not necessarily the right kind

 Mon Nov 16 04:28:14 +0000 2020

mayhap I'm just tickled by the idea that modern combat uniforms would have somehow evolved into what is ostensibly slavic peasant dress, but with all the benefits of kevlar and/or modern armour ceramics

 Mon Nov 16 04:31:26 +0000 2020

kexec-tools now supports x32! https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/commit/?id=6b5667debcb8ea6d3da88692a6c51049a2c6013d

 Mon Nov 16 11:27:47 +0000 2020

input truncation tests, in a certified miri moment, took 12? 13? hours to compile, then OOMed immediately lol
full report @ https://github.com/image-rs/image/issues/1357#issuecomment-728017358

 Mon Nov 16 13:40:13 +0000 2020

have i been lied to and is this just Knuth x UNIX squid fanfixion?

 Mon Nov 16 17:56:14 +0000 2020

qt is libc++ for gamers

 Tue Nov 17 12:38:48 +0000 2020

the UNIX squid is actually just a greek god and the ghosts are their kids, obviously

 Tue Nov 17 16:03:10 +0000 2020

this is the ideal diff form. you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

 Tue Nov 17 21:44:46 +0000 2020

The Way it's Meant to be Played

 Wed Nov 18 01:16:47 +0000 2020

hm yes, eight llvmpipe threads at 50% CPU each is definitely the Right Way to drop frames in an OpenGL game from 2007. but it does work, which is kinda amazing; wonder if i can get xvfb to render this on the GPU somehow?

 Wed Nov 18 17:14:39 +0000 2020

the scaling *is* a bit fucked, but VirtualGL does manage to offload the render to the GPU!

 Wed Nov 18 18:04:01 +0000 2020

AFAIUI, the display stack is
game -> Xvfb -> Xpra -> [the void] -> Xpra -> Xorg -> my very eyes,
and the render stack is
game -> VirtualGL intercept -> Xorg -> i915
because VGL just fuckin.. connects to my display to render.

absolutely batshit. incredible

 Wed Nov 18 18:52:18 +0000 2020

the squid has grown at least one additional appendage, in addition to directly translating "directory" as it would relate to paper files in folders in binders in boxes on shelves on racks like the police would have on folk instead of the contemporarily common "folder"

 Wed Nov 18 20:42:24 +0000 2020

what an absolute mess. [insert FHS joke here]

 Thu Nov 19 20:02:02 +0000 2020

wait so does docker really actually not understand or support multiple image architectures?? what on earth?

 Thu Nov 19 22:50:58 +0000 2020

i haven't managed to phrase this in a way that doesn't make me sound like a knobhead but i kinda expected builds i made in an i386 chroot, with an i386 client, admittedly connected to an amd64 daemon (but why would that change the image profile?????), to be i386?

 Thu Nov 19 23:11:13 +0000 2020

"Your Raspberry Pi is VTOL-capable; make sure to clear the air-space above it in case of an emergency."

 Thu Nov 19 23:30:42 +0000 2020

im too smallbrain for proc macros, but uhhh https://twitter.com/nabijaczleweli/status/1176672547175325697

 Fri Nov 20 10:03:00 +0000 2020

I, too, have large volumes of transparencies that just say UNIX on them

 Fri Nov 20 16:02:59 +0000 2020

😩

 Sat Nov 21 11:53:06 +0000 2020

ladies,

 Sat Nov 21 16:01:27 +0000 2020

if it doesn't need manual intervention, hooking into /etc/kernel/postinst.d and friends would likely work, like with dkms?

 Sat Nov 21 16:16:23 +0000 2020

I mean, uh, if the build process itself doesn't need to be running the kernel it's being built for, which it doesn't appear like it does, and if I'm reading packages.d.o right, nvidia-kernel-dkms might/should do the trick?

 Sun Nov 22 01:31:46 +0000 2020

i want a cpu with a short clock and a long long instruxion word~

 Sun Nov 22 12:41:55 +0000 2020

canine friends to war criminals slow burn

 Mon Nov 23 00:28:03 +0000 2020

PCIe hotplug's worked in every desktop board I've tried it in, usually out-of-box, sometimes with a BIOS setting

 Mon Nov 23 16:02:41 +0000 2020

so far the squid has had 8, 9, and 6 tentacles at least; this cannot be explained by modern science

 Mon Nov 23 16:38:42 +0000 2020

having a grand old time upgrading to/installing Windows 10 on this computer; herein: "Some event occurred and your PIN code is unavailable."

/Some event occurred/

 Mon Nov 23 18:07:24 +0000 2020

a hilarious fun fact about intel integrated GPUs is that Arch Wiki, the source of all knowledge, says that all CPUs since Ivy Bridge support Vulkan, which is actually entirely true, except on Windows, where the "Intel Graphics 4600", as found in a Haswell, explicitly does not

 Tue Nov 24 00:05:10 +0000 2020

alarmingly, the squid seems to have grown paws at the end of each tentacle and also be ruffling Knuth's hair?

 Tue Nov 24 15:32:21 +0000 2020

this programmer has increased the anonymous page limit for free with this one weird trick (bind-mounting /dev/null on /proc/swaps); google hates them!

 Tue Nov 24 22:16:11 +0000 2020

(gags aside, that's what I use to trick Extremely Smart Google Engineers that know more about my system than I do and it works without much problem)

 Tue Nov 24 22:22:08 +0000 2020

when you make a cool, normal post about technology and related topics

 Tue Nov 24 22:47:24 +0000 2020

i can't help but notice that it just.. isn't?

 Wed Nov 25 16:22:21 +0000 2020

¹ "Free As In Freedom®" is a registered trademark of the Free Software Foundation

 Wed Nov 25 22:44:55 +0000 2020

"mutuals", but in a mutually-assured-destruxion kind of way

 Wed Nov 25 23:15:51 +0000 2020

oh wow; it's me, but stronger

 Thu Nov 26 13:18:34 +0000 2020

what's a girl gotta do to hook up with new technology called Memory Inception and support Multi-Petabyte Memory Clusters, designed to improve cloud capacity and economics for memory-intensive workloads??

 Thu Nov 26 13:35:29 +0000 2020

unrelated: does anyone know if i can be persecuted for corporate espionage on U.S. soil?

 Thu Nov 26 13:37:27 +0000 2020

to any occupying forces in Powidz: i do NOT intend to defraud POWER10 silicon from IBM or any of its partners. i repeat: it is NOT my intention to acquire and exploit upcoming IBM products before their launch. thank you.

 Thu Nov 26 13:43:33 +0000 2020

it's a scary thought to consider that squids do, in fact, operate an as-yet pre-industrial society on the ocean floor

 Thu Nov 26 16:13:23 +0000 2020

AFAICT
* there was Windows NT 4 on ppc at some point, and
* POWER9 boots in(?) or otherwise supports that mode, so
does that mean that you could hypothetically run Windows NT on a bare POWER9 workstation?

 Fri Nov 27 11:20:48 +0000 2020

i want to become a massive POWER shitlord so bad but it's just so exorbitantly expensive because it's Supercomputing and Supercomputing Paraphernalia so there's just no way in shit i could remotely afford it as an individual; 2021Q4 can't come soon enough

 Fri Nov 27 11:27:10 +0000 2020

is this supposed to be horny or do i just not understand this?

 Fri Nov 27 12:21:22 +0000 2020

ah, no, i found two separate Tomb Raider ads that are definitely supposed to be horny, but at least they have consistently no sound, unlike the South Park ads that have different music between the two of them?

 Fri Nov 27 12:24:16 +0000 2020

is this... bill clinton? riding bambi (at least according to the filename)? what the fuck?

 Fri Nov 27 12:29:35 +0000 2020

two tea-cups, one mouth?

 Fri Nov 27 16:08:21 +0000 2020

i've decided to exist today; this is a limited offer, only while supplies last

 Fri Nov 27 19:52:37 +0000 2020

i find it personally very homophobic that anri is always the gender you didn't pick on the character select screen, thinking about cancelling a multi-billion-dollar media conglomerate for this

 Sat Nov 28 00:55:41 +0000 2020

tfw you write a thoughtful message but she hit you with the BranchDisp7

 Sat Nov 28 04:07:27 +0000 2020

my gourd is so fucking pogged it won a state fair and i dont even know what one is

 Sat Nov 28 23:50:35 +0000 2020

when you kiss your bro and you feel like time has stopped.... thats homieostatis

 Sun Nov 29 22:46:10 +0000 2020

CP437 was the pinnacle of character-cell terminals tbh

 Sun Nov 29 23:30:10 +0000 2020

rice is a type of bread (soft, made from grass, warmed to degenerate into vorable form, losslessly dividable into subsets, i would like some) but it is also a type of corn (is grass, very many, used for racisms) however it is entirely unlike cornbread. odd and confusing

 Mon Nov 30 03:09:12 +0000 2020

a resounding indictment of the ways capitalism pits the working class against itself, in which Mokrzycka clearly gives no fuck about the crab or the tentacle placement. what a beautiful disaster

 Mon Nov 30 14:41:14 +0000 2020

today on nab's hot tips to keep your fingertips: that white powder that forms on surfaces treated with sodium silicate? that's sodium hydroxide :)

or something equivalently basic, going by how first soapy and now fucked my fingers are lol

 Mon Nov 30 15:37:13 +0000 2020

no part of sustaining a minor chemical burn is based, no

 Mon Nov 30 17:37:17 +0000 2020

 Mon Nov 30 17:54:26 +0000 2020