Notices by Drew DeVault (sir@cmpwn.com), page 5

Docker in a nutshell: someone made ~$90,000 by putting a miner into an illicit docker image which was downloaded 5 million times

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/backdoored-images-downloaded-5-million-times-finally-removed-from-docker-hub/

solarized is a disgusting color scheme and people who use it should be ashamed of themselves

Should you move from GitHub to sr.ht
https://drewdevault.com/2018/06/05/Should-you-move-to-sr.ht.html

@Wolf480pl @kurisu @thanatos GCC and clang are memes, but C itself isn't

General reminder that lots of small Mastodon instances is better than a few big Mastodon instances

Linux on Switch status: got Arch Linux booting, but no network (even after reboot). Will debug it later. Point is: it works!

@quad learning to be a dev makes you a better sysadmin just like learning to be a sysadmin made me a better dev

Thank you @Gargron, for making a community the internet can be proud of, rather than ashamed of.

I hit my $500/mo recurring donation goal! Now my costs are covered and I'm making a little money with open source 😁 thanks to everyone who supports my work ❤️

Tooting again for the general public:

The team behind wlroots is fundraising for a hackathon to get everyone together to work on it, and we'd appreciate your support! wlroots is a library used by many Wayland compositors, most notably Sway, Way Cooler, and Waymonad, which help i3, AwesomeWM, and Xmonad users transition to Wayland for better performance+battery life+security+features.

Please consider supporting us!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sway-hackathon-software/x/1059863

FOSDEM summary

NVIDIA: Nouveau developers discussing their limitations and struggles dealing with delayed drops of signed firmwares and features they are unable to support without Nvidia's help

AMD: actual AMD staff presenting their latest open source Vulkan driver, their committment to maintaining their drivers in the upstream kernel with day-one support for new products, and inviting the community to contribute

Man I hate computers

@nolan I can totally relate. My solution is to hardly provide support at all to users - but I provide plenty of support to contributors. Everyone who contributes to my projects has their own agenda and their own list of things that are important to them (including me) and if there aren't any devs whose interests align with a user enough to fix their bug or implement their feature then that user is encouraged to write a patch themselves.

@HerraBRE you're right, BUT big caviat here: that this is necessary is software's fault. Remember, programmers add abstractions as fast as (often faster than) Moore's law. Our computers are ridiculously powerful and still would be even without OOO or speculative execution, we've just grown accustomed to hugely overpowered machines and designed our software with that in mind.

https://cmpwn.com/media/oUdR0B4yNbHYF08Eve4

Blog post: Firefox is on a slippery slope

https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html

ThinkPad X200

Compact and lightweight
Up to 8GB of RAM (user-upgradable)
Good battery life
All hardware works perfectly with upstream kernel
Best keyboard ever made (bonus: user replacable)
Clit mouse (X220 if you like touchpads)
12" 1280x800 display
WiFi, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth
Webcam
Fingerprint reader
Labelled screws tell you what to open to get to which components
coreboot supported
Most HW works with niche operating systems (tested: NetBSD, Minix, Haiku, 9front)
$40-$150 on eBay

I have started shipping out Sway stickers to Patreon backers at $5/month or more! https://patreon.com/sircmpwn https://cmpwn.com/media/fTVcBix8iYcCAmJB5n4

https://xkcd.com/1909/ this is relevant to my interests

I will snake_case my first born's fucking name on their birth certificate