Notices by Samuel Hodgkins (samis) 🍄 (samis@mastodon.9net.org)

Elsewhere someone used JSLinux to run an old Windows application run in the browser. Result: https://i.imgur.com/SDxS3Zr.png

So, reading about how PAM may need root was a bit weird given how I had setup something that contradicted this, but it turns out there was a setgid binary (unix_chkpwd) lurking behind the curtain.

@kaniini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON_(video_game) it's a multiplayer game where the players end up engaged in a global thermonuclear war.

@kaniini wouldn't DEFCON be better for thermonuclear wargaming?

So yesterday I obtained additional non-SD storage for my #raspberrypi (specifically a pi3). The first store had 16GB stick for £9.99, so I looked for a better deal. Another store had 32GB for slightly less than that, but alas it was out-of-stock but not marked as such, so instead I took the alternative of 2x16GB sticks for a little over £10. As a result I'm now unsure if I should have a 32G stripe or a 16GB redundant mirror...

Well, looks like enabling query stats requires a DB restart, and given that the DB here is still on major version 10 perhaps I should take the opportunity and kill two birds with one stone.

@dazinism I recall it mostly being crashes of the 'out of memory' type.

I'm going to rejig my profile a little after all those previous updates...

Final update to 2.9.3 is completed. Now I'm going to take a closer look at the release notes instead of concentrating on the upgrade instructions.

Up to 2.7.0, and the tutorial that came with that release looked good, even if I had no use for it.

@vfrmedia @elomatreb @DC7IA @wxcafe and the privatised rail companies are in many cases at least partially state-owned, just by foreign states.

'-> Migrated 3693000 rows (~113.73%, -1:46 remaining, DO NOT interrupt)' I know it's an estimate, but it's always a little weird to see percentages over 100% in that context.

Right, 2.7.0 looks like a good choice for the second step of the upgrade process...

@nihl dunno, but maybe firefox preview's collections will be useful when I can start using that.

bad habit of the day: using incognito tabs in #android #firefox because I have lots of regular tabs. this bites me in the ass when the inevitable crash happens.

Right, I'm not insane enough to go straight to the most recent #mastodon release. The 2.5.0 release notes make that a good first step, after taking the advised database dump.

So when I read about bitcoin falling recently It reminded me I had $40 or so in leftover Bitcoin. I decided to send most of it to @SDF to get ARPA membership (even though I probably won't use most of the features it provides) because I felt like it. Remaining part (assuming no issues with the former) is going to the internet archive.

problem: it would seem the gateway host I used before to get to the shell of the container running mastodon is down. Or has a new IP.

Well, it's been almost a year but I think either now or shortly will be a good time to get back onto the whole #mastodon thing. I guess I have quite a few updates to do!

I looked at the dependencies for the thing that's mentioned in #firefox's need for #nodejs. It's not surprising that while the runtime dependencies are reasonable, the full set of 'dev' dependencies breaks the four-digit marker.