Luke T. Shumaker

Lots of things out there say that Styx was "a variant of the 9P protocol", but I haven't found anything that says what was actually different about it.

- The `typ` values that specify the message type are different (9P1 values start counting at 50, Styx starts counting at 0)
- Tcwalk/Rcwalk have been removed
- There is no authentication (so Tsession/Rsession have been removed, and Tattach/Rattach have been shortened)

There you go.

#Plan9 #9P #InfernoOS

The problem with having a wooden keyboard in a state with dry air.

#keyboardio #keyboardiomodel100 #mechanicalkeyboard #Colorado

OK, I've added 1e1 conversions to https://github.com/LukeShu/inferno-manpages/ . And so I've emailed the cat-v.org mailing list about those maybe being better than what's currently on man.cat-v.org

#catv #InfernoOS #retrocomputing #archival

Whyyyy did I spend time doing this

https://github.com/LukeShu/inferno-manpages

#InfernoOS #RetroComputing #Archival

In #lldb by default a backtrace shows not just the $pc and function name, but also which objfile that pc/func are in. Like "exename" or "libc.so" or whatever. Is there a way to get #gnu #gdb to do this? (Or am I going to have to submit a patch myself? :P )

Something I miss about the old #Identica is how weirdly well it ranked on Google. Like I could dent something like "The factory service manual doesn't mention it, but when removing the passenger-side CV axle on a 2000 #Infiniti #i30 you need to unbolt the support bearing (part 22 in the diagram) from the support bracket (part 23)" and somehow that dent would suddenly be in the top 5 results for "2000 infiniti i30 cv axle". On #Mastodon sharing such information feels like shouting into the void.

@matt The stipple was great when first configuring LCD displays. It would be instantly clear whether you got the resolution correct or not (Moiré & other artifacts or no). I never found another pattern that worked so well for that. When I did IT circa 2010 I had a little 4x4 .png of it I'd carry around on thumb drive to set the background to even on Windows computers to verify the resolution. #XWindowSystem #X11

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Between the power being out & my brain being broken, not much

Today:
- Updated https://www.lukeshu.com/imworkingon/ to get "last updated" for pipermail mailinglist archives
- Wrote some notes on email message threading https://www.lukeshu.com/blog/message-threading.html
- Wrote a bit at https://www.lukeshu.com/imworkingon/ about why this week's work on #GNU #binutils is important. #supply_chain_attack

If any of this seems useful or important to you, plz consider throwing a few dollars my way https://www.lukeshu.com/sponsor/

#DailyStandup

What I've been doing the last 3 days:
- Working on a `./bootstrap` for #GNU #binutils ...

What I'm doing today:
- ...finished and sent it! https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2024-June/134608.html
- Finally responding to feedback on other changes I've sent off.

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday, what I'm hopefully wrapping up today:

- Tracking down where all of the bundled files in #GNU #binutils came from, and writing tooling to keep track of them: https://fosstodon.org/@lukeshu/112567161882177886

@[email protected]
I've tracked down where *almost* all the bundled files in
#GNU #binutils came from; pinning down

1 rev of autoconf
1 rev of gettext
1 rev of libtool
1 rev of readline
2 revs of automake
2 revs of GNU config
2 revs of texinfo
2 revs of gnulib
2 revs of zlib
7 revs of GCC

Still TODO: (not hard, just not done yet)

config.rpath
config/ChangeLog
config/ax_lib_socket_nsl.m4
config/bootstrap-hwasan.mk
ltmain.sh
readline/readline/support/config.rpath
readline/readline/support/mkinstalldirs

ltmain.sh isn't a source file, it's the compiled output of a bunch of m4 code from libtool. The version of ltmain.sh in #GNU #binutils does not correspond to any version of the libtool sources (release tarballs or libtool.git). We don't have the Complete Corresponding Source to binutils' ltmain.sh! #GPLviolation :P

(It has a --no-finish flag that no libtool sources have ever had.)

Sending the worker SIGCHLD doesn't help. I'm not sure how libruby sets up the signal handlers.

I'm now trying dropping `processes=4` from the #uWSGI config and only using rbthreads. If that doesn't solve the issue, then I'll try dropping `master=true`.

Progress made on figuring out the #Parabola #Redmine lockups. Sometimes when doing `sub process expansion`, rb_f_backquote gets stuck in waitpid_wait, even though the process has exited and is now a zombie. So then that worker process stops being able to do work. Eventually all #uWSGI's workers have this happen, and all requests become 504s. Eventually the buffer of connections fills up, and these turn into 502s. Not sure if this is the same as https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi/issues/2521 . This is with #Ruby 2.7.8

Almost 10 years of use later, still a fan of #uWSGI. Still not a fan of the uWSGI docs.

Is the #ArchLinux #redmine package just broken? Or am I being extra dumb? bundler/setup complains about pg version mismatch between Gemfile and Gemfile.local, and if comment out the line in Gemfile, then I get an error about it being unable to load json?

#DailyStandup (1/2)

Since Friday:

> If I bum @amerl's #FrameworkLaptop then #HiDPI tools are going to improve this weekend.

- Concrete ideas for HiDPI troubleshooting tools
- Tracked down the bug in #Tk that causes some apps (like `git gui`) to not have HiDPI text (while others like `gitk` are unaffected). It's already fixed in 9.y beta, so I need to convince them it's worth backporting to 8.6.z stable.
- Reproduced a bug in the #KDE Plasma6 screen locker that had been closed as fixed.

#DailyStandup

What I did today:
- In Boston for #LibrePlanet!
- Figuring out the flow of data through the gotk4 generator so I can get the I for I need to the right place.
- Had a good time catching up with people at the @fsf office.

Challenges:
- My laptop's charge port has decided to not work. On the bright side, if I bum @amerl's #FrameworkLaptop then #HiDPI tools are going to improve this weekend.

I'm a fan of @egallager live-tooting the NH legislature, even though I don't think I've ever even been to #NewHampshire (I follow him because I'd met him at #LibrePlanet). Anyone know of other legislators who live-toot (hopefully in #Colorado #COPolitics)? #ElectMoreHackers

Elsewhere in the source, there's a comment indicating that the #OpenPGP spec mandates timestamps be 32-bit numbers... #year2038

#GnuPG trustdb file format updated to avoid the #year2038 problem when?

More #librem5 thoughts:

- It charges slowly. Slowly enough that it's been a PITA. Slowly enough that I plugged it into my workbench #PinePower to measure exactly how slowly: 5V / 1.8A (9W). Which makes the 20W wall wart that came with it a little funny.

- I'm not sure I've ever gotten it up to 100%, but I'm frustrated with the battery life. Charge it for a few hours in the morning, leave it idle on the table all day, it's dead when I get home in the evening.

@larsbrinkhoff https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/sixel/blob/master/vt220.txt says "This has been tested on a real VT220", but has it been tested on an emulated #VT220? I can't find an emulator that supports VT220-style sixels, and I'd love to be able hack on programs targeting the VT220 when I'm away from my desk.

#DOOM on my #VT220... at about 0.6 FPS... gotta try to optimize the screen update code.