Christopher Baines @cbaines@octodon.social
Living in London
Interested in Free Software, Badminton, Bouldering and cats.
Website: https://www.cbaines.net/
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Victory! Just try all the ports.
Turns out that using both DisplayPort outputs isn't stable, but using one , and then using the HDMI output (that I didn't really know I had) seems to work much better!!! 😁
So two of my #Debian machines have been giving me trouble today, I've even given up fixing one, as it seems I've upgraded to a broken release of mutter...
However, I have discovered that the monitor I've had for years does have an audio input! So I've finally managed to hook up my speakers to my #Guix machine 🎉
The computer problem for today... logging in 🙁
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/21/digital-enclosure.html Very good blog post on the LibrePlanet 2018 closing keynote.
On "open source" as freedom for companies, and the problem this poses in getting free software out to everyone.
Cat friends 😆
There is a God after all - and his name is Tanu Kaskinen!
(From #PulseAudio 12.0 release notes) #hurd
Backdoored images downloaded from DockerHub 5 million times https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/backdoored-images-downloaded-5-million-times-finally-removed-from-docker-hub/ https://kromtech.com/blog/security-center/cryptojacking-invades-cloud-how-modern-containerization-trend-is-exploited-by-attackers
Malware installed through DockerHub can also escape the container, so may continue to run.
Friends don't let friends install unreproducible black box container images.
Holy shit! Mes now compiles tinycc which compiles gcc!
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-06/msg00179.html
The fully reproducible system is nearly upon us!
I _think_ I've got contexts working with #mu4e 📨 but it's still hard to tell, as I'm not quite sure what they are meant to do yet...
Back trying to package Ruby on #Rails for GNU #Guix... Show more
Using Docker is a form of gambling, you might get small payoffs, the usual way people build images are so prone to change that it will at some point really cost you.
Not to mention the major issues of provenance and analysis...
Used Jupyter Notebooks for the first time today. It's basically org-mode for people that don't use Emacs. And AWS's SageMaker service that uses Jupyter gives you Conda as a package manager and anyone that knows me can guess how I feel about that. So, who's going to make the Emacs+Guix version of this?
I mean, GitHub sucks in other ways too. "We're the heart of the FOSS world! Oh no thx we won't give back our code btw"
Lovely evening in London for a walk...
Germany's minister of justice with an interesting take: messengers like WhatsApp should be forced by law to implement #interoperability features, so one can change to other apps (because of e.g. better privacy) without lock-in effect.
I don't want to think about how much wrong-doing can happen here. But on the good site it could lead to a new boom of standards like #matrix when companies are forced to adapt.
I'm very excited to see https://github.com/roelj/guile-sparql is now a thing!
Mixing Guix and Semantic Web stuff has long been on my mind :D
