Because real life ain't enough
Because simple is enemy to fun I have been working since a few years now. After leaving academia, I did not expect to be able to retain control over my work-provided machine for so long. In all these years, I changed a number of employers and every time I was given a laptop to work … Continue reading A tale of two Wayland desktops
I am an Archlinux user, and I heavily rely on systemd for most of my userspace needs. From time to time, I want my laptop not to suspend when I close its lid. I used to do so (DON’T, it’s the wrong way) with the following sudo systemctl mask suspend.target Poettering wasn’t impressed, but did … Continue reading TIL: systemd and suspend
I have a pretty long and articulated ssh config. It reflects the plethora of hosts I want to have access to, and the fact that I do not want to use the same identity (i.e. the same cryptographic key) for all of them. This leads to have a lot of Host blocks with wildcard matches … Continue reading A ssh_config trick to rewrite hosts
I just read this article. It exudes a heavy Teutonic attitude to life in that it assumes that all the time dedicated to work is meant to be directed by the employer’s will, or rigidly adhere to production-aimed customs. An excerpt from it reads: “Wait a minute! Should I sacrifice one hour of my precious … Continue reading Work time should not be slavery
TL;DR: conductor is a new library I have been working on recently, check it out. Why I am planning to fully rework papero. In particular, the daemon that handles the synchronization of the local folders with the remote IMAP server. The use case that I care most should allow for a single daemon to handle … Continue reading Introducing: Conductor, a small library to coordinate work in a program
Disclaimer While the premise of this post might seem a bit cringe, in that is fundamentally a missed conversation with someone I have no way to talk to (and I don’t picture myself as some sort of stan of him), I think it is a good starting point for a broader reflection on some of … Continue reading The lone hacker
I own a very nice piece of plastic and chips since the end of 2018. My previous smartphone was a shiny almost-everlasting Nexus 5, that unfortunately fall out of the grace of its creators (google + LG stopped to provide updates a long time ago, but the community of OSS tinkerers maintained an updated version … Continue reading Successfully unfucking a fucked partition set in an A/B android device
Disclaimer If you stumbled upon this post, coming from crates.io, I am sorry. This is just a little sleight of hand to raise the issue on the (absence of) policy choices in crates.io. I am aware of this part of the Policies: Using an automated tool to claim ownership of a large number of package … Continue reading Why so much ado with crates.io?
With this post I try to materialize some thoughts that have been in my head since I quit academia. The reason why I am doing it now, 6 years after I parted ways with professional research, comes from this twitter thread (from an account I have never heard of, but the content tickled me). While … Continue reading Academia and capitalism
After some time, I found this very useful piece of information, on how to make function again apcupsd. The gotcha is this you should change DEVICE /dev/ttys0 to DEVICE in /etc/apsupsd/apsupsd.conf with nothing after it, this way apcupsd search everywhere on the system to find the UPS and connect correctly Thanks internet!