Normally, I do not read book reviews. Either I haven't read the book, in which case there's spoiler potential, or I have, in which case it's unlikely to be useful or enjoyable for me to read a thing about a thing I've already read. But Review: Radiant Star caught my eye, and I thought, “Hmm, I've read all those books” and was curious. Of course, because I am old and senile and have no…
The UX of jj 's builtin merge editor finally became too much for me. So, I looked at the list of merge tool options, saw vimdiff , and thought, “Oh, cool, I know how to use vimdiff.” So, I launched jj config edit --user , added a ui section, and set merge-editor to vimdiff . With the new config, I ran jj resolve again. It was at that point that I realized that I do not, in fact, know how to use…
sq network keyserver search $id ; sq cert export --cert=$id > $id.asc Posted on 2026-02-18 Tags: quanks
One of the servers to which I SSH ratcheted up its public key requirements and thus the Monkeysphere key I've been using for 15 years stopped working. Unfortunately, monkeysphere gen-subkey hardcodes RSA keys and if I'm going to be forced to use a new subkey I want mine to be of the 25519 variety. Therefore, to add a subkey by hand: gpg --expert --edit-key $KEYID Follow roughly what's in…
I've been working on a multi-label email classification model. It's been a frustrating slog, fraught with challenges, including a lack of training data. Labeling emails is labor-intensive and error-prone. Also, I habitually delete certain classes of email immediately after its usefulness has been reduced. I use a CRM-114-based spam filtering system (actually I use two different isntances of the…
Why can't Debian have embarrassing flamewars like this thread ? Posted on 2021-09-21 Tags: barks
∵ unmerged /usr is unsupported in bookworm and sid has been feeding bookworm since 2021-08-14, unmerged /usr is also unsupported in sid since 2021-08-14, no one using any portion of either bookworm or sid since 2021-08-14 should have any expectation that things should function correctly with unmerged /usr , ∴ anyone using any portion of either bookworm or sid should execute apt install usrmerge or…
Mom, When you upgrade to bullseye, you need to change your security source from deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main to deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main However, that will silently fail to work if you forget to update the file in /etc/apt/preferences.d to add something like this stanza: Explanation: Debian security Package: * Pin: release…
Who are the voting members of the Free Software Foundation ? Posted on 2021-04-12 Tags: barks
This story is not true. In 1971, Atlantic Records released John Prine's eponymous debut album. The third track (on the first side) was a song called “Hello in There”. In 1972, Atlantic Records released Bette Midler's debut album, The Divine Miss M . The seventh track (the second track on the second side) was a song called “Hello in There”, written by John Prine. In 1973, Asylum Records released…