AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

Good news from Voyager 1.

NASA teams were able to move code that was on a section of corrupted memory in one of the spacecraft's computers. Now it's sending back usable engineering data for the first time since November 2023.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

They say you'll have more success with women as you get older. I'd like to file a complaint about that...

Legally speaking, bars in Norway can't serve you if you're "clearly inebriated". In practice, what this means is more along the lines of "if he can't walk, send him home".

New #Linux and #OpenSource News video!

In this one, #Gentoo says no to #AI, and Linus Torvalds finds it "hilarious", we also have a flaw in #Flatpak, plus #Cosmic showing off its theming capabilities, at least for GTK apps, plus some good enws for Linux gaming!

https://youtu.be/qz7NHaCspzg

Running Tiny C Compiler in the Web Browser ... Thanks to #WebAssembly and a little JavaScript

Article: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/tcc.html#appendix-javascript-calls-tcc

No wonder Linux desktop can't beat Windows.

Today I was planning for my new Intel NUC. It comes with a 500G NVMe SSD (the bare bone version is out of stock) and 2x8GB RAM. So I'm planning on the disk layout.

The nuc13 can take one 2280 NVMe, one 2242 M.2 SATA SSD (NGFF), and one 2.5 inch SATA disk. Of course, I'm using openSUSE TW, so I got Btrfs out of the box. The question is what profile to use.

My first plan is to use 3 disks in raid 1. But then I found out the NGFF disk is really slow and hard to find quality ones. So I moved to 2, one NVMe and one SATA.

And then there is secure boot and LUKS things to handle. I want to use TPM to seal the LUKS key so I don't have to type password too many times. And if I'm going to add disk in the future, I should first let luks handle the disk, then add the mapped device to btrfs. Not mention the TPM issue. The TPM support is still under experimental stage, so every time there is a kernel update or bootloader update, the TPM can't unseal the key and I have to deal it manually.

Based on my current poort knowledge with those components, I think I'd just stick with the stock ssd, set up encryption and backup, then call it a day.

Despite I hate Windows, but this part Windows wins. Setup bitlocker is not that hard. And a system upgrade will not break it. And I need to see if I can get secure boot working on intel nuc with linux. If it's not working, then I have to type password anyway.

Oslo, Norway

Well done, Silicon Valley!

How we run #ZigLang Compiler to compile Tiny C Compiler from C to #WebAssembly

Article: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/tcc.html#appendix-compile-tcc-with-zig

py2wasm: "converts your #Python programs to #WebAssembly, running them at 3x faster speeds"

https://wasmer.io/posts/py2wasm-a-python-to-wasm-compiler

A friend of mine said "Why don't you get a tattoo? Live a little!"

Everybody and his uncle is getting those. It's almost peer pressure at this point.

I don't need artificial scars.

I could make a lot of money with my skills if only I was an asshole.

As a tech guy, you kind of have two options. Sell your soul as a developer, working on some incredibly dull project, or become a manipulator of people. Neither option is very appealing. There is a third option, which is where I am now, where you're basically not making any money. The one where you do stuff you like, in a way that agrees with your ethics. This SHOULD be the thing that is profitable, but the world sucks.

Suspicious Patterns in #OpenSource Social Engineering Takeovers

https://openssf.org/blog/2024/04/15/open-source-security-openssf-and-openjs-foundations-issue-alert-for-social-engineering-takeovers-of-open-source-projects/

"The mysterious object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home ... was part of a Cargo Pallet packed with 5,800 pounds (2,630 kilograms) of aging batteries jettisoned from the ISS"

https://www.space.com/object-crash-florida-home-iss-space-junk-nasa-confirms

Moisturizer is just a heroin addiction for your skin. Do people even realize that if you use it more than a few times it causes your skin to need it to even function and like cigarettes you need to use it just to get your skin like it used to be.

People who use it for years and then stop will literally have their skin peeling off and cracking.

@AmpBenzScientist I think samsung's expert raw app did a fairly decent job to capture raw. But the real cameras are still worth its price, in terms of pixel counts and the size of cmos, compare to a smart phone

The synthesiser keyboard we're building will sound like this, among other things. Yes, this will be in the production model.