I'm tired, I want to do go bed. I click "sleep" on gnome shell, nothing happens. Swearwords. I want to go to bed. I might have want to put my laptop in a bag and run to catch a train. I hate when this happens. systemd-inhibit --list --mode=…
Fedora 44 is out and I need to add support for it Moncic-CI. Well, when using systemd-nspawn as a backend, rpmbuild cannot build packages: Ok, what's wrong with rpmuncompress? Is that all that it's really doing? Is tar not working now? Yes.…
I upgraded to Debian testing/trixie, and my network printer stopped appearing in print dialogs. These are notes from the debugging session. I tried out kde, which installed plasma-firewall, which installed firewalld, which closed by default…
I use borg and restic to backup files in my system. Sometimes I run a huge download or clone a large git repo and forget to mark it with CACHEDIR.TAG, and it gets picked up slowing the backup process and wasting backup space uselessly. I wo…
On Android, there's a spellchecker popup that occasionally appears over the keyboard, getting very annoyingly in the way. See for example this unanswered question with screenshots. It looks like a feature of the keyboard, but it's not, and
Suppose you have a meson project like this: This builds fine with autotools and cmake, but not meson: It turns out that meson adds the current directory to the include path by default: Another thing to note is that include_directories adds
Debusine manages scheduling and distribution of Debian-related tasks (package build, lintian analysis, autopkgtest runs, etc.) to distributed worker machines. It is being developed by Freexian with the intention of giving people access to a…
This is part of a series of posts on ideas for an ansible-like provisioning system, implemented in Transilience. Unit testing some parts of Transilience, like the apt and systemd actions, or remote Mitogen connections, can really use a cont…
This post is part of a series about trying to setup a gitlab runner based on systemd-nspawn. I published the polished result as nspawn-runner on GitHub. New goal: make it easier to configure and maintain chroots. For example, it should be p…
Durante le feste tutti i giorni di sole erano per combinazione rossi e non si poteva uscire, cosí ho passato le feste in casa a guardare dalla finestra tutto il resto del paese che usciva a godersi il sole. Ieri era la prima giornata di sol…
Here are the slides of mine and Ulrike's talk Doing things /together/. Our thoughts about cooperation aspects of doing things together. Sometimes in Debian we do work together with others, and sometimes we are a number of people who work al…
This is part of a series of posts on the design and technical steps of creating Himblick, a digital signage box based on the Raspberry Pi 4. One day after the first deploy, we went to check how the system was doing, and noticed some fine tu…