Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

New corporate machine lacks RJ45. No dongle included. Guess they forgot networks are literally what I do. Then again.... I only use my corporate machine to change my pw every 90 days.

@kyle how long until the “custom and secure” OS on the A5 running the PSB is owned and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down?

@kyle 😂😂😂

Spun my first few meters of yarn in my new place today while watching the windmill turn from my top floor. I like it here a lot. #Delft is a nice little town.

@Gina super cool!

Previous building of rpm/deb packages from the same source usually involved lengthy container build processes and a bunch of convoluted toolchains. Then @kyle pointed me towards https://fpm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html and changed the whole game for me.

@kyle yeah, a willingness to learn goes a long way.

Starting to near the end of the project that originally brought me to The Netherlands. Some of the original goals proved impossible due to some severely legacy systems, but those hurdles led to the development of more creative solutions. 2020 has definitely shown me that I am in fact capable of developing useful software. Perhaps it's time to drop the claim that I'm "not a developer" just because my degree happens to be in mechanical engineering.

@kyle my iDevices are things I love to hate, and I look forward to getting myself onto a Librem 5 as well. TMo as a carrier has managed to do pretty well by me, even with some of their sillier policies regarding my perpetual international roaming. That said, I do get a huge discount for my veteran status and without it I don't think I'd have gone with them.

@kyle when I rage-quit the use of any Google products I downloaded all of the data made available to me. 185GB, compressed. A lot of it truly shocking, as I do not recall opting in to its collection nor do I recall ever having the option to say no. I figured it would mostly be my GMail archives, but it was so very much more. It would not surprise me if there’s another 185GB worth of data about me that was not made available to me.

Buildah supports using a Dockerfile to define a container build, but I’ve not found myself compelled to actually learn to do things like creating a multi-stage image with a Dockerfile when Buildah keeps things as easy as a simple Bash script. To that end, today I spun a build VM to hook into my devops process for CI/CD of container deployments for my applicable projects. Just because #Azure is married to Docker doesn’t mean I have to be.

Managed an IKEA haul on my bike. Now I won’t freeze my ass off tonight. Good thing I brought my climbing gear. A little cord, two biners, and our friend the clove hitch goes a long way.

My broadband install kit was delivered before I moved in... to my neighbors who are now also not home. This whole delivering things to random people thing is going to take some getting used to.

@Gina my internet isn’t ready at my new place yet and I may legit stay at my old place just to keep watching it 😂

@Gina omggg I just started this on Sunday! Karate Kid was my jam back in prehistoric times aka the 80s

@ju thanks, I’ve enjoyed it. Been here off and on for nearly two years already, but settling into a long term assignment that will keep me here full time for another two. I like it a lot

And now I have the keys to the house I’ll live in here in Delft for at least the next two years. Time to settle in!

Rust really shines, for me, in cases where I have targets with multiple processor architectures, and varying degrees of maintenance support (read: still in service but beyond EOL). I write my tooling once, and when my build scripts are done I have the binaries I need for each platform. In my last use case, these were actually smaller than the venvs I needed to ship with Python on the minority of nodes where it was even possible to deploy a modern Python venv.

@purism looking forward to getting mine.