Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

@Gina it’s tough seasonal work but someone’s got to do it. 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

@Gina haha yes, that’s exactly the format I was thinking. He’s a dedicated volunteer olliebollen taster, and she’s a part time sunbathing coach. They’re looking for a small fixer upper and have a target budget of €9M.... Then in the end they pick a castle on a 15K km^2 estate with a river, lake, and old growth forest. It came in slightly above budget at €210M but the dungeon really matched their aesthetic and they just had to have it.

@Gina nice, enjoy! I don’t know if there’s an HGTV-like channel here but this sounds like the sort of show that would be on it. Do the people on the show also have completely ridiculous background but a budget equivalent to a small country?

@Gina watching the Dutch National Ballet’s event online. Interesting variety! How are you doing?

Renamed one of my projects today, and moved the hosting to GitLab. I'll be updating everything over the coming days but for now here's `staart`, a tail-like library/binary crate using only #rust stdlib. Staart is "tail" in Dutch, and since I wrote this while living in The Netherlands I think that's more fitting than the old project name.

https://crates.io/crates/staart

@YellowGrue I *am* management (and hiring!), but we’ve been in an interesting period where I’ve been a core contributor to *other teams* where perhaps skills I have were missing in their base. My background is actually mechanical engineering so my position as a global NOC manager in the EV branch of a MNC isn’t something I saw in the cards!

Work has kept me quite busy in the #Python and #Bash realms and as such I have had almost no time to work on any #Rust projects. Hoping to have some time to change that soon. I may even do Advent of Code super late just for the practice.

If you happen to be using Azure Active Directory Login for Linux in your Azure VMs, do not update the aadlogin package. It is broken for both Ubuntu and CentOS. The change to aad_certhandler in the latest version, released 2020-12-15, will break your AAD login. Rolling back to the previous version works for now.

@Gina hah just today I was looking at using one of my Beaglebone Blacks to play NES emulators. Gotta go way back to get to my childhood games! Hope you enjoy the playtime!

@garritfra what does line start as? Chars are also not always what you expect so iterating across them may explode if a line contains non-ascii characters. Since it appears you’re consuming parts of a String to get op and value perhaps it makes sense to use &str slices directly and make a String for each value from those?

Got most of the way through a migration from Fedora based TemplateVMs to Debian based ones. Having been at this whole Linux thing for quite a while it doesn’t really matter that much to me whether I’m using dpkg or rpm, but in general when the majority of machines I must manage for work are on a specific platform my personal use follows suit.

@the_tower_power_ #growth

@Gina *clean slate to start... 😬

@Gina definitely one of the places the DisposableVM system in QubesOS comes in handy. Clean slate to state, dirty it up with gross plugins like this, do what needs doing, close the browser and poof bye bye tainted VM.

Still pretty crappy that it’s become so normal to require an insane level of access to one’s data and property for simple tasks.

@the_tower_power_ wow so federated

Today, the first production EV charger was provisioned into life using the security-focused service infrastructure I was originally brought to The Netherlands to design and implement. Now that this milestone has passed, I may have some time to finally do a write up of the process so perhaps others can reduce their IoT attack surface, and move devices into line with the principle of least privilege rather than the Everyone’s An Admin philosophy that seems to guide so many places.

@Gina I bought an ‘87 Camaro once. The engine seized while I was turning through an intersection. I built a new engine with an obscene amount of power. Then the ECM wiring harness shorted and started a fire. By far the worst purchase, but I did manage to strip it to the subframes and sell all of the parts for about $1500 more than I paid all in... at least there was a silver lining there.

@kyle that’d drive me bonkers!