Canine elegance

https://youtu.be/IP3OyF42XkU

Ugh, I bricked a fairphine 3 which had /e/OS installed by trying to install ubuntu phone over it. The partition table is gone :(

Still have fastboot though, but no clue how to proceed

OH: fursuiters are drag queens but animals

Mow Cop and heron

Heron

Fiquei muito feliz em conhecer de perto das tecnologias sociais dos biodigestores e fogão agroecológico no sertão do Pajeú em 2015, excelentes as experiências https://centrosabia.org.br/2026/04/06/o-fogo-agroecologico-cantos-do-sabia/ #agroecologia

Atelier d'avril 2026 du groupe local de Grenoble on 13 Apr https://osmcal.org/event/4687/

Evening

@ansuz Hi! Been reading your blog for a while, so I would like to follow you :) Just set up this account and now trying to figure out all this fediverse thing, so I have no idea how to properly send a message with the follow request, hope this would reach you.

Even figuring out how to follow someone on the GoToSocial from the Mastodon was a pain, to be honest

This is now my new favorite #NASA photograph! 🌏🌙

https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009288

#space #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #Earthset

We could use internally for these cases (it would not delete the mirror because it would not be able to download the DBs), but just thinking of porting it to py3 just for this... I would never get permission from my boss :)

/end

So now all our old Linuxes were failing their ritual update-and-reboot (so even firmware updates apply) because they couldn't read the DBs. This made me think again in this old tool. Yes, it has a very niche use case, but I'm dear to it because it served me well for many many years to run a very stable mirror.

5/

Today at work we use internal mirrors, not as much for cache, but also as local copies of software that might not exist anymore. For instance, we're at the end of removing the last instances of an unsupported Linux version, but meanwhile the current configuration should work, including trying to get updates.

Today our upstream source decided to remove their copy, and our primary mirror running `rsync --delete` and all the other copies just followed suit (quick: check you backups)

4/

Ladybird on mint

So I wrote a tool that did that consistently:

* Download DBs.
* Download new packages.
* Update DBs
* Delete packages.

Notice, again, this is not how tools like `rsync`, which are usually used for this, work.

This worked fine for many years, until the Uni connection got upgraded and the need for the tool disappeared.

3/

All this meant that sometimes we couldn't update everything in one night. Granted, we should have dropped things like Debian Sid, but I was a user already back then, so it got mirrored.

If you did it the usual way, you would end up with an inconsistent mirror. What do I mean by that? Well, a Linux distro usually has databases that describe which files are packages. If you updated one without updating the other, you will find packages in the DBs but not on the mirror.

2/

20+ya I was in charge of maintaining a software mirror for a Uni. Back then and there, the connection was really small, but the Uni used Linux and free software extensively, so the mirror was big-ish. The connection was so small, that we were allowed to mirror between I would say 22h and 6h, some 8h in total, so we didn't compete with the daily traffic.

1/

Wheelock

#TuneTuesday (Apr 7)

Wyn Starks’s “Who I Am” is one of the best original songs I’ve ever heard performed during a talent show audition. Sadly, Starks was eliminated in the qualifiers of AGT 17 but it doesn’t diminish how great this song is with his powerful vocals.

https://youtu.be/g8S1bjR-dGI

#music #songs #earworms