TIL about debconf-set-selections and so should you if you use Debian.
It allows pre-seting the answers to the questions that dpkg-reconfigure asks.
So you can like
dpkg-set-selections <<EOF
package1 package1/some/setting select foo
package2 package2/other/setting select bar
EOF
dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=noninteractive package1 package2
in your scripts
przypominamy wyniki losowania: 156, 115, 56, 230, 155, 4
a twój szczęśliwy numerek to dzisiaj: 4
You can keep morality personal. But ethics is, by definition, a subset of moral norms that a group of professionals have agreed to follow in their work. It can't be kept personal.
Fortunately, programming is not a profession, there is no liability express or implied, no standards to hold ourselves up to...
oh, wait
I just realized:
The only reason to have datacenters in orbit is to prevent an angry mob from destroying them.
Ofc AI is only useful at replacing employees if you can use it in the place where you need the employees. But SpaceX also has Starlink, so it can deliver AI at any place in the world, in a way that is not vulnerable to angry people cutting fiber cables...
DId you know: if you have a link to a youtube short, you can replace the `/shorts/` with `/watch?v=` and watch the short in a normal video UI?
Is it better if
a) some rando watches security fixes being committed to the Linux kernel's git repo, develops exploits within hours of seeing them, and publishes them for everyone to use, or
b) only nation states do that, and they don't share these exploits with anyone
?
Like, for an average computer-using company, obviously (b) is better because nation states are unliekly to target them.
But for the rest of us?
silly idea: could dbus in desktop distros be replaced with OpenWrt's ubus?
generative AI's thesis isn't that it's okay to ingest people's intellectual work despite protections like copyright
its thesis is that from now on, intellectual work is worthless, therefore there is nothing to protect
I disagree with that thesis, but I think it explains some people's stance on this topic.
What is the proper reaction when you see a glaring security bug in a popular FOSS project, whose maintainers should've known better?
Modalias format for HID is defined here:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.18/source/drivers/hid/hid-core.c#L2851-L2852
so it's
hid:b<bus>g<group>v<vendor>p<product>
vendor and product are kinda intuitive, they probably just copy vendor/product IDs from whatever bus the hid device is attached to.
Speaking of bus - the possible buses are defined here:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.18/source/include/uapi/linux/input.h#L254-L278
I think these are Linux specific identifiers.
But what is group?
2/
You know how Linux kernel has these modalias strings used to identify different device models that the drivers can then match against?
like pci:v<vendor>d<device>...,
eg. pci:v00001002d00001636sv...
for pci vendor 1002 (AMD) device 1636 (Renoir GPU).
I was wondering what the structure is for HID devices.
1/
And now the best part:
Some of the default firewall settings - eg. Allow-MLD - specify values that LuCI doesn't understand.
If you accidentally reset them to defaults - tough luck, go searching the source tree for what they were originally.
3/3
At any given point in time, there are settings that can be expressed in UCI that LuCI doesn't understand.
Moreover, some settings LuCI knows about can have values that LuCI doesn't understand.
The smart thing to do in such situation would be to not touch them.
That's not what LuCI does.
As soon as you open a pop-up for editing some type of entity and click "save" on that pop-up, all settings whose values LuCI didn't understand get reset to default.
2/
OpenWrt's configuration system has two layers.
There's uci, a ubus daemon + commandline tool + file format for managing all the settings. Daemons' init scripts use this to generate their configs.
Then there's LuCI, a web UI for viewing and changing those settings.
Every time some part of the system starts storing a new setting in UCI, someone needs to add code in LuCI to make a menu for that setting.
Unfortunately, the two places aren't always in sync...
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What if: European Citizens' Initiative
to ban the European Commission from ever passing any regulation that requires or encourages communication service providers to scan the content of non-public communications of EU citizens
?
(it's probably a bad idea, it probably doesn't work that way, but I'd like to learn why)
Lua is the worst language to write glue code between mpv and mpd protocol.
Why?
Playlist position numbers.
In mpd, they're 0-based.
In mpv, they're 0-based.
But when you're iterating the playlist in lua, you're iterating a lua table. Its indexes are 1-based.
And the worst things you don't have types that'd tell you if a particular number is 0-based or 1-based, and force you to use the correct conversion functions.
Holy shit python packaging is such a pile of crap.
You'd think pip freeze > requirements.txt would let you pin all versions of all packages and later reinstall those same versions, even when your OS and python version has updated.
But noo, they had to make breaking changes in `packaging`, they make some old libs' metadata no longer valid, so you can't install them anymore.
1/
And `packaging` is vendored by pip, but downgrading pip doesn't do the trick since it also somehow creates a temporary environment with the package's builddeps? And also downgradng a package doesn't seem to check what other packages need to be downgraded to satisfy dependencies.
How do people even use this thing?
2/2
OTOH, that was the April issue of Elektronika Praktyczna, so this could've been an April Fools joke
hmm ok I just looked it up and the minimum wage in Poland in 1999 was like 4 PLN per hour. Yikes!