Cedric @cedric@fosstodon.org

Also added "Sprouting guide"

gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/hundredrabbits/sprouting.gmi

The original awk book:

https://ia802309.us.archive.org/25/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf

(PDF)

Everytime you make a new buildsystem, kitten dies! Don't do it for sake of kittens!

Major performance improvements coming to the #PinePhone thanks to work by Ondrej Jirman (megi).
Video shows UI performance of
@kde on
@postmarketOS, but the fix will benefit all OSes.

Synapse 1.22.0 is here! It sports better horizontal scaling, multi-arch Docker images, three experimental MSCs, and much more! Read all about it on the Matrix Blog: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/27/synapse-1-22-0-released/

Wayland is nowhere near being ready at all, nor is a lot of software ready to be used with it.

And I’m not speaking “oooh no proprietary drivers”, it’s fundamentally not ready for every day use unless it can manage to fulfill your specific needs.

They’ll have to pry X away from my cold dead body.

OMG, am dying!!!

Someone used the bug GitHub refused to fix, that allows you to add a commit to a repo you don’t control... to upload YouTube-dl to the DMCA request repo on GitHub.

https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f

A view from my house still under construction. Must be completed in a month !!!

What's cooking on Sourcehut? October 2020

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-10-15-whats-cooking-october-2020/

Time spent debugging LibreOffice build failures on musl libc + gcc 10:

Almost 4 hours before giving up

Time spent rewriting the document in LaTex:

5 minutes

Found a bug with Skia, did my due diligence in sending a patch upstream. Google drones refuse to apply my two-liner patch to fix musl libc support unless I sign their CLA, despite explicitly agreeing to distribute it under the terms of their license, which permits free redistribution and modification.

Eat shit, Google, this is why no one likes working with you.

Fresh Linux 5.9 build for the Pinebook Pro :)