I thought hCaptcha was getting off the rails. Try making an X account using a VPN service!

Buy the dip on bcachefs!

We need prediction markets for Linux kernel development.

Syncthing is also as good as everyone says it is.

...while chasing the clouds away.

It's a crime that Slow Motion by Supertramp isn't available on any of the streaming services. It might even be the Crime of the Century.

Lenovo BIOS simulator: https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/#/

mp3fs: https://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/

hCaptcha is really getting off the rails these days. If you haven't run into one in a while, you're in for a trip.

Hello, IT, have you tried turning it off and back on again?

I finally gave in and tried out Caddy. It's about as great as everyone says it is.

Another minor inconvenience could have been avoided by reading the Arch Linux news feed before upgrading.

Today's project: Put 2 failing hard drives in RAID 0 and boot from it. What could go wrong?

RIP LocalMonero. You will be missed.

The IBM PC110 (486 palmtop) hosting this website reached 3 years of uptime a couple weeks ago. Impressive! http://pc110.yyzkevin.com/

Garage, an "open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting": https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

Viddy, a modern watch(1) alternative with paging, visual diffs, and history: https://github.com/sachaos/viddy

I'm starting to embrace containers on my PC for software I want to use once without littering my home folder with junk files. It's nice.

Come on guys, can't we just do Btrfs RAID5/6 already?

The mystery airship phenomenon of the late 1890s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

Come on guys, can't we just do IPv6 already?

https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate added support for Edge and Safari a while ago and I didn't realize. Very cool!

Finally broke down and installed Pipewire. Bare ALSA is only good if you only use one physical sound card ever. Don't even try Bluetooth.

BunsenLabs is just a delightful distribution.

Playing with Wireguard and network namespaces today. Resisting the urge to redo my server.

Why Monero: https://benkaiser.dev/why-monero/

My hacky shell pipeline was flawed. Flexo actually saved ~689 MiB of bandwidth, or 35.7% of my total package downloads.

Since install, Flexo has saved ~417 MiB of bandwidth, or 21.7% of my total package downloads in that time.

TRIM on Btrfs on LUKS on a sparse disk image served with NBD actually works. I love free software.

Spring cleaning came early at McKinley Labs. I just removed 475 unnecessary packages from my laptop totaling ~3GiB. Not bad.

KTeaTime: A customizable tea steeping timer application from the KDE project: https://apps.kde.org/kteatime/

Trying out Flexo, a caching proxy for Pacman: https://github.com/nroi/flexo

Pro tip: Don't run out of space on Btrfs.

Canada + Cryptocurrency = Ehthereum: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

Zoom (2001) is Jeff Lynne's ELO before ELO was "Jeff Lynne's". There are some great songs on there. It's a shame the sound is so awful.

A word of advice: Never swing and grind at the same time.

Great writeup on New Outlook, even though it's a biased source: https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service

I saw a Cybertruck earlier. I'm no fan of Tesla, but that thing is pretty cool.

This is the year of the GNU/Linux desktop

We'll make our own driver! With blackjack, and hookers! https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-holiday-update.html

I didn't realize what I was doing with a command and now my entire music library is tagged as hip-hop. It's time to stop for the night.

This is why people go full Kaczynski. https://weel.bike/

Note to self: Don't restart the NBD daemon while a computer has booted from it.

Jeffrey Paul: Apple OSes Are Insecure By Design To Aid Surveillance: https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveillance/

Grep for network connections: https://github.com/jpr5/ngrep

How to download and install Linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

How did I just find this program? Reptyr: Reparent a running program to a new terminal: https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr

Another digital license plate sighting today. It's an epidemic!

I just lost 3/4 of a really good blog post by typing :q! without thinking and I'm having a really hard time rewriting it.

Love was changing the minds of pretenders...

Play the sounds of a buckling spring keyboard as you type: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

First try!

If you're reading this, this is my first automated twt. I added a line to twtxt.txt, typed 'make', and everything else was automatic.

The Ladybird XHTML bug is fixed. index.xhtml and blog/index.xhtml are now generated with a Makefile, XSLT, and a bit of Python. Feels good!

RIP Terry.

Free Public WiFi: https://computer.rip/2023-07-29-Free-Public-WiFi.html

Currently compiling the Dolphin emulator because the Arch package is broken. Wish me luck.

Mount iOS devices on GNU/Linux, great for photo backup: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse

Happy 4th! I added fireworks to my ASCII art on https://mckinley.cc/

Microsoft's trickery department strikes again: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/b0e1a1c1-bd62-462c-9ed5-5938b9c649f0

In other news, I modified my XSLT stylesheet so it can be used for both of my Atom feeds.

My hidden service is somehow already on some lists for crawlers. That's impressive.

Lab6 issue 4, at long last: https://lab6.com/4

Tech tip: Install "kernel-modules-hook" in Arch Linux to keep old modules after a kernel update so you can load new ones without rebooting.

mckinley.cc is now available as a Tor hidden service: http://mckinley2nxomherwpsff5w37zrl6fqetvlfayk2qjnenifxmw5i4wyd.onion/

Proof-of-work has been merged into Tor. Should help a lot with DoS issues: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/merge_requests/702

The only JSON feed I've ever seen in the wild: https://localmonero.co/static/rss/knowledge/feed.json

USBGuard, USB device authorization policies for Linux: https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard

@jmjl I explain the favicon trick in https://mckinley.cc/blog/20210824.html

XEP-0464: Cookies https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0464.html

There's one for GitHub too: https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub

Finally, a JavaScript-free frontend for GitLab instances: https://git.vitali64.duckdns.org/utils/laboratory.git

Dumb, an alternative frontend for genius.com written in Go: https://github.com/rramiachraf/dumb

I added a camera shutter sound effect that plays whenever I take a screenshot. It's a big improvement, having that feedback.

Sudo CVE of the day: Sudoedit can edit arbitrary files: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/42

Every copy of Firefox is personalized: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier/

Here's a nifty tool to identify MQA in FLAC files: https://github.com/purpl3F0x/MQA_identifier

Tech tip: FFmpeg isn't working in your while loops because it's reading from stdin. Use '-nostdin'. Took me far too long to figure that out.

Git man page generator: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

I can now pull up the spectrogram of whatever song is playing with a single key stroke. I love cmus.

A bootrom exploit for the iPod Nano 3rd-5th gen has been found. Looking forward to Rockboxing my nano! https://q3k.org/wInd3x.html

Been using a ThinkPad T540 recently. Can't stand the TrackPoint with fake buttons. Who thought this was a good idea? I hope they were fired.

I've been using cmus exclusively for over a month. Couldn't be happier with it. I can't believe I used Audacious for so long.

This is the year of the GNU/Linux desktop.

The freedoms you surrender today are the freedoms your grandchildren will never know existed.

Bitreich Firework Service Online: gopher://bitreich.org/0/usr/20h/phlog/2022-12-27T20-15-32-949988.md (ssh firework@bitreich.org)

Huge Tails update. Better persistent storage, Wayland, QR codes for bridges: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.8/index.en.html

This is blowing my mind. Real-time music generation with Stable Diffusion: https://www.riffusion.com/

I'd really like to play with ChatGPT, but there's no way I'm giving them my phone number.

I now have an archive of over 1,000,000 Git commits across 154 repositories with my archival script.

Playing around with cmus tonight. My music library has so much bad metadata, it's not even funny.

A special build of cURL that can impersonate Chrome and Firefox: https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate

In the end, we all do what we must.

I started a notes section of my website. It's for shorter, less formal posts. https://mckinley.cc/notes/20221101-yet-another-blog.html

An NES emulator in <5000 bytes of C++: https://github.com/binji/smolnes

The future is now. Solitaire over Gopher: gopher://worldofsolitaire.com/

I really need an automatic Git mirroring setup. I've been burned too many times. At least this one is (allegedly) temporary.

Wikiless, a self-hosted Wikipedia proxy, has been temporarily taken down from Codeberg at request of Wikimedia Legal: https://orenom.fi/

Wayland tech tip #3: Be sure to install warpd-wayland-git instead of warpd-git from the AUR, otherwise you're gonna have a bad time.

Been playing around with Warpd. I could see myself using it much more if I used multiple displays or had no TrackPoint.

Warpd, a modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer: https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd

Kloak, a Keystroke-Level Online Anonymization Kernel: https://github.com/Whonix/kloak

Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki: http://c2.com/doc/etymology.html

The Gopher Times Opus 6 has released: gopher://bitreich.org/0/tgtimes/archive/2022-10-10/tgtimes-2022-10-10-opus6.txt

Added a section to my XSLT stylesheet explaining what Atom is. That was the point of making it, but I got carried away with date conversion.

TIL about the non-breaking hyphen: ‑ (U+2011)

I have a new Atom feed at https://mckinley.cc/blog/atom.xml. Open it in a Web browser for a surprise. :)

The 21st night of September?

You don't want to be on Cloudflare's naughty list: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cloudflare-ip-blockade.html

Tabloid: The clickbait headline programming language: https://tabloid.vercel.app/

http​://http​://http​://@http​://http​://?http​://#http​://: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/09/08/http-http-http-http-http-http-http/

I also found some bad markup in the twtxt archive that's been there for over a year. Hopefully that section won't be handwritten for long :)

Handwritten HTML strikes again! Since June this year, I've been truncating the name of the month to the 1st 3 characters in my twtxt archive

Here's the bug report, it's very entertaining. Tony Marston is my favorite character. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98168

A 21 year old bug in Firefox just wasted half an hour of my life.

It didn't.

Having fun brushing up on Git. I have a remote set up on my web server. This post is the commit to make sure the post-receive hook works.

The version control system in my head isn't as good as Git.

Cemu, the leading Wii U emulator, is now free software. Linux support is in progress. https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu

A website served using NGINX on ReactOS: http://reactos.aaron.cc/

Today is a CCR kind of day.

RIP Terry Davis. I can't believe it's been 4 years already.

I was going to say it was the second greatest, but the Epic Games GitHub Mail Disaster of 2022 was a pull request.

This is, perhaps, the greatest bug report of all time. IRC clients should specify a Gentoo-specific username: https://bugs.gentoo.org/35890

I'm currently halfway through my first Gentoo install. Coincidentally, also my first GNU/Linux install on a system with Nvidia graphics...

A 5 minute job delayed for 3 months is the McKinley Labs way.

I've been TrackPointless for 3 months, and I finally swapped keyboards with my parts T430 this morning. Oh, how I've missed you, old friend.

I compiled Ladybird, the Linux port of the SerenityOS browser. Here's a screenshot of my website: https://mckinley.cc/img/ladybird.png

A "Submit to HN" button at the bottom of a blog post is a little presumptuous, don't you think?

TeamViewer installs a suspicious font, apparently only for browser fingerprinting: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/teamviewer-font-privacy.html

A tour of Windows 11's GUI: http://toastytech.com/guis/win11.html

Happy 4th! I went all out with the website decorations this year.

Great blog post. I've been thinking about this, just couldn't put it into words. https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/25/two-types-of-privacy/

Lab6, the zine about itself, just released Issue 3! It's a PDF/Gemini/HTML/TeX/x86 polyglot this time. Great stuff! https://lab6.com/3

Cloudflare and the Web sites it uses to perform MiTM attacks are down in many places around the world. Rejoice!

It's amazing that Framework, a company that designed its own laptop, can't avoid breaking its RSS feed every 2 weeks. Unsubscribed!

Farside: "A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services" like Nitter and Scribe. https://github.com/benbusby/farside

I have added an to my RSS feed. I'll start including as well, since the namespace is already defined.

Their s aren't <![CDATA[]]>'d, either. They've opted to escape every single HTML .

The Inkscape RSS feed's