Yesterday at work:

me: "Codex, figure out why <component> doesn't see <hardware>, even though <hardware> is clearly present on machine."

(left unsaid: component runs in container, other stuff (also in containers) sees hardware fine).

*2 minutes later*

Codex: "You have foo installed at version X (likely from ubuntu repositories), vendor's hardware support matrix page says that <hardware> only supports Foo at versions y+, I advise you to install from official vendor repo. If you run foo, it shows a "hardware not recognized" warning."

Me: "You don't have sudo, write a sh script runnable with sudo."

Codex: "script is at ..."

Me: "./script.sh; reboot"

*2 minutes later*

Oh that worked. Would have taken me hours of debugging otherwise.

The whole thing took about 15 minutes, most of which was installing packages over a slow network connection.

If you're bored and are open for helping out documenting #curl, we have a list of outstanding tasks to work on in the "everything curl" book:

github.com/curl/everything-cur…

curl/everything-curl

The book documenting the curl project, the curl tool, libcurl and more. Simply put: everything curl. - curl/everything-curl

^GitHub

Sign in with Apple polls!

Have you ever used this with a website and received essentially none of the emails the site sent (particularly a question with Kickstarter)?

(Sign in with Apple lets you use Hide My Email to create an address that Apple restricts to validated addresses that an app or website has registered with Apple and added DKIM and SPF records to define correct email origin servers.)

• No or almost no email (30%, 10 votes)
• All or almost all email (42%, 14 votes)
• Some or most email (27%, 9 votes)

What is with these websites with seemingly random soft hyphens ­ placed everywhere?

Here's an example. It makes reading with a screen reader very difficult.
When research­ing a famous his­tor­i­cal fig­ure, access to their work and mate­ri­als usu­al­ly proves to be one of the biggest obsta­cles. But things are much more dif­fi­cult for those writ­ing about the life of Marie Curie, the sci­en­tist who, along her with hus­band Pierre, dis­cov­ered polo­ni­um and radi­um and birthed the idea of par­ti­cle physics. Her note­books, her cloth­ing, her fur­ni­ture (not to men­tion her lab), pret­ty much every­thing sur­viv­ing from her Parisian sub­ur­ban house, is radioac­tive, and will be for 1,500 years or more.

openculture.com/2023/11/marie-…

Marie Curie's Research Papers Are Still Radioactive a Century Later

Image by The Wellcome Trust When researching a famous historical figure, access to their work and materials usually proves to be one of the biggest obstacles.

^{OC (Openculture.com)}

Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive a Century Later

openculture.com/2023/11/marie-…

Marie Curie's Research Papers Are Still Radioactive a Century Later

Image by The Wellcome Trust When researching a famous historical figure, access to their work and materials usually proves to be one of the biggest obstacles.

^{OC (Openculture.com)}

Canceled my Spotify subscription this year and started using @AntennaPod, and my god what an update to my QoL.

No algorithms shoving perceived interests down my throat, no analytics tracking my every move, and no ads other than any the shows themselves decided to embed in an episode.

Seriously, if you can, give it a shot for at least a week, or swing a donation their way. We all need projects like these to flourish

antennapod.org/

AntennaPod – The Open Podcast Player

AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial intere...

^AntennaPod

RE: social.coop/@dajb/115971635811…

This is super neat!

This weekend during FOSDEM I will give Delta Chat another shot.

Just to check and see if usability is now good enough to recommend the tool to less technical people.

#FOSDEM #deltachat

On my way to Brussels for XMPP summit then FOSDEM. Contact me here or on XMPP if you want to discuss Libervia, see a demo, or talk about related topics (XMPP Pubsub, e2ee, activityPub or email gateways, forums, multiparty A/V calls, metadata reduction, serverless, data policy, etc).

You can also directly come to our booth (XMPP & Realtime Lounge).

Please note that this year we are in AW level 1 instead of the usual location.

#Libervia #XMPP #summit #FOSDEM #Brussels