Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • Why do you see this as USA only?

    Because the announcement doesn’t use UTC to announce the event and there’s absolutely no chance that anyone outside the US knows when some random timezone is, or if daylight savings is active in that timezone or not at the time of the event.

    The announcement also tells me that the organisation is run out of the USA, not a place universally known for its inclusivity or global consideration. Reinforced by a text only image with no alt text.

    I think a tech workers coalition is an interesting and potentially useful idea, but the announcement doesn’t even contain a URL to the organisation.

    Which leads to my conclusion, a USA only affair.

    I’d be delighted to be wrong, but that’s what the announcement conveyed to me.



  • This is the job for the OS.

    You can run most Linux systems with stupid amounts of swap and the only thing you’ll notice is that stuff starts slowing down.

    In my experience, only in extremely rare cases are you smarter than the OS, and in 25+ years of using Linux daily I’ve seen it exactly once, where oomkiller killed running mysqld processes, which would have been fine if the developer had used transactions. Suffice to say, they did not.

    I used a 1 minute cron job to reprioritize the process, problem “solved” … for a system that hadn’t been updated for 12 years but was still live while we documented what it was doing and what was required to upgrade it.




  • In my experience, the best way to get a cat to come to you is to completely ignore it. More often than not it will come to investigate.

    As best as I can tell, it’s simply impossible for a cat to imagine that you’re not aware of them, like they are hyper aware of you, and ignoring it signals that you don’t think that it’s a threat. Mutual slow blinking may or may not be involved.

    Note that I’m not a cat expert, haven’t lived with a cat since I was eight, but most cats seem to come over to say “Hi” when I’m visiting friends, to the point where owners seem to regularly exclaim that they’ve never seen their cat come over to a stranger.

    YMMV.







  • Kali ≠ Debian

    I did not see an apt-get update

    In my experience, unmet dependencies are unlikely to happen on a stable version where you only installed from the official repo.

    The LZMA decompression errors point at a much more fundamental issue. I’m suspecting that the repository URLs point at non standard locations or downloads were interrupted, though I’m not sure exactly how, since AFAIK, apt checks the checksum.

    If you must have something that’s not In your distro, do yourself a favour and install Docker and run your package inside there, much less chance of killing your system.

    Source: I’ve been using Debian for over 25 years.







  • How would you suggest I respond in the future?

    We have a person, claiming that CUPS doesn’t work and they now uninstall it on every installation.

    There is no context, no data, no information that suggests what the issue is, what they tried, when this occurred, on which platform, under which conditions.

    In other words, the user was essentially saying “CUPS sux”.

    Having used Linux as my main system for over 25 years, that sentiment did not match my own experience, does not help anyone, not me, not the user and not the OP who was trying to solve a problem, let alone anyone else reading along.

    I responded accordingly.