fedi.unchat.cat

First time #freebsd 's #pkgbase has bit me in the ass:
pkg autoremove decided that FreeBSD-openssl was to be removed, and suddenly zfs(8) pkg(8) and pretty much anything stopped working.

Luckily from when I patched base's pkg, I knew to run:
pkg-static add https://alpha.pkgbase.live/current/FreeBSD:14:amd64/14.snap20210709060648/FreeBSD-openssl-14.snap20210709060648.tzst

Everything is back to normal, but something went seriously wrong there, and I wouldn't know how to reproduce it '-.-.

I wonder if I'm in the wrong when I look at a CV of a "Full Stack Engineer" and basically discard it because it is obvious they didn't put any effort in making it look decent. Care: not original! just decent, any decent-looking template would do.

Then I try to correct for a potential bias, look at it deeper and think "nope, this is all just buzzwords".

Maybe I just dislike most people "in tech".

Accidentally upgraded a bunch of machines to #freebsd 13.0-RELEASE-p2 without being aware that p2 was out X-D.

Dolibarr running on #freebsd 🎉 (with #cdist based provisioning, because if you do it once, you do it twice).

I'm actually a tad surprised at how well Dolibarr
works in general.

Had a couple issues with how it expects the SMTP credentials to be able to send email from anyone, which is a tad absurd, but I managed to add a couple hacks to fix that.

https://git.sr.ht/~evilham/cdist-evilham/tree/main/item/type/__evilham_dolibarr/man.rst

*sigh* now #eurobsdcon is going to be entirely online; which means now I'd actually consider sending a CFP. The bad thing is that the deadline is next week. Now guess who doesn't have time these days?
Oh well, we'll see.

Having the #freebsd ports tree in git is useful.
Toyed around a bit with builds.sr.ht and managed to get something going (patch submissions pending):

www/py-treq: https://git.sr.ht/~evilham/freebsd-ports/commit/a700fbb1c421f42105c183867d105bff38433554 (tests: https://builds.sr.ht/~evilham/job/502898 )
devel/py-twisted: https://git.sr.ht/~evilham/freebsd-ports/commit/465f93ff5076e6c31788bc7b7e871f21741d8257 (tests: https://builds.sr.ht/~evilham/job/502918 )

Today I re-read an issue report I wrote. And I am again surprised at how bad certbot is. There was a reason why I keep it off my systems as much as I can.
https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/cdist/-/merge_requests/976

I trolled a bit a friend into installing #openbsd.
It worked well for them apparently :-D.

(Trolled them because I wasn't *actually sure* it'd work xD I just imagined it would, and stated things vaguely enough that it could be interpreted as an assurance).

Just realised that #freebsd 13's base has a tiny bit of code written by these fingers :-D.

Engineering section of popular streaming company asked on the blue site:
"What language did you write you first line of code in?"

Mine was Logo Writer, it was lovely and I appreciate having had access to it as a kid.

Turns out, I wrote about what that was like… Quite a bit ago (time flies…)
https://evilham.com/en/blog/2012-How-I-got-into-programming/

I'm starting to feel like an asshole for ignoring spammers. Today's:
"I find it pleasurable to offer you my friendship"

After a hard drive failure and thanks to #cdist and #zfs on #freebsd (with automatic backups every 15 mins), my work station (which doesn't have enough slots for drive redundancy) is back online after only running a few commands and moving a couple hundred GB across the network.

Today is one of those days in which I'd leave computers and… Idk, do beekeeping somewhere not densely populated.

Operation of ruby-based software sucks. Big time.

Mongodb. The "database" that has you fear for data whenever something unexpected happens.
(regardless of backups and all that)

bits = [bit for bit in bits if bit]

Jeeeeebus... pip install cryptography requires the rust compiler...
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/faq.html#installing-cryptography-fails-with-error-can-not-find-rust-compiler

At the end of the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-DZa5cuFyk