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Now/log

Just putting random stuff I'm working on and/or thinking about.

I'll try to update this daily. RSS should reflect this.

1205

Few bags of wiring and electronics went into a dump on a landfield. Feels great to get rid of so much.

Sorted out photographic equipment, grouped all my films and prints together. I need to find a place for all that since I can't take it on a van. That's really the only category of things I won't complete get rid of, my camera collection and stuff I made with it.

Few more shelves are empty now.

One specific camera that I'd like to take with me on the future journeys is this 9x12cm german folder[1], Zeiss Ideal 250/7UU. I have a bunch of film holders for it and a roll film adapter. Will need a very little bit of work and a test run to see if the rollfilm adapter works fine (I tested it years ago but don't remember anymore). The camera is ~1930, shutter (1913 according to its serial number) is in perfect condition.

[1] this 9x12cm german folder

1204

Collecting/grouping electronics and other stuff for sale and recycling all over the house.

1203

Day 3, part two of AOC 2021[2] - dealing with bits in AWK. I am using AWK that is shipped with 9front, so none of GAWK features are present, including proper multidimensional arrays, nor binary operations. It's fun. Or insanity.

[2] Day 3, part two of AOC 2021

1202

I decided to start doing proper personal packages for Void Linux I use here: void-packages[3]. Added Linux 5.15.6+5.15.5-rt there, kernel with real-time scheduling, that is.

[3] void-packages

1201

My Advent of Code 2021[4] with AWK.

[4] Advent of Code 2021

1129-1130

Nothing.

1128

By popular demand, 9front music playlist in m3u format, playable by music players other than `zuke`: HERE[5].

[5] HERE

1126

This commit[6] makes System76 pango11 have a proper framebuffer. That AMD Ryzen system had EFI framebuffer above 512Gb, but 9front only used one PML4 entry. Now it's all working. Thanks, mr. Cinap!

[6] This commit

1125

For those using 9front: `hget http://ftrv.se/_/9front-202111.plist | audio/zuke`. Preview of 9front's music album, streaming directly from cinap.

Small change to `auth/aescbc` to make it print an error on write, if any.

1123-1124

Nothing.

1122

Setting up System67 Pangolin the whole day. 9front does NOT boot on this one. Patch that fixes 64-bit PCIe BARs did not help, unfortunately.

1121

9pfs[7] compilation errors fixed.

[7] 9pfs

evdump[8] changes pushed. Not tested natively. Running `kbmap` is advised until it's tested well.

[8] evdump

1120

Out dancing.

1119

Worked on transforming `kbfind` into evdump[9], a tool that works kinda like `xev` under X. Printing scan codes on keys presses, mouse events, etc.

[9] evdump

1118

I am getting an MNT Reform[10] which I want to run 9front on (will need to do some work to get there). Thanks to the amazing people who thought I deserve one as a gift for the contributions I've made so far. More to come.

[10] MNT Reform

Another one is System76[11] laptop from my current job, with AMD Ryzen. That will also allow me to add SVM support to `vmx(1)` in 9front, eventually, if I have enough spare time.

[11] System76

1115-1117

Work.

Added pause/resume to treason[12]. I know it's not perfect and makes the program hang if there is no audio, but that's how it's going to be for now until I get to work more on mcfs[13], which would allow full blown seeking, proper pausing, switching between multiple streams in a container, playback from a network stream, etc etc. Better something than nothing.

[12] treason

[13] mcfs

1114

Fixed compose sequences starting with "X", "x" and " " (space) in 9front's `kbdfs`. Added double-struck capital letters, full set `𝔸-ℤ` is available now.

1110-1113

A bit of work on Varvara/Uxn reimplementation in Haskell[14]. The plan is to generate VM in C that runs on 9front by that, among other things.

[14] Varvara/Uxn reimplementation in Haskell

1109

Added initial `Kmod4` support to drawterm[15]. riow[16] works it seems.

[15] drawterm

[16] riow

1108

Tested a tls fuzzer against 9front's tls server. One test crashed the kernel. Cinap fixed it[17].

[17] Cinap fixed it

Listen of the day[18]

[18] Listen of the day

1104-1107

Drive-by changes in uxn[19] and npe[20].

[19] uxn

[20] npe

1103

I haven't done any music in a looong while and decided to refresh my memory of using Renoise, so I spent a few hours writing a track: The Digital Future[21].

[21] The Digital Future

1102

Nothing.

1101

Listen of the day[22].

[22] Listen of the day

Cut my hair shorter, it's only down to shoulders now.

1030-1031

Chilling.

Small fix in `libtags` of 9front that makes tag reading succeed even if there are no tags in a music file, but the file is valid. Duration, format, etc can still be important.

1029

Two small fixes in npe[23]. One to fix a hang on `SDL_CloseAudioDevice` when no audio thread was spawned. Another is to properly scale mouse movement based on how much the window image is scaled. Those were tested with uxn[24].

[23] npe

[24] uxn

Simplified `zuke` volume handling after a bug report from qwx[25]. Also added `-s` option to `mkplist`, to sort by full path. Also qwx's idea.

[25] qwx

1028

I continuously push people away without realizing it. This comes from low self esteem and thinking that no one would want to waste their time on me anyway, so why should I even try.

1027

Synced `openh264` and `libvpx` with upstream for treason[26].

[26] treason

1026

Added "pcm" volume control handle to `drawterm` and made it also skip the non-existing ones. Updated `zuke` to use that control if available. It can now control music volume with `drawterm`.

1025

Finished reading How to live in a van and travel[27]. Wholesome, fun read, lots of info. Now I know there is very little reason to freak out.

[27] How to live in a van and travel

1024

treason[28] can play videos on Raspberry Pi 4 now.

[28] treason

1023

Lobste.rs, Uber for ultra-elitist upper class Hackernews.

Some `sam` goodness: `!fn b{ echo 'X/'^$*^'/!B $%' }`. Can open matching files: `^b blah`.

grimmware[29] pointed out 9pro[30] doesn't build on Mac OS X and provided a patch to fix it. Modified a bit, `9pex` should build fine on Mac OS X and NetBSD now.

[29] grimmware

[30] 9pro

1008-1022

Too busy with a lot of things.

One of them is downsizing and preparing to work on a biggest life change so far: moving over to living full time in a van and travel around EU.

I don't have a van, nor license, nor experience, but the work on those has started. I will be talking about it more as I go.

1007

unflac[31] will correctly pick "performer" of the entire album if it was not set per-track. There are some additional feature requests in the backlog that I need to work on.

[31] unflac