Wesley Moore

Oh @bapt@mastodon.social is working on a proper service manager with dependency tracking and process supervision for FreeBSD. Service definitions use the UCL format already used elsewhere on the system. The project is called rcd: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2026-June/006427.html

After using launchd on macOS, then systemd on Linux, and now dinit on Chimera LInux I think this model is definitely the way too go. (I'm aware SMF on Solaris pre-dates these, but I've not used it)

/via @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

#FreeBSD

An inquisitive Butcherbird swooped down from the trees and observed us having lunch. It was no doubt hoping for an offering, but left empty-handed.

#WildOz

Some soft retro vibes from the Brightinstar 35mm and FujiFilm Classic Chrome film simulation. From a trip to Caloundra this morning.

Full album on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wezm/albums/72177720334861056

#FujiFilm #Photography #Queensland

Solo

#Beach #Photography #bird

I noticed the tell-tale signs in the grass when mowing yesterday, so set up the trail camera. I was not disappointed, we have a visiting Bandicoot again!

https://youtu.be/_JJQF658qGY

#WildOz #Bandicoot

😩 ok that's enough social media for one morning. Time to step away.

I think we have an Antechinus living in our garden.

#SunshineCoast #Marsupial

How is this an actual UI in an operating system shipped to millions of people‽

If anyone knows how to turn off the stupid banana when viewing images in the Messages app on Android I'd love to know.

**Edit:** Trying the Right Messages app as a replacement for Google Messages.

#Android

RE: @emenel@post.lurk.org

So many other distros they could work with, but chose that one.

My reward for getting both our printers working on Casuarina today. No thanks to Xprinter (my label printer manufacturer) for distributing their driver as a rar file with a .deb inside. Which meant `rar` -> `deb` -> data.tar.xz -> finally PPDs and filter binaries. That was fun to package.

#CasuarinaLinux

Enjoyed lunch in Esk on a 67 year old table with some avian visitors.

#bird #queensland

In Nov 2024 a popular cafe in town closed due to increasing financial pressures, culminating in "a significant rent hike". The space they were in has remained empty to this day. I hope the greedy landlord is happy with their actions. It brings me a bit of dark satisfaction to know they have received zero rent in that time.

TIL that Exif metadata is actually well-formed TIFF and as a result can use big or little endian (because TIFF supports that).

https://binspector.github.io/blog/2014/10/13/big-trouble-in-little-endian/

Also explains this output from `file` too: `Exif Standard: [TIFF image data, big-endian, direntries=12…`

More info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif#Technical

I patiently awaited the arrival of Fedora 44, as they had put work into a better out of the box experience on Snapdragon X ARM laptops². I tried it over the weekend… and it didn't work. First I had to discover that you have to manually edit the kernel command line in grub¹ to have any chance of it booting, but even after multiple attempts it never got further than a few systemd boot messages. So the Yoga 7x goes back in the corner again.

¹ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Snapdragon_WoA_Laptop_Install
² https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-ARM-OOTB

Re: @CursiveHello@bitbang.social

I like what GNOME Console (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console) does with the cursor. It blinks for a few seconds after movement ends. Then stops blinking until something moves it again.

TIL via the @oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io and Friends podcast that ZFS contains a Lua interpreter that runs in-kernel.

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/8/zfs-program.8.html

#ZFS

If you have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon of some variety, does it support S3 sleep? There might be an option to enable it in the UEFI (Sleep State > Linux, or Modern Standby > Disabled). If so, what generation of X1 do you have?

#ThinkPad

@doekman just gotta install it ;-)

$ doas apk add age The following NEW packages will be installed: age age-man Need to download 4774 KiB of packages. After this operation, 21.5 MiB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (1/2) Installing age (1.3.1-r1) (2/2) Installing age-man (1.3.1-r1) Executing mandoc-apropos-1.14.6-r6.trigger

• Regenerating man db... OK: 7597.5 MiB in 1562 packages $ which age /usr/bin/age

RE: @ccgus@mastodon.social

"There’s something here about how it’s developed that I can’t quite put my finger on, but it feels … good?

I think it’s the speed. There’s no needless animations. Things just flow. It’s fast fast fast and the tables scroll at 60fps on my M1 Mac."

#Rust