[13:02] schestowitz[13:02] schestowitzI recently moved a Time Capsule instance from a FreeBSD host into a jail. Today, Im going to create a new Time Capsule which uses Samba instead of AFP. Why? Samba seems to be the preferred solution because AFP has been deprecated. It still works, but lets go Samba.
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[13:11] schestowitz[13:11] schestowitzFirst, this is not about jailed ZFS datasets. I use them for FreshPorts, but thats not Im going to talk about here.
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[13:13] schestowitz[13:13] schestowitzHeres a few words on the Sender Policy Framework, aka SPF, aka omg why please no no no.
[13:13] schestowitz"SPF is often touted as an anti-spam measure. It isnt. Its one component of a spam assessment policy. Competent spammers are among the most reliable publishers of SPF records, gleefully declaring that any host may send mail for their domains. Emails from domains without SPF records are likely to be classified as spam, however."
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[13:18] schestowitz[13:18] schestowitzIt recognizes the passing RC car using a DIY break beam sensor. Instead of using an off-the-shelf infrared module, Goff made his own sensor. One side has a very bright LED with the beam kept tight by PVC pipe and a convex lens. The other side has an Arduino Nano board that detects that beam using a light-dependent resistor (LDR). The Arduino utilizes the millis() function to count the elapsed t [13:18] schestowitz ime between beam breaks, then displays the results on an LCD screen. An 18650 lithium battery cell and charge controller in each unit provide power.
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[13:20] schestowitz[13:20] schestowitzIt's less than 12 hours since the Pi 5 launch, and already there's a few hundred questions whizzing aboutI thought I'd answer some of the things I see people asking most frequently, like:
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[13:35] schestowitz[13:35] schestowitzI wanted to write a fun little experimental ActivityPub server. I have a solid idea how to handle this in go, or at least I think I do, so thatd be pretty boring. Instead, lets try a new technology.
[13:35] schestowitzI settled on swift, a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns, to create the best available language for uses ranging from systems programming, to mobile and desktop apps, scaling up to cloud services.
[13:35] schestowitzThis worked until it didnt. Here are some incomplete notes on the experience, and some extrapolated thoughts on how things may have gone.
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[13:36] schestowitz[13:36] schestowitzEich also had about ten years of experience with language design and compiler developer and was explicitly hired by Netscape to put a programming language in the browser (pg 7). Originally this was supposed Scheme, but then Netscape signed a deal with Sun and agreed to make it more "Java-like".
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[13:40] schestowitz[13:40] schestowitzOn September 28, 2003, a group of friends in New Zealand uploaded a bittorrent file to distribute their homemade fan film, an amateur tribute to The Matrix, which they shot in nine days on a total budget of $800. 20 years later, the torrent is still active, and the filmcalled The Fanimatrix: Run Programhas become the oldest file distributed using the peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
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[13:41] schestowitz[13:41] schestowitzWe've posted our Raspberry Pi 5 review and praised the new king of single-board computers for its performance, functionality and value. However, the testing we did for our review just scratched the surface of its capabilities. So, follow along with us here as we try even more workloads (ex: emulation) while tracking the latest news from the rest of the Pi ecosystem.
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[13:42] schestowitz[13:42] schestowitzBy now, you ought to know the drill. Dedo gets himself a Linux-powered laptop, Dedo writes reports on his long-term usage, over a period of months, years. We get the first-hour impression, but then, there's the first month, the first year, the fifth year, and whatnot. I've done this with my Slimbook Pro2, a laptop that has served me loyally for five years, until its battery went a-wonk, where I [13:42] schestowitz decided to buy a new productivity machine, one Slimbook Executive, and for which I've already started its own series of usage reports.
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