Passthejoe @passthejoe@ruby.social

Could I use my iMac running Debian to get video off of a digital-tape camcorder? https://www.arsouyes.org/en/blog/2021/2021-07-05_Numerisation_DV

Updates to my CentOS Stream 8 system today (that notably don't include a new kernel EIGHT days after a major vulnerability was patched in RHEL):

* NetworkManager
* bash
* cockpit
* cups-filters
* dhcp-client
* glibc
* gnome-shell
* gsettings-desktop-schemas
* kexec-tools
* mdadm
* microcode_ctl
* sssd
* systemd
* tuned
* webkit2gtk3

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame - Jake Edge/LWN.net https://lwn.net/Articles/862832/

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system

* anaconda
* authselect
* gcc
* gnome-shell
* java-11
* man-pages-overrides
* mutter
* openssl
* ostree
* rpm
* samba
* selinux-policy
* subscription-manager
* tigervnc
* util-linux
* xfsprogs

Chromium hasn't been updated for Debian Stable since May https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium

I'm not sure exactly what @vivaldibrowser has done in the past couple of months or so, but I can tell you that it is DEFINITELY ready for prime-time on Linux.

Wanted: More scientists of color for better science - Axios https://www.axios.com/hard-truths-deep-dive-science-race-underrepresentation-scientists-083e0441-a58c-4c47-bf9b-4045aa7589d7.html

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system

NetworkManager
autoconf
binutils
blivet-data
cockpit
coreutils
device-mapper-multipath
firefox
glib2
gnome-shell
gnome-software
ibus
java 1.8.0
java 11
kpartx
man-pages-overrides
nettle
nss
openjpeg2
parted
rsyslog
tuned
valgrind
vulcan-loader
webkit2gtk3

My current setup remains CentOS Stream 8 on the HP Envy laptop. My work browser is Vivaldi, my not-work browser is Firefox. http://centos.org

blogPoster now has a Twitter-only branch in GitHub. Unfortunately that seems to be the direction in which things are heading. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

blogPoster update: Ruby 3.0 is working for Twitter in Windows, but in Linux it'sno-go for the entire app in Ruby 3.0. I thought I could disable Mastodon posting and have it work, but no. Another problem: My Fedora laptop's keyboard is dying again, making testing difficult. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

Twitter sends me a LOT of ads for video games. Do they know I have zero interest?

I need to set up a version of my blogPoster app with the newer version of the Twitter gem and no mastodon-api gem. If that solves the issues with Ruby >= 2.7, I might have to leave the unmaintained mastodon-api on the side of the road and make the app Twitter only. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

I read a book. It was "The Big Sleep," by Raymond Chandler. I had never read it before, though I have seen the movie.

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system

NetworkManager
anaconda
centos-backgrounds
centos-logos
glib2
glibc
java 1.8.0
nettle
nss
selinux-policy
sssd
vino
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland

This site has an archive page. Every post appears via one giant HTML file that I generate on the server. There's a little Javascript that tells you it's the archive page in the right rail. http://updates.passthejoe.net/archive.html

I wasn't in CentOS Stream 8 for a week, and I had quite a few updates waiting for me. RHEL/CentOS is a LOT more dynamic that you'd think. I've seen little bugs get fixed here and there. It's a lot more active than Debian Stable.

I need to run curl with NO output, and I used the --silent switch to do it. You can also use -s, but I like --silent because it tells me what it does.

Now that I'm running Windows 10 without performance-crushing updates looming, it's a fairly pleasant experience. Solve the update problems, @microsoft.