The spec looks reasonable. I could see it replacing XWayland as a more modern and secure alternative for X11 apps not yet ported to Wayland.

Looks like he got arrested in the middle of a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon.

That pattern is also recommended in the book. Break down estimates into chunks of 5 hours or less.

With lots of smaller tasks, estimates tend to both be more accurate due to smaller scope, and some of the over/under inaccuracies will cancel out.

Read Software Estimation by Steve McConnell and recommend it to your manager:

The person doing the work the one best suited to estimate it.

Also, start tracking estimated vs budgeted time in some searchable system.

Next time this comes up, look up how long it actually took to complete a similar task instead of thoughts and prayers.

If boss won’t track historical budget vs actual, track it yourself.

bashmount

Asahi Linux completely supports all the M1 Mini hardware.

But it does look the prices on these went back up because people use them for OpenClaw. 🙄

I run Asahi Fedora Linux on this hardware. It was a straightforward install and has been problem-free since.

It’s nice that some resources are being directed in this area, but it’s far from a total solution.

For example, the passport-saml Node module is popular and security related and is already fielding a number of AI-assisted security vulns.

Even when they are contributed by “security experts”, they still have to be carefully vetted to confirm they are correct and not themselves malicious.

While the patches may be good, it appears to be generating more unpaid volunteer labor for the maintainers.

Thankfully there some other fund’s trying to help out maintainers of critical open source projects.

The Code Rabbit link is about software in general, not the Linux kernel in particular. In many ways the Linux kernel is an outlier among software projects. When it comes to LLMs, I don’t expect devs will be using lower standards for code reviews in quality, while some other teams definitely are doing light “LGTM” reviews of AI code.

The second link expresses a lot of concerns about plagiarism by AI. Certainly related care needs to taken for contributions to the Linux kernel. As far as I could tell, no specific cases of plagiarized code in the kernel were cited.

M1 Mac Mini is quiet, fast, low power consumption and reasonably-priced used.

The log volume is dependent on which services are running and how they are tuned.

Gtklock.

I have a UPS that allows the server to survive an apocalypse of 15 minutes or less.

No, you should ask how they measure it.

Store the secrets on a Yubikey. They are unstealable then.

Yubico has their own GUI app or you can wrappers for their CLI tool to use something like dmenu, rofi or Fuzzel to pick one.

Ok, this prompted me to root-cause the issue. A bad cable between laptop and USB dock seems most likely. Hardware issue, not Linux!

Linux revoked my mic permissions in the middle of a call today, on Google Meet. Happened before on Zoom.

I have not root-caused it to see if there was flaky hardware or what.

If you run for office to be different from all the rest and win, do you immediately become corrupted upon election?

The marketing mixes metaphors, talking about gardening, growing, curating… all part of sustainable process that includes plants dying.

It also uses words like forever and permanent.

Having content live forever is at odds with metaphors of the natural world, where things naturally die.

How does it handle helm features that are not valid compose features? Silent failure or loud warning?