Really excited for FediDB, its something I wish existed when I started Pixelfed.
I hope it helps bring fediverse developers closer together and encourages greater compatibility across implementations!
In today's episode of "WTF Am I Doing With My Life", I'm running Pop!_OS on my laptop, connecting to a server in my basement running Ubuntu, on which I'm running a virtual machine of Haiku, itself a reimplementation of BeOS, on which I'm currently installing a DOS emulator.
This is either an interesting art project or a cry for help. I'm not sure which.
Occasionally I torture myself by looking at real estate in areas that are much cheaper than Boston (where I live). Sometimes this means I get to see hilarity in staging.
Anyone who knows American Sign Language (or can fingerspell) should check out the sculpture in the background of this picture.
Spoiler: it says "LOV💩"
https://github.com/muesli/duf is seeing a big traffic spike for the past 24 hours, but I haven't got the slightest clue where it's coming from...
Thanks anyway 😄
Basically this makes an X or Wayland system into a multi-seat terminal server surprisingly easily. After having done this once, I think I could scale it out to a ton of seats really quickly.
Why anyone felt the need to *build* this after, say, 1985 or so is beyond me. But it is cool regardless!
[email protected]:~$ loginctl seat-status seat1
seat1
Sessions: *c2
Devices:
├─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:04:00.0/drm/card1
│ [MASTER] drm:card1
├─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:04:00.0/drm/renderD128
│ drm:renderD128
└─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:04:00.1/sound/card0
sound:card0 "NVidia_1"
[...]
[email protected]:~$ loginctl list-seats
SEAT
seat0
seat1
seat23 seats listed.
[email protected]:~$ loginctl list-sessions
SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY
11 1000 fader pts/2
4 1000 fader pts/0
5 1000 fader pts/1
c1 124 lightdm seat0
c2 1000 fader seat1
c3 1001 xayide seat2 6 sessions listed.
Today I learned about `loginctl` which, as expected, controls Linux logins. It's not quite as well documented as I'd like, but after tinkering with it for a while I've done some very cool stuff.
I put two NVidia cards into a 2U server and used `loginctl` to associate each one with an automatic login session in lightdm (plus one non-autologin session with the built-in VGA hardware). So without creating an xorg.conf at all, this system runs an X session for each card plus Steam to stream games!
The Golang tutorial never ceases to make me feel stupid. The difficulty curve just feels way off for me, like
• Lesson 1 - What is a keyboard
• Lesson 2 - Saving a file in your editor
• Lesson 3 - Running "hello, world"
• Lesson 4 - Massively parallelized asymmetrical quantum computing across 17 star systems
Good news: @adafruit has resumed shipping the #adabox after being shut down for COVID-19!
Better news: the latest one has the most adorable single board microcontroller platform I've ever seen. I intentionally didn't look at the docs before powering it up, as Adafruit always ships with fun demo apps.
I actually laughed out loud a couple of times while playing with it! I handed it to my partner and at one point she shrieked in delight.
This thing is fantastic!
I'm a #robot that wants to live in your #underwear.