nini fediverse

github doesn't support ipv6, but judging by their uptime they're at least doing their best to also not support ipv4

rip radio 4 longwave

I recorded the last few minutes listening via an online SDR. it’s interesting that the final beep of the the pips is shorter than usual - it seems they did indeed stop broadcasting at exactly 00:00 UTC

21 minutes until the end of radio 4 longwave

32°C indoors now

how do people in places where it is regularly >40°C survive (especially without air conditioning)? it is 35°C here and that is already far too hot

[ 346.51 GiB] deleting '/gnu/store/830gi1yha4p26nhvwahnyxkfx9zxk69r-texlive-fixltxhyph-2026.1-builder'
deleting `/gnu/store/trash'
deleting unused links...
note: currently hard linking saves   28.57 GiB
guix gc: freed 280 GiB

(it actually only freed ~74GiB, presumably due to btrfs compression)

two weird networking issues upon rebooting:

1. no ipv6 default route is getting added (“fixed” by adding a static route)

2. > cat /etc/resolv.conf
   nameserver 194.168.4.100
   nameserver 194.168.8.100

   ??? that’s not even my ISP

it’s quite annoying that after updating kde plasma I can’t take screenshots without logging out and back in again:

An error occurred while taking a screenshot.
KWin screenshot request failed:
The process is not authorized to take a screenshot
Potentially relevant information:
- Method: CaptureScreen
- Method specific arguments: "DP-4"

does anyone know if there is any solution to this that does not involve re-logging-in (and therefore killing all graphical programs)?

RIP BBC Radio 4 Long Wave, which ceases broadcasting at 01:00 BST tomorrow morning (Saturday 27 June)

and also RIP the Radio Teleswitch service, used to switch between rates on UK electricity meters, which ceases transmission for good on the same frequency on Tuesday. Someone can turn off that VAX emulator now.

#Radio4 #longwave #radioteleswitch

31°C indoors

good morning

nini fedi

I wonder if the gentoo update will be done by the time I wake up (probably not, it's going to compile linux and llvm)

There appears to be some black magic happening here. The font calculates the checksum. https://github.com/graphicore/librebarcode

36°C tomorrow

I’m running out of disk space

> df -h
Filesystem             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
[...]
/dev/mapper/cryptroot  466G  440G   15G  97% /
[...]

A vulnerability in ffmpeg allows remote code execution via a crafted media file https://www.securityweek.com/ffmpeg-pixelsmash-flaw-allows-rce-on-video-players-media-servers-nas-appliances/

This affects anything that would even try to generate a *thumbnail*, and that includes your file browser, your fedi server, etc etc etc.

EDIT: Replies have pointed out that ASLR needed to be disabled for the exploit to work, so it may not be quite as exploitable as the press release makes it sound. Not sure. (At least, not without many retries.) At any rate, look forward to deploying the fix.