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2026-03-19 14:45:28 UTC

I reached e16. I use the NoNIC image to start with. If you dd the image to an external drive, it is an easy way to move between VMware and QEMU. I compiled the X drivers for VMware in the build steps. The build tool is dead simple. Just run the build.js script with Deno. It scans and lists the shell scripts in natural sort order. When you click, it lists the shell script and if you click run at the bottom it will do a synced command execution of the shell script. Gather all of your source tarballs in /sources, just like LFS/BLFS. I do use xc as a subdirectory and my X prefix is just /usr. I don't use a fancy display manager, just put e16 at the bottom of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. The purpose of this is for documentation of a system that can run a GUI. *Mainly* I want an offline way to generate docs and steps under my control vs. the unbearable flood of docs and info you usually get on a distribution. IRNL (in real networked life) I use KDE Plasma on a Debian-based system.
Note that I took many liberties with the build steps. I used old steps from L1G3R, but updated them to work with 11.2, which NoNIC is on. This means I had to swap out some Xorg stuff to work with GCC 12 and do some shenanigans to get Mesa to compile. It is a unique distribution. I will check in future build step changes to the repos. This work will go into the technical reference. Eventually I'll put the steps up in web form and brief instructions on L1G3R.
https://blossom.primal.net/9d455e7bfa65183faaacbd6c69b6846c87af30203d02a92bd8932b4a40771510.png
https://blossom.primal.net/3d68b170591f415296a0e847cf3c315c3718b890295f0cc8ca7eb84de4150341.png
The build steps and app are here:
https://codeberg.org/144mb/nostr-push-log/src/branch/main/build
And here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/nostr-push-log/code/ci/main/tree/build/
You can also find the NoNIC image at:
https://codeberg.org/144mb/nonic
https://sourceforge.net/p/nonic/code/ci/main/tree/

2026-03-18 22:27:06 UTC

dhoop day.
it has been awhile.
https://blossom.primal.net/6880d3e9850a6cad9d20f466686dc9207e95d2b63b8bab771343045a6efb3451.jpg

2026-03-18 20:20:27 UTC

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love Mae West

2026-03-18 18:21:25 UTC

I have a stack of MS Sculpt keyboards, most of which I bought in a lot of used-near-new that were mostly missing the transceiver. They usually last about a year, but this particular keyboard is at three plus years. I've swapped transceivers on a couple keyboards before. I type *a lot*. Recently I've accidentally shifted my right-hand home position a few times. I just figured out why. I've worn down the j key bump. (j is line down when coding with vi keybindings). Usually a key stops working and I swap, but this keyboard is a champ. I can't believe the cheap contacts inside outlasted the bump.

2026-03-18 17:52:27 UTC

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Nostr is mortar and a trowel (signed JSON over websockets).
Fuck consumer culture.
Fuck the looters.

2026-03-18 17:40:33 UTC

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My wife took on a project to grow a coffee plant, mainly because a friend of mine in Vietnam sad she couldn't do it. After four years, we finally have half a cup of coffee worth of cherries. She has me send regular status update snaps of the progress.
https://blossom.primal.net/8d6728c9ddeb82988e9a61110a9acc16a802caedc4c332d27aa353e7841ee494.jpg

2026-03-18 16:51:07 UTC

From 1981 until 2001 (an even 20 years with rough edges), most of the time when I was at home or with friends, we listened to record albums. Whoever was there would rotate their choice in turn. Even earlier than 1981, I listened to the radio, usually Top 40, sometimes the rock/metal-ish station. There were various stages I can tap into. For instance, 1984 was a strange blend of folk, hippie, new wave, and techno. Punk entered in 85.
In 86 I walked by a house where somebody was playing Stevie Nicks' Bella Donna. I had recently moved suddenly, and all I owned was in the back of a small pickup with a canopy, and I slept there as well, so I had few items. I missed that tape. I had no money. I was crisscrossing the town looking for work but hadn't found it yet. I knocked on the door and asked if I could borrow the tape, and she loaned it to me. I didn't even know her. I gave it back later.
This slowly changed to now, when I watch various TV shows made in cable/stream heyday before the decline in the last few years. This is how I fill blank spaces and only listen to music when I'm coding, doing the dishes, or in the increasingly rare times I just relax while grilling or sometimes even just sitting there doing nothing.
I regret filling in the blank spaces with something other than silence or music. I don't regret much that I've chosen, but that is one thing, I think, that I do actually regret. I'll have to change that.
This is also why I have a link to a song as a response to almost everything.
Why 2001? I was listening to music and reading Slashdot when I read about the planes hitting the World Trade Center. I had a small cathode ray TV (13 inch?) that I pulled out of storage and set up on a chair so we could watch the news. That TV grew and grew to the point where it takes up the majority of a wall. The shows got more and more sophisticated and replaced some genuine value with fake. I fell for it.

2026-03-17 15:05:06 UTC

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Like depending on IBM consulting to maintain your COBOL code for financial systems
I see both sides there... It is an excellent application for AI (as we call it, not inference via ontology/knowledge graphs). OTOH, there will likely be some serious hiccups as well. Ooops... no ATM withdraws this week... sorry.

2026-03-16 18:04:40 UTC

The last PiLFS images are also around LFS 11.2. I'm going to focus on x86_64, as there are loads of old Windows boxes out there that are increasingly useless (and I have quite a few as well). But, it doesn't take much to get QEMU running on an M1+ macOS system using these images.
https://intestinate.com/pilfs/

2026-03-16 17:12:58 UTC

I did get the 5.15 kernel recompiled after recompiling GCC with new headers and other related stuff, including Glibc. The system should be pretty solid on 5.15 now. I'll eventually do another full pass. Sometimes you have to go back and forth with the toolchain. I messed up a wee bit on grub, but no sweat, SystemRescueCD to the rescue:
```
qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu qemu64 -enable-kvm -smp 6 -m 12G -boot d -cdrom systemrescue-12.02-amd64.iso -drive file=/dev/sdb,format=raw
```

2026-03-14 08:45:34 UTC

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So SETI can find the circle

2026-03-14 01:02:22 UTC

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"Former CTO, Definitely Real Corp"

2026-03-13 17:37:24 UTC

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Nailed it. It still kind of looks like this to me. Perhaps it is just that a normie with an npub is still a normie. I remember the first week I was on Paul was hitting some fruit with a stick and it exploded in slo mo then he announced he was having a child.

2026-03-13 17:27:27 UTC

I'm using a 100GB external SSD to house the filesystem, and accessing directly via QEMU. N🚫NIC is 30GB, so when you cat the image directly to a drive, you end up with extra space. Note this is old school. I'm not using UUIDs, but for something this simple it doesn't really matter much. Plus, it is educational, as it is useful to know where your physical partitions are. Also, this is not intended to be a daily driver, nor does it have external access normally. The only real exception is going to be Rust, as you have to compile that online. (Ed: it appears there are options like https://github.com/panamax-rs/panamax that will facilitate offline compiles, but I don't care enough to do that at this point, and don't see it adds much to achieve my goals of documenting the e16 and local tools.) Also, most of my way of doing things hasn't changed much in 20 years. My daily driver is a recent Debian based system, and this stuff is magically done for me.
```
-bash-5.1# fdisk /dev/sda
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.38.1).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
This disk is currently in use - repartitioning is probably a bad idea.
It's recommended to umount all file systems, and swapoff all swap
partitions on this disk.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 119.24 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Disk model: QEMU HARDDISK
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xc40bedc3
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 62914559 62912512 30G 83 Linux
Command (m for help): n
Partition type
p primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
e extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): p
Partition number (2-4, default 2):
First sector (62914560-250069679, default 62914560):
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (62914560-250069679, default 250069679): +80G
Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux' and of size 80 GiB.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 119.24 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Disk model: QEMU HARDDISK
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xc40bedc3
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 62914559 62912512 30G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 62914560 230686719 167772160 80G 83 Linux
Command (m for help): n
Partition type
p primary (2 primary, 0 extended, 2 free)
e extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): p
Partition number (3,4, default 3):
First sector (230686720-250069679, default 230686720):
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (230686720-250069679, default 250069679):
Created a new partition 3 of type 'Linux' and of size 9.2 GiB.
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-3, default 3): 3
Hex code or alias (type L to list all): 82
Changed type of partition 'Linux' to 'Linux swap / Solaris'.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 119.24 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Disk model: QEMU HARDDISK
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xc40bedc3
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 62914559 62912512 30G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 62914560 230686719 167772160 80G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 230686720 250069679 19382960 9.2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Syncing disks.
-bash-5.1# mkdir /sources
-bash-5.1# vi /etc/fstab
-bash-5.1# mkswap /dev/sda3
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 9.2 GiB (9924071424 bytes)
no label, UUID=2bed1224-dc41-42c3-a1a9-63abc710da82
-bash-5.1# swapon /dev/sda3
-bash-5.1# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
mke2fs 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
Creating filesystem with 20971520 4k blocks and 5242880 inodes
Filesystem UUID: ac586a91-d8ce-4029-8aaf-30a6cb4955eb
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (131072 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
-bash-5.1# mount /sources
-bash-5.1# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=2522940k,nr_inodes=630735,mode=755)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
/dev/sda2 on /sources type ext4 (rw,relatime)
-bash-5.1# cat /etc/fstab
# Begin /etc/fstab
# file system mount-point type options dump fsck
# order
/dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda2 /sources ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc nosuid,noexec,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs nosuid,noexec,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs defaults 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs mode=0755,nosuid 0 0
# End /etc/fstab
-bash-5.1# reboot
Last login: Fri Mar 13 14:00:55 2026 from 10.0.2.2
-bash-5.1# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=2522940k,nr_inodes=630735,mode=755)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/sda2 on /sources type ext4 (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
-bash-5.1# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 5050396 43336 4957112 240 49948 4945252
Swap: 9691476 0 9691476
-bash-5.1# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 30G 1.6G 27G 6% /
devtmpfs 2.5G 0 2.5G 0% /dev
tmpfs 2.5G 240K 2.5G 1% /run
/dev/sda2 79G 24K 75G 1% /sources
-bash-5.1#
```

2026-03-13 15:54:12 UTC

I'm going to move the system down to 5.15 from 5.19. I don't see any reason for going to kernel 6 for three reasons:
- The main application is for older hardware, or within a VM.
- I really don't want to redo N🚫NIC. It works, is published.
- A *huge* motivation for going back to source is to have better control of the documentation, both in options, but also in sheer volume. I can narrow the required source for just a GUI, e16, Pandoc, LaTeX and librsvg, and that will be the total set of documentation, all available locally, including the compiler and toolchain to create itself (and modify itself).
Kernel 5.15 has updates through the end of December 2025, unlike 5.19. I got a kworker/dying error this morning that made me research my 5.19 system, and while I don't know for sure that this is the problem, 5.15 seems prudent at this point in the build. I have to re-run the build anyway to test my build system.

2026-03-13 14:59:48 UTC

GM
I'm working on the Deno local build system today. I have the build steps up through Pandoc/LaTeX and librsvg, but I only have a remote tool for build, not local.

2026-03-13 14:51:10 UTC

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My project manager at one of my corporate jobs was a project manager at Lockheed who worked on the space shuttle. My engineering kung fu was absolute shit, and she destroyed my design and implementation plan, threatening to get me tossed from the project for incompetence. My direct boss, who was an engineer/architect for the first in-flight consumer wireless broadband for jets, took me under her wing, and helped me submit something the project manager could use. My degree was in math, not engineering, so my corporate experience made me the engineer I am today.

2026-03-12 22:13:28 UTC

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Nice. Have you played with particle life?

2026-03-09 22:15:27 UTC

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I like Levon's attitude and faith to his art (unlike Robbie Robertson).

2026-03-05 15:47:33 UTC

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I was going to ask if you were referring to the Alpha 0.1.0 project, but saw you tagged jcorgan, so answered my own question. (jmcorgan/fips).
I'm curious how you see the evolution of software toolchain ecosystems outside of TCP/IP. (Rust in particular is heavily invested.) Of course, nobody would say the old stuff is going away, but if you have to bridge and build everything through legacy, I'm not seeing the advantage. (Just send those KIND-1 notes around Nostr-over-FIPS after building and maintaining gigabytes of toolchain over legacy TCP/IP? Sending JSON event objects?) I forget the article, but I was reading recently about the insane amount of corporate money going in to handle these toolchains (NPM, Rust/crates... on and on).

2026-01-06 15:41:05 UTC

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#nevent1q…muad

2026-01-05 05:28:04 UTC

I've had quite a few cycles of accounts and posts as I've poked at social media interactions from many angles. I've learned quite a bit. Hopefully this will settle in with less churn, now. If you are looking for old posts, they are here:
https://sysadmintools.com