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Chmouel

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Chmouel··on The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now
i migrated my tui (lazyworktree) to it and it's been absolute pleasure, they finally fixed the isssue where row could not be "lipglossed"/colored as before (like on screenshots here https://chmouel.github.io/lazyworktree/#screenshots)
Chmouel··on French telecom company Orange fined €650k for violation of GPL license
a press article talking about it (still in french) https://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/l-esprit-libre/non-respect-de-la-...
Chmouel··on An implementation of the NTFS filesystem in a Rust crate
I recently had a bit of a data hiccup on my desktop laptop, where I'm using Btrfs with LVM encryption. What's weird is that I started getting these random reboots out of the blue, with no error messages to explain what was going on. I was scratching my head for a while, thinking it might be a hardware issue.

Then, in frustration, I rebooted into my Windows partition, which I rarely ever use. to see if I could back up my stuff and figure out why I wasn't having the same reboot problems in Windows.

After trying a bunch of Btrfs repair commands over a bootable usb disk I found online, I hit a wall with some errors that couldn't be fixed. So, I threw in the towel and reinstalled my system with ext4. It's been running smoothly for three weeks now with no more error headaches.

Could not find the logs of the errors anymore unfortunately to report.

Chmouel··on Kubernetes as a platform vs. Kubernetes as an API
I think that's the actual goal of kcp: https://github.com/kcp-dev/kcp
Chmouel··on Release engineering is exhausting so here's cargo-dist
i really enjoy goreleaser https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/ and use it with rust https://github.com/chmouel/snazy/blob/main/.goreleaser.yaml#... combined with build matrix https://github.com/chmouel/snazy/blob/main/.github/workflows...
Chmouel··on NixOS on M1
I tried that last week, and for me the dealbreaker was the touchpad... It may not really important for other people but not being able to use the f keys directly on the laptop is annoying....
Chmouel··on What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
you can get them from catalog.redhat.com i.e: for the rhel/ubi9 images :

https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/search?q=ubi9...

red hat has some sort of partnership with docker to have them available in docker hub, i guess it's just not there yet...

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-bring...

Chmouel··on Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar
Here is my linux version that probably not does exactly the same set of features and not as pretty but good enough for me (show me the next meeting and quickly join it with one click) :

https://github.com/chmouel/gnome-next-meeting-applet

Chmouel··on UK to depart from GDPR
As someone who was doing the other way around (hey dan!) working in australia coming from france i always find it weird how australian could accepts almost everything from the government with not much contestation,

I remember when there was a law who passed thru in Australia where every small company could fire anyone on the day (it wasn't the case before, i think there was a 3 month period or something).

The law passed and the only comments I could get from colleague at that time (not from you dan ;)) was "humm okay then"

In france there would be riots for months and years if such law passed.

Chmouel··on AlmaLinux an open-source RHEL fork
That's not the same thing, it's a whole different thing to do a "rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm" and to actually take a upstream source package it with a spec, patch it to make it compatible with other things in the distro and test them in different setup.

The challenge anyway is not to rebuild packages or make packages it is to actually maintain the build farms and the build tools.

source: i work for Red Hat (not doing any packages work tho) and I used to work for Mandrakesoft on Linux-Mandrake when we were basically rebuild Red Hat rpms to our flavour.

Chmouel··on Comparison of X Window Managers
So no new windows manager after 2013?
Chmouel··on OfflineIMAP: sync and backup tool for IMAP
Binaries it seems (for mac/win)
Chmouel··on Garmin engineer from India killed by U.S. domestic terrorist
Shooting at people is bad no matter which 'race' you are ! even worse when it's for no apparent reasons
Chmouel··on Pretty Linux – desktop screenshots from 1999-2001
how come we all became boring since gnome3 and unity
Chmouel··on Companies valued at $1B or more by venture-capital firms
There is so many of them there i had no idea they existed
Chmouel··on The end for Mandriva
I was the first (or second depend of the point of view) employee of Mandriva back in 1999, quite a journey since then. Sad to see them gone
Chmouel··on Pgloader: A High-speed PostgreSQL Swiss Army Knife, Written in Lisp
cool! awesome video as well i recommend watching it,
Chmouel··on ShellCheck: a static analysis and linting tool for sh/bash scripts
There is this tools as well developed in OpenStack: https://github.com/openstack-dev/bashate
Chmouel··on A Rocket to Nowhere
and me thinking he was talking about that rocket docker thing
Chmouel··on Emacs and Vim
same exactly for me, i use sometime the arrows or the other keys or c-s etc.... i don't mind the jk vim keys as well when i am in vim, either way it's all about your brain being good enough to context swift in .... context
Chmouel··on The first Swift conference worldwide (Feb 6th, Paris)
I can do a talk about OpenStack Swift if they need speakers ;)
Chmouel··on Garzik: An Andre To Remember
I don't know Andre but I know Jeff and he's the most nicest kernel developer out there there is not many that are as much great listener as him