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New comment by supakeen in "The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory"

supakeen — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:30:27 +0000

Mmm, COPR and Koji I think use the same mock configs but someone else would have to confirm that :)

It's definitely possible that one of a packages build dependencies pulls in something that a package /should/ depend on and then when it drops it suddenly the build fails. That's why I think we mostly want 'autogenerated' BuildRequires nowadays that are generated based on the upstream source or packaging format to make that less of a figuring out excercise.

New comment by supakeen in "The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory"

supakeen — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:19:51 +0000

There's a guide! It's here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/ (or: https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-contribute-to-fedora/)

Personally I feel a good way to get involved is to test updates in bodhi for those packages you care about, or to take part in the process that happens around release time where we go through several freeze cycles and have 'blocker bugs' that need their fixes to be validated: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process

New comment by supakeen in "Incident with multple GitHub services"

supakeen — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:42:06 +0000

I mean; this is the normal mode of operation for GitHub at this point.

Introducing Amutable, Linux Systems Integrity

supakeen — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:33:17 +0000

Article URL: https://amutable.com/blog/introducing-amutable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778629

Points: 18

# Comments: 1

New comment by supakeen in "Linux Tidbits and Collecting Pebbles"

supakeen — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:50:45 +0000

It would probably be a good idea to verify some of the ideas you're posting; some of them are oversimplified (or wrong) :)

New comment by supakeen in "Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells"

supakeen — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:42:37 +0000

Ah yea then I misunderstood. That's right you can't easily switch out the cells for protected cells yourself :(

New comment by supakeen in "Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells"

supakeen — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:37:03 +0000

Sure, that means the idea of using unprotected cells was already there when the holders were selected :)

New comment by supakeen in "ESP32 WiFi Superstitions"

supakeen — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 07:17:12 +0000

Thanks, fixed!

New comment by supakeen in "ESP32 WiFi Superstitions"

supakeen — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 07:15:32 +0000

Thanks, I've written that one down in my notes as well it definitely fits the superstitions because it sounds like it should work well.

New comment by supakeen in "ESP32 WiFi Superstitions"

supakeen — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 07:14:34 +0000

Yea, it's not super clear but that's indeed what I meant to say :)

ESP32 WiFi Superstitions

supakeen — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 23:12:08 +0000

Article URL: https://supakeen.com/weblog/esp32-wifi-superstitions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43375780

Points: 141

# Comments: 80

New comment by supakeen in "Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy"

supakeen — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:49:36 +0000

The activation of the virtualenv is unnecessary (one can execute pip/python directly from it), and the configuring of your local pyenv interpreter is also unnecessary, it can create a virtual environment with one directly:

  pyenv virtualenv python3.12 .venv
  .venv/bin/python -m pip install pandas
  .venv/bin/python

Not quite one command, but a bit more streamlined; I guess.

Shooting electrons at plastic to make microscopic features [video]

supakeen — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:42:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA9p38AnByY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385708

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by supakeen in "Did DORA's last update create an encryption loophole?"

supakeen — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:44:33 +0000

Betteridge's law applies:

> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

New comment by supakeen in "Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)"

supakeen — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:36:02 +0000

No, it looks different from this.

New comment by supakeen in "Building an O2 concentrator for welding and vacuum tube work"

supakeen — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:39:13 +0000

Cool idea. I would be interested in knowing the concentration you achieve and flow rates (LPM/CFH). This wouldn't work in my workshop as we don't treat our equipment nicely enough and we don't have sparkies to tend to it.

New comment by supakeen in "Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense""

supakeen — Sat, 11 May 2024 13:40:19 +0000

> Roberts, 38, now only gets fast food "as a rare treat".

I feel that that is it should be? When I was young it was important enough to mention at the monday class circle if your grandparents had taken you to visit the Golden Arches and everyone would be very jealous.

New comment by supakeen in "Secure Randomness in Go 1.22"

supakeen — Tue, 07 May 2024 06:19:18 +0000

I've often thought about why the default implementation of many randoms around programming languages is to use LSFRs, MTs, and other fast RNGs in the 2020s.

It seems to be better to err on the side of 'people dont know if they want a PRNG or a CSPRNG' and switch the default to the latter with an explicit choice for the former for people that know what they need :)

New comment by supakeen in "Managing Linux Servers with Cockpit"

supakeen — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 07:45:44 +0000

Really the only web interface I consider putting on my machines is this one as it uses the normal system as available instead of doing everything custom.

New comment by supakeen in "Arraymancer – Deep learning Nim library"

supakeen — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 07:44:03 +0000

Yes, Nim macros can fiddle with the AST: https://nim-lang.org/docs/macros.html

You can also see another (I think) neat example in `npeg`: https://github.com/zevv/npeg?tab=readme-ov-file#quickstart