Due to the amount of politics coming from Gizmodo and io9 I have removed their feeds.
It was never my intention to have a political bias on this site and I apologize for all the garbage content since I don’t usually monitor the RSS feeds.
The BPF verifier is charged with the
challenging task of ensuring that a BPF program is safe for the kernel to
run before that program is loaded. Among many other concerns, the verifier
must ensure that any kfuncs (kernel functions that have been exported to
BPF programs) are called with the correct parameters and from the right
context. The “context” part of that enforcement is showing its age in ways
that are hurting performance; Juntong Deng has been working on
infrastructure to provide finer-grained control over when a kfunc can be
called.
Jonathan Bryce has announced two open community meetings to hear
input on the topic of the OpenInfra
Foundation migrating to the Linux Foundation. Bryce
wrote that the OpenInfra board has carefully evaluated its options,
and sees joining the Linux Foundation as the best way forward.
Like the Linux Foundation, the OpenInfra Foundation is 501(c)(6)
nonprofit. According to the FAQ,
OpenInfra “is in great health, financially and otherwise
” with
a growth in membership of about 15% in the last year. However, its
needs in 2025 are different than when it was founded as the OpenStack
Foundation in 2012.
While the opportunities ahead for open source to make a positive
impact on the world are greater than they have ever been, the
challenges are more significant as well, particularly with respect to
regulations, licensing and geopolitical tensions that threaten global
collaboration.
The meetings will be held on February 11 and February 13 as
Zoom calls. The OpenInfra board will schedule a vote after feedback
has been collected and draft governance documents have been
published.
Version 25.2 of the LibreOffice productivity suite is out. Changes include
the ability to remove all personal information from any document, support
for ODF version 1.4, a number of accessibility improvements, and more;
see the
release notes for details.
This all started a few years ago when Amazon decided to drop support and stop updating the Minecraft app. Unfortunately they decided to do this years after they had been selling it so their policy prevents them from giving refunds a year later.
This didn’t keep me from trying and after the first costumer request I got a standard reply:
Not happy with their reply I decided to go ahead reply back, but that reply fell on deaf ears and I didn’t hear back from them:
Thanks for the feedback but I would like to point out:
1. The app received updates until version 1.17 which means I was already over the one year mark when amazon decided to stop.
2. Updates are available and have been getting updates constantly.
3. Minecraft is owned and developed by Mojang, which is owned by Microsoft which means the amazon app dev team doesn’t have anything to do with it
4. You keep selling the app with no mention of this issue and the app keeps getting updates but only for amazon devices:
https://www.amazon.com/mojang-minecraft-pocket-edition/dp/b00992cf6w
I doubt the amazon app store devs have a say in any of this since this was a corporate decision please find out who it is responsible for it. Also I would like to point out I am documenting all this with intent to use it for online reviews and articles since it will be my only alternative since I wont be getting my $6.99 back then my goal will be to keep amazon from stealing $6.99 from other customers.v/r
Of course I decided to follow through and started by trying to write a review in the minecraft app amazon page. But due to the review been about the “seller” which is amazon, Amazon decided to deny the review so I was unable to post it:
Amazon made sure that I couldn’t grab my review back, when I go to resubmit I only get a new blank review page so all the information I have type on the first ticket and on the reviews keeps disappearing. So that brings me to today where I am writing this article on a website outside of amazon’s reach to warn anyone that thinks buying from amazon app is a good idea. At any point they could decide to drop support, stop updates, or make the amazon app store version exclusive to their amazon devices. (What they have done with Minecraft which still gets updates on their devices).
Overall I only had good experiences with amazon’s costumer support for physical products. But seems that digital products are a completely different ball game and dealing with amazon costumer support left a bad taste and plenty to be desired.
The moral of the story is that if the app is available anywhere else, avoid the amazon app store at all cost.
My personal list of ways to stay connected and socialize while isolating myself.
Related to work life:
LinkedIn: If you are looking for a job this is the first thing you should update.
HighFive: Teleconference app
Gitlab or GitHub: Collaborate together on projects that require coding and versioning
*Zoom: Another conference app but wouldn’t recommend unless you don’t care who joins or listens in due to security flaws. So until they get their act together this made the list to let you know to find something else.
For the real geeks: Setup your own nextcloud and collabora office, mailservers, git server, WordPress etc
Gaming:
Discord: Voice, Text Video etc pretty much everyone uses discord
Steam: Pretty much everyone buys games on steam and it has its own friend list to get you playing together
For the real geeks: Setup your own rocketchat, slackware, mumble, teamspeak etc
Tabletop Gaming:
Roll20: Dice-rolling, conference, maps etc everything you need for tabletop games under one roof
For the real geeks: You are already a real geek
Exercise:
MapMyRide/MapMyRun/Endomondo: Track and share your rides/runs
Estrava
GoogleFit
Zwift: Virtual bike riding but it has a subscription cost
For the real geeks: Setup your own traccar gps server
Virtual Reality:
BigScreen: Watch movies or hang out and talk to others in virtual reality
AltSpace: Hang out in VR they usually have meetings for different type of interests
RecRoom: VR hangout which has many built in mini-games
For the real geeks: Make your own oculus development group and side-load apps or code your own.
Social:
Facebook: Don’t feel the need to explain this
YouTube: Upload videos
Twitch: Live stream
Twiter: Short messages and pics
Instagram: pictures
Snapchat: pictures that “Supposedly” disappear after a few seconds
Imgur: more pictures
Vine: short videos
TikTok: more short videos
For real geeks: Do your own website/server to use that can do any of the things above or make an API or APP that automates the processes of posting to any of the above.
In a world where even your light bulbs will nag you that they require firmware updates.
Minor edits for humor and confidentiality:
User Today at 5:45 PM
Hello, I have a Warn in the console at the start of server [23:39:28] [Server thread/INFO]: [[23:39:28] [Server thread/INFO]: Action: Enabling… [23:39:28] [Server thread/INFO]: Loading data file [23:39:28] [Server thread/WARN]: Invalid locale syntax at (line=66)
Developer Today at 5:47 PM
User, Do not worry about the line=66 warning
Linux Admin Today at 6:20 PM
alright lets try to see if i can spot the code causing the error
Linux Admin Today at 6:56 PM
User, Sorry for the delay, i had to download and compile latest code and put it on my server. I spotted the error line in my log
Linux Admin Today at 7:14 PM
Alright I am also getting the error so I am trying to spot the cause, I may have something, will let you know after restarting and reviewing log
Random Sysadmin Today at 7:14 PM
Oh the syntax error
Random Sysadmin Today at 7:14 PM
Everyone has that, I am over translations and went through all the .lang files, there are no syntax errors at line 66 still working on finding what the cause of that is
Linux Admin Today at 7:15 PM
yeah im looking into it to see why
Random Sysadmin Today at 7:16 PM
Yeah please do let me know if you find it, been looking for quite some time
Linux Admin Today at 7:23 PM
Fixed, line 69 of your file.lang is missing a double quote at the start of the value
Random Sysadmin Today at 7:23 PM
That fix the line 66 syntax error in console?
Linux Sysadmin Today at 7:23 PM
yeah
Random Sysadmin Today at 7:23 PM
You are beautiful
Random Sysadmin Today at 7:26 PM
Linux Admin, that quote is there for me, what is the event on the line it’s missing from?
Linux Admin Today at 7:27 PM
event.goal.reached = &6%type% ”
that is the line it is missing quote after equal
Random Sysadmin Today at 7:27 PM
Ahh that is line 67 in this editor
Change is uploaded now
What editor did you use if you don’t mind me asking, we been trying to find and fix this forever
Linux Admin Today at 7:28 PM
i had some extra blank lines
vi
lol
you shouldn’t have asked
