Rob Landley's Blog Thing for 2025

We have to be out of the old apartment by noon today.

I don't have time to curl up into a ball right now.

Finally reacquired my luggage, which didn't make the transfer through Montreal because the plane from Japan got in an hour late.

Flying back from Tokyo, just in time to help Fade finish moving everything out of the old apartment and into the new one.

You know, if you rank world leaders by age, the top ten countries with the oldest leader (all octegenarians) are Cameroon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Iran, Togo, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Ireland, and Italy.

Really looking forward to the US dollar losing its role as the global reserve currency and the payment processors enforcing censorship on everybody getting uprooted and replaced.

The minimal reproduction sequence for the ASAN segfault in devuan daedalus' gcc (which I've tried to work around) appears to be: gcc -xc - -fsanitize=address -static-libasan -Wl,--as-needed -lcrypt <<<'int main(){crypt("", "");}' && .

Yay, I got pointed at vim's ":verbose set mouse" option which let me know that /usr/share/vim/vim90/defaults.vim was overriding /etc/vim/* for some reason.

I'm getting spurious warnings from llvm, and the recommended way to suppress them is -Qunused-arguments, except: $ :|gcc -Wall -Qunused-arguments -xc - gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-Qunused-arguments’ Speaking of "make it stop", here's y…

I think I've figured out part of the reason my anxienty's been spiking this past week: I haven't had any fiber in my diet since leaving Minneapolis.

The Fair Access to Banking Act goes along with the ACLU petition.

I should do videos about toybox commands again.

I did a fresh git pull of qemu (creating a new repo instance), ran .

Apple is copying Android's prudishness: facetime will now scan for phone sex.

I should explain how Stallman's pivot to Unix when ITS died makes GNU being so UTTERLY BAD AT UNIX such an obvious consequence.

Jesse Rosenstock's patches have me looking at taskset again, which is one of those gnu/crap things that produces non-unix output, ala: $ taskset -p $$ pid 31360's current affinity mask: f $ taskset -p 1 $BASHPID pid 31360's current affinity mask: f pid 31…

Yay!

In Toronto airport, waiting for the flight to tokyo.

Yesterday's tangent forkbomb is what my style of development's always been like.

[Note: First time I edited and uploaded these entries I labeled each day in June "July", although the links had the right month number.

Now the censorious payment processors are going after the furries, which seems ill-advised but if they were smart they wouldn't be in maga.

I've been writing long emails to the toybox list instead of blogging.

Excellent historial video from J.

Supreme Court upholds Texas' online age verification for porn sites, in a 6-3 ruling, all the Trump judges vs the 3 sane ones.

Going through Oliver's xz commit list from February of last year.

Got the elephant through the snake, or at least I got my alias prefix toysh change passing the tests and checked in.

So I've mostly worked through the prefix assignment rework allowing !

Went out to the not-mall (the Univeristy of Minnesota Student Center, which is open to the public and has a Starbucks in the basement that still sells Madeleines for $2.50 a bag, which is almost a dollar per cookie but nine years into trumpflation that's…

Spending multiple days reading Murderbot got me into the habit of wanting to read instead of wanting to program.

Google did a thing again last week [removing device trees].

Fade got Apple TV (we dropped Hulu for it) so she could watch Murderbot with her friends on Mondays (it comes out something like wednesday but she holds off until scheduled group watching time), and I sat down and several days ago I watched the accumulated

Another random way the religious loons were just OBVIOUSLY wrong if you think for fifteen seconds: ages recorded in the old testment used a lunar calendar, and didn't bother to specify units because _everybody_ used "moons".

The Google workspace account I had all those years "has been deleted" today, because I didn't log into it for 6 months after redirecting my DNS MX record to dreamhost's mail servers.

Spent most of today curled up in a ball due to stress.

Got poked again about the turtle board.

Stressed again by France joining the "government ID is required to use the internet" crowd.

Found one wrong reference count to fix, so now ASAN is still failing on the same test but saying "segmentation fault" without giving any additional debug info.

Elliott poked me about github's test builds hitting the glibc ASAN regression, because github updated its ubuntu build environment to one with the bug.

I redid the prefix assignment logic and I'm so glad I have so many regression tests, because debugging it to handle all of them is seriously threading some needles.

Politics remains terrible, curling up in a ball way too much.

Using my laptop in the common work area near the front office of the apartment complex, listening to the secretary on the phone telling somebody a parking spot has become available for $150/month.

Dear gcc: when I do: static char *abc; void blah(void) { if (0) function(abc, sizeof(abc), abc = xmalloc(0), 0); } Don't go "warning: operation on 'help_data' may be undefined [-Wsequence-point]" when the CONTROLLING sequence point is the if (0) so THE…

The reason none of the mkroot builds boot is the initramfs doesn't contain "sh", because the config doesn't contain CONFIG_SH=y, because the new kconfig infrastructure I wrote doesn't know how to read KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG yet and a while back I switched mkro…

Building test binaries for a release to see what broke: new qemu (git snapshot du jour, probably back off to 10.0.0 for the release unless they get something newer out soon) is simple enough (or at least it built).

It's so exhausting when bash fails to be unixy.

Still salty about Chet saying "sounds like an implementation detail": $ [[ 1<2 ]] && echo yes bash: unexpected token 284 in conditional command Yes, your stuff is FULL of implementation details leaking to the surface.

So my run_command() plumbing is ONLY counting leading NAME=VAR prefix assignments, it doesn't let you interleave redirects or !

One downside of going back and editing old blog entries to post, especially when there's an entire email to manually format as html (the > quote character needs to be converted to &gt; and the line breaks for it are manual and my "hit space twice to inden…

Not sleeping well.

Started a news.html entry for a new toybox release.