Faux' Blog

I received a failed Quooker Cube chiller unit.

I am personally opposed to async, futures, promises; whatever you call it.

I have written a large mass of code this year, primarily in Rust.

kill-desktop tries to get your "X" applications to exit cleanly, such that you can shutdown, or reboot.

The world's understanding of cryptography, the guarantees provided, and the practical safety and limitations, is lacking.

Once again, I have ordered the wrong hardware from eBay.

It's about three months until Java 9 is supposed to be released.

checkrestart, part of debian-goodies, checks what you might need to restart.

Today, I wrote a load of Python and a load of C to work around pretty insane problems in Linux, my choice of OS for development. pasane is a command-line volume control that doesn't mess up channel balance.

I have been playing with low-level Linux security features, such as prctl no new privs and seccomp.