I'm more than a little peeved with the Linux Kernel dolts.
When 5.18 came out, I attempted to compile with gcc 12.1, the then current stable release of gcc. It failed owing to some array bounds issues that previous versions of gcc did not check.

I filed a bug report, bug #216026.

One of the developers came out with a patch that addressed this and submitted it for inclusion.

5.18.1 came out, patch still not included, kernel would not compile with the most recent gcc.

I indicated concern that this would not be fixed before they EOL'd 5.17 and also that if developers used current rather than antique tools it never would have been released with this flaw. Further going to older gcc is NOT a good fix because overrunning an array bounds results in overwriting something else and unpredictable behavior results.

5.18.2 came out, patch still not included.

I re-iterated my concerns.

5.18.3 came out, patch still not included.

I re-iterated my concerns again.

5.18.4 came out, 5.17 is now EOL, and 5.18.4 STILL does not compile with the current release of gcc.

Since the official channel for reporting bugs, Bugzilla.kernel.org, is not working to get this to the attention of someone who cares, I am at a loss.

Maybe the problem is that there is noone who cares.

Not sure what has changed but I'm being overrun with bots from various Mastodon sites, it started with Mastodon social but has spread to Mastodon.art and other Mastodon sites.

The bots almost always start with a series of three posts, the first of which starts with "Hi I'm" ... some bullshit description, and then a couple more posts by same with totally inane content. The bots often make eight or nine comments on their own posts in the complex absence of comments by anyone else.

I've been blocking them individually when I can but when a site just overruns me I am blocking the entire site. I hope the developers are aware and doing something to counter act. The site admins don't seem to be.

Had to go to the pharmacy tonight to pickup drugs for diabetes.

An 500lb or so fat ass sitting there with a mask on asked why I wasn't wearing one. I told him because I already had covid naturally.

He says, well what if you get it again?

I explained to him that is very rare with natural immunity as it includes B and T cell memory immunity as well as over 60 different antibodies, and it doesn't destroy your immune system like the vax.

He says, Oh you're one of those, I bet you're a trump supporter.

I said, well, I did prefer paying $2.29 a gallon for gasoline a year ago a lot more than I like paying $5.09 for it now.

He said, "People in Europe been paying way more than that for years".

I said, so how is that relevant to me? Europe wants to be libtards, let them.

Anyway, conversation sort of petered out. At the request of the pharmacy guy
just wanting to keep the peace I put on a mask.

He asked me for my member ID, I spouted it out from memory but he didn't catch
it fast enough.

After the fifth time I took the mask off and repeated it, he got it first time.

I says, can't breath in these things.

The asshole that started this whole mask thing said, "I've had four heart attacks and I can breath with one on fine."

I said, it's no wonder you've had four heart attacks.

He said, "I had them before Covid".

I said, Yea I figured you for 500lbs before Covid.

At which point this dork started singing a song about a little kindness.

Geez, gotta love how people who completely ignore their own health in terms of
doing things obvious like not overeating to such an excess, expect YOU to be responsible for THEIR poor choices.

https://brandnewtube.com/watch/adverse-reaction-thanks-to-astrazeneca-we-warned-you-girl-should-of-listened_MFTNMbypd2JhNSF.html

Well we're 11 days from the official beginning of summer, still the highest temperature we've cracked here just outside of Seattle so far has been 70.9F.

It would be normal to have a few days in may reach into the mid-80's, but this year just miserable and cold.

Posted on June 4, 2022

I am planning on doing kernel upgrades tonight. If they go as smooth as last time they will complete by 11:30 but may take another half hour to check NFS/NIS bindings.

This will affect all Eskimo North services including our Fediverse websites:

friendica.eskimo.com, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and our main site eskimo.com/

The downtime for any given service should not exceed 10-15 minutes.

Posted on June 3, 2022

About a month ago I posted about upgrade issues with Nextcloud. I did not realize until a few days ago that it broke NIS logins because I had created my account on nextcloud before hooking it into the systems NIS authentication system. A ticket I received a few days ago alerted me of this fact.

In order to fix Nextcloud properly I am essentially going to re-install it except the database and files will remain in place. Then I will need to re-install all the apps including the one that provides authentication to the majority of Eskimo’s users via NIS.

Because the install instructions tell me to stop our web server during the duration but this does not make a lot of sense and I don’t wish a multi-hour and potentially multi-day interruption, I am going to instead disable the NextCloud config in the web server. This will cause any calls to Nextcloud to go back to our home page, then when the new version is installed, undo the web configuration disable, at which point it will be operational but without the applications and you still will not be able to login unless you, like me, created your login before I had NIS wired in.

Because the NIS connection actually involves an application, this will not work until I get the apps re-installed.

As a consequence tonight at some point if you go to nextcloud you will just get our home page. When nextcloud initially comes back you won’t be able to login right away, it may take a day or two before this capability returns because there are a lot of applications and some require some configuration before logins will be operational again.

I got something super awesome working on my computer tonight. I regularly run Ubuntu Linux, also have arch installed, slowly working on building that environment, and that's where the majority of my work gets done.

But I also like to play a 3D MMORPG called flyff (Flying for Fun), so named because you can fly around the game on various vehicles.

Anyway, prior to tonight to actually play I had to dual boot into windows, which meant I couldn't play between work items or whatever because I would have to boot the computer back and forth.

I had a win10 virtual machine but the virtio drivers only managed about 5fps and a lot of lag between action and display getting updated, not adequate for game play, ok to sell off items in a store or something but not for actual battles and navigation was VERY painful in that mode.

Well, my machine is an i7-9700k based systems, and in addition to the usual vt-x and vt-d virtualization technologies they also have vt-g. What is that? It is a virtualized GPU, actually it allows you to create as many virtual GPUs as you like within the contraints of memory.

I had to build a kernel to support this because the one Ubuntu supplies does not, but that's okay I have a zillion other reasons I build my own kernels anyway.

So once setup, and that was some work, initially I got a black screen, then fixed that but couldn't see boot messages or my cursor and keyboard was super lagged.

I discovered that they had wrapped libvirtd in apparmor and the apparmor profile did not include many of things qemu needed to access to implement virtual gpu's in guests hosts. So since I'm the only one using this machine, I did not feel a need to protect the host from the guest in this manner and simply disabled the profile and now everything works.

It's not QUITE bare metal but it's close enough for decent game play AND qemu and the virtual GPUs work together to share the physical GPU with the host and guest just as the normal emulated display would.

Another reason to love Intel graphics! With any other vendor I would need TWO gpus, one for the host and one for the guest in order to go pass through to the guest. But this let's me share ONE gpu in a way that is very seemless and transparent between the host and guests. Great solution, would be nice if Ubuntu would implement it natively into their network manager, I had to hand code the xml file for the virtual machine because virt-manager didn't know how to do it.