Scorpio Scorpio@datamost.com
Republic of South Africa
I'm a guy interested in Debian, FOSS, actually a alot of things... About Avatar below: Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALewecke-gateport.jpg File URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Lewecke-gateport.jpg Attribution: By Frank Lewecke, http://www.spacelands.de (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
pmOS Testing
David Chung at 2024-03-20T01:28:59Z
I normally wait for a device to be promoted from testing but I just want to start tinkering with the PineTab2 now that the WiFi driver is available.
pmOS is my OS of choice because of pmbootstrap.
Unfortunately, the documentation is not at all clear on how one installs the OS on testing devices: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PineTab_2_(pine64-pinetab2)
I tried tinkering with pmbootstrap trying to figure out how to write the deviceinfo and APKBUILD files and failing miserably as the pmbootstrap build command kept failing.
But silly me, at the bottom of this Wiki page is a link to an MR: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/4208
All the work is done for me! So just for future reference, the steps are as follows:
- Change current directory into the pmaports git directory (cd ~/.local/var/pmbootstrap/cache_git/pmaports)
- Add the contributor's repo as a remote (git remote add Danct12 https://gitlab.com/Danct12/pmaports.git)
- Checkout the contributor's relevant branch (git checkout Danct12/pintab2)
- Proceed with the pmbootstrap init as usual and now the desired device appears in the possible selection since all the relevant configuration files are now present: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Pmbootstrap#Initialization
- Finally, proceed with any nuanced installation details: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PineTab_2_(pine64-pinetab2)#Installation
- pmbootstrap status will not like that you're not on an official branch so I assume that's expected for testing devices (it didn't like it when the git directory was unclean during my tinkering failures)
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SCaLE, the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America, will take place for the 21st time on March 14-17, 2024 in Pasadena, CA, USA. Dima Kogan and other Debian enthusiasts will be representing Debian with a booth again. Use the "DEB50" promo code to get a discount. Come by and say hi!
Debian Project at 2024-02-24T02:09:04Z
SCaLE, the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America, will take place for the 21st time on March 14-17, 2024 in Pasadena, CA, USA. Dima Kogan and other Debian enthusiasts will be representing Debian with a booth again. Use the "DEB50" promo code to get a discount. Come by and say hi! https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/exhibitors?page=1
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The 64-bit time_t transition is now in progress in unstable, preparing Debian to deal with the "Year 2038 Problem". #debian
Debian Project at 2024-02-27T13:33:03Z
The 64-bit time_t transition is now in progress in unstable, preparing Debian to deal with the "Year 2038 Problem". https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/02/msg00005.html #debian
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Updated Debian 12: 12.5 released
Debian Project at 2024-02-11T17:54:03Z
Updated Debian 12: 12.5 released https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240210
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Call for Debian projects and mentors for the Google Summer of Code 2024.
Debian Project at 2024-01-14T21:09:03Z
Call for Debian projects and mentors for the Google Summer of Code 2024. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/01/msg00001.html
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Stephen Sekula at 2023-12-02T17:10:19Z
A final reminder that I have decided to close down my Pump.io server, "The Hub" (hub.polari.us) after December 2023 (this month)! It will likely go offline in early January. You can find me over in the fediverse at @steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.netScorpio, Stephen Michael Kellat likes this.
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Shakthi Kannan at 2024-01-21T12:46:29Z
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." ~ J. K. Rowling #motivational #quotesScorpio likes this.
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The release team were advised part way through release that there was the possibility of file system corruption with Debian kernel package: linux-image-6.1.0-14*. Once aware of the issue, we took immediate measures to halt the release of Debian 12.3 with several announcements sent out to mailing lists and social media channels advising users to exercise caution with upgrades while we worked to address and fix the issues. The mirror network has been updated in full to reflect the changes in 12.4, which we now proudly present. Thank you to everyone. #debian #debianrelease
Debian Project at 2023-12-11T04:09:02Z
The release team were advised part way through release that there was the possibility of file system corruption with Debian kernel package: linux-image-6.1.0-14*. Once aware of the issue, we took immediate measures to halt the release of Debian 12.3 with several announcements sent out to mailing lists and social media channels advising users to exercise caution with upgrades while we worked to address and fix the issues. The mirror network has been updated in full to reflect the changes in 12.4, which we now proudly present. Thank you to everyone. #debian #debianrelease
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- The ORCHIDE project for developing a reliable satellite platform for edge computing has officially started with Tarides, Parsimoni, Thales Alenia Space France, University Politechnica of Bucharest, KpLabs and Thales Romania! #HorizonEU #EUSpace #Thales #space #satellite @tarides_
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Shakthi Kannan at 2023-12-10T13:11:25Z
"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment." ~ Thomas Edison #productivity #gtd #motivational #quotesScorpio likes this.
Evan Prodromou at 2023-05-17T19:17:54Z
Fifteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1
It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.
https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg
Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.
Someday soon-ish I'd like to have identi.ca working with ActivityPub. When I get the time for it!Scorpio, Stephen Michael Kellat, Craig Maloney, ostfriesenmärz and 4 others likes this.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2023-07-19 12:30:02.307783
Astronomy Picture of the Day (Unofficial) at 2023-07-19T16:30:03Z
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Chandrayaan-3 Launches to the Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Sruthi Suresh (Space Group)Explanation: Birds don't fly this high. Airplanes don't go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than human can even comprehend what is going on, nor could any human just a millennium ago. The launch of a rocket bound for space is an event that inspires awe and challenges description. Pictured here last week, the Indian Space Research Organization's LVM3 rocket blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island, India. From a standing start, the 600,000+ kilogram rocket ship lifted the massive Chandrayaan-3 off the Earth. The Chandrayaan-3 mission is scheduled to reach the Moon in late August and land a robotic rover near the lunar South Pole. Rockets bound for space are now launched from somewhere on Earth every few days.
Tomorrow's picture: open space
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jxself at 2022-12-02T14:21:41Z
Did you backup today? If it helps to have ideas: I have a centralized in-house backup server using a program called Borg. All of my machines do backups to it over the network. I periodically dump those backups to tape (LTO), which get stored in an UL Class 125 rated fire-resistant safe. The safe interior's rated to remain below 125°F (51°C) when subjected to temperatures up to 2,000°F (1093°C) for a duration of 3 hours. This seemed long enough to allow for a response from the fire department.Scorpio likes this.
Jason Self at 2021-08-22T15:15:04Z
Diversity is the future. We are all different, and we need each other. #DiversityIsOurFutureRiveraValdez, Scorpio likes this.
There are 645 tags in the Debtags vocabulary, with 102370 known packages to tag. Of these, 18093 were tagged by humans and 84277 were tagged by robots. #ReleasingDebianBullseye
Debian Project at 2021-08-14T17:42:10Z
There are 645 tags in the Debtags vocabulary, with 102370 known packages to tag. Of these, 18093 were tagged by humans and 84277 were tagged by robots. #ReleasingDebianBullseye
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CD testing is a great way to contribute to the release and get stuck into Debian. liz in Brisbane, AU has just filed her first ever bug report testing a live image! #ReleasingDebianBullseye
Debian Project at 2021-08-14T16:03:11Z
CD testing is a great way to contribute to the release and get stuck into Debian. liz in Brisbane, AU has just filed her first ever bug report testing a live image! https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCd #ReleasingDebianBullseye
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The release of Debian 11 "bullseye" is underway! #ReleasingDebianBullseye
Debian Project at 2021-08-14T07:33:10Z
The release of Debian 11 "bullseye" is underway! #ReleasingDebianBullseye
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FTP-masters have moved "buster" to the oldstable alias in preparation for promoting testing to "bullseye" #ReleasingDebianBullseye
Debian Project at 2021-08-14T07:39:08Z
FTP-masters have moved "buster" to the oldstable alias in preparation for promoting testing to "bullseye" #ReleasingDebianBullseye
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The bullseye version of the Debian Installer is being moved into its new home. The installer has a long history, you can read some of it at #ReleasingDebianBullseye
Debian Project at 2021-08-14T07:48:08Z
The bullseye version of the Debian Installer is being moved into its new home. The installer has a long history, you can read some of it at https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/blob/master/doc/history.txt #ReleasingDebianBullseye
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Jason Self at 2021-08-03T15:01:10Z
Diversity is our strength. Let's all work together to make the world more diverse.Scorpio, Doug Whitfield likes this.