There was some drama around RubyGems.org (seems like a classic commercial overstep on a community resource).
And as a result there is now a new Gem server available: gem.coop

If you want to use the new server (which currently is a mirror of rubygems.org), simply replace source "https://rubygems.org" with source "https://gem.coop" in your Gemfile:

-source "https://rubygems.org"
+source "https://gem.coop"

I switched the Gemfile for this blog over to it, and so far it seems to work fine. 💎

Evolution stores passwords for email accounts in the GNOME Keyring. Thus they can be listed there for example with Seahorse.

FliipBook, create 24 frame GIF animations.

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Can very much relate to this ⌨️

Dropping :wq and j's and k's in all my word, google, txt docs.

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After upgrading one of my physical hosts to Debian Trixie, it failed to boot.
It complained about the service for mounting my encrypted disk not starting.

Turns out this is a known problem (even mentioned in the Trixie release notes).
For cryptsetup to work in Debian 13, the systemd-cryptsetup package must be installed:

# apt-get install systemd-cryptsetup

After doing this (via the rescue shell) and rebooting the host, the system started seamlessly.
And the encrypted disks were mounted as expected.

and TIL I can read(1) from a distinct file descriptor to avoid having processes in the shell's while loop consume input from the file I pass.

while read -u 8 f; do
...
done 8</path/to/file

I can use any fd (typically > 2)

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On a work computer I'm currently using WSL quite often and thus wanted to see if there is a pbcopy/pbpaste equivalent.
Turns out WSL integrates with the X11 and Wayland clipboard APIs, thus we can simply install wl-clipboard.

With this in place, running wl-paste inside WSL dumps the content of the Windows clipboard.
And echo "foobar" | wl-copy puts "foobar" into the Windows clipboard.

Entdecke das Web – pause.gigold

Ein Button, der dich per Zufall zu unterhaltsamen aber oftmals nicht nützlichen Webseiten bringt – einfach nur, um Zeit zu verbummeln. Dafür wurde das Netz gemacht. Entdecken auf pause.gigold.de.

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Debian 13 (Trixie) was released yesterday. 🎉

As I refer to the stable repositories in my sources list, the following error is now shown since their release information changed:

# apt-get update
Hit:1 https://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bookworm InRelease
Get:3 http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable InRelease [138 kB]
Get:4 http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable-updates InRelease [47.1 kB]
Hit:5 https://deb.goaccess.io bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '12.11' to '13.0'
E: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bookworm' to 'trixie'
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable-updates InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '12-updates' to '13-updates'
E: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable-updates InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bookworm-updates' to 'trixie-updates'
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.

To fix this message (and enable upgrading to the new release!), I use the following command:

# apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update
...
N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '12.11' to '13.0'
N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bookworm' to 'trixie'
N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable-updates InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '12-updates' to '13-updates'
N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable-updates InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bookworm-updates' to 'trixie-updates'

Afterwards I run the usual apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade the system to the new Debian version.

[Keep] a very tight leash on this new over-eager junior intern savant with encyclopedic knowledge of software, but who also bullshits you all the time, has an over-abundance of courage and shows little to no taste for good code. And emphasis on being slow, defensive, careful, paranoid, and on always taking the inline learning opportunity, not delegating.

— Andrej Karpathy, twitter

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