Jim Fulner jimfulner@identi.ca

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_valse

An upcoming HSO concert includes this work: https://www.myhso.org/concerts/2025-spotlight-with-your-hso

As usual, I prepare myself for these concerts by listening to the programming on repeat the week prior to the concert and I've been thinking a lot about La Valse.

My interpretation of this work is Dancing Mania occurring at a Viennese ballroom. It starts out as a fade-in to the dance floor with couples dancing as normal. With the lack of a musical conclusion, we see the dancing never ends as we fade-out and transition back to the dance floor again but this time the dancers are now in a dilapidated state and perhaps some of them already collapsed. I love the instrumentation and tonal shift here! We then end with the last few couples madly dancing with what seems to be flames surrounding them until they too finally collapse with the final notes of the work.

I look forward to experiencing this work live!

Like Wikipedia isn't addictive enough as it is... 😅

The Gulf of Mexico is so great 😎

I upgraded pmOS to 24.12 on my PinePhone and freaked out when I had no audio interface until I saw the edit under Extra notes in https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3359#note_459502 .

“I solved this with "sudo apk fix --reinstall alsa-ucm-conf" ”

:(

I was listening to some choral music and upon hearing Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, I thought to myself, "Hans Zimmer must've quoted this in his Lion King (1994) score!"

Sure enough, someone actually posted a video on it: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PfAwqJjpxhY

Also, 1994 is 30 years ago!

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)

Meet @Debian at @fosdem2024 next weekend! We will be at building AW level 1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/be/2024/FOSDEM #debian #fosdem #fosdem2024

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=stN_XmMIPZA

I was just introduced to this on the classical station. I thought it was neat and it got a laugh from me with what they substituted the hunters with.

Due to an issue in ext4 with data corruption in kernel 6.1.64-1, we are a pausing the 12.3 image release for today while we attend to fixes. Please do not update any systems at this time, we urge caution for users with UnattendeUpgrades configured. Please see bug# 1057843: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_from_Space

I was finally able to catch a live broadcast of this! Today was the only day after the 13th where they broadcast this in a time that worked for me: https://nitter.net/dairycola/status/1712657180606800097, https://nitter.net/dairycola/status/1717228147790213225

It was worth planning to catch this live just like the old days when you needed to rely on scheduling guides! Fortunately, I was at least able to pause on my streaming player but whenever I heard abrupt cuts, I was worried that I lost my stream.

Apparently, the 20th anniversary edition was played as confirmed in the end credits.

"Why is Debian the way it is?": A blogpost by Lars Wirzenius on both organizational and technical aspects of Debian: https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2023/debian-reasons/

This week I get to wrap up the fifth installment of teaching "Computer Applications and Concepts" at my college. Next week I get to start all over again with another eight week round of teaching the class. It can be very hard work at times but I do think some good is being accomplished through this.

For those using Debian oldstable, don't forget the 11.8 release image is also available for download! https://www.debian.org