AB III - Notes Blog

Dropping Fedora like a hot potato - I'm not into politics.

The absolute shit that the Fedora Council stuck on my web browser home screen demonstrates that Fedora is a political movement. (Or otherwise bent.) So I won't be using that again. All I need is a web browser, and a filesystem that isn't shit, and I can use any operating

Commentary

Please. Just make software !

More political bullshit: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-council-statement-on-richard-stallman-rejoining-fsf-board/ "but free software is not just bits and bytes." - Yes it is. If this crap really is what 'Free Software' is about I'm going back to the apolitical non-free software world.

Coding

Installing Jekyll on Fedora (33) - With User Only Gems

sudo dnf install ruby ruby-devel rubygems-devel \ autoconf automake bison gcc-c++ libffi-devel libtool \ libyaml-devel readline-devel sqlite-devel zlib-devel \ openssl-devel redhat-rpm-config rubygem-nokogiri gem install rubygems-update gem install jekyll bundler bundle install --path ~/.gem/ruby/gems/ Basically nicked from here but modified to not install gems as root (which I find unnecessary personally) After

Published Software

Private messaging app takes internet by storm...

Threema: Costs $3/£3. Audited source code. Based in Switzerland. Anonymous sign-up.

Windows

RSYNC keep alive on WSL (Linux subsystem on Windows)

When doing anything with rsync over ssh in your terminal window running on the WSL, rsync will just stop randomly. It comes alive again when you just resize the terminal window! But if you don't want to keep doing that then just open another terminal window and run this: while

Windows

Fixed VirtualBox on Windows 10 failing to boot anything at all

virtualbox.org • View topic - HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM (Hyper-V is active)HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM (Hyper-V is active)scottgus1 » 11. Aug 2020, 15:24

Commentary

Monzo - The Ignorant Bank

Coding

Disqus, Pagespeed Insights - Result

PageSpeed Insights Mobile results, before and after using this: https://usefulangle.com/post/251/disqus-comments-improve-page-load-speed BeforeAfter

Commentary

Finance and the Planet

Our Planet: Too Big To Fail, Features: Sir David AttenboroughMark Carney (while in capacity as Governor, Bank of England)Hiro Mizuno (while in capacity as Executive Managing Director and CIO, Government Pension Investment Fund Japan)Richard Curtis (Co-founder, Make My Money Matter)Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta (Head of HM Treasury’

Commentary

Are FaceBook and Twitter dead?

Not yet, but I hope they are dying. Disclaimer: I've never seen any point to either of these platforms, but I understand people use them to post pictures of their lives, moan about companies, and spread dangerous ideas dreamt up from ignorant minds that start actual riots for no reason.

Linux

Reinstall Everything on Fedora. (I fsck'd it all up. Help.)

Reinstall everything - FedoraMy initial attempt to do this was taking ages. But then I googled and found thisAB3 - Things (I Want To Say)AB3 - Things (I Want To Say)

Published Software

Download Fedora 34 (pre-release 202103xx).

Taken from https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/nightlies.html and also https://getfedora.org/workstation/download/; pushed into the IPFS, in the hope it is faster. [ If a link doesn't work, then the IPFS server has not yet updated itself. Just wait an hour and try again. ]. Beta BuildsFedora Workstation LiveDownload:

Charity

Aspergers Charities in the UK

Action For Aspergers ( Corby )Aid For Aspergers ( Worcs. )Aspergers Children And Carers Together ( South Yorkshire )Aspergers Syndrome Association ( Liverpool )Aspergers Syndrome Foundation ( Malmesbury )Gwynedd And Anglesey Aspergers Autism Support GroupSouth Devon Aspergers Group ( Newton Abbot )The South Lakeland Autism And Aspergers Syndrome Support Group ( Kendal )Warrington Aspergers Society ( 37 Inglewood

Secure Sendmail using Letsencrypt

Assuming you have got your certificates from 'certbot' successfully: Edit /etc/mail/tls/starttls.m4 Add/Edit: define(`CERT_DIR', `/etc/letsencrypt/live/examplesubdomain.example.com')dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH', `CERT_DIR')dnl define(`confCACERT',`CERT_DIR/fullchain.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem') define(`confSERVER_KEY',

Coding

Multithreaded Hakyll

I thought I could make my Hakyll site generator faster with multithreading. My attempt below has reduced the time to generate 150,000 pages from 31 minutes (with this), to 22 minutes. It is a little bit hardcoded due to my lack of experience with Haskell. I need the numbers

Don't Subscribe

Especially if you are using a hotmail address: Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 Unfortunately, messages from [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list (S3140). You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.

Coding

Prerequisites for building gcc-10.2 on clean Fedora 33 (64-bit)

If you've tried building GCC 10.2 from source and get this message: configure: error: Building GCC requires GMP 4.2+, MPFR 3.1.0+ and MPC 0.8.0+. Then just install the following packages... [user]$ sudo dnf install gmp-devel mpfr-devel libmpc-devel If you then see: configure: error: I

Stats

Banking Complaints H1 2020 - (selected banks)

Complaints received by the FCA H1 2020 for a selection of banks. Sorted from high to low, number of complaints received per 1000 accounts held. Selected banks. Banking complaints per 1000 accounts. 6 month period. H1 2020Atom Bank PLC 7.49 Barclays Bank Plc 7.44 Bank of Ireland (UK)

Coding

Photino: dotnet/C#/Blazor -> Native Desktop App?

Apps! C#. HTML! CSS ! Web! WTF!

Charity

UK Charities in JSON

If anyone is interested. The data I use for my Charity List is available in IPFS under the key: QmQgYHTAgM258W31LEgZqd3MoNcSB2KUsKmvuQBJFzkvhk Currently it can be accessed on my own servers here, or alternatively via any IPFS server, eg ipfs.io. The JSON files are organised thus: Charity number 1234567 would be

Bad Software

Open University: Error No PI - Hell of registering.

I've been seeing this for months, and cannot register let alone pay for a course. The telephone lines keep cutting off on me when they transfer me, and the funding pages at OUSBA have no way to apply online unless transferred via the OU site which I cannot use: Open

Bad Software

FIXED: Fedora - Firefox SSL Errors

Problem Package (fedora): firefox.x86_64 86.0-2.fc33 I was getting: Unsupported hash algorithm used by TLS peer.Error code: SSL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_HASH_ALGORITHMand Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP...on some major sites. Nothing on the

File Hashes

ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso

MD5: 77fc715a283e41d0ad33d6418a9ba128 SHA256: b45165ed3cd437b9ffad02a2aad22a4ddc69162470e2622982889ce5826f6e3d

Charity

I'm looking for more charity information websites.

I think the best thing to do, if you have a UK charity information website you'd like me to include on my Charity List pages, is to simply post a comment about your site on any of the charity pages here. For example, add a link in the comments to

IPFS

QM Code Examples for IPFS

Hello = QmZULkCELmmk5XNfCgTnCyFgAVxBRBXyDHGGMVoLFLiXEN A small text file = QmZtmD2qt6fJot32nabSP3CUjicnypEBz7bHVDhPQt9aAy An HTML Page = QmRzi8YzDr5fh9J7z2qrKLzg6j5FUTXSvf7UWgmxyD2zQU A file directory = QmQRYaqcNwG8VQje5iAyhucNi5VQjkbRgzrgDmG7SkzeYu Another file directory = QmS4SzSkJdALjtMa7SGbdWJuByo5GGgHLHbkeuRPCFWJwB