Steven Rosenberg's microblog of short posts

My CentOS Stream 8 desktop system is super stable and very low on drama

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:22:53 UTC

My CentOS Stream 8 desktop system is super stable and very low on drama

Just wanted to point out that @RedHat did the right thing with @CentOS Stream 8: Today my update automatically installed kernel-4.18.0-348.2.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm. That's the SAME kernel as the new RHEL 8.5.

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:33:28 UTC

Just wanted to point out that @RedHat did the right thing with @CentOS Stream 8: Today my update automatically installed kernel-4.18.0-348.2.1.el85.x8664.rpm. That's the SAME kernel as the new RHEL 8.5. Hopefully Stream 8 will track the RHEL 8.x kernel from now on. Great move.

I could pretty much play any @fender guitar. I bought a flattop 15 years ago. I haven't bought another guitar since I was a teenager.

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:43:41 UTC

I could pretty much play any @fender guitar. I bought a flattop 15 years ago. I haven't bought another guitar since I was a teenager.

I just put on a new set of @ernieball Slinky Pure Nickel strings

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:34:05 UTC

I just put on a new set of @ernieball Slinky Pure Nickel strings. I don't know if the pure nickel makes a difference, but these are my first .010s in DECADES. I'm not used to the lightness (coming from .011s), but they sound GREAT. https://www.ernieball.com/guitar-strings/electric-guitar-strings/slinky-classic-rock-n-roll-pure-nickel-wrap-electric-guitar-strings

Another tilde site that looks really good is the Ubuntu-running tilde.team

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 22:35:38 UTC

Another tilde site that looks really good is the Ubuntu-running tilde.team. I'm thinking of starting up an account over there. https://tilde.team/

Thanks go to the admins/devs at tilde.institute, the public-access OpenBSD system

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 22:34:13 UTC

Thanks go to the admins/devs at tilde.institute, the public-access OpenBSD system, where a bad rsync command on my part blew out my ssh key. They fixed everything, and I'm back in tilde-land. https://tilde.institute

Setting up https with Let's Encrypt certificates is easy on NearlFreeSpeech.net sites

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 22:32:02 UTC

Setting up https with Let's Encrypt certificates is easy on NearlFreeSpeech.net sites. The NFSN script works just about flawlessly. I had to disable a thorny .htaccess on one site to get the script to work (and I hope it will renew. ... We'll see).

How to contribute to CentOS

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:29:45 UTC

How to contribute to CentOS https://wiki.centos.org/Contribute

I'm adding automatic Mastodon tooting to my CentOS Stream Updates script

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:17:12 UTC

I'm adding automatic Mastodon tooting to my CentOS Stream Updates script. Scripting Mastodon posting on the server is much easier than Twitter.

CentOS Stream 8 Updates: November 10, 2021 :: CentOS Stream of Consciousness

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:57:04 UTC

Another successful auto-post!: CentOS Stream 8 Updates: November 10, 2021 :: CentOS Stream of Consciousness http://centos.passthejoe.net/posts/2021_1110_centos_stream_updates/

This blog post on CentOS Stream briefly talks about torrents before it runs clear off the rails.

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:47:36 UTC

This blog post on CentOS Stream briefly talks about torrents before it runs clear off the rails. http://centos.passthejoe.net/posts/2021_1107_centos_torrents/

My script that automatically runs CentOS Stream updates is now working

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 23:49:20 UTC

My script that automatically runs CentOS Stream updates is now working ... I think. It's not ready for me to open-source just yet, but I will work on it. http://centos.passthejoe.net

TIL that Linux is OK with date --iso-8601, but only date -I works in FreeBSD.

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:14:31 UTC

TIL that Linux is OK with date --iso-8601, but only date -I works in FreeBSD.

CentOS Stream 8 Updates: November 5, 2021

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:08:24 UTC

CentOS Stream 8 Updates: November 5, 2021: This was supposed to be an automatic post, but I'm still shaking bugs out of the script. It's only a little ironic that my host runs FreeBSD. Maybe more than a little. http://centos.passthejoe.net/posts/2021_1105_centos_stream_updates/

I am writing a server-side blog-generating script, and since it's meant for a Linux/Unix server, I'm writing it in Bash, not Ruby.

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 19:10:18 UTC

I am writing a server-side blog-generating script, and since it's meant for a Linux/Unix server, I'm writing it in Bash, not Ruby.

Now that the CentOS Stream updates blog is on its own subdomain

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:54:54 UTC

Now that the CentOS Stream updates blog is on its own subdomain, the next steps are to decide if I'll put other CentOS content there (likely) and to automate the package-update posts. http://centos.passthejoe.net