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| -rw-r--r-- | guides/setups/operating-systems/debian.org | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | itches/emacs/development.org | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | itches/emacs/emoji.org | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | itches/emacs/language-support.org | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | itches/emacs/tracker.org | 48 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | reviews/papers.org | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | reviews/stack.org | 5 |
7 files changed, 104 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/guides/setups/operating-systems/debian.org b/guides/setups/operating-systems/debian.org index cc7bf0e..dc7f5c5 100644 --- a/guides/setups/operating-systems/debian.org +++ b/guides/setups/operating-systems/debian.org @@ -394,6 +394,36 @@ had left an error marker somewhere?]. Steps taken: (which eventually just writes ~run_im none~ in =~/.xinputrc=). 3. Eventually, maybe I should just uninstall im-config. +**** random lag +***** DONE diagnosing +Since… a few days? weeks? one month? everything randomly becomes +"choppy": + +- typing (Emacs, Terminator, Firefox): I can type in a bunch of words, + sit back, wait a few seconds, then watch the words finally write + themselves letter by letter. +- launching programs: ~while time $aprogram ; do sleep 0.5 ; done~, + where ~aprogram~ just starts then exits, shows wildly varying times. +- scrolling a PDF with the touchpad (Evince): the pages stay stuck for + a few seconds, then the reader jumps to the new location; the mouse + pointer does change during this delay, as text and whitespace + (invisibly) scroll by. + +I can't remember changing anything recently, nor seeing any scary +update passing by. journalctl, htop and dmesg do not show any obvious +suspects. Some things I considered: + +- Disabling some services e.g. tor or speech-dispatcher ⇒ no effect. +- Uninstalling xserver-xorg-video-intel ⇒ no effect. +- Upgrading systemd from backports ⇒ no effect. +- htop sometimes shows pulseaudio acting up despite no application + playing or recording sound? +- Maybe I should try reinstalling Debian's stable kernel? + - Luckily 5.7 was not uninstalled when upgrading to 5.8; booting on + 5.7 solves all of the "choppiness" issues listed above. + +Now to pinpoint what's wrong with 5.8… +***** TODO fixing * Someday ** fix xfce4-terminal opening links with firefox-esr ** fix Thunar opening images with Firefox instead of Ristretto diff --git a/itches/emacs/development.org b/itches/emacs/development.org index a1fe3f2..a3e05da 100644 --- a/itches/emacs/development.org +++ b/itches/emacs/development.org @@ -46,6 +46,23 @@ trick, e.g. &submit=Search! &idxname=$LIST #+end_example + ⇒ + #+begin_src elisp + (defun mhonarc-to-messageid (url) + "Retrieve the Message-ID from an article archived on MHonArc." + (interactive + (list + (let* ((default (or (thing-at-point-url-at-point) + (and (derived-mode-p 'eww-mode) + (shr-url-at-point nil)))) + (prompt (if default + (format "URL? (%s) " default) + "URL? "))) + (read-string prompt nil nil default)))) + (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously url) + (search-forward-regexp "^<!--X-Message-Id: \\(.+\\) -->$") + (message (xml-substitute-numeric-entities (match-string 1))))) + #+end_src - public-inbox: trivial *** TODO HTTP archive → Message-ID - <https://lists.gnu.org>: cf. =X-Message-Id= comment in HTML diff --git a/itches/emacs/emoji.org b/itches/emacs/emoji.org index a66ec87..0d163c7 100644 --- a/itches/emacs/emoji.org +++ b/itches/emacs/emoji.org @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Bug#35781 fixed by Yamamoto Mitsuharu. * TODO Check whether combining sequences work -For example:, regional flags, ZWJ sequences from +For example: regional flags, ZWJ sequences from - ZWJ sequences from <https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-zwj-sequences.html>: diff --git a/itches/emacs/language-support.org b/itches/emacs/language-support.org index 8ec766e..375b657 100644 --- a/itches/emacs/language-support.org +++ b/itches/emacs/language-support.org @@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ Default to "mixed" (rely on tests to ensure user-visible change). **** TODO create variable to choose style Users could customize it or set it with directory-local variables. *** TODO add heuristic to pick the "right" style -** Fontify f-strings -E.g. =f'an {expression} that should be highlighted'=. * Shell scripts @@ -36,10 +34,7 @@ foo_bar \ ${foo}bar \ indentisfoobar #+end_src - - -* Makefile -** Recognize [[http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=330][POSIX "immediate-expansion"]] operator ~::=~ +Reported by Dario Gjorgjevski in bug#44592. * Assembly diff --git a/itches/emacs/tracker.org b/itches/emacs/tracker.org index ba198b0..bec0311 100644 --- a/itches/emacs/tracker.org +++ b/itches/emacs/tracker.org @@ -154,6 +154,54 @@ Fixed by Dmitry. :TestAdded: t :END: My commit message ran afoul of debbugs.el's =M-m= again. +*** ERC +**** TODO Support SASL authentication +Got bitten by this when trying to connect to irc.freenode.net from +=alyon-654-1-454-60.w109-213.abo.wanadoo.fr=: +#+begin_quote +ERROR from irc.freenode.net: Closing Link: +alyon-654-1-454-60.w109-213.abo.wanadoo.fr (SASL access only) +#+end_quote + +This was requested in [[bug:29108]]. Lars closed this report because +while there is a third-party package to implement the feature, its +author did not respond when prompted for copyright assignment. + +I did not have the patience to look at the package; instead I went +straight to [[https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/sasl-3.1][the description of SASL on ircv3.net]] and the [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4616#section-2][RFC for the +=PLAIN= mechanism]], and cobbled this silly patch: + +#+begin_src diff +diff --git a/lisp/erc/erc.el b/lisp/erc/erc.el +index 1d5506e281..0da677ac18 100644 +--- a/lisp/erc/erc.el ++++ b/lisp/erc/erc.el +@@ -6052,7 +6052,17 @@ erc-login + erc-session-server + erc-session-user-full-name)) + (if erc-session-password +- (erc-server-send (format "PASS %s" erc-session-password)) ++ (progn ++ (erc-server-send "CAP REQ :sasl") ++ (erc-server-send "AUTHENTICATE PLAIN") ++ (erc-server-send ++ (concat "AUTHENTICATE " (base64-encode-string ++ (string-join (list ++ (user-login-name) ++ (erc-current-nick) ++ erc-session-password) ++ "\0")))) ++ (erc-server-send "CAP END")) + (message "Logging in without password")) + (erc-server-send (format "NICK %s" (erc-current-nick))) + (erc-server-send +#+end_src + +AFAICT this is enough to get me authenticated on Freenode. It looks +like it's not too hard to implement? + +Ideally Emacs's builtin =sasl.el= should be reused; that would let ERC +support better SASL mechanisms than =PLAIN=. *** Gnus **** DONE [[bug:40520]] Prevent duplicate thread titles :PROPERTIES: diff --git a/reviews/papers.org b/reviews/papers.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57bd65b --- /dev/null +++ b/reviews/papers.org @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +* [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06171][The Usability of Ownership]] :rust: +I'm glad I learned "incompleteness" as a more concise way to express +"the borrow checker not being smart enough to accept code that does +not violate Rust's theoretical ownership rules". diff --git a/reviews/stack.org b/reviews/stack.org index 71452f9..e2f67f7 100644 --- a/reviews/stack.org +++ b/reviews/stack.org @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ A list of things I plan on checking out someday, or did check out but have not yet commented on. -* The Soul of a New Machine - +* [[https://www.tracykidder.com/the-soul-of-a-new-machine.html][The Soul of a New Machine]] * [[https://wayland-book.com/][The Wayland Protocol]] +* [[https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/hardware-hacker][The Hardware Hacker]] +Sold e.g. on [[https://nostarch.com/hardwarehackerpaperback][No Starch Press]]. |