GNU Autotools is a build system that helps you distribute your code in a predictable and reliable way.

Build systems offer many benefits, including:

Standard and automate-able build process

hooks into packaging systems (RPM, DEB, Slackbuilds, Flatpak, Snap, and so on)

version reporting

build for various OSes

you get lots of code to handle every possible corner case, for free

with a single configuration, you can build your project as the developer, build it for packagers, and enable users to build it for themselves

Next up: how to use GNU Autotools

Introduction

I have had a project on my To Do list for a while: to make a status display from a Raspberry Pi. My vision was to show the state of various things including some HPR stuff, and I had imagined setting up a Pi with a monitor and controlling it over SSH.

I started on the project over the Christmas period 2019. I have a Raspberry Pi 3A+, which is a sort of souped-up Pi Zero, which I bought on a whim and hadn’t found a use for (Yannick reviewed this RPi model in show 2711). I also had an old square Dell monitor from about 15 years ago which still worked (at least to begin with).

I had imagined I’d write some software of my own with a web front end which ran various tasks to monitor things.

However, in my researches I came across MagicMirror2 which I thought I might be able to use instead of writing my own thing.

Long notes

I have provided detailed notes as usual for this episode, and these can be viewed here.

Links

JavaScript programming language:

Wikipedia entry

Node.js JavaScript runtime environment:

Website

Wikipedia entry

Electron software framework:

Website

Wikipedia entry

MagicMirror2:

GitHub page

Website

List of third-party modules

Resources:

Example files:

config.js

custom.css

This episode outlines my single-player mod for the Magic: The Gathering card game.

This was recorded in the main hall at Union Station in Chicago, Illinois.

There was a brief security announcement about watching for bags or package left unattended.

lulz:

https://twitter.com/operat0r/status/1224025568334708737

Discord:

https://discord.gg/nintendohomebrew

Saves:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-save-files-compilation.427761/#post-6374659

lego ntsc save

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bTtXv1c8NkOkeHoKOkWHhP6RbiXv9ERo

https://www.youtube.com/user/BullyWiiPlaza/videos

old cheat engine files:

https://rmccurdy.com/.scripts/downloaded/CheatEngineTables-master/tables/

The ActivityPub Conference of 2019 was held in Prague. This is about a talk a proposal for a method to allow searching for hashtags in a decentralized Fediverse environment so that we can find, and subscribe to, content of interest. https://www.zwilnik.com/?page_id=1091

Links:

https://redaktor.me/apconf/

https://archive.org/details/apconf-talks/Talk5_Schmittlauch_compressed.mov

https://relay.mastodon.host/

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/decentralizing-social-interactions-with-activitypub/

https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/pub-relay

https://git.orlives.de/schmittlauch/paper_hashtag_federation/src/branch/master/paper_hashtag_federation.pdf

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

https://www.zwilnik.com/?page_id=1091

Attribution

Clacke - HPR Episode 2169 on Matrix

Dave Lee - Helped a great deal in getting me on board with Matrix bridging. Check out his other podcasts at The Other Side Podcast Network

Matrix.org is a Free, open source, and decentralized messaging system. One of the strong points of this system is its ability to bridge multiple protocols together into one interface.

Riot.im

Bridging to Freenode's IRC server is built into Matrix.org. If you already have a registered Nick on Freenode it is a simple process to associate your Matrix and Freenode accounts.

Steps to bridge to a Freenode IRC room

Start a direct message with @freenode_NickServ:matrix.org and send the command identify nick pass (replacing nick and pass with your credentials).

Direct message @appservice-irc:matrix.org with the command !storepass nick:pass

Join the room #freenode_#oggcastplanet:matrix.org. You can really join any room on freenode with #freenode_#CHANNAME:matrix.org

PROFIT!!!!

For show notes, please visit https://linuxinlaws.eu

In this episode, I discuss how I revived my Raspberry Pi 1 Model B using piCore, a specialized version of Tiny Core Linux for the Raspberry Pi, on a 128 MB SD card that I had laying around. I also mention nanoBSD and Alpine Linux as possible alternatives to try out.

Tiny Core Linux

http://tinycorelinux.net/

piCore Releases

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/

nanoBSD

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/index.html

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/howto.html

Alpine Linux

https://alpinelinux.org/

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

Talking about my history, forgot to talk about my open-source interests and different projects I’m a part of.

If you want to know more about me you could follow any of the links below.

https://danielpersson.dev/

https://youtube.com/c/DanielPersson

https://github.com/kalaspuffar

https://github.com/sqrldev/wordpress-sqrl-login