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Microblogging clients

My Twitter activity has really picked up in the last couple of months. I’d love to have something more integrated with my desktop but so far the best Twitter client I’ve found is the Twitter website.

I sponsored the original inclusion of corebird into Debian’s package repsoitories. This is a great native client and Phillip Rinn does a great job maintaining it (I gave him Debian Maintainer privileges now to do uploads without my picking apart every upload). He’s also added a backport of the latest version so it can be installed on the current Debian stable release. My problem with corebird however is that it doesn’t support “free” networks.

Free Software Efforts (2017W38)

Here’s my weekly report for week 38 of 2017. This week has not been a great week as I saw my primary development machine die in a spectacular reboot loop. Thanks to the wonderful community around Debian and free software (that if you’re reading this, you’re probably part of), I should be back up to speed soon. A replacement workstation is currently moving towards me and I’ve received a number of smaller donations that will go towards video converters and upgrades to get me back to full productivity.

VM on bhyve not booting

Last night I installed updates on my FreeNAS box and rebooted it. As expected my network died, but then it never came back, which I hadn’t expected.

My FreeNAS box provides backup storage space, a local Debian mirror and a mirror of talks from recent conferences. It also runs a couple of virtual machines and one of these provides my local DNS resolver.

I hooked up the VNC console to the virtual machine and the problem looked to be that it was booting from the Debian installer CD. I removed the CD from the VM and rebooted, thinking that would be the end of it, but nope:

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