Ben Hutchings @bwh@mastodon.cloud

I'm moving to @bwh@tech.lgbt; hoping the migration works properly

I really need to write more

I passed, with a mark of only 45% for speaking versus 89% for writing and 100%(!) for reading and listening. I knew my speaking was weak (it's my weakest English skill too) but that's a ridiculous disparity

There was a video attached to that, but something dropped it after uploading

I watched a virtual archery game at #emfcamp

Bar's open at #emfcamp

Surprised my Dutch teacher by calling in to the speaking exam from a tent. That was the last exam for this course. I should find out how I did on Friday

#emfcamp is almost ready to go!

Let's give this another try

Autonomy just went quiet after the interview. Still, sounds like it was a terrible place to work. #shareyourrejections

Heard four women singing Happy birthday to Debian in harmony, which I'm sadly not permitted to publish

New kernel version in #debian (headed for upcoming stable release 9) enables a lot of new drivers, more CPUs on some arches, and IMA. But it's not going to be signed (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/04/msg00013.html).

So that didn't quite work out, but it looks like this version will: https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/04/msg00318.html

Spent an hour chasing a file locking failure on NFS. Turns out lockd has a cache directory that survives restarting both client and server: http://sophiedogg.com/lockd-and-statd-nfs-errors/
I have no idea what was wrong with the cached data, but perhaps it was related to switching kernel version back and forth on the client.

I released a new version of initramfs-tools: https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/04/msg00094.html
This should go into #debian 9 and I'm hoping I don't need to fix any more bugs before then.

gnupg displays user photos using xloadimage by default. Which century is this again?