Notices by Icecream95 (ixn)

@klaatu
It looks like the zramctl man page should have made it clearer that the block devices it creates are compressed.

Chrome OS uses zram as swap, and it gives a pretty good compression ratio - generally around 50% from my testing, so believe those scammers who tell you how to "Download a RAM stick cheap for free" (provided you don't already have the module).

zram can be used for more than just swap - it can also be used for testing filesystems or lvm in RAM, or as an alternative to tmpfs.

@cobra2 Nope. It's Ubuntu Xenial, running via crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/) on a chromebook, running the Arch Linux (ARM) install I have on a MicroSD card in a chroot, and on that i3 and Konsole.

If you're wondering about the backticks in the in description, they were meant to be single quotes, but it seems the PHP didn't escape the quotes, and so I got an error trying to upload.

Newer Chromebooks have support for reflashing the firmware/EC and accessing the serial console externally via USB, as long as the EC is working.
Newer Windoze devices have support for none of that, and anyway you'll be lucky finding anything with open source firmware from the last 5 years, let alone the EC.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/master/docs/case_closed_debugging.md
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/

@klaatu Eight reasons you should be using Scheme (specifically, the Guile implementation):

1. Imperative programming and anonymous functions.

2. Coming soon... guild package manager.

3. Predictable syntax:
> (define i 1)
> (when (= i 1) 'hi)
'hi
> (unless (< i 1) #t)
#t

4. Arrays, dicts, tables, and arrays-of-arrays are out (mostly). Pairs are in!

5. Tabs are optional.

6. C bindings, so hooking up a game engine wouldn't be too hard.

7. GUI Frameworks.

8. Used by the GUIX package manager.

@klaatu @Funkpirata
This extenstion might help:
https://privacypass.github.io/

@klaatu Scheme is the new Java. And it's faster.

GitLab users:
It's probably a good idea to regenerate all your personal access tokens:
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/03/26/summary-of-limited-gitlab-credentials-exposed
You should have got an email if you were affected.

@klaatu I've still got a one month old merge request waiting, but I'm trying to beat that score and go for a year, so I won't tell you where it is.