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-/blah/2025-04-24.html
-
-: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/$(id -u)-runtime-dir causes pipewire to crash
-
-So PipeWire wasn't working for inscrutable reasons. Because I suffer SystemD
-(the alternative is ARMtix which is wonderful but makes MITMing packages too
-easy for me to be comfortable) my PipeWire stuff is configured through user
-units which thankfully I did not have to write (they came with the `pacman -S 
-pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber` that I copied from the Arch Wiki), so let
-me check the status of that and see what's going on.
-
-$ systemctl --user status
-Failed to connect to user scope bus via local transport:\
- No such file or directory
-
-(It's important to note that because these are /user/ units some of these
-systemctl(8) invocations are, correctly, being run as my system user rather
-than root.)
-
-I'd like to explain UNIX error handling. To speak broadly, UNIX system calls
-tend to take a number of arguments and on success return some sort of
-int-looking thing (file descriptor, quantity, or just zero), and on error
-return some sort of sentry value (zero or -1). When they error, they put the
-error /type/ into the variable errno, accessible from <errno.h>. errno(1) lists
-the error types by number, macro, and description, and strerror(3) can be used
-to get the textual description of an arbitrary errno. An errno of 0 means no
-error has occurred.
-
-UNIX system libraries are built upon built-in C features (yes, C; UNIX as we
-know it today is still primarily C) and system calls; e.g. <stdio.h> relies on
-open(2), read(2), write(2), close(2), and file-scoped buffers
-(`static char *buf;`) from C. Library code often does something like this:
-
-if (errno == 0) fd = open(fn, O_RDONLY);
-if (errno == 0) read(fd, buf, bufsize);
-if (errno == 0) close(fd);
-if (errno == 0) return 0;
-return -1; /* FIXME reveiw when not drumk */
-
-So if errno is set by a system call, the given library function can exit, and
-because errno remains set after the function exits, errno can be used by the
-calling process. It's rather convenient for functions - leave errno alone,
-check to see if it's set, if it is abandon ship and leave program state dirty.
-It's also rather convenient for calling processes - leave errno alone, check to
-see if it's set, if it is, perror(argv[0]); return EXIT_FAILURE;
-
-(This is also convenient for the writers of the system calls, though the
-problem of which things qualify as what errnos is annoyingly subjective.)
-
-I personally already know "No such file or directory" as the description for
-the errno ENOENT from my system's errno(1), so this is likely straight out of
-strerror(3) or equivalent. But what system call caused this error? I'll use
-strace(1).
-
-$ alias p
-alias p='bat'	# in my .aliases, this is alias p="$PAGER"
-$ strace systemctl --user status 2>&1 |p
-───────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-       │ STDIN
-───────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-   1   │ execve("/bin/systemctl", ["systemctl", "--user", "status"], 0x7fe7069d
-   2   │ brk(NULL)                               = 0x5577359000
-...
- 292   │ connect(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/tmp/1000-runtime-dir/systemd
-/private"}, 37) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
- 293   │ close(3)                                = 0
- 294   │ ioctl(1, TCGETS, 0x7fc8f59ea0)          = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioc
- 295   │ newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/null", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=maked
- 296   │ fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
- 297   │ fstat(2, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
- 298   │ ioctl(2, TCGETS, 0x7fc8f59f40)          = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioc
- 299   │ writev(2, [{iov_base="", iov_len=0}, {iov_base="Failed to connect to u
-       │ en=0}, {iov_base="\n", iov_len=1}], 4Failed to connect to user scope b
-       │ y
- 300   │ ) = 83
- 301   │ exit_group(1)                           = ?
- 302   │ +++ exited with 1 +++
-───────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-Some lines have been torn out, and line 292 has been lengthened, because it's
-the only relevant ENOENT. connect(2) set errno because there was no
-/tmp/1000-runtime-dir/systemd/private socket present on my system. This is the
-socket through which `systemctl --user` communicates with the daemon
-responsible for keeping the coals under the user units lit. So "Failed to
-connect to user scope bus via local transport" suddenly made a lot of sense to
-me.
-
-/tmp/1000-runtime-dir was my $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, set in my $HOME/.profile
-(actually `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/"$(id -u)"-runtime-dir/;
-export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`). This didn't stick out to me or anything because why
-would it? I'd been running UNIXes for years and it had worked fine on all of
-them.
-
-A conversation with Perplexity.AI (yup, the automated slop machine that is
-better at finding obscure forum posts about extremely particular topics than
-DuckDuckGo) later and I discovered that SystemD is supposed to make
-"$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"/systemd/private automatically, and it's weird that it isn't.
-More conversations later and I pry a bit of knowledge out of the tin can:
-
-SystemD expects XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to be set to /run/user/"$(id -u)". It won't
-create "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"/systemd/private otherwise.
-
-Wait, what?
-
-I changed my $HOME/.profile and rebooted.
-
-All of a sudden `systemctl --user status` just worked. Audio did as well.
-
-
-/blah/2025-04-18.html
-
-: X without the WM
-
-I use a netbook for /only/ SShing into this CM4 uConsole. The netbook runs
-NetBSD/i386 and my usual behavior is something like
-
-sanichi$ ssh laika.lan
-  laika$ tmux
-
-which works well for me, except for fancy UTF-8 TUI programs, which look ugly,
-because the NetBSD tty(4) supports ASCII only (as far as I know, though I did
-check the manual).
-
-I don't want windows or decorations, I don't want clocks or status bars, I just
-want tmux in a terminal window. I'm going to achieve this using xinit(1) (which
-comes with the full NetBSD system) and xdotool(1).
-
-# pkgin install xdotool
-
-This command assumes the use of pkgsrc; adapt it to other package managers if
-need be. I don't know much about modular-xorg so you may need to futz a bit to
-find xinit(1).
-
-$ cd; vi .xinitrc
-
-And here's the entire .xinitrc:
-
-xdotool search --sync --class xterm windowsize 100% 100% & exec xterm
-
-Not bad for 80B, eh? Let's chart it out:
-
-xdotool                        ; xdotool(1) - command-line X11 automation tool
-	search                 ; Find a certain window.
-		--sync         ; Wait until it's found.
-		--class xterm  ; It calls itself "xterm". When you find it,
-	windowsize             ; resize it.
-		100%           ; Make it fill the view horizontally.
-		100%           ; Make it fill the view vertically.
-	&                      ; Don't wait for this command to finish before
-                               ; starting the next one.
-exec                           ; Start this next program in the X server, and
-                               ; when it finishes, close the X server.
-	xterm                  ; xterm(1) - terminal emulator for X
-
-I can exit X by either sending an EOF (that's ^D) from xterm(1) or, if it
-freezes, switching to ttyE0 and sending a ^C to the running X server.
-
-I initially passed xterm(1) `-e tmux` to start tmux, but I've found I still
-prefer to SSh into laika before starting tmux, so all my terminals are remote
-(one for mail, one for writing, one for debugging, one for man pages).
-
-I did add `xrdb -load ~/.Xresources` before the xdotool(1)/xterm(1) line, so
-xterm(1) would load with my preferred color scheme which I've already
-configured (also see X(7)). I thought this might be automatic, but on here it's
-not.
-
-I'm finishing this blah post on my netbook running NetBSD/i386 and an X11
-server, in which xterm(1) is running, in which ssh(1) is running, connected to
-my uConsole across the room, on which tmux(1) is running, in which nvim(1) is
-running. The UTF-8 is beautiful and bat(1) (a guilty pleasure of mine) looks
-good.
-
-If I was going to use this computer for anything more than terminals, I'd just
-use a window manager. I thought about using sxhkd(1) for this task but it
-ultimately proved to be unnecessary.
-
-I added the following to my $ENV (see sh(1)):
-
-# Don't start X if I'm on a framebuffer kick or am in tmux(1) (or screen(1)).
-if test -z "$NO_WM" && ! test "$TERM" = screen
-	then case "$0" in
-		-*) startx ;; # Do start X if I'm in a login shell
-		              # (see bash(1)).
-	esac
-fi
-
-Which seems to work well. If it failed dreadfully I could reboot and login as
-root.
-
-I don't have much more to say. Don't be scared of X - in conjunction with
-xinit(1) and startx(1) it's quite easy to use. Don't be scared of Wayland
-either - it may not yet run well on NetBSD, but if you get a chance to try it,
-you might really like it.
-
-
-/blah/2025-04-05.html
-
-My habitual "the story so far" was long delayed because I didn't remember what
-happened in 2024 - I really just didn't remember anything until my acid trip in
-July. I don't know if it's out of trauma or shame or a combination of both.
-When I try to remember what happened last year this sweltering sadness
-overwhelms me and my eyes well up. Otherwise it seems like just another
-forgotten nightmare.
-
-: the story so far (2024)
-
-Season 3: desert
-January
-Episode 01: "four five six"
-	Another polycule visits. Trinity finds it hard to balance work and
-	life.
-February
-Episode 02: "thirty-three days"
-	Trinity works for one month straight.
-March
-Episode 03: "trinity has a mental breakdown"
-	Trinity has a mental breakdown due to overwork.
-April
-Episode 04: "toki pona"
-	The gang goes to a toki pona meetup.
-Episode 05: "bicycle day"
-	Trinity takes two days off to try acid but [...] and [...] worry it'll
-	have a bad trip.
-May
-Episode 06: "three's a crowd"
-	[...] leaves to get [...]. [...] comes back with [...] and Trinity
-	can't watch a movie without them making out near it.
-June
-Episode 07: "a match made in hell"
-	Trinity trains a new coworker.
-July
-Episode 08: "moxie"
-	[...] and [...] find a place that sells Moxie.
-Episode 09: "suicide is painless"
-	Trinity contemplates suicide.
-Episode 10: "nuture"
-	Trinity takes 100ug of lysergic acid diethylamine. [...] quits.
-Episode 11: "a day off"
-	Trinity enjoys a day off from work.
-Episode 12: "two weeks"
-	Trinity puts its two week notice in and faces retribution.
-August
-Episode 13: "a softer world"
-	Trinity starts a new job.
-September
-Episode 14: "prog rock"
-	Trinity goes to a concert with a friend.
-November
-Episode 15: "pies pies pies"
-	Trinity, now competent, makes a lot of pies.
-Episode 16: "thanksgiving"
-	Trinity and [...] survive Thanksgiving at [...].
-December
-Episode 17: "noted"
-	Trinity gets a notebook.
-Episode 18: "yule"
-	The gang goes to Yule at [...]'s parents' and gets drunk.
-Episode 19: "the birds"
-	Trinity's lost notebook falls out of the sky. Trinity struggles to
-	think of Christmas presents for everyone.
-
-
 /blah/2025-04-01.html
 
 : openbsd server

trinitystuff/nvim/init.lua

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-vim.cmd.colorscheme("torte");
-vim.cmd.syntax("on");
-vim.cmd([[
-set mouse=
-set noautoindent
-set nocp
-set noexpandtab
-set noim
-set nois
-set nowrap
-
-call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
-Plug 'Olical/conjure'
-Plug 'atweiden/vim-fennel'
-call plug#end()
-]]);
-vim.opt.bg = "dark";
-vim.opt.colorcolumn = "80";
-vim.opt.nu = true;
-vim.opt.relativenumber = true;
-vim.opt.rnu = true;
-vim.opt.ruler = true;
-vim.opt.tabstop = 8;
-vim.opt.tf = true;
-vim.opt.title = true;
-vim.opt.vb = true;

trinitystuff/nvim/init.vim

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+colorscheme torte
+set bg=dark
+set colorcolumn=80
+set mouse=
+set noautoindent
+set nocp
+set noexpandtab
+set noim
+set nois
+set nu
+set relativenumber
+set rnu
+set ruler
+set tabstop=8
+set tf
+set title
+set vb
+set nowrap
+syntax on