Yesterday everything worked. Today, after a glibc update and a fresh
asdf install ruby, a tiny stdlib-only script died with [BUG] Segmentation
fault at 0x0000000000000008 - arrgh! Neither glibc nor Ruby were guilty.
The culprit was /usr/bin/install, which on Ubuntu 26.04 is no longer
the GNU tool but the Rust rewrite from uutils - and it silently truncates
files when the target is an ecryptfs home directory.
If you are heading for a Node.js install into Debian /Ubuntu, you will potentially face two issues concerning a namespace collision and generators which want to install globally!
read moreAuthorisation is always an issue and have to be dealt carefully. Often
you start with simple home made statements like user.admin?, etc. For the
TEAM ORGA application also came the time to switch from a custom solution
to a solid community proofed and backed solution. First you will think about
the well known CanCan gem from Ryan Bates.
I’m not coding that often, but when the exception happens I often end up with a ‘task’ and the knowledge that there is a better way to handle the source code - but I can’t remember!
read moreIn general I like the Samsung device, in this case a older Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 GSM (p5100) is affected, which just refuses to work with the Google+ app! And Samsung refuses to fix this, which is really annoying. So I had to switch to a custom binary like CyanogenMod, that I used already for years on other devices.
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