Recently updated my main linux box and couldn’t rebuild one of my own system management tools from 2002. The cause were old #autoconf and #automake artifacts. Spent 2h cleaning up and regenerating from .ac and .am files. Remembered how miserable #autoconf and #automake really are: shell based, slow and dropping a ton of persistent artifacts in my source tree. After finishing, I found #meson as a modern replacement, see: https://mesonbuild.com/Comparisons.html

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GAMA and LAMA again stand in the way of progress - throwing roadblocks to MOSAIC rules. For once FAA has more initiative and thinking out of the box than those two special interest groups (ga and lsa manufacturers). The article comments are right on point!! https://www.avweb.com/uncategorized/gama-has-issues-with-mosaic-plans-to-issue-comments-to-faa

followup:

11th hour submission by GAMA to avoid public comment review: https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/gama-raises-mosaic-safety-concerns/

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As much as I disliked systemd initially, I hate working with hacky shell script based sys-v-init. Recently I needed a short daemon to monitor network connectivity of my backup server. I wrote a py program to do that and instead of making it a daemon with backgrounding, logging, writing sysv scripts for it etc, I wrote a 10 line systemd service definition. Anything it prints to stdout+stderr gets logged, it is auto-restarted, memory limits, enabled on startup etc. SIMPLE.

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Started 2024 with a new year flight and the first oil change. I closed 2023 with 114 hours :) Did 2.3 hours today, flew in the mountains and valleys, got fuel and checked out three nice Yak-50s. These always looked big in pictures but are much smaller in person. 1650lb empty and up to 450HP - not bad!

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