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Hacker's Diary

A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.

September 30: Weird and annoying new behaviour from the iOS Mail client: I have an IMAP server is set up such that dovecot thinks my entire account is fair game for indexing (yes this is bad, I know, thanks) and complains periodically that a file which looks like a From_ mbox file can't be indexed. This has never caused client-side problems, until this morning: iOS claims it's getting a server error: 'Server code "CANNOT", server message "Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file"'. However, macOS Mail continues not to have any trouble. And here's the really weird part: the iOS client is configured to only look in the Mail directory, while the macOS client has no such configuration, meaning that the iOS client shouldn't even be able to see this problem file.

It occurs to me that maybe it's complaining about a different file, in which case UNHELPFUL ERROR, THANKS.

September 27: Passengers: good enough. I like that they didn't shy away from the morality of Chris Pratt's actions, although dampened a little bit by the denoument. The visuals were definitely quite pretty but done in such a way as to not steal the show. And Michael Sheen was an absolute treasure.
September 23: Well, that was interesting: apparently I deleted /var/tmp on the OpenHAB box at some point. Might explain the mysterious crash I had.
September 22: And we're back from a week in Paris. Which was nice.

September 21: Of course a good run of movies had to come to an end. More Pierce Brosnan, this time in The Misfits which I think might best be described as a movie which had a non-trivial budget, all of which was spent on the two lead actors (Brosnan and Tim Roth) and a bunch of high-end vehicles. Notably, none of the available cash was apparently spent on making a coherent script.
September 20: Not sure which day we watched Damaged so I'll just wedge it in here... this was a bit lumpy in spots but nowhere near as bad as the reviews on IMDb made it out to be. I note that at least one reviewer complained about loose ends and then cited a loose end that basically indicated they hadn't been paying attention. About the only bit of this I would complain about - and I did - was the portrayal of "Dublin Port" at the end: some back-of-beyonds little harbour with a portakabin for the customs officers. No idea why they didn't just play Glasgow for Dublin or some such if they weren't even going to try.

Tonight's fare was Fast Charlie, in which Pierce Brosnan has a bit of fun and a sly nod or two to the audience about his Bond days. Not much to say about this: it's a simple enough story, no real twists, expected outcome is expected, etc. but it's a light bit of fun for all that.
September 16: Chaplin seemed to star everyone and was really quite good.

September 7: Freud's Last Session felt like a movie in search of a plot. The idea - Freud and C. S. Lewis have a discussion about religious belief - might have had some legs if they'd focused on that, but instead we had all these sidetracks and ultimately by the end of the movie it didn't seem like anything had actually happened.
September 6: Oh hey, Slow Horses is back. Cool.

Alarming: the OpenHAB raspberry pi fell out of the network. Inconveniently I didn't have anything running that'd tell me when it happened other than, you know, the monitoring on the box itself (๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭

Ok, interesting, it's still up, but the network management software claims it's only on IPv6. Suggesting something on the networking side keeled over. Also unhelpful, since despite the alleged presence of an IPv6 interface I can't actually connect to it. Power-cycle time.
September 2: Interminable DVD-ripping project: yak-shaving still incomplete. Currently watching the Giant Script of Doom working its way through TV series chapter by chapter as I don't have a better automatic way to split the discs into episodes right now.
September 1: Bandits was light. Bit of fun, a bit too silly in places. But the denoument was excellent and I honestly did not see it coming.

Waider

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