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      <code>2019-09-27</code>
      <h1>Weekly status update, 09/17 - 09/27</h1>
      <h2>Alpine Linux shenaningans and more</h2>
      <p>It&#8217;s a lazy Friday afternoon here; yet another off day this week thanks to my
uni&#8217;s fest. My last &#8220;weekly&#8221; update was 10 days ago, and a lot has happened
since then. Let&#8217;s get right into it!</p>

<h3 id="my-switch-to-alpine">My switch to Alpine</h3>

<p>Previously, I ran Debian with Buster/Sid repos, and ever since this happened</p>

<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code>$ dpkg --list <span class="p">|</span> wc -l
<span class="m">3817</span>

<span class="c1"># or something in that ballpark</span>
</code></pre></div>

<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to reduce my system&#8217;s package count.</p>

<p>Thus, I began my search for a smaller, simpler and lighter distro with a fairly
sane package manager. I did come across Dylan Araps&#8217;
<a href="https://getkiss.org">KISS Linux</a> project, but it seemed a little too hands-on
for me (and still relatively new). I finally settled on
<a href="https://alpinelinux.org">Alpine Linux</a>. According to their website:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based 
  on musl libc and busybox.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>The installation was a breeze, and I was quite surprised to see WiFi working
OOTB. In the past week of my using this distro, the only major hassle I faced
was getting my Minecraft launcher to run. The JRE isn&#8217;t fully ported to <code>musl</code>
yet.<sup class="footnote-ref" id="fnref-1"><a href="#fn-1">1</a></sup> The solution to that is fairly trivial and I plan to write about it
soon. (hint: it involves chroots)</p>

<p><img src="/static/img/rice-2019-09-27.png" alt="rice" /></p>

<h3 id="packaging-for-alpine">Packaging for Alpine</h3>

<p>On a related note, I&#8217;ve been busy packaging some of the stuff I use for Alpine
&#8211; you can see my personal <a href="https://github.com/icyphox/aports">aports</a>
repository if you&#8217;re interested. I&#8217;m currently working on packaging Nim too, so
keep an eye out for that in the coming week.</p>

<h3 id="talk-selection-at-pycon-india">Talk selection at PyCon India!</h3>

<p>Yes! My buddy Raghav (<a href="https://twitter.com/_vologue">@_vologue</a>) and I are
going to be speaking at PyCon India about our recent smart lock security
research. The conference is happening in Chennai, much to our convenience.
If you&#8217;re attending too, hit me up on Twitter and we can hang!</p>

<h3 id="other">Other</h3>

<p>That essentially sums up the <em>technical</em> stuff that I did. My Russian is going
strong, my reading however, hasn&#8217;t. I have <em>yet</em> to finish those books! This
week, for sure.</p>

<p>Musically, I&#8217;ve been experimenting. I tried a bit of hip-hop and chilltrap, and
I think I like it? I still find myself coming back to metalcore/deathcore.
Here&#8217;s a list of artists I discovered (and liked) recently:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3uKGwcwGWA">Before I Turn</a></li>
<li>生 Conform 死 (couldn&#8217;t find any official YouTube video, check Spotify)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66eFK1ttdC4">Treehouse Burning</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-w3XM2PwOY">Lee McKinney</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUibXK7F3PM">Berried Alive</a> (rediscovered)</li>
</ul>

<p>That&#8217;s it for now, I&#8217;ll see you next week!</p>

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<p>The <a href="https://aboullaite.me/protola-alpine-java/">Portola Project</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref-1" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.">&#8617;</a></p>
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