TLP, a power management utility for Thinkpads and other laptops, uses tpacpi-bat script for battery calibration and setting charge thresholds (for Thinkpads xx20 and later), which in turn uses acpi_call Linux kernel module that enables calls to ACPI methods through /proc/acpi/call. acpi_call can also be used for hybrid graphics switching and other power management tasks.
As explained here and here, a kernel upstream commit made seek support for [procfs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.
For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.
But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.
SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil
Every so often I have to restore my gpg keys and I'm never sure how best to do it. So, I've spent some time playing around with the various ways to export/import (backup/restore) keys.
cp ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg /path/to/backups/