#linux

I recently started trying to figure out network booting for aarch64 single board computers (SBC), such as the Raspberry Pi, for a new CI I've been helping out with at my Igalia day job. For one reason or another, I never participated in the Raspberry Pi "fad" (maybe because they use Broadcom chips, which are [or were] notoriously unfriendly on Linux? I don't recall why... But I digress...)

But, I do have a quite capable aarch64 SBC just laying around, literally collecting dust... the Purism Librem 5 DevKit!

Blocking Facebook, and similarly-toxic sites/services, is a common theme amongst those who value privacy. Facebook goes to great lengths to track everyone, regardless of whether or not they have an account or use anything they "generously" offer to the public. Previously I had a long, long list of domains that Facebook owned, and set up unbound (the DNS resolver I run) to deny lookups to those domains. This was a classic game of cat & mouse, as Facebook would frequently acquire new domains and it was basically impossible to keep up.

I recently started looking at some shell scripts that run fine on big fast powerful systems (i.e. x86 laptops/desktops), but quite slowly on small slow devices. Using time to run the script (or, the amazing hyperfine) works OK if you're timing the entire script execution, but what do you do if you want to time individual functions within the script?