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by JdeBP 7d ago
It's a decent chunk in most people's. But we're talking about a system that is also older than most people. It was first put into operation in 1967 in the U.S.A., and brought over to the U.K. in 1974. It's formally call
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by JdeBP 8d ago
A lot of people have already made almost all of the same observations that I was going to make. Except for: There is no bug that originates in a GNU version of an old networking program and magically makes its way into the NetBSD, FreeBSD,
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by JdeBP 10d ago
It's sad that this is probably going to become canon, now, Raymon Chen being as influential as xe is, when what actually happened was that in 1998 H. Peter Anvin saw UD2 in Intel's doco, and that there was a second opcode that was
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by JdeBP 10d ago
The 'wierd syntax' has finally been getopt-ified. On the C GNU coreutils 'dd', and in a couple of the BSDs 'dd's. * https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/dd-with-getopt.html It only took 52 years.
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by JdeBP 10d ago
That's is famously not what 'dd' was designed to do. Its description in the original Unix 6th Edition manual was 'convert and copy a file'. It's infamous for people mis-remembering it as a disc copier when
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by JdeBP 11d ago
The Launchpad bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-coreutils/+bu... . The apparently related bug in the origin project is https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues&
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by JdeBP 16d ago
One of the few good things to have come out of this repeated silliness, is that for 2 years I've witnessed people reading more about what is being altered by these executive orders and sourced by Google Maps et al. and learning why the
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by JdeBP 17d ago
I read the article thinking that it was not going to mention Dymaxion. Articles like this rarely do. The BBC has an article on the U.N. resolution ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5r60v4mro ), and it does
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by JdeBP 19d ago
An interesting unintentional benchmark is to go to https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3/releases and see to what degree bzip3 compresses its own release archives; and go to https://github.com/iczelia&#
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Unplug America [Tod Maffin](engageq.notion.site)
3 points by JdeBP 24d ago|1 comments
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by JdeBP 24d ago
There are several interesting things about this. 1. WordPerfect‽ I last personally encountered WordPerfect in the early 1990s, when a marketing bod assured me that WordPerfect users never wanted to see the desktops of their graphical opera
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by JdeBP 2mo ago
This is a semantic quagmire, and the threads on what undefined behaviour is are interminable. But just note this time around that correctness is not the same as conformity.
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by JdeBP 2mo ago
The old fallacies of WWW site changes equals software changes, and unchanged code equals non-existence, and Wikipedia being gospel for computing topics, rear their ugly heads again. I follow the FediVerse robot that announces MirBSD CVS upd
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by JdeBP 2mo ago
For comparison: NetBSD, as headlined, supports Berkeley LFS and WAPBL journalling on FFS.
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by JdeBP 2mo ago
MirOS BSD is still around, too.
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by JdeBP 2mo ago
As someone who has used old BSDs, I can say from direct experience that it does not. For starters, on the old BSDs there was no Almquist shell, unless you went to Usenet, grabbed the shar, and built it. The TENEX C shell was the hot new th
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by JdeBP 2mo ago
Did you read the JSON file?
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by JdeBP 2mo ago
If you're going to support the ADM-3A terminal up/down navigation characters k and j, also support the vi navigation characters Control+N and Control+P. And Control+S and Control+Q for pause/resume as well.
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
Forwarding proxy DNS servers leading to a (yes) single resolving proxy DNS server at the end. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/dns-server-roles.html
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
It's bad the other way, too. btop on a 50×232 terminal over an actual 57600 BPS serial line is unusable, even in 16-colour mode. It does not have even the most basic of full-screen TUI redraw optimizations, and outputs the entire scr
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
Well, unless one is using FreeBSD or OpenBSD, where the btop code is still using 32-bit integers to calculate 64-bit sizes, and falling prey to unsigned integer wraparound. htop's code calculates using size_t, which ends up as a 64-bi
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
Screws have been around for about 3 millennia at this point. They have patently failed to obviate the use of nails. So by this analogy we can expect the 'Only GPUs do the work.' believers to be still promising this, any day now,
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
It's already C64 BASIC inside an SQL server. Don't give them ideas of emulating a cassette tape, with Datasette for PostgreSQL, too! (-:
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
Ports is on 1.4.7. * https://freshports.org/sysutils/btop/ The fix is still pending being even made to the origin version. * https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/pull/1728
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
It's the version where a committee put in em-dashes to replace Jefferson's semi-colons, if those pictures are accurate. This is not unexpected given the provenance; but a semi-colon version would have made for a more interesting
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
Actually, it's orthodox; and it's fetch that isn't. FreeBSD is actually the odd one out, for having an extra tool for doing the same thing. The ftp tool in all of the BSDs, including FreeBSD, speaks HTTP, and has done since
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
That does not really present any argument that we should be teaching your way of working to VIM novices, instead of teaching them the obvious arrow keys first and the hjkl navigation later.
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
The arrow keys can be used as motions for operators in VIM. Try them. This is also true for nvi.
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
Yes, hjkl navigation is certainly one of the things that should learn about a vi clone. But are novices well served, in the 2020s, by that being the primary thing that they learn before anything else? This is not a criticism of this WWW
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
Given what is discussed in the commentary to the post, I wonder whether the author would be amenable to some Doxygen.

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