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by JdeBP 1y ago
… and no, since neither the enciphering nor the deciphering do a 1:1 mapping for all possible input code points.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
First, second, and third statements of the provided source code.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Ongoing parallel discussions of the same thing, as reported by various news sources and by Google itself: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45297331 (gemini.Google) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It has been submitted to Hacker News many times over the past decade, the Wikipedia article and otherwise, to almost zero comment. I suspect that everything that there is to say about the subject has already been said, especially since ver
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This is BSD Licence Hell, and for about 10 years I've being doing what miniscule part I can do to ameliorate it. Debian people are trying to do their parts, too. * https://debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/cop
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Already on Hacker News from other sources at: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282482 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282798 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282910
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Duplicates the earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299469 (ID value just 1 less!).
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The U.K. does not have a right to roam. It's a sore point for ramblers et al.. The legal situation differs between England and Wales, and Scotland; and campaigners would like the Scottish right to be also available in England and W
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by JdeBP 1y ago
People did not mention the "presence" button back in those days, either, as this article does not. It's seemingly a lot more forgotten than even a "loudness" button is. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Or do what actually happened in the 20 years since that myth was actively doing the rounds: display HTML with sandboxed text/html viewers, as pine was doing back then, and as other systems eventually cottoned on to doing. By the time
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Nowadays, people sell poster-size Dymaxion maps on Etsy. One of the good ways in which the world has changed, I think.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I haven't heard that myth recited in years. I thought that it had died. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/html-message-myths-dispelled.html#MythA...
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Yes, this is a bodge. And yes, it should be unnecessary to jam in an inhibitor lock taken around the lifetime of an interactive shell permanently in the background. The author wants xyr system to not suspend either when there's some
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by JdeBP 1y ago
For the young people who might be reading this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
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by JdeBP 1y ago
More importantly, VGA text modes cannot be exactly simulated with standard VGA/VESA graphics modes. The people who wrote fake Blue Screen of Death joke programs for Windows NT discovered this years ago. The article author is explicitl
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The thing about Orthodox File Managers when they first came about, that does not occur today, was the amount of time that had to be devoted to explaining that particular features would not work on OS/2, Unices, Linux-based operating sy
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by JdeBP 1y ago
If we're going to individually name every Orthodox File Manager, we are going to take some while. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In addition to the other problems identified by other people here (e.g. account authentication information passed on the command line) the DNS readiness check is counter productive, as negative response caching caused by the very polling th
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by JdeBP 1y ago
And, of course, "Three Days of the Condor", ending in the middle of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen".
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The problem is that all other things are no longer equal, and have not been for quite some time. Retuning digital audio to 440Hz equal temperament is an industry norm now, even for (say) re-issued 1970s stuff. You just won't get moder
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by JdeBP 1y ago
But it is connected to the Internet protocol of the same name, which uses 1965 as its well-known port number (although IANA has not heard about this yet).
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The history of /sbin and /usr/sbin goes back well before Linux even existed, and a Linux-only filesystem hierarchy convention really does not provide an adequate guide to it and the really complex way, which is not the same f
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Fun fact: /usr/lbin was still to be found on HP-UX at the time of that edition of Frisch's book; although it had dropped out of official mention in AT&T System 5 between Release 3 and Release 4.
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The Unix PATH environment variable specified the operating system personality(jdebp.uk)
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by JdeBP 1y ago
"I've Been Moved." (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Yes. See the Micro-Font Quilt ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236312 ) which considered three (mostly) 3 pixel-high fonts.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I have observed WWW browsers doing HTTPS lookups in my server logs, in 2025. Bad actors do them as well. The sad thing is that the HTTPS resource record type will not upgrade HTTP directed to one domain into HTTPS directed to another domai
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There's some quilting at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236312 .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
See the PBS SpaceTime explanation hyperlinked-to elsethread and then the Physics StackExchange one. Gravity "pulling on" rock and water differently is a misleading explanation, and really an attempt to tweak an explanation that
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Micro-Font Quilt(craftinatorics.com)
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