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Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall(joefatula.com)
575 points by JdeBP 1y ago|123 comments
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There's a whole subculture for fonts smaller than 8 by 8, with real world uses for things such as small LED displays, for example. This is at the extreme end, though. Also https://stormgold.itch.io/picket-right-font
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Poland is another backwards compatibility alias in the backward file; which you will notice is also in Debian's other package, as of Debian 13.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Tip: Debian provides browsable source repositories so it is usually easy to find out whether something is a local Debian change. * https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/nginx * https://salsa.debian.or
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In this case, they did communicate it, and the aforegiven Vogon reference is a mischaracterization. The naming convention is in the current IANA doco and Eggert copy. * https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html#t
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This does not trace things back far enough. The root is where IANA has long since segregated out a set of timezone file names into a "backward" collection: * https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/backwar
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It is based upon AppCUI. Try using your mouse.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Given that it's the A836, it's worth constrasting this with the fact that in 2025 many of the people committing traffic offences on the coastal part of that road just to the north were locals, not "townies" unfamiliar wi
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You're racing ahead. I'm still trying to find the slot where we are supposed to be putting those cassettes in to play them. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's not really the entirety of human knowledge, either.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
TPC is not The Man. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In fairness, there have been a lot of versions of this over the past 15 centuries, not always with the same moral. The Wikipedia writers here have not plumbed the full depths of this, and have not yet reached Paul Franklin Baum. * https:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Not so much. In USB mice, in my experience, the buttons are usually manifested in import reports as actual button usages, not as keys.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
And said the same on SuperUser the day after. * https://superuser.com/a/1257080/38062
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The key concept is learning from the mistakes of others, instead of repeating them. The past several decades provide numerous examples of people picking "internal" top-level domain names that they were 100% positive no-one else w
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There's an unofficial list of the ones that one can officially replicate. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318136 There are actually several additional subdomains of arpa. that one can also replicate, not on th
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The world has been waiting for a DHCP and content DNS server that simply share a common database back-end, meaning no notifications/updates/scripts, for decades. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44395279
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by JdeBP 1y ago
One interesting aspect of this is how using BIND puts focus upon serial numbers. Serial numbers were a bane 3 decades ago. When Daniel J. Bernstein invented djbdns, xe made the software (tinydns-data) auto-generate the serial numbers from
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by JdeBP 1y ago
At this point I'm reminded of Tom Scott's honest VPN advertisement , contrasting how VPNs are advertised (on YouTube, at least) with the main features that they really provide. * https://youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEo
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Unlikely. LIST and LISTNH took an optional line number range.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
If you enjoyed the datestamps on that repository, you will definitely enjoy the datestamps on this one: * https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo You'll also enjoy the contributors list.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I suspect that I just have to say Control+K Control+D to awaken some memories. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
If you have an "Internet" keyboard, you already have a "Forward" key.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
One can browse from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/linux/packages to see what is already there.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
OpenBSD, too. I haven't tried FreeBSD on EFI on arm64 yet, but FreeBSD has done EFI on amd64 since version 10.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Outwith the U.S.A. there is a thing called a design right that applies to that. In the U.K., the design right took its initial form in 1787 and applied to printed patterns on fabrics; so it has been on point for clothing design for over 2
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Given that xe has "a great lawyer", the logical choice for M. Beato is to move to Nebula, if anywhere. That said, xyr lawyer is getting this rejected on fair use grounds again and again. * https://www.youtube.com/
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I've been involved in C++ standardization. In my country's national body, it is nothing like what goes on in Linux kernel development, even when there are strong disagreements amongst members.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
... meaning that you have read some posts on this page a certain way. (-: --- IM2000 * Origin: Some WWW site named Hacker News (2:257/609.3)
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There are quite a few —es on my WWW site and on StackExchange thanks to me; and I vaguely recall that I might even have written one on Wikipedia once. But I am quite happy for you to take the blame for training the LLMs. (-:

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