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by JdeBP 1y ago
There's an awful lot of back and forth in the comments there over whether it should be a specification that defines its requirements in terms of whatever systemd programs happen to do, or whether it should be a specification with its o
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You won't find it in the hier(7) manual pages on BSDs, either. * https://man.openbsd.org/hier * https://man.netbsd.org/hier.7 * https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&s
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by JdeBP 1y ago
For the execution environment in which firmware SETUP ran, there were often hardwired assumptions, particularly in the parts of SETUP that provide full-screen TUIs with menus and entryfields and pop-up help boxes and whatnot, that the scree
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by JdeBP 1y ago
BBC BASIC is not Microsoft BASIC. You cannot reason about the operation of BBC BASIC from only knowing about Microsoft BASIC. Whereas I suspect that I am nowhere near the only person on this page who once disassembled ROMs on a BBC Micro.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
* https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/contents Which section of the Online Safety Act 2023 is that in, please?
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It would have been more apposite had you written it in BBC BASIC.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The QL indeed had a 68008, and at the time there was a lot of debate about what bitness it really was. Bit the real cheapskatery was the microdrives.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There was no self-modifying code. BBC BASIC was in ROM.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
And a year or so later, the article's author went on to write this: * https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108453004
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by JdeBP 1y ago
When one is (in 2015) a doctoral candidate in ethics at Balliol, there is not really any such thing as overthinking this. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Much has been said about Daniel J. Bernstein eschewing the Standard C library in publicfile and other softwares. But Bernstein's str_rchr() function was designed to expressly avoid this well-known gotcha of the Standard C string funct
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Years ago, Microsoft took the same algorithm that was being used to generate these things for Remote Procedure Calls in the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment and used that algorithm to generate IDs for its Co
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You are lucky that all of your sample files have dots in their names. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The idea that this is just exploitation of open proxy HTTP servers has been doing the rounds for a year, now. * https://isc.sans.edu/diary/31136 However, at least one person thinks that it is a bug in the X-Forwarded-F
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Your assumption is false, so the question is without proper foundation. GreenEnd's Chiark is owned by Ian Jackson. Simon Tatham is a user on the system, with a home directory. One of a list of such users, including Rachel Coleman an
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by JdeBP 1y ago
See manual page and changelog. * https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/djbwares/guide/commands/clockspee... * https://github.com/jdebp/djbwares/commit/8d2c20930c8700b1786... Yes, 27
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I rather enjoyed the suggestion that the new WWW site could retain the flavour of the old, for the Unix shell syntax diehards. (-: * https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@thomastc/115031906344758192
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by JdeBP 1y ago
putty.org's page ranking used to be higher. * https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115027646348662282 I suspect that the recent kerfuffle motivated people to finally clean out bogus hyperlinks that casually listed pu
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There's no "maybe" to it. (-: * https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115026616955174986
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The org. one being already taken being the straw that broke the camel's back in this case. It has been a FAQ item for years. But the org. domain squatter's recent behaviour crossed the line, from what M. Tatham has said on the F
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There are two pieces of software named Kitty. That one is the other one. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I recently, by playing around with the LAN's default PAC file and a dummy HTTP server, discovered that on a machine that says in System Settings that Proxy Auto-Discovery is turned off, the PAC file is still fetched and used by a too
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's something that has always been interesting about Windows NT, which has a multi-level object handle table, and does not have the rule about re-using the lowest numbered available table index. There's scope for reducing conten
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Do I get street cred for having a site that can also be read via the FINGER protocol? (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I was just about to point Ian Betteridge at the original title. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
My WWW site has been served up by publicfile for many years now, and reading through this I kept having the same reaction, over and over, which is that the assumption that "websites often use reverse proxies" is upgraded in the re
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It has come up on Hacker News fairly regularly over the past few years. Some examples: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44631577 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44645144
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Presumably you mean because with 19/20 of it being JavaScript that maxes out multiple processors to continually redraw graphics with only three words of text on the opening screen, it is the complete antithesis of what the headlined ar
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You can read the announcement on the WWW archive of the debian-hurd mailing list, instead. * https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2025/08/msg00038.html
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There are "they"s coming up repeatedly in this discussion. I think that it's important to remember that Debian Hurd is not some massive project with thousands of anonymous people behind it. Like Tribblix and Peter Tribble, D

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