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by JdeBP 1y ago
I shall merely smile knowingly and tell you that no, it isn't, and you should try that with a broad range of actual terminals and terminal emulators. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
A quick chase around the company information leads to a shell company that is pretty much typosquatting Meta, and seems to be in either Türkiye or Wyoming. So there are a few red flags that this is at best a very low quality news source.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
By the way, debba: execvp()/execlp() and _PATH_BSHELL out of <paths.h> as the fallback are the ways to go, here.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
No. Because checking some of the Debian patches accrued against ttyrec, and the source to rewindtty, it seems that rewindtty does not have some of the common programming mistakes that the author of ttyrec made a quarter of a century ago. *
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Indeed, the TERM environment variable actually is the configuration of "nearly any program" (excluding the ones that aren't doing explicitly terminal I/O, of course, and the bad ones that just ignore TERM and make assu
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Yes, it is. And that in turn enables fairly simple installation of NetBSD and suchlike, which have ARM ports that know how to talk to and layer themselves on top of EFI firmware. An interesting further little feature of TianoCore particula
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You are very lucky to have a VT520. I have been idly on the look-out for a 525 for years, but not only are they inordinately expensive, the people selling them are not on the same continent as I am (and probably don't have my country&
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by JdeBP 1y ago
> if you do not set TERM with tmux properly, your colors will render incorrectly This is of course true of every other terminal emulator as well, and indeed it's not only colours that are incorrect. Function and editing keys get re
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Although you're right that Unix never really reached having the full three-level scheduling mechanisms of the mainframe operating systems, cron is not the actual Unix parallel of the high-level scheduler that keeps the running jobs lis
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Tech illiterate elders do AI development for cryptocrrency with syntax highlighting of a curly-braces-style language in Visual Studio Code? It makes one wonder what dizzy technological heights the literate ones reach. * https:/&#x2F
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Back then they had the important property, which is what is at issue above, of having known provenance . We knew whence we got them. The relevant thing here isn't the naff quality of the supposed utilities, but the fact that there&#x
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It does not have to be. The English language has a process where phrases become hyphenated compounds which then become single words. It's permissible to be partway along that path, and for people to disagree where something is on tha
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's folk wisdom, generated by a long line of people who did not have proper dæmon management despite such tooling having been available since the 1990s. Any sort of service management, from running things once at bootstrap to having
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I've encountered SAUCE, long since; but the page is right. I've personally never directly encountered XBIN, and it does seem that it did not take off as predicted. * https://acid.org/images/0896/XBIN.TXT
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by JdeBP 1y ago
As Graham Perrin pointed out in a reply, there are more such bugs in FreeBSD's pkgbase experiment. They were opened months ago, and they're still open. This is not a finished mechanism. Very clearly not. (-: * https:/&#x
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This would be learning from the prior experience of others. In particular, learning why Debian has a system of marking some packages as "essential"; and learning why tools like aptitude, when told to resolve an intended change
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Here's the Conservative policy for the Online Safety Act 2023, during the Sunak government: * https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/notes/division/3/in... Here's the Conservative w
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I have you all beaten. When I discovered that the 32-bit OS/2 API actually returned a 64-bit time, I wrote a C++ standard library for my OS/2 programs with a 64-bit time_t. This was in the 1990s.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I have a vague memory that Sean Williams's Astropolis series touches upon this at one point. Although it has been a while and I might be mis-remembering.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Whilst the headlined article is interesting, it's a case of the new and shiny distracting from regressions in what already exists. The Raspberry Pi 5 is lacking in some fairly basic support that the Pi 4 has. There's no TianoCore
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Don't believe the things that you read. Our newspapers have been openly biased for centuries, and there's some very shoddy journalism at times. See, for example: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623091
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I wonder whether anyone has ever covered all of the tradeoffs in one place. There are a quite a few of these encodings. UUencoding worked even when passed through non-ASCII mechanisms/protocols that didn't do lowercase, or that w
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's an ncurses application, so it will be switching to and from the alternate screen buffer at startup and exit; and might even be using the control sequence that causes the alternate screen buffer to be auto-cleared when switched off
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by JdeBP 1y ago
So the people back in 2021 in the prior Hacker News discussion saying that they were worried about component failures … turned out to be worrying about completely the wrong thing. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's doing it quite a lot, too, if the number of resubmissions are anything to go by. (-: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685879 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44679763 * https:&#x2F
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I suspect that systemd people are looking at this thread in perplexity, and probably doing their thing (that I've seen over the years) of regarding the world of Debian as being amazingly behind the times in places. The SSH server being
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's important to remember that it has to be this aggressive in excluding systemd, too. There is quite a lot of strong coupling amongst the parts of systemd, so there are very few half-measure scenarios, where one can have only some
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Indeed. Snapshots. And they are a breeze on operating systems where ZFS for everything is available. It's not like the Windows feature of the same name, which I suspect is in part what makes people wary of the idea. That works rath
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Viznut uses perl to build the fonts from source in Unscii. * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f

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