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by JdeBP 1y ago
The U.K. equivalent is GB News. Its reality is worse than your hypothetical. (-: But the level of Foxness that I was alluding to was not that of GB News, but rather more that of Reach PLC; which isn't Murdoch-owned, but which runs a
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In the FreeBSD case, far from breaking "every program" it breaks very little at all. In fact it broke 1 thing at the time. Unfortunately, that 1 thing happened to be sysinstall(8). stdin, stdout, and stderr were already pointe
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You have this backwards. Source compatibility is not broken by such a change, with zero source changes required in order to accommodate it for almost all applications; and far from OpenBSD "never, ever, ever" maintaining binary c
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It comes to something when Fox News is more informative with background information about signage and safety protocols, and reporting about a technician's warning not to enter, than BBC News is. * https://fox5ny.com/new
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by JdeBP 1y ago
What you are looking at is not a GNU C library at all. It is a BSD C library.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
If you've ever done this to a C library, the first thing that you'll look at when someone else does it is not the FILE type, but how stdin, stdout, and stderr have changed. The big breaking change is usually the historical impleme
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The root page that you want is https://jeelabs.org/w/ .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The display weirdness (e.g. the Z shell's percent character showing up) that you are seeing in your demo is because you are putting the terminal line discipline into raw mode, raw mode of course does not do CR-before-LF stuffing, and t
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by JdeBP 1y ago
An apparently very common CloudFront misconfiguration that has spawned a thousand articles and StackExchange Q&As on how to fix it. Randomly chosen one: * https://minac.github.io/2015-05-20-s3-cloudfront-access-deni...
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Previous generations would have simply read something like the circle drawing writeup by Jeffrey S. McArthur in chapter 4 of COMPUTE!'s Third Book of Atari which as a matter of fact is available in scrapable text. (-: * https:&#x
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by JdeBP 1y ago
An exercise in consider the source, and pay attention to the methodology and data set. It turns out that the much-regurgitated analysis was done by a firm whose business is in taking a cut from people applying for "golden passports&quo
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The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Happened(bylinetimes.com)
12 points by JdeBP 1y ago|2 comments
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It hasn't gone away. * https://freshports.org/sysutils/most/ * https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/misc/most/i... * https://packages.debi
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You can still find the original answer, from 2008, at https://old.www.hathitrust.org/help_general.html .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It is. It's used on a fairly regular basis nowadays in Wikipedia, for example. A decade ago one would have seen just the Internet Archive or the dreaded Google Books hyperlinks.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Yes and no. We don't really have the equivalent of comp.sources.unix nowadays, which is where the early versions of those occurred, and comp.sources.unix did not take just anything. Rich Salz had rules. Plus, since I actually took st
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by JdeBP 1y ago
My educated guess would be either NetworkManager or resolveconf (or a DHCP client not even going through resolvconf), with fun with package upgrades resetting customizations as my second choice educated guess. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Of course they are. There's a file with all of the special cased constants in, named constants.ts. Your superficial test tested all three of the special cases in the PRIVATE_OPENERS array, which is what the parser.ts code actually che
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In reality, this is something that people have been doing to systemd-resolved in desperation since the late 2010s (e.g. https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/421977/5132 for one of many examples), and systemd has not b
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by JdeBP 1y ago
That tells me that you are writing from ignorance, as for starters that's a truly pathetic test that even misses one of the characters that I explicitly mentioned above, let alone thoroughly tests the full range that the specs define.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Indeed. That was exactly what I was thinking when I read the article, from experience of PCI compliance as a matter of fact. And clearly from comments here a lot of people are thinking the same. It may be a fun "Look! OpenBSD can do
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Teletext is not ASCII, simply put. So what one could do with ASCII was little to no help. It's not even an IBM PC/AT code page.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The revealing shibboleth is when people call it "ANSI". (-: "ANSI" is what people call it when they are working from paltry and incomplete samizdat doco of how this stuff works, from Microsoft's old ANSI.SYS appen
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It has one. There is a ?format= URL parameter.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Strictly speaking, one couldn't do it properly, rendering the pages as actual text for TUIs rather than graphically for GUIs, until Unicode version 13 came along, which included the necessary block graphics characters and which was onl
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You need some U.K.-specific knowledge, which is that CEEFAX went off air in 2012. If you see a screenshot of genuine CEEFAX (not one of the several modern things that pretend to be teletext) it will be from before 2012, possibly from long
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It is. If latency were important, one could always aggregate across a LAN with forwarding caching proxies pointing to a single resolving caching proxy, and gain economies of scale by exactly the same mechanisms. But latency is largely a w
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by JdeBP 1y ago
And because people highlighted it on social media at the time of the outage, many thought that the bogus route was the cause of the problem.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
One can even run a private root content DNS server, and not be affected by root problems either . (This isn't a major concern, of course; and I mention it just to extend your argument yet further. The major gain of a private root con
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The reality is that it's rather complicated to say what "most clients" do, as there is some behavioural variation amongst the DNS client libraries when they are configured with multiple IP addresses to contact. So whilst it&

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