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by JdeBP 3mo ago
Also: You boot from the 'system' volume, and the operating system is stored on the 'boot' volume. (-: * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/boot-and-system-volumes.html 'Windows subsystem for' actually
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
I wonder how many people immediately thought about whether similar things had been snuck into xfishtank and xpenguins.
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
The naïveté of that position is that the users are not informed ahead of time that there's a random chance of a political protest popping up on their screen, so do not get to make an informed choice before it is perhaps too late. It&#
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
It is interesting to read M. Allbery's comment side by side with the discussion here on Hacker News about a CLAUDE.EXE program with hidden behaviour that subtly changes the way that it outputs an information banner based upon timezones
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
I am sure that DARPA, BBN, USC Information Sciences Institute, and many others will be overjoyed to learn that they've been erased from history by the new narrative that Venture Capitalists Built Everything. (-:
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
I am wondering whether there will be any effect to petition e-7124. It seems unlikely, to me. * https://noscommunes.ca/petitions/fr/Petition/Details?Petitio...
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
We probably should not read too much into the fact that the Daily Mail 's guide to what's currently on television no longer lists a documentary from 2023. Except, perhaps, that the Daily Mail 's search engine gaming is cle
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
That's a television guide for what's currently being broadcast, published by the Daily Mail , not the actual documentary from 2023.
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
It's wild to see people having this argument in the subjunctive in 2026. I've had a convert-systemd-units tool since 2014, and provided Debian packages for the toolset that it is part of for around that long. * https:/&#x2F
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
The annoying thing, looking at that, is that libnsfb (the library that netsurf-fb uses to construct its UI) once had a driver, deleted back in 2018, that could work directly with a Linux framebuffer device. This could have been easily adap
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
The OpenRC people in Debian only really noticed the discussion when it reached the technical committee. There was an effort to put OpenRC into contention, and all of the technical committee people who did evaluations included it in their e
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
One of Masayoshi Son's recent slideshows has been doing the rounds on the FediVerse this week. If you've seen people making odd comments about 'Goose was not valued.' or 'Goose value 71.' or 'eggs do not
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
Stéphane Chazelas would agree, * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/496642/5132 because the problem here is educating people with slipshod ideas about 'sh' being 'the POSIX shell' or (worse) &#x2
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
The wsconscfg problem with multiple screens, whatever it exactly is, is decidedly odd. According to this, the display is being driven as smfb0 in what is largely a dumb framebuffer mode, no acceleration, no GPU, no fancy high jinks whatsoe
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
The author doesn't actually cover the caveat (3 newly valid backslash escapes in BREs) at all, so that's not the case.
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
It isn't really primarily about organization oversight, though. The weird goings on are in practice usually at the behest of the people paying the salaries of all of the people involved (which includes law enforcement, which goes thro
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
The author is circling around, but not quite reaching, a statement that POSIX Basic Regular Expressions work everywhere, with the caveat that that not everyone has caught up with version 8 of the Single Unix Specification, which has slightl
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
Every time that this comes up, be it a general list like this or someone announcing a new service, my reaction, and that that I see of surprisingly many other people on Hacker News, is fairly unmoved. I've run my own proxy DNS service
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by JdeBP 3mo ago
If your reaction is 'What the Hell is this?', read this for background: * https://reuters.com/business/media-telecom/talk-bubble-is-an... Then notice that the metal construction robot needs toe protector
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
This is the same press release from the union as at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663861 , and the same discussion points apply as there, including the fact that the press release is conflating 'Wikipedia Worke
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Google isn't. A recent court decision in Germany laid the responsibility for the output of Google's 'AI' software, running on Google's machines, and conflating companies in pretty much this manner, squarely on Goog
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Only Ritter vi is really a fork. All of the rest are clones, ground-up reimplementations not forked from the Joy+Horton code. Of them, and discounting the extreme fringes like vi-likes that run on the BBC Micro, only STEVIE lacks :x, and i
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
I could have told the author that about the message of the day, thirty years ago. (-:
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
For the people asking what kind of DNS service this is, content or proxy: You have to look 'Bunny DNS' up in the products menu and from there follow the hyperlink to the doco. * https://docs.bunny.net/dns So it&#x
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it is lurking in some part of (say) the TSS that you thought that you'd never have to implement.
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
So cycle insertion. I presume that the DLY was synthetic, and was not explicitly added to the microcode ROM.
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
If, as there, one swipe gesture per letter is allowable, rather than a gesture encompassing a whole word, then things like Thumb-Key become options. * https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key It has a similar sort of &#
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
I should have guessed. Of course someone has done this. (-: * https://github.com/sspanak/tt9
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Mailgun's validation API, presumably the underpinnings of Pangram's, returns more than a simple yes/no validity. My educated guess is that this is part of figuring out all of those extra fields. * https://mailgun.
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
I wonder how the logic worked in the previous version without early start. Was it relying upon the address calculation speed to settle the outputs really quickly? Was it inserting or stretching cycles?

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