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by JdeBP 1y ago
If one is in group utmp, one can mess with the login accounting database: the table of currently active logins, the log of log-ons/log-offs, and the table of per-user last logins. https://jdebp.uk/FGA/unix-login-da
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by JdeBP 1y ago
screen has a lot of architectural baggage that can be traced back to its initial 1987 comp.sources.unix/mod.sources versions in some cases. Being set-UID to the superuser is one of them. See the doco for screen as it was posted in vo
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by JdeBP 1y ago
That printf command is, strictly, wrong. It was pointed out some years ago, when people started adopting this, that ITU T.416 has a colour space parameter before the RGB values. A few terminal emulators nowadays get this right and accept t
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I have. It's not quite right, and its off enough to be in the uncanny valley for those who have seen this. Mainly the difference is in how the prompt should be streamed as well, and how the prompt does not re-appear until the comma
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You are the second person, after feisuzhu, to talk of tab completion. But we were told a TTY not a shell . Historically, there were all sorts of user interfaces that one could get over a terminal, not just Unix, GNU, and other shells. T
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by JdeBP 2y ago
If you are showing a gradient, then the colour-blind people of the world will tell you in quite strong terms not to use a rainbow for the scale at all, let alone to use a rainbow that has been designed to have this sort of perceived light
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by JdeBP 2y ago
> […] process for auditing or evaluating the actions, activities, and voting patterns of editors, admins, and committees, […] Voting patterns, note. Edward Robert Martin Jr expresses the totalitarian position of a secret ballot, somethi
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by JdeBP 2y ago
I suspect that we'll find that it's a conflation of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. There are a lot of long-time Wikipedia editors who will state, sometimes quite forcefully, that the two are not the same thing. (There h
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by JdeBP 2y ago
One answer to that is to ensure that you accept plugged-in font files via some well-known format like FreeBSD's "vt" font file format, BDF, or GNU UniFont's HEX format; and then just let people get on with picking their
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Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics(viznut.fi)
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by JdeBP 2y ago
There are derivatives, too, like Adrian Siekierka's funscii: https://github.com/asiekierka/funscii Which in turn has its own (albeit not up to date) forks like https://github.com/Wuerfel21/fun
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by JdeBP 2y ago
One can really get bogged down in fonts. (-: http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/terminal-resources.htm... If you want a quick improvement over that 8by8 IBM ROM font, I suggest two things: 1. Switch to
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by JdeBP 2y ago
ryao's above proposition is the converse, that only Win32s in DOS+Windows ME was adequate to running this, and that the prior Win32s in DOS+Windows 98 and DOS+Windows 95 was not. To be honest, though, I very much doubt that anyone has
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by JdeBP 2y ago
I wonder whether this is the Philip Gibbs that set up viXra.
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by JdeBP 2y ago
A lot of these conventions just develop according to what notation sticks, like how π caught on almost 3 millennia after the ratio was treated as a constant. And not all of them are even as universal as one might think. mx+c is not. Charle
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by JdeBP 2y ago
For the purposes of this discussion one of its creator-owners is Devin Stone, one of the people in the vanguard of publicizing and opposing what is happening in the U.S.A. right now. * https://nebula.tv/legaleagle
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by JdeBP 2y ago
It seems to me that this is still unemotional (where really I'd rather say mercenary, as I've seen so many business decisions driven by ego, which is definitely emotion). Businesspeople have seen the U.S.A. do things like the
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by JdeBP 2y ago
Bear in mind that the President of the United States is not directly elected by a popular vote. The mathematics of who gets the largest voice are distorted, intentionally so by the Framers. They did not want low-population agrarian states
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by JdeBP 2y ago
In addition to the others elsethread, there's also Nebula; which goes for being creator-owned, not suppressive of minority content (which has seen it banned by LG as a consequence), and subscription model rather than advertisement mode
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by JdeBP 2y ago
Like these? * https://european-alternatives.eu * https://dataethics.eu/european-tech-alternatives/ * https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-eu... * h
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by JdeBP 2y ago
Also remember that in the early days Unix did segment swapping, with demand paging only coming in with BSD and the VAX. So there was no paging in just a tiny part of a big executable.
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by JdeBP 2y ago
Yes, xe did. Xe explicitly compares it to the findability of one of xyr articles that mentions Squid Game.
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by JdeBP 2y ago
It's not there to give the system administrator flexibility. It's there because early Unix was heavily constrained, and doing thing with lots of little overlays (and what was decades later known as "Bernstein chaining")
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by JdeBP 2y ago
Alas, it isn't valid if one goes beyond even reading the doco. The underlying library that the tool uses, click ( https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/ ), turns out to include the idea that the "twe
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by JdeBP 2y ago
It's clear from the demonstration video alone that this is not an ASCII system, and indeed reading the doco confirms that the text files are considered to be UTF-8. This gives some irony to your analysis. Because this system thus perm
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by JdeBP 2y ago
As its name says, "double u" is not just one but two vowels. (-:
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by JdeBP 2y ago
Xe re-created xyr own formal full design document for the product, showing the precise PCB shapes and the positions of the components, holes, and ports. Xe boasted about doing so, and published the document, leafing through it page by page
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by JdeBP 2y ago
You have never met Steve Chow, the BlackPenRedPen bloke on YouTube, then. (-: https://youtube.com/watch?v=n1ZLag56sAo
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by JdeBP 2y ago
It says "Please note that this page is out-of-date. For a more detailed and up-to-date guide to HardenedBSD's features, please visit our wiki." at the bottom. So I tried that. I'm guessing that "sysctl hardening&qu
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by JdeBP 2y ago
You're the 6th person so far to mention Hemel Hempstead; but it's a poor choice for a comment, because it's an extreme case. The normal and far more common occurrences of roundabouts in the U.K. support bane's point.

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