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by JdeBP 4mo ago
That first one was not only never deleted, it was never even created in the first place. You've been misled by a redlink. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/1359185792 And the second is being discu
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Fortunately, I don't have to write up an explanation of this, as Joy and Horton already did. * https://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/viin/paper-7.html#section53 It's basically the answer to the question of how one do
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
The operating system was going to be called GNU. Don't open this can of worms. (-: There were endless discussions of this in the 1990s. Years's worth. Scroll down to the 'What Is the Hurd?' section of this announcemen
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Nope. * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger/Why_I_am_n... Still there after 23 years.
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
On the other hand, some of the best is when a hoax written by a monk in the north of England some time around 1300 is debunked by late 20th century scholarship, and eventually someone makes Wikipedia no longer re-hash a propagandist revis
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Fun fact: Sanger wrote the original version of that rule, and its change over the years has reflected a shift from people coming to Wikipedia in the very early years thinking that they could just do whatever the Hell they wanted, to in late
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
There is a long history here, and if you are looking at just the WikiProject and the community ban discussion, you are missing a Hell of a lot. Very short background: Larry Sanger left Wikipedia in 2003. * https://en.wikipedi
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
See infobox. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/vi-family.html#elvis ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132452 )
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
I was just talking about a fun and largely forgotten feature of Joy+Horton vi elsewhere. * https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116793159030149624 You can see it here in Ritter vi on lines 83 et seq. of ex_vis.h . vi actuall
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Incorrect. :x is a vi feature, that was introduced by Mary Ann Horton to actual Joy+Horton vi in February 1980. * https://code.illumos.org/plugins/gitiles/illumos-gate/+/refs... Ritter's vi is deriv
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
There was a Microsoft operating system for protected mode 80286 in 1983. It was Xenix 286; it was basically 7th Edition Unix without the branding; and it was touted as the multiuser operating system that MS-DOS would be the gateway to. Ho
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
This sort of thing has always been tricky. There are a number of issues at play here: * (Mentioned in the bug report) clock resolution may not be precise enough for that part of the timestamp on some platforms. * Counters are hard to get r
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
> It can aid web crawlers in understanding the semantic structure of your site, qualifying you for richer link previews, and even potentially improving your search ranking. This is fighting the last war, to stretch a metaphor. As far a
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
rswail said ASCII, which definitely pre-dated Unix, not the other way around. And there was some to and fro about the equivalence of LineFeed and NewLine in the 1960s.
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
The people in the FediVerse discussions have also looked at the book contents. * https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116788511790947929 * https://hachyderm.io/@ariels/116788498255660876
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
That's a generalization from 1 book. I went and looked at ten or so. This is not actually the case. There's something more complex going on. * https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116788511790947929
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
You can read at least the first chapter or so if you do the Amazon search. I did, and made some discoveries. * https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116788436560592117
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Indeed. The U.S.A. is currently well above the U.K. in the APNIC statistics hyperlinked-to by the headlined article. * https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Just to add to the 'but the ISPs do not' anecdotes, it has been six months since someone last commented so it is probably time to mention this again on Hacker News: * https://havevirginmediaenabledipv6yet.co.uk/ A
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
In Unix Seventh Edition, ls and others read directory entries with fread() and parsed the struct direct themselves in application-mode code. The C library and application mode matter, here. On the gripping hand, there is no strncpy in the
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
A more accurate re-phrased version of the original is that they are the biggest mistake in the C language. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614913 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454369 *
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
No. The poster didn't communicate the bug per the posted instructions at https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/main/SECURITY.md ; the poster actually exploited the flaw to scrape personal data
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
No. In such organizations the money goes towards all of the usual things such as tax, building rental, utilities, and licences, as well as employee salaries and social security contributions. BSI Group, for example, paid 26.1% tax (25% cor
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
The headlined article is a press release. The actual paper, with the explanation, is hyperlinked in a box on the right. Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594724
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
No. As I said, that's really a secondary niggle with the paper itself misrepresenting its reference, which as you can see already provides patches to paper over such stuff, as through the problem with XNU were redaction, which it is
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
The design of the font is quite interesting, but it's not universally applicable for text art work of course. Making ordinary punctuation and alphanumeric characters have the same connection properties as the line drawing and box char
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
You might enjoy https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ .
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
The paper's reference to https://github.com/blacktop/darwin-xnu-build does not support the statement made by the paper. It's not redaction or obfuscation that makes building XNU difficult. It's having
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Rusted Cu surely makes that, rather, verdigrURL. (-:
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
The terminal firmware is VT132 from TheHighNibble. It claims to support more than a VT100, but from looking at the reference doco that is not very much actually added (a handful of SCO and XTerm control sequences, and colour), and nowhere

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