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by JdeBP 3y ago
YouTube has been recommending this to me on and off for years, probably since I first watched a Tom Scott video. I've still never actually watched it, because I really don't need a Tom Scott explainer of copyright. (-: When the
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by JdeBP 3y ago
The article is using this phrase per https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI , which is nothing to do with Reddit and certainly was not inspired by it. The point M. Siebenmann is clearly making is that a quarter
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by JdeBP 3y ago
It's already named Daugherty's Law.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
One came along some hours after you wrote that. Xyr reasoning was utterly foolish and dopey, and I'm not going to point xem out; merely observe that even there there wasn't unanimity. Interestingly, there are more negative commen
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by JdeBP 3y ago
However, BirdsiteLive instances come with their own information for the public. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/fediverse-third-party-mirrors.html
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by JdeBP 3y ago
There's a lot of seemingly purely local infrastructure that nowadays depends from networking. login calls into a PAM module, which does database lookups, which goes through nsswitch and under the covers tries to consult nscd or system
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Zero. I've never read it to this day. Eric Foxley's Unix for Superusers, on the other hand ... Foxley's book was published in 1985. By the middle 1990s there were tonnes of books being produced, none of which was really &q
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by JdeBP 3y ago
FXPARK.EXE! I'm getting flashbacks of Tandon DOS! Aaargh!
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by JdeBP 3y ago
What and where were you drinking at age 13? (-:
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by JdeBP 3y ago
A unit file that wraps start-stop-daemon, has type=forking, and uses PID files. If it weren't a silly one-off on Hacker News, and if I hadn't already pointed out this foolishness years ago with exactly this service, it would be a
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by JdeBP 3y ago
I haven't checked other submission softwares, but with Daniel J. Bernstein's new-inject and ofmipd (from mess822) this is pretty much a 1-line patch, that Erwin Hoffmann et al. might be persuadable to do. , { "user-agen
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Convert it with Miller first: mlr --icsv --otsv cat examplefile * https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/10min/
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Miller handles it. * https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.8.0/file-formats/#csvtsva... I have programs that handle it. * https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/consol
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by JdeBP 3y ago
The irony is that a lot of the boilerplate from both, including that massive case...esac part, has been eliminatable for about 10 years. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/480897/5132 . These are not "recen
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by JdeBP 3y ago
The reality is that it wasn't corporate scripts hidden away from the public eye. There were some nightmare van Smoorenberg rc scripts in the likes of Debian. FreeBSD has Mewburn rc not van Smoorenberg rc and was thus inherently better
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Apparently, for starters, knowing when rc.local is to be run. It was run in the middle of rc, not at the end; as pointed out in the OpenBSD manual.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
For goodness' sake, don't tell Matt Parker that one can write computer programs where 2π is rescaled to 1! We'll never hear the end of it. There'll be some Python program that takes four months to calculate 1.0000000000
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Lots of focus on the Greek letters, at the expense of an important Latin one, there. (-:
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by JdeBP 3y ago
My printout fits in and has sat rolled up in a Furniss of Cornwall biscuit tin for many years. (-:
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by JdeBP 3y ago
It's the "all other binaries" part that will catch you. You've completely overlooked that part. For example: Per its own README, systemd requires Linux 3.15 at absolute minimum, recommends Linux 4.15 for baseline functi
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by JdeBP 3y ago
The dirty rotten cheats went and took a copy of the source code in Wales. (-: I had to use a disassembler to get an enormously long printout (on a continuous roll in a really small font -- no fanfold or tractor holes here!), and then go th
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Enjoy https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/per-user-dbus-demand-s... and https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/dbus-daemon-l... .
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by JdeBP 3y ago
One problem is that Gerrit Pape hasn't been seen on the mailing list where xe points people to for runit support, for some years now; much to the chagrin of the people left fielding runit questions on that mailing list.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Timing. When the Debian Hoo-Hah happened, OpenRC was one of the several systems evaluated, but a lot of the features, in the version that Debian had, that people were looking for weren't there yet, and it wasn't even packaged up
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by JdeBP 3y ago
These changes are not visible in the WWW manual pages yet, even for FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT. See also https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261349 for even more changes to hier(7) that are coming along the pik
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Hier(7): drop list of /usr/include subdirectories(reviews.freebsd.org)
1 points by JdeBP 3y ago|1 comments
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by JdeBP 3y ago
No it isn't. The hier(7) manual page dates back to 386BSD. NetBSD imported it from there; and FreeBSD imported it from 4.4BSD. The FHS only dates back to 1994.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
systemd has manual pages. I pointed out some missing configuration file locations back in 2016. They are still undocumented today. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/systemd-documentation-errata.html
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Argos Catalogue Kettle Pages, 1976/1985 (2017)(wearethemutants.com)
48 points by JdeBP 3y ago|47 comments
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by JdeBP 3y ago
I take the final paragraph with a huge grain of salt, having had an older relative who lived through it describe to me the hugely aspirational atmosphere of the U.K. in the 1950s and 1960s. We cannot deduce history from the pages of one c

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