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by anarcat 4y ago
I mention eglot in the article: the reason I'm not using it is it's not packaged in Debian (yet?). Apparently, it should land in Emacs core eventually (as mentioned in the article too) so I'm basically waiting for that. In th
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by anarcat 5y ago
exactly. that was the same for me, "what the heck is litespeed?!" was my reaction, then i noticed it's been there for a few years already. and the fact that it's a drop-in replacement for apache config files is just mind
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by anarcat 5y ago
it's still sluggish at the time of writing, FWIW.
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by anarcat 5y ago
... and it's as slow as on the Celeron! I guess it doesn't crash my entire machine, but that's an implementation detail which we'll surely workaround next.
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by anarcat 5y ago
It's kind of hilarious to see hacker news discover the second iteration in the series of three rewrites. This started with bashtop, then bpytop, and now it's btop. There are probably dozens of HN stories discussing those too. Can
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by anarcat 5y ago
I stand corrected: a) Bezos is not CEO since July, he's Executive Chairman b) he only owns 11%, yet he's the richest (or second richest) man on earth I don't know if I would call this "pretty far from total control"
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by anarcat 5y ago
I don't understand this reaction to TUF, at all. The post you link to explains that "APT addresses all attacks TUF addresses", which implicitly recognizes the value in TUF's design. If you're going to rebuild the en
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by anarcat 6y ago
is there a way to change the "hue tolerance" without hacking the source? or is that part of the design? :) in other words: how can i just bunch more colors together?
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by anarcat 6y ago
one of the problems with the "awesome" lists is exactly that: it's just one huge list, and it's hard to tell what's what. maybe just a gist with a markdown table? or maybe expanding on this: https://en.wi
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by anarcat 6y ago
would be great to have that in a table somewhere. ;)
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by anarcat 6y ago
enclosing it in double-dollar signs (ie. $$...$$) also works.
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by anarcat 6y ago
I recently realized that I was spending more time telling people what I wanted them to do in their merge requests than I would spend just merging their thing and patching it the way I want. So, for small projects I manage on my own, this to
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by anarcat 6y ago
wait, tell us more! his does that work?
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by anarcat 6y ago
here if "fsn-node-01" is down, we know it's a major ganeti node that dies. if "unifolium" dies, ... can you guess what happens? at first I couldn't either, but then I learned it's an old KVM node hosting a
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by anarcat 6y ago
If you can easily move function between pets, it's not a pet, it's cattle. :)
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by anarcat 6y ago
oh and forgot to mention.. at my current job, there was this practice of naming servers after onions (I'll let you guess where that is). I had no idea how many kinds of onions there were turns out there are many, especially if you star
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by anarcat 6y ago
I really like the functional naming part of this, but I don't like the idea of using random names.. I think that server names must be functional otherwise you will tend to think of them as an abstract box that, if you just install that
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by anarcat 6y ago
I used to name physical servers like pets (greek gods or whatever) and virtuals like cattle (function), with the idea that, yes, function of physical machines can change over time... But the problem with that logic is that the name is not o
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by anarcat 6y ago
"author" of ledger-timetracking here, AMA, although I don't use it anymore...
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by anarcat 6y ago
wow. I used ftp for years and even ran my own server for a while and never knew that was a thing. is that something that was actually used to mirror those sites? Debian mirrors certainly don't use this (anymore?) at least, for example.
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by anarcat 6y ago
We (at torproject.org) also adopted GitLab CE recently and we had to close down registrations because of abuse. Tens (hundreds?) of seemingly fake accounts were created in the two weeks we had registrations opened and we had to go through e
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by anarcat 6y ago
I know I might be a dissenting opinion here, but I can never wrap my head around `jq`. I can manage `jq .`, `jq .foo` and `jq -r`, but beyond that, the DSL is just opaque to me. And every time I try to learn, I get lost in a maze of a manpa
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by anarcat 6y ago
this fits my theory that the average bus factor is ~1: https://anarc.at/blog/2019-10-16-bus-factor/ Cynics have also suggested the average is closer to zero, but I still have hope that we at least need buses for a
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by anarcat 6y ago
specifically, websockets are blocked by the "XHR" component on the popup panel, which also blocks XmlRPC and the Fetch API. as a rule, you could block all XHR requests everywhere with: * * xhr block What I actually do is
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by anarcat 6y ago
i find it weird they reused the name "wormhole" without refering to the original "magic wormhole" either in design or credit... Seems like the potential for user confusion is kind of huge there...
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by anarcat 6y ago
Patents. I can't find a source for this on the top of my head now, but "E-ink" is both a trademark and patented, strongly so. (It's not only a technology, it's the name of the company too, so you can't say &quo
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by anarcat 7y ago
I don't, actually, expect them to do so. But even if I would, and Gandi, here, were doing backups and replications, no one is immune from errors and catastrophes. Pretending that the cloud is permanent in infallible is extremely dang
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by anarcat 7y ago
Oh god, the victims, really? You host your data on someone else's computer to save on costs and get rid of the burden of dealing with metal and stabbing yourself with screwdrivers , and you're the victim when they fuckup? Give me
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by anarcat 7y ago
I understand people might be upset because they lost data, but as a sysadmin, my reaction is "ooh shit, poor guys, that must be a horrible week"... And honestly, if you don't keep data of stuff you host on a server provider l
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by anarcat 7y ago
i would love to see one of those in the shape of the Kensington Expert Mouse, the square mouse with the ball in the middle, with the scroll wheel as a ring around the ball. it's the best mouse I've ever used...

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