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by anjbe 10y ago
Please do not use scons in your projects. Poorly written SConstructs are as common as poorly written Makefiles, and are more difficult to patch to work correctly because of all the magic that goes on under the hood. SCons has many issues
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by anjbe 10y ago
Supporting custom compilers and cross‐compilation is as simple as using ${CC} in the Makefile instead of gcc…
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by anjbe 10y ago
Manpages are written in troff: https://manpages.bsd.lv/ This means that they can be converted to PostScript or PDF. There’s no portable way to do this with the “man” command, but on most Linuxes you can use “man -t” and on
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by anjbe 10y ago
Mandoc, the default manpage formatter in OpenBSD, Illumos, Minix, and some Linux distributions, does semantically parse manpages. The latest version even uses less’s tags functionality to allow jumping to flag definitions. For example, if I
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by anjbe 10y ago
> There are (soft) solutions to this: always use GPLvX-or-later to future-proof your licensing choices, encourage others to do the same. How is this a “solution” to disadvantaging free software developers? LibreDWG was licensed GPLv3-or-
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by anjbe 10y ago
Sorry, but I don’t understand the purpose of this reply. The point I was making was that modifications to public domain data incorporated into OpenStreetMap cannot be used to improve the original source, because the OpenStreetMap copyright
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by anjbe 10y ago
> Personally, I would prefer that my software not be used rather than it be used in a way that takes away users' freedom. But by releasing my library under a free license that’s incompatible with someone else’s free license, I drast
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by anjbe 10y ago
Discussions of copyleft versus permissive licensing always seem to cover the same “freedom for users versus freedom for developers” clichés and the same tired slavery metaphors. My dislike of copyleft is emphatically not because I want to e
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by anjbe 10y ago
To be fair, the piece remixed in that video is one of the only “traditional” musical tracks in the game, and I think the remix works pretty well. But I share your concerns: I hope that the later parts of the game, where music is replaced wi
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In practice --help output is mostly useless—it’s neither simple enough for a quick overview nor comprehensive enough to actually know what I can do. Tried “less --help” lately? It spits out ten pages of output! Plus, every program does --he
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by anjbe 10y ago
Theo gave an update at the 2013 ruBSD conference: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ru13-deraadt/
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And Sortix: https://gitlab.com/sortix/sortix/commit/2e03bd94d311781d5a47...
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by anjbe 11y ago
Other problems I encounter with Github‐generated tarballs: most projects that use Autoconf don’t keep the generated configure script in the repository, so the Github tarball has a build dependency on autoconf (as opposed to tarballs generat
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by anjbe 11y ago
>Shouldn't the '=' and the minus and the other signs be inside <mo>, rather than <mi>, because they are binary operators, not identifiers? You’re right; I should have marked those up with <mo> instead.
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by anjbe 11y ago
I’m also one of those who prefers troff. I read all five volumes of Knuth’s Computers and Typesetting cover to cover, and TeX is a beautiful piece of work. But in my preferred alternate universe, two things would be different: Joe Ossanna w
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by anjbe 11y ago
It’s instructive to see how different MathML is from other math markup languages. Here’s the quadratic formula: In troff, x = {-b +- sqrt { b sup 2 - 4ac}} over 2a In TeX, x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}} \over {2a} In plain Unicode, 𝑥 = (−𝑏 ±…
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by anjbe 11y ago
> Not a huge deal since X11Forwarding is usually disabled by default. Except on Red Hat… https://threatpost.com/openssh-implementations-with-x11forwa...
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by anjbe 11y ago
Very true—what libertarians should do is promote common‐law marriage, which is permitted in 9 states. Unfortunately, over time fewer and fewer states have allowed forming new common‐law marriages. And in those states where it’s still poss
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by anjbe 11y ago
The limit is configurable, and is also set per login class. System daemons run with lower limits. If you create a user while installing, it’s added to the “staff” user class, which has higher limits than users added later—this works pretty
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by anjbe 11y ago
Not quite what happens. OpenBSD doesn’t kill processes that use too much memory—it just causes any more memory allocation to fail. A well‐written program would detect that out‐of‐memory condition and try to handle it (maybe pause, or print
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by anjbe 11y ago
Reproducible builds can have some unexpected benefits. For example, a package build machine could track compiled files that have changed since it compiled an older version of the software, and store them at the start of the archive when zip
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by anjbe 11y ago
surf provides a minimalist interface but isn’t really in the same class as Dillo and NetSurf. It’s a full‐fledged WebKit engine, while these two use their own custom, lightweight rendering engines.
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by anjbe 11y ago
A browser that fills a similar niche: NetSurf. http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/screenshots/
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Theo mentions anoncvs. Remember, there was no Github in 1996. Not even SourceForge. Source code was passed around via tarballs, and you couldn’t look at individual commits without an account on the development server hosting the repository.
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by anjbe 11y ago
I think there’s a lot to be said for a license that’s so simple it doesn’t need a summary. For example, take the ISC license: “Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby grant
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OpenBSD: It was twenty years ago you see(marc.info)
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by anjbe 11y ago
> So, any improvements made to man are very much welcomed! I do feel, however, that a new format might be the best way to go This is actually already the case. The original man(7) language (actually a set of macros for troff) has been ar
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by anjbe 11y ago
There are other situations where pairs of quotation marks can be unmatched. For example, in English it’s common to have an opening quote at the beginning of each paragraph of a multi‐paragraph quote, but only close it on the final paragraph
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This is how I learned it growing up (southwestern US in the mid 1990s): Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo Catch a tiger by the toe If he hollers, make him pay Fifty dollars every day My mother told me to pick the very best one and you are [not] it
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by anjbe 12y ago
The intent is clearly to promote sales of commercial licenses. Similar to why Oracle relicensed Berkeley DB from BSD to AGPL: “As of July 2011, Oracle's list price for non-copyleft Berkeley DB licenses varies between 900 and 13,800 USD

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