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by faho 4y ago
>As a fish shell user, I also like that `nix shell` respects `$SHELL`. It's a nicer UX than "nix-shell -p <whatever> --command 'fish'". And this would, of course, also help the zsh using author. In general
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by faho 4y ago
> except that use-package, by itself, does not install anything. It can be configured to install things (by using the builtin package.el): https://jwiegley.github.io/use-package/keywords/#ensure-pin > You ca
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by faho 4y ago
I prefer having a clean instance so I can open up an emacs for the project I'm currently working on, as opposed to lugging all those other buffers around and leaving any changes intact. So I don't use a daemon. And these "adv
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by faho 4y ago
Ideally use-package would simply be included in emacs, so you could rely on it. Apparently they are getting close: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/282 Until then, I have this in my init.el to i
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by faho 4y ago
This reminds me of Littlecheck [0], the test helper we use in fish [1]. The way that works is that you provide a script to be run in some interpreter (for our cases that's usually fish, but it can also be sh or python or ruby or whatev
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by faho 4y ago
What exactly is "behind dpkg's back" here? This was discussed, in the open, years ago ! This was implemented, as an option, years ago. This was implemented fully in other distributions years ago! Fedora has had it for a deca
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by faho 4y ago
I don't believe the list is detailed enough, because it just says "thing is broken", but not under what circumstances. As best as I can tell, `dpkg-query -S` is broken by this iff it's passed a path to a file that&#x27
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by faho 4y ago
Note: This is the dpkg maintainer arguing an apparently fairly unpopular position of linking the specific files inside of /bin instead of /bin directly, in opposition to what appears to be the majority of linux distros. He'
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by faho 4y ago
There is no specific reason for a program that uses the XDG dirs on other unices to not use them on macOS, other than some idea that it's "alien". You can have ~/.config/. Nothing in macOS prevents you from having
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by faho 4y ago
>Third, many of them work fine and are quite useful without root It's more complicated than that - many can do a subset of useful things without root. Often they can read things as a normal user - things like `apt` or `sysctl` can
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by faho 4y ago
You probably have a "hier" man page on your system. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/hier.7.html Also systemd has a "file-hierarchy" man page for its understanding of the hierarchy, w
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by faho 4y ago
With 2FA someone can break into your home, find your 2FA backup codes, defeat your password (e.g. by finding it in a leak) and they're in. If they are targeting you from your online life they need to first find out where you live and t
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by faho 4y ago
What you are alluding to is the "Birthday problem". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
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by faho 4y ago
>The master branch of the linux kernel has a little bit over 1 million commits (measured with git log --format=oneline | wc -l). The master branch is irrelevant - github links to commits don't include the branch (and the way git wor
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by faho 4y ago
That's assuming researches would only link to research repositories, instead of doing research on actual applications - including massive things like the linux kernel.
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by faho 4y ago
The linux kernel had 3 of those, in 2013: https://blog.cuviper.com/2013/11/10/how-short-can-git-abbrev... By now it's up to at least 7 (going by my clone of 5.12-rc1 that I had lying around), and it&#x27
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by faho 4y ago
What happens when the shortened version becomes ambiguous? For instance that's commit 9e02977bfad006af328add9434c8bffa40e053bb. What happens when someone creates a commit and that happens to have 9e02977bfa-e-something? I'm not ev
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by faho 4y ago
And if you have more processing in the loop, you can pipe that into one sed call: for f in *.txt; do thing $f | sed; done becomes for f in *.txt; do thing $f; done | sed which will start `sed` once instead of once per file
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by faho 4y ago
> what is the "real type" of `f` at runtime; say, at the instant just before the call to `f`? How can you tell? We can tell by looking at what python triggers TypeErrors for. >If your answer is that `f` has type "functi
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by faho 4y ago
>Grub 2 is complex to configure, but there are other bootloaders that are much easier to configure, e.g. syslinux. ~~Yes but syslinux is bios-only. So if you have to support EFI too (and you do because there's EFI-only hardware), yo
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by faho 4y ago
1. They no longer need to package bios bootloaders 2. They no longer need to support bios booting in the forums - no asking "how do you boot this? Bios, EFI? Have you tried the other?", no telling people "EFI is required for
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by faho 4y ago
Do you propose that Fedora not support EFI and tell its users to replace the firmare or only buy devices with that? That would be a massive step backwards in hardware support. Like I said: They don't really have the option of not sup
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by faho 4y ago
What replacement do you propose, then? Especially what replacement do you propose that works with the kind of typical hardware that non-specialty linux distros like Fedora want to support? Intel systems make up a large chunk of the hardware
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by faho 4y ago
EFI is here, non-specialty Linux distros don't really have the option of not adopting it. So the choice is between adopting it and keeping BIOS indefinitely, or adopting it and at some point in the future dropping BIOS.
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by faho 4y ago
`git status`. This essentially has a "prompt" mode with `--porcelain`, which can even print branch and stash state, so it features all of the information for a prompt. Prompts have been mentioned in adding the v2 porcelain format[
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by faho 4y ago
The environment variables count towards the argument limit. To a casual shell user, this is non-obvious and typical error messages are bad and don't even mention it. They say "Argument list too long" even when the argument l
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by faho 4y ago
It's not windows-specific. It's just that the git-for-windows people are more receptive to the idea of this being a security bug. The behavior is cross-platform.
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by faho 4y ago
> automatically have this for any command that outputs more than 10 lines? Probably not. The output of a command typically goes directly to the terminal and does not pass through the shell, so the shell has no idea how many lines there a
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by faho 5y ago
Ah, okay. Personally I'd still want to do the check before , because someone could still be adding something in-between the assignment and the check, but if that's the order it's resolved in it seems to be working now. (I&#x
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by faho 5y ago
I'm also no C guru, but this seems to dereference a pointer before checking if it's in-bounds: struct pollfd *pfd = &pfds[p]; if (fd == -1) return; if (p == -1 || (u_int)p >= npfd) fatal_f(&quot

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