jcynix

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by jcynix 6y ago
A server at home connects via curl to my mail server outside every n minutes, where iptables logs the access to syslog where a script extracts the dynamic address. If one doesn't need or have a full blown server available, a cheap clo
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by jcynix 6y ago
Your free time should be the time when you do things unrelated to your professional work. A healthy advise I got from Usenet a long time ago is that one should have a hobby unrelated to computers. That advise was given when there where no e
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by jcynix 6y ago
I'm currently reading "The White Plague" (1982) by Frank Herbert, which seems somehow appropriate given the current pandemic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague (contains spoilers)
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by jcynix 6y ago
Cool concept. But "curl | less" will display those null chars, so I'd use many shell comment lines instead to fill tcp buffers. Which again will fill the reader's page and make the pager stop for me to read, which might
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by jcynix 6y ago
Fat, slow loading, unresponsive web pages? Maybe it's time again to remember Maciej Ceglowski's "Web Directions 2015 Keynote": The Website Obesity Crisis https://youtube.com/watch?v=iYpl0QVCr6U
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by jcynix 6y ago
Maybe not for buildings. But Boing controlling Boing with the 737 max does sound similar?
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by jcynix 6y ago
You can install Termux on Android devices and use Emacs there. I use it on more or less read only on the smartphone and actively on a tablet. Both rsync with my desktop from inside Termux. And Orgzly has already been mentioned.
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by jcynix 6y ago
Mazda uses the ABS data instead. Which I prefer, because otherwise you'll need eight sensors already, if you switch between summer and winter tires.
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by jcynix 6y ago
I've been comparing other hashes to MD5 during the last few months to compare and identify large photos and movie files. My experience is that xxhash is much faster than good old MD5. You can find some numbers at it's site here:
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by jcynix 6y ago
Agreed. And man page content is searchable too, even with regular expressions while in a pager like less.
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by jcynix 6y ago
First, as someone already mentioned, you might need more sleep. What's your sleep duration if you sleep until you wake up by yourself? I'd test that on a quiet long weekend, not during a busy day. Second, while I now use a lamp wh
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by jcynix 6y ago
You might want to try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privoxy , a "privacy enhancing proxy" which works by reducing the stuff a browser sends before passing it on. Edit: removed typo.
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by jcynix 6y ago
Besides potential misinterpretations by laymen (which journalists often are) the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog principle often takes effect.
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Juggling a screen-based job with a hands-on hobby, or: Juggling two jobs is hard(wepresent.wetransfer.com)
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by jcynix 6y ago
Thanks for the link. Interesting comment there, which somewhat reminds me of the current COVID-19 situation: "The way the different countries failed to come together in the face of a world-wide catastrophe was plausible. The turn again
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by jcynix 6y ago
Who? Maybe all folks who use "curl ... | bash" or even "curl ... | sudo bash" which seems to be a trend lately?
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by jcynix 6y ago
Great story, yes. But there's no such thing as a "halzenfugel" in German as far as I can tell as a native speaker. Even www.duden.de, the official German dictionary, doesn't know that word ;-0
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by jcynix 6y ago
After the classic adventure (aka "Colossal Cave") I learned about rogue on a BSD Unix System as a student and loved it. And I was really impressed when I learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rog-O-Matic
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by jcynix 6y ago
I'd say it's the other way around: I like rsync, not the least because of the possibility to optionally resume partial transfers, which scp doesn't offer. And while I use scp rather often, mostly for single file transfers, I
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by jcynix 6y ago
Hmm, cp-like syntax? While I use scp rather often, especially for single file transfers, I still dislike that cp -a is scp -p instead. As soon as there's more to transfer, I switch to rsync, not the least because of the possibility to
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by jcynix 6y ago
In Germany you can watch the local committees while they are counting. it's an open affair. And you'll hear the numbers as the results are reported by phone to the next level. Which allows anyone who was present during the countin
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by jcynix 6y ago
And the public is allowed to watch the counting process by the local committee in Germany. So even lay people can follow what's going on if they want.
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by jcynix 6y ago
My favorite reading tip when such experiments are reported is Edward Tenner's classic book "Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_T
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by jcynix 6y ago
I beg to differ. Network connectivity in a managed home environment is fine. I use Termux to transfer backups, images, PDFs between my home server and an "old" Nexus7 tablet. And I sometimes use it as an offline map device while h
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The age-old tension between Islam and France(unherd.com)
3 points by jcynix 6y ago|3 comments
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A historian's view of the roots of laïcité (the separation of church and state) in France. Which gives background information with regard to various current events. My conclusion is that Islamists hate France because their history wit
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by jcynix 6y ago
Search and find old emails, that's where a CLI shows its merits. I can use grep or agrep (approximate grep, to search for spelling variations) on mailboxes, or mutt to have a tool which handles the base64-encoded stuff. I have to use T
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by jcynix 6y ago
> As one who's never trusted my data to Google I really am curious why so many actually do so. I expect that most users think on the same level as they do with metadata: "I have nothing to hide so can't be a possible targe
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by jcynix 6y ago
Tracking is one possible problem. The other is, that JavaScript can modify the document itself, so a part of a contract for example might print out differently depending on conditions. That's why PDF/A for archiving was created w
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by jcynix 6y ago
While I don't have an OpenBSD system to check that man page, I doubt that it is sufficient to set up a proper mail server. You may find one of the printed books on Postfix helpful. No Starch Press has a decent one, which, regardless of

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