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by kwk1 1y ago
> E.g. the latest cuneiform tablet known is from 79AD from the city of Uruk, which was inhabited from about 5000BC to 700AD Very interesting, thanks for expanding on that!
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by kwk1 1y ago
More similar to the usage pattern in the original post is "dropbear-initramfs", e.g. https://wiki.debian.org/DropBear
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by kwk1 1y ago
Tangentially but somewhat interestingly, I was reading the other day that the field of "Assyriology" goes all the way up to the Islamic conquest, about a thousand years after the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire mentioned above.
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by kwk1 1y ago
Last time I dealt with this I launched tmux and started working on the right side of the screen with a vertical split.
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by kwk1 1y ago
"all have a chance" does not imply "all have equal chances"
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by kwk1 1y ago
As a FreeCAD project admin, it's always been interesting to keep an eye on QGIS development, not just with regards to the GIS domain, but more generally how niche applications like this can swim against the current of proprietary incum
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by kwk1 1y ago
> The obvious solution to this, a fully managed DHCP6 setup, does not seem to be well supported by dnsmasq, but it wouldn't matter even if it was because so many devices don't support DHCP6, only slaac. Relevant reading: https
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by kwk1 1y ago
It could have been possible to upload something like a 1.4.0+git2025mmdd package, if not for the timing of the CVE announcement with regards to Debian's release freeze.
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by kwk1 1y ago
I've been meaning to share these results in a more appropriate place, but for what it's worth, the proof-of-concept script for the recent Guix CVEs bisects to a Jan 2023 commit, so it's not clear that released versions are af
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by kwk1 1y ago
Wow, that is a hefty poem. Thanks for explaining the reference. Edit: Just to share a bit, here's more background on it from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_to_Byzantium
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by kwk1 1y ago
The images are a bit out of date, but check out https://raspi.debian.net/
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by kwk1 1y ago
What is the problematic connotation for 'nsjail' in German?
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by kwk1 1y ago
> little of the corn grown in the US is for human consumption. Yup, just as a point of reference, something like 70% of Illinois corn goes straight into Illinois hogs.
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by kwk1 1y ago
It seems to me like the better strategy would be to "do the right thing" according to the internal values of the project and make GNU be the one who breaks ties, otherwise the opportunity for positively influencing something impor
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by kwk1 1y ago
Right, this is a limited, "Windows Subsystem for Linux"-inspired approach meant to get people on macOS a foot in the door to using Guix (System.) It is at least possible though to use GUI applications from the Guix System VM via X
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by kwk1 1y ago
It's still pretty early, but there's a "macOS Subsystem for Guix" project: https://superkamiguru.org/projects/msg.html
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by kwk1 1y ago
An evaluation of what's best really depends on how one weighs different tradeoffs. For example, Debian and Arch are basically polar opposites in terms of two questions: 1) do you want an intermediary between you and the upstream? for e
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by kwk1 1y ago
Agreed on the assessment, but for me, part of the appeal of Guix is a way to turn that ship around.
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by kwk1 1y ago
It doesn't usually take that long, but the first `guix pull` is quite slow, and what should be a no-op of running it a second time immediately afterwards also takes too long. Edit: Just to provide a measurement, on my Framework 13 with
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by kwk1 1y ago
Guix recently moved from Savannah to Codeberg, which hopefully will help move the needle on infrastructure and volunteer quantity concerns.
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by kwk1 1y ago
Perhaps not what you're looking for but there's plenty worth reading here for me: https://standardebooks.org/
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by kwk1 1y ago
A perception of value depends on an assessment, which requires information. Suppose the thing you thought would provide $1 of value doesn't actually. Edit: concrete example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(aut
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by kwk1 1y ago
> otherwise the transaction would not occur Doesn't this assume perfect information?
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AkkStack: Containerized EverQuest Emulator Server Environment(github.com)
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by kwk1 1y ago
You can (I've used it to design an irrigation system in the Yucatan) but at small scale, a spreadsheet is probably sufficient.
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by kwk1 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis
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by kwk1 1y ago
For me, I made a high elf, didn't know page up/page down were needed to control swimming, and died in the water by the bridge leaving Felwithe, I didn't even get beyond the city gate.
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by kwk1 1y ago
Sadly not. This EQ server in a box is more my speed these days, hah: https://github.com/Akkadius/akk-stack
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by kwk1 1y ago
Yeah, people should know that https://project1999.com/ exists.
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by kwk1 1y ago
Apply the "reasonable person" standard. > No idea, I can't read their mind. Mind-reading is not necessary to predict how people will react to certain patterns of behavior.

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