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by superluserdo 4y ago
To be pedantic, if we're going to cite Unix history, then technically there is no such thing as a "hidden" file. As I understand, the original implementation of tools like ls would not show the current directory "."
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by superluserdo 4y ago
Plug: I made a small set of shell scripts to achieve something similar to this a couple of years ago, but with symlinks: https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2020/03/28/fake-home-prison/ https:/&#
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by superluserdo 4y ago
Without taking a side on sulphur injection, it should be noted that we are already doing very rapid planet-scale terraforming.
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by superluserdo 4y ago
What I think (or at least hope) that this post is missing, is the ever-growing opportunity cost of having a population of people that are flat out unable to access your service. Google's IPv6 page currently has almost all of Africa at
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by superluserdo 4y ago
Short .com domains actually have an intrinsic value to their prospective owners though, since the domain is the human-readable address, and a shorter address is more memorable to customers. The version of the underlying network protocol is
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by superluserdo 4y ago
>If IPv6 were IPv4 with more octets, then we would all have been using it for like a decade. The only real reason v4 is being replaced after decades is that it has a single showstopping flaw - the lack of addresses. v6 solves this foreve
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by superluserdo 4y ago
I was a bit disappointed to see that this article mostly fell back on the trope of British English being extremely verbose and indirect. I think a much more interesting counterfactual would be, If PHP Were Anglish . "Anglish" is
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by superluserdo 4y ago
>IPv6 is a straight connection from the Internet through everything in the network, right to the individual machine. It's not though. It goes through a router which has a firewall, which is the exact feature you're presumably w
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by superluserdo 4y ago
All that stuff you're describing would still need to be sent to space, for no upside. That includes the 27km+ long collider ring. I haven't even mentioned the fact that this stuff is built 100 metres underground precisely to avoid
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by superluserdo 4y ago
Space won't work for the kind of physics the LHC does. The fundamental problem is that collider physics relies on being able to create collisions of exactly known quantity as your input (eg in the LHC's case, proton-proton collisi
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by superluserdo 5y ago
I pair this with imapnotify (keeps a constant connection to each of the IMAP servers for the email addresses I have) that calls mbsync the moment I get a new email. It was a bit annoying to set up at the time but now my (neo)mutt client upd
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by superluserdo 5y ago
They already have Harvey of Harvey and Sheila on the case
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by superluserdo 5y ago
Indeed https://memeslayerx.github.io/nonfree-pizza/
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by superluserdo 5y ago
>Disney doesn't own the rights to Pinocchio. You are free to make your own movie with book version of the the characters and the story. This is very much an "in principle" thing. In practice, many of these traditional stor
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by superluserdo 5y ago
Re software: While not necessarily fundamentally anti-copyright, the basic point of "copyleft" licensing like the GPL is to use the system of copyright against itself. I can't imagine the FSF/GNU project would be against
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by superluserdo 5y ago
I run my own personal SMTP and IMAP server and haven't found it too hard to maintain after the initial setup phase. The main problem I had with getting emails accepted was my lack of reverse DNS PTR records on my domain. If you're
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Show HN: Host files quickly on a dumb HTTP host with optional time-to-live(tomwh.uk)
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by superluserdo 5y ago
I hope you meant "public universities" :)
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by superluserdo 5y ago
I always used to think ln's argument order was totally counterintuitive too. Then I realised that they might have done it that way to account for the case where you only give one argument. If you use `ln <targetpath>` without a l
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by superluserdo 5y ago
My problem with "endian" is the overloaded definition of the word "end" (does a 1-dimensional object have 2 ends or 1 start and 1 end?), and the ambiguity about whether you're talking about the "end" of th
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by superluserdo 5y ago
Does that update include the ability to dynamically update a host's IPV6 address via a request to dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com? The guide [0] mentions that >It is only possible to dynamically update IPv4 addresses (A records) at
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by superluserdo 5y ago
This matches my experience that any UI that says "this may take a few minutes", usually only takes a couple of seconds on average hardware, or even if the actual computation is happening on the same server telling you it usually t
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by superluserdo 5y ago
"ARPA-everything" sounds like what IoT would have been called 40 years ago
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by superluserdo 6y ago
Not necessarily. If you're coming up to the end of a logistic ("S") curve, then assuming a linear growth (or worse, a fixed rate of increase each year, ie exponential growth) is much worse of an assumption than assuming zero
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by superluserdo 6y ago
That sounds like a horribly perverse incentive for the world's main free and open source of information.
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by superluserdo 6y ago
You can run applications over the network with (edit: waypipe, not pipewire, I mix up the names every time), which works quite well. Technically it's not "transparent", but it isn't on X either because pretty much 0 UIs
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by superluserdo 6y ago
Does anyone know if pipewire has its own audio protocol for applications, as well as taking the place of JACK and Pulse? Or will future applications still just decide whether to talk to "JACK" or "Pulseaudio"? (Both actu
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by superluserdo 6y ago
It's not unverified if it comes from an actually curated package repository, like the one on any given Linux distro. "Package maintainer" isn't just obsolete busywork, it's an essential part of a robust security mod
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by superluserdo 6y ago
It doesn't match my experience but in fairness I was running the server off my home IP. I think it was the lack of reverse DNS that was tripping it.
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by superluserdo 6y ago
>Assuming your distro hasn't fixed this antifeature I was under the impression that changing the default NTP servers was an expected part of bundling systemd in a distro?

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