tlikonen

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by tlikonen 9y ago
I think Obnam's idea of deduplication is great and very interesting but I am reluctant to trust complex backup systems. I have used "rsync --link-dest" to reduce space.
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Obnam 1.22 released (backup application)(blog.liw.fi)
3 points by tlikonen 9y ago|1 comments
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by tlikonen 9y ago
With files SHA512SUMS and SHA512SUMS.sign in the current directory the verifying can be as simple as gpg --auto-key-retrieve SHA512SUMS.sign The key is retrieved from user's default keyring or keyservers. The usual keyserver p
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by tlikonen 9y ago
My favourite change is the transition to GnuPG 2.1 as the default /usr/bin/gpg. Particularly the "trust on first use" (TOFU) trust model is a really good improvement.
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by tlikonen 9y ago
And the thread you linked is itself a duplicate of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167469
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by tlikonen 9y ago
The original message has a typo in the subject. It says version "25.1" but the message author corrected it after. This is really about 25.2 release.
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Emacs 25.2 released(lists.gnu.org)
3 points by tlikonen 9y ago|1 comments
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by tlikonen 10y ago
I use Emacs' org-mode for pretty much all my work notes. It's very structured, long and includes spreadsheets. But usually I don't use my laptop during work. Instead I print just day's notes (schedule etc.) to a single p
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by tlikonen 10y ago
Usually in Linux the system is installed on an encrypted filesystem (cryptsetup, LUKS). Only kernel and so called initrd image (early boot stuff) is outside the encryption. The disk is opened at very early stage in boot when just about the
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by tlikonen 10y ago
PGP (now GnuPG) is used more these days than in BBS (Fidonet) years, particularly in the open source community. Software releases and packages in GNU/Linux distributions are signed by the developers. All the time. It happens automatica
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Emacs Lisp's future [the discussion revisited](lists.gnu.org)
3 points by tlikonen 10y ago|0 comments
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by tlikonen 10y ago
Character folding in searches is likely useful: simple letters like "a" also match "á", "à", "ä"; quote char " also matches “ and ” and so on. (setq search-default-mode #'char-fold-to-re
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Emacs 25.1 released(lists.gnu.org)
277 points by tlikonen 10y ago|144 comments
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by tlikonen 11y ago
Quote: “we are happy to say that we will be shipping an additional small batch of the Jolla Tablet to early backers during early 2016, targeting to send invitations during January. The bad news here is that we are not able to complete the p
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New Year’s Greetings from Jolla(blog.jolla.com)
2 points by tlikonen 11y ago|1 comments
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by tlikonen 11y ago
(Common) Lisp is a multi-paradign language. It doesn't have any specific logic programming features, no more than any other generic language. Some lisps tend to lean towards functional paradigm. EDIT: OK, maybe Lisps' symbol type
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by tlikonen 11y ago
I made a single-player "squash" pong in about an hour in HTML, CSS and Javascript but that's just the paddle and bouncing. The author has a very good point that could probably be rephrased like this: Making a complete end-use
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by tlikonen 11y ago
That's nice. Common Lisp implementations, too, allow any characters in symbol names, even spaces and the empty string. Javascript allows wide character set too. I think it's good that languages break out of [a-zA-Z_-]. That said,