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Unix

Random

Thoughts

It's starting to get cold outside, keeping a Unix machine next to you and running :(){ :|:& };: is a great way to stay warm.

]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20161224 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20161224 Sat, 24 Dec 2016 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2016-12-24 Nixers Newsletter

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The university days of a student and how a simple event can impact a life. We all live in a world where traffic is thought to be a positive word, but traffic is looking at a car accident an forgetting the next second. What about less people and more value.

A section of a book, "Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective", analyzing the source code of the banner program. banner was the predecessor to figlet. It's interesting how the characters were printed. You can find the source code here: https://packages.debian.org/stable/sysvbanner It's very small, and it uses one character variables.

A project to make a pdp-7 run again.

0verkill an oldish-like game you will like. Source can be found here: https://github.com/hackndev/0verkill.git To install simply run: ./rebuild

In relation with this discussion: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2024

A simple question with a simple answer.

Have you ever wondered?

To explain to any of your non-technie friends.

Go through this once, it's an agglomeration of all the man pages related to the shell language.

Random

This is a gift from xero

Thoughts

Happy Hacky-Holidays nixers!

For those with x11: repeat 3 xset led on sleep 1 xset led off sleep 1

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20161231 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20161231 Sat, 31 Dec 2016 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2016-12-31 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Use the speed of multiple interfaces together.

The tale of the teletype printer.

Need I say more...

A fairly simple and straight forward introductory tutorial on using strace.

netdata only work on Linux and seems to be a memory hog but it's still interesting to look at what the next-gen ui look like (until we can afford to run them.)

Protect yourself from port scanning or attacks using PF or IPtables.

An interactive series of article going in depth into the X11 protocol.

Signup for a free shell account on a public access UNIX system.

A Harward teacher reference web page. http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/ And yet another university teacher reference page, this one follows the old Unix tilde homepage url formula, which reminds me of...

Launching back the early days where almost every web server ran some version of Unix and things went wild.

Random

If you have time for some technological talks those are still fresh.

This website let's you send an email to your future self. I've tried it myself and it's surprising. With the new year arriving it might be a great way to tell your future self if you've achieved what you wanted to.

Thoughts

http://www.unixtimestamp.com/
Happy 1483228800 unix timestamp!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170107 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170107 Sat, 07 Jan 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-01-07 Nixers Newsletter

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A post from stark/abhx that lists ways to reduce memory and processor usage.

This book uses plan9 as an avatar to describe the principles of abstraction that most operating systems have. It isn't a hard read.

A gradual and practical introduction to functional programming. It is lightly and nicely written.

Ctags incorporates with most text editors and IDEs... If you have no clue what it is I urge you to check it out.

An article written by tejr going through must known privacy softwares and parts on Linux (though most apply to any Unix flavors.)

Strong privacy, is it still possible?

A series of articles about network programming. Let's wait until z3bra releases his next course https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1928.

/sys on Linux is well documented and this is where you will find the documentation for whatever you can dynamically tweak in your Linux kernel.

Wanna give BSDs a try in 2017 to up those stats?

A tutorial on getting mumble running in the terminal. (You may need to translate the article)

Random

A great documentary about BBS.

Thoughts

Woah, this newsletter packs up a lot of content. You won't be able to consume it all but don't worry you have all of 2017 to do so.

Let's make 2017 a dynamic year, full of projects, interactions, and new phenomenal people joining in.

Stay updated!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170114 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170114 Sat, 14 Jan 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-01-14 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Ever spent time configuring X and wondered what those subpixels were?

Xerox has influenced so many of today's graphical interface concepts.

You know the times in the first link but have you heard of the one in the second?

Automated cleaning of spaces.

Gopher preceded the internet, here's its story.

Are you fan of those nice patterns?

One of the rare interview with dmr.

I've never thought about it before because I'm not a big mouse user but that's how you enable middle mouse scrolling.

Some philosophy written by a master of minimalism.

Random

We rather ofter hear stories from our fellow members about their universities and so I'd like to share mine.

We used to have fun at the libraries with those when we were young.

Thoughts

"z3bra: it's the curse of the nix community everyone takes it as a personal attack when they're told their wrong"

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170121 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170121 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-01-21 Nixers Newsletter

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Irc culture, flamming, and trolls, does that ring a bell?

Going with the recent podcast about shells https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2047 , here's a software to fight the Bash specific syntax.

Why bash on bash when there's csh instead!

A backstory on the misquoted famous comment of the Unix V7 source.

Here are some concepts you should definitely know when dealing with process management.

I don't really get the "what you need to do to get a job in 10 steps"-kind of articles but I'll still feature this one.

Let Eric Raymond take you on a journey through the means of IPC on the unix-like platforms.

We usually enter a username and password as credentials but what if we could ssh instead?

Are you a sysadmin?

We featured in the last newsletter the detox program, now you get the "why" it's annoying.

Random

Checkout what those rms-like free artists are doing.

Thoughts

When we copy we justify, when others copy we vilify.

What does it mean to have a copy-left license? What does open source mean?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170128 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170128 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-01-28 Nixers Newsletter

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This is what happens when white unix geeks try to rap around an "excited" crowd.

A mailing list about Unix system administrators horror stories. If you've had one, you can share it on this thread: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1882

The blogger maybe just wanted to annoy you before reaching his wonderful blog: https://anders.unix.se/

A glossary of multiple subjects.

Very nice comparison.

The homepage of a great dude.

There's a lot of talk about "true randomness" and random pool but does it hold up.

Here's dmr discussing the development of the C language.

A wonderful presentation about today.

You are all MONSTERS! Written by this dude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev and to judge accordingly.

Random

We were discussing street riots and I pointed out how berserk they were and acted out fearing their annihilation. We'll that's exactly what berserker are about.

We should also start our own icecast stream.

Thoughts

Here's a typical blog post: http://ttimo.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/rant.html

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170204 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170204 Sat, 04 Feb 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-02-04 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Multiple implementation of simple webservers.

This function may also help understand it: https://github.com/pclouds/busybox-w32/blob/2762242f30d0d046a80abe41fd78415052bbe95f/libbb/executable.c#L100 This is a nifty way to implement timeout.

A discussion about the real innovations that were brought, take whatever you want from it.

Some thoughts about minimalism in the computing world.

This was linked in the previous post but I think it's worth it to link it again here so that you are more enticed to read it.

We had a discussion about static blog generation and those came along.

Here's a list of the runlevels on different Unix-like OS.

This system is so misunderstood and differently implemented. Also check credential(7).

Share your tricks (and horror stories along the line.)

Random

Welcome to the internet!

Again one of those trollish websites we all love.

Thoughts

There are things we only learn when we have to face them.

Don't be stagnant.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170211 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170211 Sat, 11 Feb 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-02-11 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

  • Identity http://www.moxytongue.com/2016/02/self-sovereign-identity.html http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2016/04/the-path-to-self-soverereign-identity.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_identity Those are deep discussions about the nature of online identity and identity in general.

  • Unix haters handbook http://www.mindspring.com/~blackhart Ever wanted to know about what the haters thought?

  • Digital Minimalism http://calnewport.com/blog/2017/01/28/on-value-and-digital-minimalism/ Another article that takes the approach of value.

  • How to ask a question http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html An extensive guide on how to ask a "smart" question in the most appropriate manner.

  • Frequently asked questions http://www.unix.com/answers-to-frequently-asked-questions/ The unix.com frequently asked questions, most related to shell scripting.

  • A story about cron https://blog.notfoss.com/posts/a-tale-of-two-crons-or-how-cron-helped-me-spot-an-infection-on-a-server/ I just love reading stories about real life scenarios.

  • Corporate Unix conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtMWfyYWIU Thanks a-109-107 for reminding us that Corba used to be the standard corporations loved in 1993.

  • X11 Clipboard http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/136229/copy-paste-does-not-always-work-from-firefox-to-terminal http://superuser.com/questions/68170/how-can-i-merge-the-gnome-clipboard-and-the-x-selection https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144741 Some info about the clipboard and as bonus an hilarious renaming of a clipboard manager by an Arch user.

  • One Thing Well http://onethingwell.org In the same fashion as the kmandla blog, this blog lists multiple softwares that do one thing well.

  • List of debug/analysis tools https://remnux.org/docs/distro/tools/ Again a list of cool softwares used in the remnux distro, it's worth taking a look at.

Random

  • "the end of the internet http://hmpg.net That's it you've found it!

  • Wormholes https://fauux.neocities.org http://jodi.org http://0100101110101101.org/files/hell.com/ Net art is amazing.

Thoughts

The last episode of the nixers podcast took me a huge amount of research unfortunately the audio recording didn't turn out as good as I wanted (I was too tired.) You can read the transcript on the forums: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2052&pid=17479#pid17479 I've learned quite a lot of things during the preparation and you might too.

The thought of this week is: A community is a community because it's community driven. Share your knowledge and your time with others, you're running the show!

I love you guys.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170218 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170218 Sat, 18 Feb 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-02-18 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

What happens when you loose the ability to speak and need free software.

A walkthrough the find utility.

In depth into 2038.

Firefox is undergoing a lot of changes lately. Are those changes influenced by competition, do you like what is happening, are the addons support left out of the plan? Whatever the case, it's still free software.

A comprehensive overview of how git stashing works.

Regardless... The article is amazing.

Talking about unstandard standards, here's our last one that has finally been christened (after so many years of being a lonely unamed orphan). Prepare your mimedb because you'll need to add text/markdown.

Software developers depression is a real thing, don't take it lightly.

Here are some websites with free versions of popular games.

Checkout this dude's irc setup, it's worth your time and patience.

Random

We're also trying to find inspiration for our own internet badge: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2056

If you haven't heard of this internet phenomena you should look it up now.

A chapter on a book about network forensics evasion.

Looking for inspiration, here's a phenomenal website.

Thoughts

You can learn from anyone, you simply have to approach the situation with this intent and keep reminding yourself of this.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170225 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170225 Sat, 25 Feb 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-02-25 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Some many programs to help you keep track of what you want to do. As for me a simple at(1) combined with notify-send is enough, what about you?

Again so many softwares doing the same thing, we need more comparative reviews/articles about them. I don't have any personal favorite, I would've liked to use terminal markdown viewer mdv but it doesn't seem to respect everything I'm looking for. Hopefully there are many in-browser markdown viewers.

In the 80s the URSS had their own DEC’s PDP11 compabible cpu and thus could run their own version of Unix-like OS derived from Unix Version 6.

I can't read any of those but I enjoy the thought of it.

You may want your cool short key but beware of collision.

pam_captcha is the simplest pam module I've found and probably the easiest one that can be used to understand PAM.

"Master the command line, in one page", ostentatious title but worthy article.

The keyboard layout is handled at the X11 layer, I haven't been through the pdf about the protocol but you can still glance through it rapidly.

I had never wondered about this topic before, are our current font dialogs designed in the most efficient manner? Now that the topic is brought to light I can't help but think of it everytime I choose a font in an application.

A Unix history website, even though look oldish, that is still maintained (Last Update: January 29 2017).

Random

Another one of those cool net-art website.

Unix is all about text files, so many text files to browse on that website.

The best of glitch art.

No need to rely on the internet anymore.

Thoughts

We're brainstorming on the topic of "digital focus/attention studies and tools, stuffs that are truly scientifically proven"
https://titanpad.com/digital-focus-scientifically-proven-wiki
If you have some thoughts on that they would be greatly appreciated, hop in and edit the public pad.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170304 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170304 Sat, 04 Mar 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-03-04 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

A timeless piece about the misusage of the glob and shell expansions.

Isn't it wonderful that we live in an age where there are so many free information at our fingertips that we can't make sense of them.

This websites regroups, in an artistic fashion, many original phone homescreens.

There are not many articles going through the font stack and I think it's worthy to mention the podcast we had last week.

I don't really know who this guy is but he's earned my respect. His resume is orgasmic http://icculus.org/resume and he even taught me how to make mushroom burgers http://chef.icculus.org/ ... who knows it might be Gordon Ramsey's relative.

Funny isn't it?

The place to go to get your shell tricks.

jkl won a bet by creating a tool to estimate the weight of a file.

Maybe you've heard the term "powerline" but had no idea what it was about. Now you know, is too much not enough?

The first link might be enough for you but you can go on with the rest if you wish to.

Some times ago it wasn't as frequent to share your special dots and scripts. Those are the one of the author of "Beginning Perl" and "Advanced Perl Programming".

Random

We are all similar in some sense, all following trends.

Apparently not everyone knows about this wonderful service.

Who'd thought that fish (cam) would live for so long...

Thoughts

Have you ever heard of futurists?

https://research.fb.com/prophet-forecasting-at-scale/?
https://venam.nixers.net/blog/philosophy/2015/08/12/futurists.html

That thought alone can lead you to cognitive dissonance.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170311 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170311 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-03-11 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

If you were paid to rewrite glibc for embedded devices, how would it be. Staying away from GPL is a big thing for corps.

Writing shell scripts is hard when you have to support POSIX shell, here are some tricks to make it easier. Keep that bookmarked.

In a previous issue we linked to the checkbashisms tool. Let's widen the scope to all cool linters.

Code of conducts, rules, FAQ, README_BEFORE_FREAKING_POSTING, so many documents writen to deter people from doing stupidities (or what that group considers stupidity). Why not cat | sort | uniq those and take the best? Would it amount to "Don't be a jackass"?

Slides of a presentation by Rob Pike about the Unix heritage.

...And adding to this, before reaching the TTY the keybind has to pass by maybe some program, some terminal emulator plugins, and the shell. You can use the RFC as a reference for when you don't know what a control character is suppose to do. Use infocmp and script to debug those.

Those wikis will fancy your exotic hardware needs.

Before Netscape all browsers were proprietary. Both of the ones I linked worked on Unix platforms.

Davinci Resolve 12.5, a professional and proprietary software for video editing, was recently ported to CentOS 6.x (Yeah, only one specific distro). I'm not into video editing but as I've read the state of professional video editing softwares on Unix is not so good.

zsh, sh, and ksh don't do that. bash is protective and I personally like that.

Random

It really makes you think about how automated an free the world can become. From 1946 to today where we're dreaming of seasteading and modular houses built with 3d printers. What do you think?

Thoughts

Show me how you spend your day and I'll tell you what you care about.

http://ewanvalentine.io/how-to-never-complete-anything/>
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13816627
https://business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions/blog/g/get-your-score-linkedin-makes-the-social-selling-index-available-for-everyone

Why complicate things? The software industry and programmers of today are looking for too much achievements, stacking the "green blocks" on GH, looking for confirmation of their existence, checking graphs and statistics about their "progress", wanting to raise on the "SSI", social selling index.

Let's slow down a bit! Small changes for a small group is more valuable than running against titans

If it is useful to someone and kind of serves the purpose then that is enough for a start.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170318 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170318 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-03-18 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Probably one of the best document I've read about "Explaining the whole of Unix in one shot", he even uses the prompt "GREENSCREEN". I can't emphases how good this page is. The author is a Google Engineer and has also written a beautiful window manager ahwm ( http://www.hioreanu.net/cs/ahwm/ ) which is especially well documented.

Creating a timeout for a system call on Unix isn't very clean but isn't very necessary either.

I've linked to anonradio.net before and this one is similar but technology oriented. You'll find a bunch of episodes on Unix there.

z3bra started the third edition of the scavenger hunt.

A hilarious and well written blog about explaining "complex" Unix and Linux topics to newcomers.

A story about digital data PTSD. we all cherish our data - so run your backups and think about having less ties with your machine. The author is a MacOS user so it'll only be relevant to the readers who are on this OS however I really like the description of the state of mind he got into which is the main reason I am sharing it.

A great post about the virtues of the Unix shell and why it is the way it is.

A cross-Unix shell script which creates a compressed file (many format available) which can extract itself.

He's got the beard, he got the years, here's an impressive fellow.

The original vi was based on ed, which was closed source. Now that ed was released under the BSD license we can test the original vi code.

Random

You would never guess why...

To innovate you have to see beyond your closed field of study.

Thoughts

This is the issue number 13.

It is weird that we associate so much with numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_(number) some use it as a lucky number and others as an unlucky one. Many benign things are culture dependent.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170325 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170325 Sat, 25 Mar 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-03-25 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Here's a Unix family tree, a FreeBSD family tree, and as a bonus, a window managers family tree.

I've shared this project during the podcast about window managers (https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2048), I keep coming back to it and want the readers to at least give it a glance if they didn't already. A lot of the videos are dead but the concepts still live.

Small is beautiful... Now compare that 64KB with the 1GB in this 1x1.5inch machine.

A series of 7 parts on frequently asked questions about Unix, there's a lot of interesting ones in there.

The whole blog is hilarious and well made, I applaud the guy who made it.

Unix can be art too - this is not what you think it is.

A book I started reading about the concepts behind building a text editor.

A story why closed source can be dangerous to society.

So many Unix flavors/distros that you need a translator between them.

An article about those guys... You know.

This is a very frequent question.

This is yet another of those random stumbled upon website.

Random

Creativity is about mixing new stuffs together in interesting ways.

Another one of those magnificent golden websites.

Finally a useful js library!

No, this isn't the matrix you know but it's related. The matrix protocol tries to create a ubiquitous standard for anonymous communication.

Thoughts

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock

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Unix

Manipulating language is an extensive subject, and unlike the researches in NLP those links are truly "Unix-relevant".

Doug Englebart is the father of HCI, go and raise up those poor 89 YT views.

The first link here is probably the best gradual approach to Unix I could ever find. Share it with your friends to see how it goes.

A collage of Unix clips found in various movies.

These days it seems like javascript is eating up everything, so why not emulate what could run on bare metal over javascript instead.

This is a beautiful, extensive, and visual guide/book to writing manpages. Keep this bookmarked so that you can use it as a reference next time you need it.

Doug McIlroy recently released a paper, it discusses communication files, which were a not well known and complext IPC tech. He also mentions the directed shell: https://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/dgsh/

You might enjoy this article if you're able to make sense of it.

Read up to find the answer...

This website disects your command line into a human readable format.

Random

A follow up on last week sharings about creativity, this website allows you to create dynamic directed graphs where you can explore the relation between the nodes live.

The phrack hacking magazine has been ongoing since 1985 and still uses the same ascii format for releases, which is perfect for us. Most of the articles are technical ones but you can find philosophical ones such as: http://phrack.org/issues/69/6.html#article

Have you ever wondered what kind of softwares run on a Tamagotchi?

Thanks josuah for that wonderful link.

Thoughts

We all feel like newbies... and if you don't you're nuts!
Peanuts peanuts peanuts.

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Unix

Mind boggling post about parallelism in shell pipelines.

The ten immutable laws of security and why physical access means game over.

The keyboard for the MIT LISP machine that inspired EMACS.

An ed-like interface to do many things. Mathreference is also edbrowse-friendly.

On the topic of inputs, here's a writing method you should know about.

It's a pain to transparently jump through ssh hosts, this article discusses a method of removing some of the hassle.

Check your shell options and differences in expansion and globing.

which -a time, take some time to check the list of built-in commands in your shell.

Yet again an oldschool wizard with a phenomenal blog.

"The world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer."

Random

A presentation about the modern web.

If you're the kind of person that needs accountability to continue their streak this website may help.

Advanced minesweeper tactics.

Different views on 0days.

...and it's a dead link! But don't worry there are Firefox addons (Hey, you're getting away from Google so you're certainly not gonna start using Chrome) that can disable tracking such as beef taco, the builtin "opt out" mechanism in the settings, privacy badger, disconnect, or any EFF approved addon..

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If you understand something, it is probably already obsolete - James Burke

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Unix

Security through obscurity.

The big question of "should the Wayland protocol include networking support or should the Wayland compositor implement it?"

atacontrol, vpddecode, biosdecode, dmidecode, get the info you want from the BIOS.

So many minimal system, here are two new ones you can add to your list, and a link to pidsley from the linuxbbq community who always impresses us with his ricing. On a side note, Linuxbbq has a wonderful and thriving community.

Have fun trying this new Unix-like OS.

"compgroups give users free access to computer public newsgroups."

Databases of file extensions and information.

"My BSD sucks less" a talk that dives inside technical differences between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

I always find those kind of reverse hacking/(script kiddie ddos botnet) post interesting, even though his post is more or less of a bragging about the sysdig utility, which is not that bad (http://www.sysdig.org/wiki/sysdig-examples/), you can get it from your distro's repo.

This goes along well with the book we shared some weeks ago "The Craft of Text Editing" (https://www.finseth.com/craft/), I read only half of that book, it was too much indepth for me. However some readers might find value in this and so I'm sharing!

Random

Ever dreamt of having to remember a password and tell yourself "If only someone knew this."

Generate some "Web Economy Bullshit".

Want to meetup with other compatible Gods in your region, checkout this website, it's the next-gen meetup.com.

A play on word with how the internet of things is "secure".

Thoughts

Yeah, but people still use this stuff - Tony Lawrence

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Unix

Brace yourself for some horror stories.

To continue with the horror stories, there are many arguments on the internet about Linux and it's purity as a Unix system. Some of those arguments are just to be discarded, others are serious. Like any criticism if it's not constructive you have to take it lightly.

All that is required is that it stays stable for the enterprise world by following the POSIX and Open Group standards. The EulerOS 2.0 and K-UX 3.0, derived from Red-Hat prove that, even though they aren't derived from the original UNIX and under the hood have a different architecture.

An article that goes to the root of the issue.

Some hilarious oldies scripts that could possibly be useful, such as this one: http://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/mkzombie_example.txt

The turbo button was one of those weird thing of the past that doesn't mean much these days.

To continue on with our series of links about JS and the web, here's one that's not about emulation but about running a shell in the browser. Last time I've heard of that it was about pwning websites through web-shells. The last link, the research paper, gives another interesting side to the story.

Programmers get pissed off a lot by useless semantics, etymologies, and epistemology. This is a fun way to put things back in perspective, which reminds me of the new-age bullshit generator (http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/)

Last week I mixed up two links.. https://vim-adventures.com/ and passweird, sorry 'bout that fellows. Vim adventure is a great and really addictive way to learn about vim. Though, it's only free until lvl3.

Please come back on the forums, we love you!

rocx rocks at skteches

A sketch related to one of the above links:
http://imgur.com/a/OBjVR

Random

Share the most wtf secrets you have.

Ever wondered what the code in movies really was.

Don't be shy to ask questions or contribute to conversations.

Thoughts

The art of not giving a fuck, "Ever watch a kid cry his eyes out because his hat is the wrong shade of blue? Exactly."

https://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck

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Unix

Read up about how they approached the live USB problem.

Let's educate ourselves about how to utilize the ram as a filesystem on Linux.

That is to link the last entry from the previous list of links adding some links that are generic about ramdisks.

The very simple and elegant Unix tape archiving program.

In need of a programmer meme to lighten up the mood?

This small article from the author of ssh was in the news and it deserves the reading.

If you haven't read it already.

I'm not a particular fan of one liners as I always get lost in the list and don't find what I need from them but it might be useful to others.

The whole reason why plan9 hasn't taken off...

This website has a lot of interesting manual and documentation of old machines and softwares.

Random

This is a newsletter I recently signed up to, it summarizes recent events that have been happening in the world.

This keeps popping up everywhere! Are you on social networks? Why? Let's discuss that. What's a social network?

Everyone wants to join it, I've heard they're distributing free beers.

Bring your family and friends on weekends, I'm sure they'll enjoy!

Thoughts

"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be." — P.C. Hodgell
http://lesswrong.com/lw/o2k/flinching_away_from_truth_is_often_about/

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Unix

...Then test it on this website!

This guy puts into words the whole reason why I've switched away from tiling. And also his blog is pretty amazing too, so check that out.

This is a nifty little script, and the animation on the project page is hilarious.

Yet another one, and a good one at that.

Well, but we have some sort of standards too, you know.

A shell script that saved the day - the comment section is gold.

Having trouble remembering the HTTP status?

"Unix in a nutshell", a reference book about Unix stuffs.

A lot of the links are dead but some are not, and that's important. I love those oldies, check this one for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20090302112430/http://freeengineer.org:80/learnUNIXin10minutes.html it's another one of those "learn everything in one page".

A wonderful online book about why we are where we are today and how to continue moving forward.

Random

A bunch of safe resources to practice.

When you become expert in a domain you loose the ability to be surprised.

Sometimes it's worth it to pursue random ideas.

Thoughts

"Chris Dixon captured this guerrilla pattern of the ongoing shift in political power with a succinct observation: what the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years."

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Unix

Ever used notify-send and wondered how it worked. Now you wish you didn't know.

"When in need of a system to randomly fuck you up" - Quote writen by a non-sentient being stuck inside the infinite monkey theorem.

Regulate the traffic between your softwares and the world.

I'm not a crypto expert but I sort of get how arc4random works now... or maybe just a bit. Always belittled by the crypto gods of OpenBSD!

Yet another rant, a good one though a bit immature. I agree with most of the points he put forward. I guess the more you understand something the more you see its faults and the more you can expect the unexpected from it. That's still better than a black box.

That nasty old operating system that used to be considered too difficult for most people to use.

Related to the previous video, it's funny when you look at the marketing aspect of Unix, the feud (Unix) wars and partnership between companies, some partnering with others you wouldn't guess. For example in the last video you had the Sun386i which ran DOS and UNIX on the same machine and using the OpenLook design by Sun partnering with AT&T plus some licensed technology from Xerox corporation. You also had the HP360 using the OSF Motif tech from both DEC, IBM, and HP. Then the Mac2cx by NextStep with the MAC user interface which was the cheapest of them all, unlike today's Apple product.

Where are you rocx, you can draw better than that dude.

A simple command which also has advance usage.

The title says it all, this is an article about UX.

Yo!

Random

Such a nice website.

A bunch of free documentaries from the defcon guys.

  • Map of the world

Ascii is great.

We've got your back + spellcheck.

This was shared in a discussion.

Thoughts

By the way: I was a mediocre writer whenI started out. Explaining technical concepts is hard. Coming up with good examples takes time, and explaining a diicult concept takes time. So it’s easiest to gloss over the hard stuf. I thought I was doing a pretty good job, until ater one of my posts got popular, a coworker came up to me and said, “I read your post and I still don’t understand this.” I still had a lot to learn about writing.

  • Aditya Y. Bhargava

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Unix

This questionaire might help you choose the best "distro" for you. Now imagine if Google could do that with all the tracking information it has accumulated over the years!

A fan of retro museums?

Yes and this one is small so you can read it.

I keep wondering at which point this was added in useradd but can't find any date, it's in POSIX. In older Unix accounts were created using passwd (http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/passwd) or by changing the /etc/passwd directly.

When your child asks the question.

A wonderful article pondering about a common state of mind, intellectual view of the world, between Unix users.

Lots of talk, a lot of it.

Not directly linked to Unix but makes us think of the conundrum.

"Everyone" knows that awk kicks asses - Everyone should!

The hate of GUI on the side, this is really nifty.

Xero's Weekly Ricing Tips

it's a .vimrc file that makes you look like a ninja. it's the absolute minimal setup. no colors, no highlights, no messages, no status bar, nothing. just text.

"ninja vimrc http://xero.nu set nocompatible set modelines=0 set shortmess+=I set noshowmode set noshowcmd set hidden set lazyredraw set noruler set laststatus=0 syntax off filetype off

Random

It's interesting how you can have a "default" emotions when not having emotions... And a bit frightening. That explains first impressions.

Different way of interacting and programming a machine.

I'm glad we can have those these days, excellent way for a 8-12yo to have fun and learn something along the way. It's fascinating that this generation of kids and beyond will learn programming just like learning to read and write. We'll see how it changes how people perceive life. The last link is about explorable explanation.

We've got your back with this fart generator.

Now that we have skew incorporated in css3.

Thoughts

Solving today's problems with yesterday's technology, someday.

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Unix

Any fan of Perl around? There are a bunch of useful utilities in there.

We've got your back... I think so.

I've been refreshing my algo skills and stumble upon that link.

I keep this guy's blog bookmarked and keep peeking at it from time to time. He's always up to something astonishing.

Here's another blog. There are articles about fun shell scripts and others about test with hardwares.

Apparently it had some papers backing its theory on the site. Let's see where this goes.

The answer is simple, ergonomics.

This tool is Linux only. It's for checkpoint and restore of program states. Imagine it as a "longer" suspend.

Coreutils but on steroids. My favorite amongst those is vidir.

Those "this tech is dying" articles are a bit abhorent. Mp3 isn't dead, it's free now. IRC is not dead, it's niche now.

Random

A long & extremely interesting article about the mathematical constructs in our heads.

The latest article is about an automatic "babel fish"-like translator, check it out.

Why we should all accept that we might be wrong.

I showed that to someone and they said it was "lame".

Thoughts

"Someone that cannot respect another's journey hasn't traveled very far himself." - A random guy on youtube

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Unix

Random

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"That's what it feels like when debugging your code."
- Suddenly sputtered someone

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Unix

Random

Thoughts

The June events started so don't be lazy and join in.

Standards and specs are hard to read but repeat after me:
"Specs are good." - A random user on stackoverflow

Why a coding standard at all? Because of your brain - A shell script

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Unix

Random

Thoughts

You are not your ideas

https://joneaves.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/you-are-not-your-ideas-a-strategy-to-lessen-the-blow-of-rejection/

A reflection on ideas and why some don't feel rejection.

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Unix

Xero's Weekly Ricing Tips

figlet/toilet: if you plan on creating your own figlet fonts, step one is reading the spec : http://www.jave.de/figlet/figfont.html

there are lots of requirements people often miss (e.g. headerline values, required characters, etc)

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any sufficiently advanced kind of work is indistinguishable from play. - Seb Paquet

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Unix

Xero's Weekly Ricing Tips

shell: xero's disks alias

alias disks='echo "╓───── m o u n t . p o i n t s"; echo "╙────────────────────────────────────── ─ ─ "; lsblk -a; echo ""; echo "╓───── d i s k . u s a g e"; echo "╙────────────────────────────────────── ─ ─ "; df -h;'

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Thoughts

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

On a side note, this newsletter should now go straight to your inbox and not be flagged as spam anymore. I've fixed some issues related to the domain name.

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Unix

Xero's Weekly Ricing Tips

vim: change the style of the vertical split in your ~/.vimrc

set fillchars=vert:▒

some interesting values: │┃┆┇┊┋╎╏!|╿╽║█▓▒░

Random

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Code is not sentient, nor does code have a spiritual presence... yet. - Haden Odom

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Unix

Xero's Weekly Ricing Tips

shell: colored hexdump

hexdump -C <filename> | GREP_COLORS='mt=01;33' grep '^........' |
GREP_COLORS='mt=01;34' grep ' ..' | GREP_COLORS='mt=01;33' grep '|*.|'

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I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." - Aloha (on an HN thread)

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Xero's Weekly Ricing Tips

compton: add a subtle fading effect to your windows in your ~/.config/compton.conf

fading = true;
fade-delta = 5;
fade-in-step = 0.03;
fade-out-step = 0.03;
no-fading-openclose = false;

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2007: “You are the product.”
2017: “You are the training data.”
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tmux: programmatically change tmux tab names in your shell aliases

alias tshrug="printf '\033k┐(\`-\`)┌\033\\'"
alias tlol="printf '\033k\(^0^)/\033\\'"

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Figure 3.3: On-disk layout of a typical UNIX file system. Figure is not drawn to scale, and files may appear larger in your rear-view mirror than they do in real life.

On a side note, we're running a the first <nixers.net> self assessment after 6 years: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2144

The answers so far are captivating. If you haven't answered it, please do before the end of next week.

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fonts: don't just install some magic font package, take the time to acutally grok how the fontconfig works:

venam: And be sure to read/listen to the podcast about fonts: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2065

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It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. - Larry Wall

On a side note, the survey we started last week is over and I've compiled the results in this thread: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2149

So be sure to check it out and bump it with all your comments.

...And thanks for loving this newsletter so much!

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All models are wrong, some models are useful. Try to look at where the models converge. That's where I find the truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell

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Xero's Weekly Ricing Tips

did you know there are multiple terminal multiplexers? features like persistence, multiple windows, and session sharing are the common features sets. the big three all can be customized with at least a statusbar.

  • screen - the prototype. hardstatus is the variable you want for customizing the statusbar.
  • tmux - the archtype. status-right and status-left configure it's statusbar.
  • dvtm - the leanest. uses dvtm-status is an add on statusbar.

if you like premade or configurationless setups:

  • mtm - as simple and streamlined as they get.
  • byobu - a suite of enhancements for screen and tmux
  • neercs - an ansi art style "windowed" multiplexer
  • twin - "Textmode WINdow enviroment" a full text only wm setup

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If you're dreaming or complaining, it's the same shit. It means you're just not doing shit.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170901 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170901 Fri, 01 Sep 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-09-01 Nixers Newsletter

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For even better randomness, let your cat walk on the keyboard.

On a side note, I've created a page that you can use to browse the old entries of the newsletter: http://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php

I hope you're enjoying it as much as I'm enjoying putting this together!

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Sometimes I wonder if guests are present at the table when they are obsessing about photographing everything they eat, one time a guest suggested I change the colour of the plates (from white to black) because he said the photographs would look better. – Massimo Bottura

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170915 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170915 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-09-15 Nixers Newsletter

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nobody needs to know but yourself

You can be content just within you.

Let's hope this newsletter makes you smile!

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I ran killall cat to kill all the stray cats (pardon the pun), which surprisingly took several seconds but cleaned everything up nicely.

Keep up with your projects, whatever those are, and if you don't have any then replace down time with one.

Have a wonderful week everyone!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20170929 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20170929 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-09-29 Nixers Newsletter

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Those are sentences that have resonated a lot with me the past few days.

To worship a phenomenon because it seems so wonderfully complex is to worship your own ignorance.
If a phenomenon feels complex, that is a fact about our state of knowledge, not a fact about the phenomenon itself.
Complexity is a property of questions, not answers.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20171006 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20171006 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-10-06 Nixers Newsletter

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"The Internet is not for sissies." -- Paul Vixie

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20171013 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20171013 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-10-13 Nixers Newsletter

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Someone complaining on social media is free advertising.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20171020 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20171020 Fri, 20 Oct 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-10-20 Nixers Newsletter

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Internet arguments in a nutshell:

ednos: technically, I'm not pedantic

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20171027 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20171027 Fri, 27 Oct 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-10-27 Nixers Newsletter

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20171103 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20171103 Fri, 03 Nov 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-11-03 Nixers Newsletter

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Do not propose solutions until the problem has been discussed as thoroughly as possible without suggesting any.

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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know - Michel De Montaigne

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20171117 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20171117 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-11-17 Nixers Newsletter

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If it seems too good to be true it probably is.

if wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20171124 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20171124 Fri, 24 Nov 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-11-24 Nixers Newsletter

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Whatever requires a bit of effort without prestige isn't that popular

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20171201 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20171201 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2017-12-01 Nixers Newsletter

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"You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine." – Jean-Paul Sartre talking about how consciouscness is freedom but hell for most.

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Heavy and full of technical topics, this is the 52nd issue which completes a year worth of newsletters. Let's see what this new year has in store. Share with the world what you've thought of those past newsletters and what you're looking for in the future. Which issues were your favorite ones?

https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php

Congratulations everyone!

It's starting to get cold outside, keeping a Unix machine next to you and running :(){ :|:& };: is a great way to stay warm.

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One regular chatter noted that on the CB Simulator "you meet someone from the inside out. You judge them on their heart and values, not what kind of jeans they wear." - About the 1980 CompuServe CB Simulator.

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You need huge material wealth, acquired only through intense engagement with the affairs of the world, to build monuments that inspire us to abandon wealth and to leave the world behind.

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"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else and still unknown to himself" - Francis Bacon in The Essays (Of Great Place, referring to men in positions of power)

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"Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job."

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Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece. - Proverbs 16:27

We live in an age where we don't have to lift our fingers, so much that it has become an issue. This might be of religious origins but can easily be taken out of this context and applied to anyone.

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The three golden rules to ensure computer security are: do not own a computer; do not power it on; and do not use it. - Robert Morris

Note: There used to be a bug related to gmail where links weren't clickable. This has been fixed with the help of mort.

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"It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards. A proposition which, the more it is subjected to careful thought, the more it ends up concluding precisely that life at any given moment cannot really ever be fully understood; exactly because there is no single moment where time stops completely in order for me to take position [to do this]: going backwards." - Søren Kierkegaard, in his journals (1843)

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"There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time." - Those don't necessarily happen in this order.

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Have you ever noticed that when somebody says "That’s a good question?" it’s usually because they don’t yet have an answer?

That quote couldn't be more wrong.
Every single time I hear someone say "That's a good question" and remember the saying I pay extra attention to the discussion and realize that it's the total opposite.

What do you think?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180216 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180216 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-02-16 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Patience is a virtue
    https://www.gilroygardens.org/play/circus-trees
    https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/living-bridges-in-india-have-grown-for-500-years-pics.html
    https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/vine-bridges-japan

    At different scales of time we can still appreciate and live in symbiosis with trees.

  • Compartmentalization
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_(psychology)

    Hello there people that like to read stuffs related to psychology (and those who don't). The topic of compartmentalization has been one of my "Baader-Meinhof" aka frequency illusion for some time now... Well, it's more of a temporary kind of focus on a certain topic and what relates to it, it's deliberate and not really and illusion (I've seen the idea repeated in multiple books and articles I've read). Compartmentalization is the fabric of everyone of us, there are extreme cases like when those separated parts are contradictory but even so our personality lies within the connections of the compartment (which might explain why when there opposites it leads to personality disorders). This has been proven by many psychological experiments. Without them we do not exist, boundaries with links between them are what define an individual as a self. We can't be everything at once, we can't fulfil all our roles in life at once, we can't be all of our personality traits at once. The father cannot be at the same time the lover cannot be at the same time the worker cannot be at the same time the friend, etc.. And those have to stay within their confined boxes. Some social platforms nowadays try to destroy those and put everything in the same box. This turns an individual into a single blob, flattening their existence, labelling, simplifying, breaking down, and leading to the destruction of the self. Take this as food for thought for the week (and let me know if going on a tangent like that in the newsletter is too much).

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We might be fighting with someone, and in the midst of the fight the phone rings. After some heated argument as to who will pick it up, we finally answer the phone with a voice and attitude that are in total contrast with what we were just portraying of ourselves in the argument.

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"Rationality worship is central to many, perhaps most, of the twistednesses of our culture."

This is a controversial quote but one that couldn't be more timely. Rationalizing our behaviors has become the everyday toy of many.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180302 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180302 Fri, 02 Mar 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-03-02 Nixers Newsletter

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Many of us always think interesting things in their minds, but no one other than themselves get to hear them because we don’t say those things out loud, we don’t communicate them or sometimes can’t find the exact words to describe them.

The only places in the world where this is possible might be the internet.

A black box for anonymized speech which unfortunately is misused.

I'm going to link the archived newsletter from now on because it seems like not everyone sees them. I'm also going to use different email titles for every issues, including the issue number in it, which is something I should've done a long time ago. Thanks for all the feedbacks, we now have 197 subscribers.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180309 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180309 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-03-09 Nixers Newsletter

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"Our riches of information are in some deep and perverse sense a terrible burden to us. We have to artificially invent ways to forget..." - Bruce Sterling

https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/comp_game_designers.article

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180316 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180316 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-03-16 Nixers Newsletter

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You need to be your own universe, to have your own dynamics, and only then there'll be a place for others to be part of. Relationships are stars in colliding universes.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180323 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180323 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-03-23 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Thinking in new ways
    https://medium.com/the-mission/mental-models-how-to-train-your-brain-to-think-in-new-ways-ad538ca9052c

    This is an article that sums up a lot of what I hold close to my heart, namely building a base, not limiting yourself to a single domain, being inter-disciplinary at a minimum level.

  • Facebook
    All the clickbaity articles that have been spammed in the media the past few days

    I don't think I have to say anything other then point you back to other issues in order, have fun going back in the archive: "SSI" 13 , "Social Networks" 20 , "It's leaking from everywhere" 26 , "Digital Identity" 27 , "More on digital identity" 36 , "In need of a website to understand a process that should be simple" 39 , "Well researched and timely articles" and "Differential privacy" 47 , "A continuation of last week "Random"" 48 , "Wear some colorful tight pants and continue on this crazy train with Ozzy!" 50 , "Propaganda" and "A timely article" 52 , "Are you tired of the articles of two weeks ago because there's more" 53 , "Create a category and people will get attached to it" 55 , "Will Geocities websites make a comeback?" 56 , "Compartmentalization" 62 , "A story on privacy" 65

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Organisms organize. human organisms organize reality - William Perry

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180329 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180329 Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-03-29 Nixers Newsletter

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A good model makes reality look normal, not weird; a good model assigns high probability to that which is actually the case.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180406 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180406 Fri, 06 Apr 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-04-06 Nixers Newsletter

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"GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions." - Doug Gwyn

Probably one of the most cliché quote of all time, maybe it needs more pondering. Is it a limitation from the medium or from ourselves, what other types of media are we not using that could solve this?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180413 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180413 Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-04-13 Nixers Newsletter

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Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180420 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180420 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-04-20 Nixers Newsletter

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In the end it is those who derive consequences and seize the importance of the ideas, seeing their real value, who win the day. They are the ones who can talk about the subject.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180427 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180427 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-04-27 Nixers Newsletter

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For they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths; and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles. For, by the violence of their imaginations, having taken their fancies for realities, they make right deductions from them.

An essay about epistemology by Locke. http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/johnlocke/BOOKIIChapterXI.html

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180504 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180504 Fri, 04 May 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-05-04 Nixers Newsletter

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HTTPS & SSL doesn't mean "trust this." It means "this is private." You may be having a private conversation with Satan. - Scott Hanselman

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Sand mandalas are incredibly intricate works of art that take many people many days to construct. They’re very expressive, but fragile, works of art.

After a mandala has been constructed – and displayed – it is ceremoniously deconstructed – which is meant "to symbolize the Buddhist doctrinal belief in the transitory nature of material life."

_why’s entire online presence and code was presented in the sand mandala that was '_why'. The person behind '_why' simply decided to move on and close that portion of his life.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180519 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180519 Sat, 19 May 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-05-19 Nixers Newsletter

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"Yep, that's the point of public key cryptography, never share your privates in public" - A user on reddit

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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. - Dostoyevsky

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You never fully realize how inept mainstream media is until they cover a topic you know a lot of. - /r/showerthoughts

This was the longest newsletter I've compiled since the start of this project. I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am enjoying reading all those articles every week. Let me know if you find anything interesting to share with our close circle of readers. If you're intested in contributing in whatever form or way, there's always a list of ideas at the bottom of this newsletter on how you can do so.

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"From this moment forward all my writings are fish hooks: perhaps I know how to fish as well as anyone - If nothing was caught, I am not to blame. There were no fish." - Nietzsche

An idea similar to the thoughts in issue 74: Push your ideas out there in the wild, without spoon feeding people, without following the clickbait trend, all you have to do is prepare the content in the most appropriately consumable way for anyone that ever encounters it.

PS: I've beaten last week record by making this newsletter longer than the last one. If you really enjoy it be sure to share it with your friends that might be interested.

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Everything is a conspiracy when it doesn't suit us. When it does it's just the state of the world. We live in bubbles, when is the right time to question the state of affair and when is it not?

I've setup a new scavenger hunt on the forums, be sure to check it out: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2206.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180622 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180622 Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-06-22 Nixers Newsletter

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"Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future. Do I ask Adrienne or Suzanne to the spring dance? Do I take my holiday on Corsica or Risa? A person's life, their future, hinges on each of a thousand choices. Living is making choices! Now you ask me to believe that if I make a choice other than the one that appears in your history books, then your past will be irrevocably altered. Well, you know, Professor, perhaps I don't give a damn about your past, because your past is my future. And as far as I'm concerned, it hasn't been written yet!" - Captain Picard about time travel

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The S in IoT stands for Security

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The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act. - Tara Ploughman

For context: https://www.quotes-clothing.com/less-confident-are-more-serious-act-tara-ploughman/

I've always liked this quote, I have no clue if it's true but from anecdotal evidence I can assert it. Aren't the advices about being "more confident" pullulating the online self-help trend trying to say indirectly that we have to take ourselves and things in general less seriously. Yep, cheesy social media quote that actually has more in it than it looks.

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You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin (can't find the source?)

Can't throw a cheesy quote without more context:
https://philosiblog.com/2013/02/18/you-may-delay-but-time-will-not/

This article takes it from the side of productivity (see "Over-Productive" in 78, "Production" in 66, and "The busy trap" in 32) however this is not really accurate as many of the most prominent inventors didn't have the mindset we today portray as overly obsessed with managing their time and work. The other side of it is that it's a reflection on paying attention to what matters to you, an appreciation of life.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180720 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180720 Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-07-20 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Have you showered?
    http://www.homethingspast.com/vintage-antique-showers/

    Because this is the trendy new thing in town, an unusual contraption called a shower. I stole that from HN and thought it was a nice article, similar to "Remote Control" in 82, "A history of the picnic table" in 77 and "A story on privacy" in 65. This is interesting to go back and time and trace the history of today's common ideas and things.

  • Social media craze
    https://anildash.com/2018/07/13/unfollowing-everybody/

    It's been a while since I've shared something with the "state of the internet", so here's one about quitting but not quitting entirely. The writer goes through a weird complex and filtering process (sort of related to the obsessive over-rationalization of "Goddess Spreadsheet" in 28). It's like the middle-ground between smoking 10 packs a day and saying 5 cigs a day won't kill you - The underlying reason why you smoke hasn't changed in both cases, you haven't tackled the issue.

  • Edge effect
    https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/permaculture/permaculture-design-principles/10-edge-effect/

    A phenomena that stay true across domains of life and inter-domains of life. Be sure to check the delightful comments at the bottom of the article.

  • Bring it on!
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/well/the-power-of-positive-people.html

    Spend time with your friends this week. This is what I'm going to do and I hope this is going to be super fun for everyone! "In general you want friends with whom you can have a meaningful conversation. You can call them on a bad day and they will care. Your group of friends are better than any drug or anti-aging supplement, and will do more for you than just about anything."

  • Glitch art
    https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/15/17564588/datamosh-youtubeartifacts-glitch-art-kraftsow

    All cyberpunk unite! This post goes into a simple technique to create glitchy videos, a new but old trend on youtube. It's nice that this is coming back to life. This seems to be the thing these days: Remake whatever is old cool again. There's certainly a marketing idea behind that to target people based on nostalgia but still, I ain't got anything against that as long as we're deliberately choosing to revive memories.

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How we spend our days is how we spend our lives - Annie Dillard

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with - Jim Rohn

We become and attract what we think about most of the time - Jerry Bruckner

Three quotes that are pretty much encompasses the same idea, to do things deliberately because this is what this is, not a future concept of what could be. Hope this can enlighten your week, cheers!

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There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknown. There are things we don't know we don't know. - Donald Rumsfeld

A seemingly humble quote that should certainly be put in its context. Rumsfeld was a politician and this was something he said following 9/11 regarding "weapons of mass destruction" and the lack of evidence for them. There are multiple aspects to this, on one level it reminds us of our relation with our knowledge, on another it gives you a moment to stop and think before assuming or over-rationalizing, and finally it shows that cheesy quotes are often posted on social media without checking their background story (yet another week with cheesy quotes, I know!).

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A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications. - Lawrence Krauss

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180810 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180810 Fri, 10 Aug 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-08-10 Nixers Newsletter

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"One theory says that man is a neoteny and is no longer able to evolve. If this is true, then what an absurd creature mankind has evolved into." - Eiri Masami

On a side note, we've broken the 240+ readers mark, congratulations everyone! I can't help but be happy at the thought that everyone deliberately chose to receive this newsletter, and that it only spread through word of mouth.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180817 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180817 Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-08-17 Nixers Newsletter

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Everything in life has an expiry date, especially for electronics. Some companies even plan ahead this expiry date and indirectly forces you to buy new. But also, most of the things can be repaired, the question is if it's worth the effort to repair it.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180824 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180824 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-08-24 Nixers Newsletter

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"Trust breeds trust"

Maybe I don't need to say anything and gently leave those here:

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"Commonality is worst habit of mind"

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180907 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180907 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-09-07 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Once more... About Identity
    https://regularflolloping.com/posts/identity-in-the-wired/

    Let's bring back an old topic that keeps resurfacing in this newsletter: Identity, and specifically digital identity. This short thought piece should get you back on those thoughts, plus you can always dig in the archive to find all that has been shared.

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"Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?" - Sam Altman

This week we have a quote related to work culture, more precisely partnering up aka having coworkers or hiring. I've noted that quote when the "How to Start a Startup" course at Standford in Fall 2014 came out and have kept it in my mind since then. How do we know that the team is holding well together. Some of the criteria are in that quote, what others do you want to add? This can be your conversation starter for next week.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180914 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180914 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-09-14 Nixers Newsletter

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"does the tournament make sense as you keep going?"

Why are we striving for what we are striving for. Does it make sense to focus more on it or to stabilize, spread out, and balance efforts into other things. To keep going on in the tournament we have to put more of ourselves in it and so less into other things. Maybe this is a warped up way of saying "rat race" maybe it's not, it depends on how deliberate we are about our decisions.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180919 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180919 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-09-19 Nixers Newsletter

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"Chess has shaped how I think. This idea that most chess moves are mistakes, even when made by very good players. Also, you can’t blame other people for your own problems, even though some of your problems may be their fault." - Tyler Cowen

You know the "Baader-Meinhof" effect, well it happened this week to. It seemed like everywhere I went chess made an appearance. From a series I'm watching with my significant other, to a podcast, to my coworker learning some new moves. Though I haven't got to play this week, ironically, but the concept that kept floating in my mind was the one found in this quote.

The newsletter is coming early this week because I'm taking some small vacations, have fun everyone.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20180928 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20180928 Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-09-28 Nixers Newsletter

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"Different people define relationships in different ways"

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20181005 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20181005 Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-10-05 Nixers Newsletter

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  • The WWW is awesome (continue+)
    https://youtu.be/wSn7CJ0cNZ4

    Last weekend I had this discussion with a friend about this series I ran in this newsletter about the WWW awesomeness of niche found in there and why I was doing that. The sort of refreshment in the face of the never ending list of articles and debates about the online click-economy, privacy, and attention span issues that I've discussed so much in the state-of-the-web state-of-the-mind series. This link is from this same friend, it's quite interesting and well researched as are a lot of those sort of educational Youtube videos, maybe not as niche as the other kinds of videos I've inserted in this newsletter but still fun. This is entry is more of a reminder of the topic then being about the content of the video. So, readers, if you stumble upon things on the internet that makes you go "Waw, damn this is good" then hit me up with it and I'll happily share it in the newsletter.

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"Whatever your strengths are, they will likely lead straight into your weaknesses."

A quote from the "Twelve Natural Laws of Business", see http://www.zingermanscommunity.com/2012/01/natural-law-10-whatever-your-strengths-are-they-will-likely-lead-straight-into-your-weaknesses/ for more info.
What I have been reminded by this quote is actually the total opposite, when someone is aware of their weakness it will often appear to others as their most polished attribute.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20181012 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20181012 Fri, 12 Oct 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-10-12 Nixers Newsletter

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"Everyone is complex and made out of different parts. Those parts grow at different rates. Some parts of ourselves could still be teenagers while others mature more fully."

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"Confusopoly"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly
http://dilbert.com/strip/2010-11-21
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." ― C. A. R. Hoare

"At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay." ― C.A.R. Hoare

https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/do-we-worship-complexity/, somewhat of a reminder of "Holding it in my head" in issue 94.

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"One of the worst things you can do is force people who don't feel pain to take your aspirin." - Dan Meyer

https://www.nctm.org/blog/ifmathistheaspirin/
A reminder of "The Shirky principle" in 72.

I'm sending the newsletter early this week because I'm taking some vacations as a birthay gift to myself, I've worked 3 months in the span of 2 months.

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It's been a 100 weeks of Unix newsletters, congratulations everyone! 1763 Unix links, 569 random interesting links, all and all more than 2300 links.

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If you can't tell me what you'd like to happen it means you don't have a problem yet. It's simply nagging. A problem exist only if there's a difference between what is effectively happening and what you'd like to happen.

Going along with the last link of the random section, a thought that's been playing in my head for some time now is to "Make explicit what is implicit". We often assume wrongly that some things should go unsaid but it's always better to be clear about what we have understood, what we expect, what we would wish would be the best possible outcome, that's the only good way to avoid mistakes and misunderstandings. Also we need to add that this does not only apply to problematic scenarios but to any others, if we like something we should be explicit about what exactly what done right and what exactly we liked, this way everyone progresses.

Have a wonderful week everyone.

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The mind can be trained just like the body.

Thinking About Thinking

Meditation, learning psychology, taking the time to teach ourselves about cognitive biases, controlling our day to day intents and attention, leading our future changes and directions. All those are things that are possible and we live in the best time to try them. As much as a cliché as this is I still thought of putting this as the thought of the week.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20181130 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20181130 Fri, 30 Nov 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-11-30 Nixers Newsletter

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  • One of those habit building blog
    https://jamesclear.com/reset-the-room
    https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-balance-full-time-work-with-creative-projects/

    But a good one, not an annoying listicle type. It gets 2M hits a month on the blog and I've just discovered it. The second post is also related to organizing yourself, the usual work-life balance, a quite popular topic on technology news website. It reminded me of the discussion we had on the forums about Scientifically Proven Digital Attention Helpers, things such as knowing the times in the day when you are more focused, finding what works when guiding yourself towards an intent, what keeps you focus or reminds you of what you need to do (environment or not), splitting big tasks into smaller achievable ones to be able to track them, going with the intent rather than a goal, etc.. See also "Time management and management in general" of issue 98. While also ending on a good note about the histrionic busy: see "Over-Productive" in 78, "Production" in 66, and "The busy trap" in 32.

  • Akira
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVoEpRIaKg

    There was a time when anime wasn't associated with what it is today, a time of burgeoning. Probably one of the most impressive animated movie I've seen, along with the Studio Ghibli.

  • Information war
    https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/

    Complementary to "7 items you won't believe are shockingly amazing!" in issue 85 and to all our "state of the internet" kind of articles.

  • Custom typeface
    https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/

    Also, yet again, a recurrent talk in this newsletter: fonts. This episode covers custom typeface, why companies do it, should they continue doing it, and if you should you pay attention.

Thoughts

Judgment is but a mirror that reflects the insecurities of the person who’s doing the judging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBC_jyg-go

Some people live in a world where there are haters and lovers, people that get you and others that don't, everyone judging each others, scaling and measuring their behaviors, inspecting if everyone moves in their plastic manner, pantomime, and making sure they never diverge from their cookie-cutter molds otherwise we'd have to re-invent how we perceive them. It's a world where one move means everything, where you can't make mistakes.
The thing is this only exists when we are teenagers full of hormones living the school days life (or if you're a politician). Real life is much more complex, so get over it.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20181207 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20181207 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2018-12-07 Nixers Newsletter

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Xero's Weekly Ricing Tips

zathura is a vi{m,} like pdf and comicbook viewer.

besides having vi like bindings and a minimal ui, zathura is extremely "riceable" and has a awesome feature called "recolor". when set to true, you can define custom colors for bg and fg of textual documents, but it also sets images to greyscale and tints them in matching inverted hues. :set recolor is a toggle command, so if your set it to run by default in your ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc file, manually calling it from the ui will disable the feature.

here's my config for reference: https://github.com/xero/dotfiles/blob/master/zathura/.config/zathura/zathurarc

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  • man 5 zathurarc
  • https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/documentation/
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/zathura
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| http://0w.nz        |
| http://xero.nu      |
| http://fontvir.us   |
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2 years anniversary

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Issue 104, yet another 52 weeks have gone by.
After passing the 100 issues mark we've finally made it to two years of Unix newsletters.

Thanks to everyone who contributed and to all the readers.

It's fantastic, spread the word around!

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As you may have noticed I've removed the Random section of this newsletter. There's already enough content, brace yourself for a long read this week. Sorry for the double email, I almost missed vermaden valuable news.

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This season needs elves, and this is what I'm giving you the most in this issue (actually this was so time consuming I couldn't give anything else).

I hope you enjoy it, and happy holidays!

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This week is a week of festivity in a lot of parts of the world. So let's share a piece that I've found helpful, maybe you'll find some value in it too.

https://www.theminimalists.com/understanding/

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190104 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190104 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-01-04 Nixers Newsletter

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This is the first fressh issue of this new year. As cliché as it sounds let's emphasize some thoughts about change.

Remember those "Culture clash" from 86 and "Edge effect" from 84, let's start on this tone. Give yourself permission to make yourself a priority, at least for a while. Try out new things, or continue what you've left behind, or simply grow on the same path.

"We often underestimate our capacity to reinvent ourselves" - Shankar Vedantam

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190111 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190111 Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-01-11 Nixers Newsletter

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Whenever you learn something new it adds, mixes, and changes the way you perceive the world around you.

Here's a fun Quora thread: https://www.quora.com/Does-programming-change-the-way-you-think-and-see-things

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Food for thoughts of this week.

"To maintain these strong counter-scientific consensus views, you kind of have to have a lack of knowledge." - Philip Fernbach

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190125 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190125 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-01-25 Nixers Newsletter

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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190201 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190201 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-02-01 Nixers Newsletter

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Culture is shaped by the best behaviour a leader is willing to promote.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190208 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190208 Fri, 08 Feb 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-02-08 Nixers Newsletter

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In the absence of information, opinions become facts.

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Talk about what you love.

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It's not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it's that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have. - Gary Keller

Sorry, no vermaden valuable news this week, he switched the publishing schedule to Mondays and so we'll get the issue next week. Or maybe we could start publishing the newsletter on Mondays too. Tell me what you think?

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The internet is full of consequences now because real life is full of consequences. The membrane between online and real life has long since dissolved.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/18/17366528/snapchat-decline-internet-ghost-towns

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“I am not a pessimist but I am a realist” - Always coming from the pessimist in the room

I'm reviewing old articles on my blog and I'm surprised by how some ideas are even more true today. We live in a society that is increasingly attached to realism, that cannot take metaphors, abstract topics, and ambiguity. Maybe this is an idea worth sharing for those struggling out there.

https://venam.nixers.net/blog/psychology/2017/05/23/deliberate-positive-illusion.html

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Risk means more things can happen than will happen - Elroy Dimson

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190322 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190322 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-03-22 Nixers Newsletter

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In today's world what people say about things is more important than what they really are. Truth is now about whatever is more popular. Like it or not.

Thought provoking, isn't it?
What can we do about it.
Let's fight information overload!

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A cliched reiteration of issue 13:

Show me how you spend your day and I'll tell you what you care about.

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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. - Richard Feynman

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Never be satisfied, that's the way you'll fall short. See past yourself.

A quote that may seem would lead to pessimism but that I think is about the contrary. I guess it goes along with the following:

Does the tournament make sense as you keep going?

or again:

There's no such thing as perfection.

It's not the end goal that matters, it's the path, the adventure on the way, the progress, the intention. Sometimes it has boundaries, sometimes it doesn't. However if you're satisfied with the status quo you'll stop your journey short.

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https://jamesclear.com/deliberate-practice-theory

I was dumbfounded when I heard about this concept in the first link of this issue. Not because I didn't know about it but because it's something I'm doing instinctively, naturally. I couldn't even imagine having to write an article about it. And having it as a concept means that some people out there are not benefiting from this simple thing. So here we go, be it obvious to you or not.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190425 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190425 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-04-25 Nixers Newsletter

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Vermaden Valuable News

UNIX

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In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190503 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190503 Fri, 03 May 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-05-03 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190510 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190510 Fri, 10 May 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-05-10 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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Enter with the intention of growing as an individual.

You may not always enjoy your days but there can still be something that could help you grow. You may not always enjoy a conversation but it could help you grow.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190517 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190517 Fri, 17 May 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-05-17 Nixers Newsletter

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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. Stephen King

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190524 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190524 Fri, 24 May 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-05-24 Nixers Newsletter

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Haste Makes Waste.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190531 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190531 Fri, 31 May 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-05-31 Nixers Newsletter

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Software engineers live in a world of deep introspection. They spend most of the day solving complex problems, breaking problems apart and reconstructing them. Often, when they are distracted, their subconscious can make the most bizarre leaps, connecting half-baked ideas and partially solved algorithms. This can happen in the oddest of places, for example, in the shower, or cooking in the kitchen, or driving in a car.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190607 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190607 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-06-07 Nixers Newsletter

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I'm going on a two week vacations, so there won't be any newsletter in a while. Let's wish everyone a sweet month of June.

Also, enjoy the scavenger hunt: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2275

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190628 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190628 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-06-28 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Thoughts

Just go back from vacations.
This newsletter was super hard to put together but I did it.

Also, I'm surprised that after 2 weeks nobody has even started the scavenger hunt: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2275

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190706 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190706 Sat, 06 Jul 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-07-06 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Thoughts

https://theblog.adobe.com/the-half-life-of-your-skills-is-shrinking-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it/

Keep learning, whatever it is, keep moving.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190712 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190712 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-07-12 Nixers Newsletter

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vermaden joins us again for this issue. Be sure to check his blog there's some awesome content out there.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190719 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190719 Fri, 19 Jul 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-07-19 Nixers Newsletter

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venam: I'm surprised the tool wasn't there by default, it's a must have for SSD.

venam: They didn't change much from the look of it.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190726 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190726 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-07-26 Nixers Newsletter

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Don't praise the knowledge, praise the thirst for knowledge.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20190802 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20190802 Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2019-08-02 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Thoughts

HE is lucky who realizes that "luck" is the point where preparation meets opportunity.

This is going to be the last newsletter in quite a while. I'm going to take a pause and free up time to study software architecture, a topic that captivates me. I'll foster my love of diagrams explaning complex software stacks.

vermaden will shortly send an email to the currently subscribed readers of this newsletter with a link to his to those who are interested.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220325 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220325 Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-03-25 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Life & Other

  • Text on computers
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYd2KkuZLbE

    It's always fun to talk about the assumptions we have about textual representation on machines. This talk by Dylan Beattie does a pretty good job at going into historical tidbits and anecdotes. This is somewhat related to this forums thread on unicode.

  • Taking distance from war propaganda
    https://venam.nixers.net/blog/internet_communication_narrative_control_booklet.pdf

    This is a shameless plug of something I've written. Internet propaganda is thriving and everyone is attempting to drive others into their camp of vilification. This is a short research I did on the topic of narrative control on the internet, the first section is especially relevant today (The Artifacts And Spaces). Opinions are my own, so take everything with a grain of salt, and stay safe!

Thoughts

The newsletter is alive once more!
For the first edition, as you might have noticed, we're starting the easy way by sharing stuff you might have already seen on links aggregator websites. There's some re-contextualization, and extra content, and I hope it's enough to open an appetite for the newsletter again. In the next one we'll try to touch things that aren't stuck in the zeitgeist.
Let me know what you think, if it encourages you to read more, and get in touch on IRC, or help out.
Thank you!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220401 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220401 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-04-01 Nixers Newsletter

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The best writing is rewriting.

It's good to have the newsletter back. Think about people, hobbies, and others that you haven't given much attention to lately, maybe it's time to rekindle, to re-form bounds.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220408 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220408 Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-04-08 Nixers Newsletter

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Life & Other

Thoughts

When a thing looks complicated, it's possible that we're looking at it wrong and missing some of the pieces of the puzzle.

I like this quote, it applies in multiple places. Sometimes the pieces of the puzzle are missed because they're out of our expertise, touching domains that weren't even in our concern when approaching the problem.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220415 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220415 Fri, 15 Apr 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-04-15 Nixers Newsletter

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Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship. - Fritz Lang

Coming from a film mastermind like Fritz Lang, this quote displays the difference in quality between craftmanship and mere industrial consumption. Do you feel the passion that you put in work, or that other put, shows up in the end?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220422 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220422 Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-04-22 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Life & Other

  • Google's Arts and Culture Exploration
    https://artsandculture.google.com/

    Yes, I know it's evil Google, but I'm personally enjoying that website quite a bit and thought of sharing. Tell me if it's worth it and whether you know other similar pages.

Thoughts

If you can't say something nice don't say anything at all. — Everybody's parents, friends, and teachers

I'd take this further and put it as: prioritize talking about what you love or learned instead of what bothered you, and if you absolutely have to, at least put in a constructive way. I'm definitely guilty of this too, and I know it's hard to get out when you start going down this spiral. In the age of the internet, toxicity is omnipresent. Take some time to revise your own Johari Window too, this might help.
Have a wonderful week.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220429 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220429 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-04-29 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Life & Other

  • Since when have we been polite?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9qIwF5YcjA

    There's a lot of things we take for granted because we're inundated with them and haven't experienced otherwise. This channel (with videos translated in multiple languages) offers a lot of valuable historical distance to these topics.

Thoughts

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. — Khalil Gibran

Be there for the people around you, this is something these past few years have made even more apparent. "A friendship isn’t a forced duty or responsibility, it’s a relation that we choose to keep out of love."

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220506 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220506 Fri, 06 May 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-05-06 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Life & Other

Thoughts

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. — John A. Shedd, according to Quote Investigator

There's a lot of things we prepare for indirectly, unconsciously, but never actually practically do. Maybe because we're afraid of failure, consequences, or the unknown. This week, let's ponder on such scenarios, turning them from tacit to explicit and deliberate.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220513 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220513 Fri, 13 May 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-05-13 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Life & Other

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Never wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty and the pig likes it.

In continuation with the previous link, sometimes a fight isn't worth fighting.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220520 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220520 Fri, 20 May 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-05-20 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Life & Other

Thoughts

Wear sunscreen
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1198000-wear-sunscreen

A classic monologue, with a single punchline. Yet, I also think sunscreen is very important, put some today maybe.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220527 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220527 Fri, 27 May 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-05-27 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Life & Other

Thoughts

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going ― Helen Keller

Life can take us on so many path, some of them taken deliberately, some of them serendipitously. Yet, when we yearn for something, we want to arrive there early, but for things that matter, it's the road that is more important than the end.
Enough sentimental jargon, enjoy the week!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220603 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220603 Fri, 03 Jun 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-06-03 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Life & Other

Thoughts

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay

An inspirational quote that you can listen to while working out. In all seriousness, sometimes we pay more attention to what is happening around us, what others are planning for, than what we would like to see. Think about this for next week.
Cheers!

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Unix

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  • Software engineers and woodworking
    https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/why-software-engineers-like-woodworking/

    The online cliché of software engineers wanting to leave their jobs to do woodworking or live on a farm has always been foreign to me. Maybe it's a cultural thing very specific to certain regions. This article sheds some light on the subject.

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Everyone should know how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think! — Steve Jobs

What a cheesy quote, right? Also a big hyperbole! Yet, I think there's some truth to it, programming computers does change the way you think about some things and approach problems. It probably doesn't teach you to "think" but it does teach you how to apply a certain methodological way to look a things, similar to how learning a new skill set would.
How did that affect you in your life?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220617 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220617 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-06-17 Nixers Newsletter

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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. — Karl Popper

Great quote that asks for due diligence. Rhetoric is an art and those who master it can often be only about talk and no actions.
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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220624 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220624 Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-06-24 Nixers Newsletter

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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead. — Will Rogers

Yet another cheesy quote! Not one to take too literally, but one to ponder upon. This isn't a call for action to let go and keep your head high, nor to lose everything, but about what it means to take risks and learning from experience. At least that's how I see it.
Have a nice week!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220701 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220701 Fri, 01 Jul 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-07-01 Nixers Newsletter

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Take the time to really listen to someone this week, we often forget that.
Have a great day!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220708 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220708 Fri, 08 Jul 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-07-08 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Software Over Time
    https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/software-over-time/

    Pondering about the implications of an observation: Will this piece of software live long enough, or can it only live a small burst of time. What does it take for software to be maintainable, changeable, and adaptable? All good software architecture and engineering questions. Somehow this reminds me of the credo of chaos engineering and the stringent stress it incurs on software to make it resilient and flexible.

  • A Very Regional Thing
    https://text.npr.org/1109498551

    Plastic is omnipresent. Some places use it more than others, some places use it less but don't recycle, some places have litter issues, some have waste management issues, and some have very different issues. This article puts you in the shoes of someone in the USA, take it with a grain of salt if you're not from there and can't relate.

  • Open Source Pain Logger for Patients
    https://medevel.com/pain-diary/

    I had read about these scales in the past, and their gruesome history. It makes me happy to see that we can do that without being tracked by Big Corp, thanks to this team in Germany.

Thoughts

We all gradually change, sometimes more abruptly than others, but we all do. What are some changes others have noticed in you that you might not have yet? Think back to the Johari window I mentioned back in issue 141, apart from relationships, what are other changes happening.
Boring?
Have a fun week!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220715 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220715 Fri, 15 Jul 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-07-15 Nixers Newsletter

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"Read a Lot, Forget Most of What You Read, and Be Slow-witted"
https://fs.blog/what-did-montaigne-like-to-read/
https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/02/-read-a-lot-forget-most-of-what-you-read-and-be-slow-witted/190691/

Sometimes we dwell too much on the appearances or efficacy of all our minute actions. Why not take things more lightly this week, read and let it imprint you in whatever way it does, without forcing it.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220722 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220722 Fri, 22 Jul 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-07-22 Nixers Newsletter

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Slowdown.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220729 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220729 Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-07-29 Nixers Newsletter

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It might just be a lonely rainy night on the side of mount Everest — A random sentence from a podcast

Life's hard, sometimes we focus on momentary pain while we're on our path to something else.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220805 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220805 Fri, 05 Aug 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-08-05 Nixers Newsletter

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If someone shares some piece of information that doesn't mean they agree with it, nor support it, nor imply it has anything to do with them.

Just some common sense, but that needs so often to be reminded.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220812 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220812 Fri, 12 Aug 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-08-12 Nixers Newsletter

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  • A website I thought I had linked before
    https://emotionalgranularity.com/

    This is quite a fun site to visite, especially to learn about how to express some things that are hard to put things into word.

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You can learn from anyone, you simply have to approach the situation with this intent and keep reminding yourself of this.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220819 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220819 Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-08-19 Nixers Newsletter

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Resignation

I find it fascinating to read about current social phenomena from a Wikipedia's retrospective.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220826 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220826 Fri, 26 Aug 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-08-26 Nixers Newsletter

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  • A real capability-based system
    https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works#grains
    https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works#capabilities
    https://capnproto.org/

    Sandstorm is mostly used as a proof of concept of capabilities through a WYSIWYG suite. The particularity is that in the backend it implements a capability based system, permissions are dynamic, through tokens exchanged moving from person to person, with all the management around it. See also "Don’t separate designation from authority" in 158.

  • Homoglyph attack
    https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/confusables.jsp?a=nixers.net

    We've had a couple of linked related to unicode before such as "Unicode" in 116, "Normalization of unicode" in 120, "Text on computers" in 137. Additionally, we've also dealt with normalization of URL on the forums in a thread called "having fun with domain names". What this can give rise to are homoglyph attacks.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220902 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220902 Fri, 02 Sep 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-09-02 Nixers Newsletter

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Prevention is better than cure.

It's definitely better to be proactive than reactive. Yet, we can't be proactive with everything, we all have a limited amount of power.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220909 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220909 Fri, 09 Sep 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-09-09 Nixers Newsletter

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"Clothes make the man", "don't judge a book by its cover"
"birds of feather flock together", "opposites attract"
"just be yourself", "when in Rome, do as the Romans do"

We just got to admit sometimes, we have no clue what we're doing.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220916 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220916 Fri, 16 Sep 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-09-16 Nixers Newsletter

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Your sixth sense works quickly and is not prone to second guessing — Nicholas Epley

We tend to think we got skills we sometimes don't have. One of them is reading other's minds, we can't do that.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220923 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220923 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-09-23 Nixers Newsletter

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20220930 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20220930 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-09-30 Nixers Newsletter

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The most potent weapon of mass destruction is the humiliated mind — Dr Evelin Lindner

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221007 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221007 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-10-07 Nixers Newsletter

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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton

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The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards. — Gene Spafford

Is that why cold storage is great?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221021 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221021 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-10-21 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Better check this
    https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

    A blog full of explorable explanations done beautifully. See also "Awesome GAMES for kids!" in 23 and "This week we have fun in space" in 100.

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"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." — Oscar Wilde

This is related to the quote in issue 125, "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.".

All and all, it seems that anything wrong, unexpected, and mistakes, will lead to more experience. Isn't that a tautology: Anything new will be an experience.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221028 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221028 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-10-28 Nixers Newsletter

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Why think! We have computers to do that for us. — Jean Rostand

Jean Rostand was a half-baked futurist/scholar in biology and other fields, interested in human evolution along with the degeneration of mankind and how to remediate it. A more famous quote of him is "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a God."

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221104 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221104 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-11-04 Nixers Newsletter

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No == "can't you be more creative than that?"

The newsletter is a bit shorter this week, I was on holiday and didn't get the time to read more content.

Have a great start of end of day, wherever you are in the world!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221111 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221111 Fri, 11 Nov 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-11-11 Nixers Newsletter

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I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." - Aloha (on an HN thread)

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221118 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221118 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-11-18 Nixers Newsletter

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"The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images." — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

Don't forget the online sphere is often a digital world of facades and templates. The rules we make up are all spectacles that we willingly choose to abide by. It's good to be reminded of that.

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"You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place." ― Bruce Sterling

And now that there are talks of central banks digital currency along with cryptocurrency amongst others, plus a global economic crisis, this quote is even more obvious. We're left dumbstruck wondering why all this is happening.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221202 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221202 Fri, 02 Dec 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-12-02 Nixers Newsletter

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  • The Ultimate Guide to ffmpeg
    https://img.ly/blog/ultimate-guide-to-ffmpeg
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Video_codecs

    A well-rounded and very approachable guide to ffmeg, from start to end. Long time ffmpeg users won't learn much but it's a great reminder, or a must if you've always wondered about video encoding/decoding.

  • I/O is no longer the bottleneck
    https://benhoyt.com/writings/io-is-no-longer-the-bottleneck/

    An article that was controversial mostly because of its title. I agree with the general argument as its presented. It's somewhat similar to "A book on Algorithms For Modern Hardware" in issue 144.

  • Programming paradigm can be applied to more tha one place
    http://boston.conman.org/2022/11/25.1

    If one thing is true it's that there often are clans and holy wars between programming language advocates. This articles takes a step back to theories to make us remember that paradigms are paradigms and the things we learn somewhere, even research programming language (See "Ownership and capability, in language and hardware" in 171), can often be applied somewhere else.

Thoughts

Niklaus Wirth, wrote "the belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built." Not only have we built such systems, all our collective livelihoods depend on them!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221209 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221209 Fri, 09 Dec 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-12-09 Nixers Newsletter

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Not all who wander are lost, not all who are lost have wandered

https://www.publicstreet.org/derive

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221216 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221216 Fri, 16 Dec 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-12-16 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Scams these days
    https://indeedjobscam.pages.dev/

    A bit technical, and also an entertaining read, that's why I added it.

  • IPv6 is broken
    https://adminhacks.com/broken-IPv6.html

    An article that made it all around tech news websites. The conclusion most had in the comments was to blame the mentioned AS provider. That's probably the first thing that would come to mind, but I'd also fall down to the Five Whys.

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A system that is trustworthy is not the same as a system we must trust. This distinction is important because systems that need to be trusted are not necessarily trustworthy.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221223 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221223 Fri, 23 Dec 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-12-23 Nixers Newsletter

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Take a glance at "The Most Productive Ways to Disagree Across Cultures", it's a nifty article. These cultural trivia, differences, points of confluence, are often hidden or misinterpreted until the moment they finally float up and unfold on top of the water of our minds like lily pads. That shows how blind we can be without realizing it.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20221230 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20221230 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2022-12-30 Nixers Newsletter

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Happy end of year!
Let's hope for more adventures and cool newsletter links for the next one.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230106 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230106 Fri, 06 Jan 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-01-06 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Write more more
    https://candrewlee14.github.io/blog/i-will-write-more/

    Alright, alright, it's been a couple of motivational writing weeks, so let's keep it going! In 2023 I'll indeed write more.

  • Security and privacy
    https://invisv.com/articles/privacy-and-security.html

    I find this sort of discussion confusing, because often the terms are misused and barely defined properly. As I'm currently writing on the topic of security I've found that the definitions can be conflicting, but once you settle on one that is scientifically sound (as in measurable) then you can move from there. One policy that is often taken as the definition of security is the CIA: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Now if confidentiality contains the one of the users of the system, and not only the internals, their privacy is included.

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People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes. — Yuval Noah Harari

What a great quote to initiate the year, start with a change and growth mindset.

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The newsletter will have a two weeks hiatus.
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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230203 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230203 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-02-03 Nixers Newsletter

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  • su without ROOT
    https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/su-without-root

    The past 2 weeks I've been away, working on an article on access control, coincidentally, POSIX capabilities is one topic that came up. The only real articles we've mentioned in the newsletter that is properly explaining POSIX capabilities on Linux are "POSIX Capabilities, Not a Capability-Based System" in 156. Yet, that article wasn't so good either, so I went to the source: the maintainer of the Linux version of this POSIX.1e/2c draft, libcap: Google. That particular linked article discusses converting su from a setuid binary to a POSIX capability binary, aka capability-aware. It's still hard to grasp, so wait for my future article to finally understand all this :D !

  • doas as a dedicated subexecutor
    https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/doas

    In the same note as the above link, while writing I also dabbled with sudo and doas, in ways in which I felt like I never understood them before. In this beautiful historical article from 2015 linked above, we can see the progression that the author of doas has been through, slowly leading to its adoption on OpenBSD.

  • Randomize anything that can be randomized
    https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230119075627

    This time it's sshd randomized boot-time relinking.

  • Troubleshooting ssh generic issues
    https://ittavern.com/ssh-troubleshooting-guide/

    A quick and neat list of common ssh issues that can easily be fixed. There's nothing very particular here apart from having it as a checklist, which can come in handy when you're running out of options for debugging.

  • Difference between Linux secure boot and kernel lockdown
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60092190/is-there-any-relationship-between-secure-boot-and-kernel-lockdown

    Two interesting features: making sure a binary is signed properly, and enforcing not being able to modify the kernel code as it runs. While independent, combined they offer a good defense surface.

  • TPM, PKCS#11, Okta, Apple, and more
    https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/64311.html
    https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/64968.html

    There's a lot of solutions to store keys and password, and methods to access them, via some sort of verification/signature, within a hardware, and more. The above blog enjoys discussing this topic to great ends.

  • USBGuard
    https://usbguard.github.io/
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USBGuard
    https://docs.kernel.org/usb/authorization.html
    https://usbguard.github.io/documentation/rule-language.html

    Yet more security content related to the previous post! This one is specifically about creating a whitelist/blacklist of USB devices. It can also integrate with polkit for interfacing with the DE and can be secured with seccomp. The nice thing is that it relies on the kernel pseudo-fs sysfs for authorization policies instead of udev (it has deprecated the udev backend in favor of the file backend).

  • Vermaden's Twitter friend NeoMoevius about running Urban Terror on FreeBSD
    https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/01/20/native-urban-terror-on-freebsd/

    A straight forward raw tutorial on making something run.

  • Monochrome terminal setup for an E-ink monitor
    https://bsandro.tech/posts/monochrome-terminal-setup-for-an-e-ink-monitor/

    Who wouldn't want an E-ink monitor and plug it in their day-to-day machine, having crisp text that doesn't hurt the eye. Yet you got to forgo a couple of things when on a colorless screen with the framerate of 15fps.

  • OpenZFS — the final word in file systems
    https://jro.io/truenas/openzfs/

    An article rounding up some features of OpenZFS, explaining them in coherent and expensive details.

  • eBPF XDP
    https://www.tigera.io/learn/guides/ebpf/ebpf-xdp/

    Networking monitoring and decision making is always getting faster and smarter. XDP, eXpress Data Path, allows processing packets at high speed, either directly on the NIC or in software in the kernel, meanwhile eBPF let you interpret programs within the kernel. A combination of both is electric!

  • send2trash
    https://pypi.org/project/Send2Trash/

    This chic little python package will also install a cli going by the same name: send2trash, which respects xdg standards for trash and will be a good replacement alias for your rm.

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Thoughts

We're back on track!
We all need a reset from time to time, a change of pace is welcome. So let's throw a cheesy quote to get this going:

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective. — Tony Stewart (race car driver)

It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities. — Kristin Armstrong (road bicycle racer)

"Gotta go fast" to understand what some breathing space can offer.

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Mechanisms determine how something is done; policies dictate what is done. Flexibility requires the separation of policy and method.

This has been an adage of computing, yet when taken to the extreme it can lead to such complex system with features that lay unused because the policy isn't relying on it.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230217 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230217 Fri, 17 Feb 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-02-17 Nixers Newsletter

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Beauty is the promise of happiness. — Stendhal

How can beauty promise happiness? And what kind of beauty would this be? What sort of happiness?
Some take it quite literally, meanwhile others go deeper in the meaning.

What do you find beautiful? What makes you happy?
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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230224 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230224 Fri, 24 Feb 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-02-24 Nixers Newsletter

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Form follows function. — Louis H. Sullivan

I've been diving into architecture topics these days, and it's akin to software in a lot of ways. The levels of designs, theories, and thoughts that go into constructing a space is incredible. Check just this.

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  • Culture Shock
    https://hr.un.org/sites/hr.un.org/files/Culture%20Shock_1.pdf

    We hear these catchy two words often, but do we ever spend the time to ponder on them. What has local contextual meaning might not have any in another context. It's easy to transpose our own life experience unto another, however it never match up, and that's even truer across cultural boundaries. I'd recommend a recent book I've read called "The Culture Map" by Erin Meyer, if you can afford it, find an online version, or simply read summaries.

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"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television." ― Andy Warhol

I kept wondering about this quote after watching this video.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230310 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230310 Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-03-10 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Wimmelbilderbuch, a bottom-up drawing
    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wimmelbooks-hidden-picture-dutch-masters

    In art they often say to not focus on the details, to focus on the overall aspect. Well, for that type of pieces the authors do the exact opposite, embracing them and going wild. I find these fascinating, staring for hours at every minute things that are in the image.

  • System design interview
    https://interviewing.io/guides/system-design-interview

    The interview aspect aside, you can think of this as a resource to learn about different architectures. I remember linking a book with different real system architecture but I just can't find the URL.

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Art has multiple definitions, it's hard to pin down, for example here there are many of them, from transmitting emotions, to create aesthetically pleasing objects, and a form of expression. For me, art is what makes you ponder about deep topics you normally wouldn't encounter, something that challenges your perception of life, maybe even shock and touch your own cultural malaise and boundaries, something that is hard to define until directly experienced. "What if something has meaning away from you and your own assignation to it." Like spoken or written language, local context shapes art and changes its signification. I often like to challenge people by throwing words that have a widely different meaning than what they presuppose, to blow their own contextual bubble, break away from their inner limitations.

One especially interesting piece I've stumbled upon is "The Caretaker, Everywhere At The End Of Time". You can find it on YT here. It has this ephemeral aura, it carries you on a journey of frightening feelings you might have never touched before, "a series exploring dementia, its advancement and its totality". Some describe it as making you doubt your own reality, the edge of consciousness, trying to transcribe something you might never experience.

Similarly, the psyche.co website has a series of wonderful indie films that I truly enjoy. Man on the chair touches upon the upside downs of life, its inner meanings and cloudiness.

I've digressed, let me know if you like this type of content.

NB: You might have noticed but I linked quite a lot of my favorite tech bloggers in this issue. Kudos these fabulous writers, Julia Evans (jvns.ca), solene (dataswamp.org/~solene/), Soatok, Vermaden, Matthew Garrett (mjg59), and Rachel Kroll (rachelbythebay), o7 I salute you!

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  • The advent of AI and memetic wars
    https://xeiaso.net/blog/a-weapon-to-surpass-metal-gear

    A blog I truly enjoy reading. This particular article delves into the idea of narrative warfare, and AI taking over the endless media machine along with all the worldwide political implications, and then the slam from fiction back into reality.

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If you have to ask if you're a member of a group, you're probably not.

A cliché quote, nevertheless, that makes you think about some things in your life. What's a group? What does membership means?

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Duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction. — Sandi Metz

A programming quote that resonates with most of us. We've all encountered over-engineered codebases.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230331 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230331 Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-03-31 Nixers Newsletter

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"Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part"

https://www.incirlik.af.mil/News/Commentaries/Display/Article/303134/poor-planning-on-your-part-does-not-constitute-an-emergency-on-my-part/

His remark served as a lesson. This taught me, no matter what task I'm working, more than likely it isn't more important than any other task just because I failed to properly plan.

Keep that in mind!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230407 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230407 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-04-07 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Life & Other

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You can't force someone to learn something, all you can do is plant seeds of knowledge which might grow in the future. That's true of a lot of things, be it learning or changing someone's opinion.

This is the 189th issue, that number might not mean much, but it's been a year since we relaunched the newsletter after the previous multi-year hiatus. Hence, congratulations!
Let me know what you thought and feedbacks on the issues this years, what you'd like to see, or simply share your feelings about how it's going so far.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230414 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230414 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-04-14 Nixers Newsletter

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"The first thing you think of looks sensible. Easy to implement. Terrible, ineffective solutions will cause suffering. Why are we made to suffer?" from https://youtu.be/oAHbLRjF0vo

Similar to this quote: "We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are", which doesn't seem to have a clear origin.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230420 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230420 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-04-20 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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  • What we hope we know
    https://apenwarr.ca/log/20230415

    A article pondering on system design, science, engineering, and insight. "The article is a fascinating exploration of the interconnectedness of magic, emergent complexity, systems design, and engineering, and how they all play a role in shaping the future of technology and society."

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"Make it work, make it good, make it faster."

... But everyone can have their own priorities too!

I'll be busy tomorrow, and thus I'm sending the newsletter early this week.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230428 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230428 Fri, 28 Apr 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-04-28 Nixers Newsletter

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"Debugging Is Like Being The Detective When You’re Also The Murderer" — Filipe Fortes

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230505 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230505 Fri, 05 May 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-05-05 Nixers Newsletter

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In relation to the previous link, and probably more.

"What really matters is what you do with what you have." — H.G. Wells

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230512 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230512 Fri, 12 May 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-05-12 Nixers Newsletter

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"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230519 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230519 Fri, 19 May 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-05-19 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery" — H.G. Wells

I've finished reading the Time Machine, and kept wondering about this, especially in the context of the writing.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230526 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230526 Fri, 26 May 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-05-26 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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  • American Self-Made Big Persona Clichés Incoming
    https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/

    While the title I put on that link can put you off, the content is true to the heart, and honest. It can shift your outlook on what it means to be under the public eye, even to a low degree, and what it means when a community around a topic of discussion grows.

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The first grand discovery was time, the landscape of experience. — Daniel Boorstin

Computer scientists were confused by such statement.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230602 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230602 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-06-02 Nixers Newsletter

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The purity means you have to sacrifice everything. Everything that makes it worth it. — Nile Blue YT Channel making the World's Purest Cookie

I truly enjoyed that video, search for it!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230609 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230609 Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-06-09 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" — Brian Kernighan, The Elements of Programming Style

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230616 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230616 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-06-16 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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The first grand discovery was time, the landscape of experience — Daniel Boorstin

In view of all you have to do, when you waste an hour it seems to me a thousand... For I deem naught so precious to you, both for body and soul, as time, and methinks you value it too little — Letter to Francesco di Marco Datini

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time which allows us to link the mind with the world — Daniel Schacter

These days it seems we're always running for something, wanting to fill all gaps, not wasting anything. But aren't we wasting something precious while at it?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230623 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230623 Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-06-23 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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I'm a big believer that what is easy to produce is generally less valuable than what is hard to produce. — internet randos

While this applies to most things in our current type of economic society, do you think it also applies to sentimental and knowledge value too. Comparing daily news articles, let's say, to books or journal articles.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230630 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230630 Fri, 30 Jun 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-06-30 Nixers Newsletter

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It's always your own ass you sit on.

I'll leave you hanging with this.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230707 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230707 Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-07-07 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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"My Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get."

Good quote from a good movie. On that, have a wonderful week.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230714 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230714 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-07-14 Nixers Newsletter

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"The existence of a nation (you will pardon me this metaphor) is a daily plebiscite, just as the continuing existence of an individual is a perpetual affirmation of life." — Ernest Renan in What is a Nation

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230721 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230721 Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-07-21 Nixers Newsletter

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu wisely

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230728 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230728 Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-07-28 Nixers Newsletter

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The head that will become a skull is already empty. Madness is the déjà-là of death. — Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230804 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230804 Fri, 04 Aug 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-08-04 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

Life & Other

  • Encyclopedia of life
    https://eol.org/

    A truly impressive encyclopedia, regrouping geographic information, attributes, pictures, predator/competitor/prey, and so much information. Bookmark it!

  • On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge
    https://samoburja.com/on-the-loss-and-preservation-of-knowledge/

    We've talked about the digital dark age before, this topic is intertwined with the above: how do we preserve and transfer information and knowledge across generations. This is an excellent piece about exactly that.

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  • Without great solitude, no serious work is possible — Pablo Picasso
  • Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. — James Baldwin
  • To be creative you've got to be unsociable and tight-assed. — Bob Dylan

But what is solitude in a world that's always connected, or are we even connected?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230811 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230811 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-08-11 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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  • Normal web thing
    https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/07/just-normal-web-things/

    A listicle of things that break the normal usage of the web but that are becoming more prominent these days.

  • More about blogging and finding inspo
    https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query

    A tale of how the internet allows to find niche communities to regroup around a particular topic, sometimes human-cured. However "if you pursue them too far you will end up obsessed with things that no one else around you cares about". This article also deals with other topics such as what it means to write in public, what to write about, how to write about it, how it spreads, etc..

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When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. — Goodhart's Law

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230818 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230818 Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-08-18 Nixers Newsletter

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A place that looks like any place is no place at all.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230825 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230825 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-08-25 Nixers Newsletter

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Don't allow anyone to feel humiliated in front of you.

Sometimes it's hard to do because we aren't aware of how people feel about things, most often we are wrong.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230901 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230901 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-09-01 Nixers Newsletter

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"citizen journalism" is what we used to call rumour, gossip, and hearsay. It still is. — bregma a user on HN

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230908 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230908 Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-09-08 Nixers Newsletter

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Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20230915 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20230915 Fri, 15 Sep 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-09-15 Nixers Newsletter

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If we, the Web's users, allow these and other trends to proceed unchecked, the Web could be broken into fragmented islands — Tim Lee (13 years ago)

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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." — Kierkegaard

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"If you don’t understand the basics of a subject, it’s easy to form conclusions that seem logical, but these same conclusions seem silly to those who have a deeper understanding of a subject." — Peter Lipson

Or said another way: https://m.xkcd.com/675/

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Don't assume that because somebody has one intellectual skillset, they have another — that those tools apply to all types of intelligence, thinking or claims. They don't. — Steven Novella

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The People are the workers, provided they are unorganized. The Public, and Public Opinion, are the consumers, provided they content themselves with consuming. — Jean Baudrillard

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All advertising advertises advertising. — McLuhan

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"A game is over when you start to wonder if the game is worth it" — Pierre Bourdieu

"The battles were so ferocious because the stakes were so small" — Henry Kissinger

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  • Cyber Hunt
    https://cyb.farm/

    This is the scavenger hunt/CTF that z3bra has been working on for the past year. It's amazingly well made, enjoy!

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The competence sufficient to produce sentences capable of being understood may be completely insufficient to produce sentences capable of being listened to, sentences capable of being recognized as admissible in all situations where there is reason to speak — Pierre Bourdieu

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"A witty saying proves nothing." — Voltaire

Since we're always adding quotes here, let's add a quote criticizing quotes/sayings.

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"People don't spend sixty bucks on a game they know they can beat." — George Wood

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20231201 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20231201 Fri, 01 Dec 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-12-01 Nixers Newsletter

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Consistency Is the Last Refuge of the Unimaginative — Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Challenging quotes, I'll let you ponder on them since Mr.Wilde was so adamant to repeat the same idea in many of his work.

On that note, let's mention this website: https://quoteinvestigator.com/, I find it fascinating to dive behind the origin of quotes. Even though most quotes are by definition extracted from their context and infinitely reinterpreted, I still like to shatter that and try to find even more meaning by doing so.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20231208 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20231208 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2023-12-08 Nixers Newsletter

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"Writing program code is a good way of debugging your thinking." — Bill Venables"

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It might not be your fault, but it is your problem.

This could be a sentence you tell yourself, or that someone else tells you. Often things happen that aren't caused by us, but we still have to deal with them.

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A gentle reminder:

Deleted code is debugged code. — Jeff Sickel

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I don't know who initially created the joke, but it's been spread around so much.

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:
"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend. I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man below says, "Yes, you are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees West longitude."
"You must be a programmer," says the balloonist.
"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost."
The man below says, "You must be a project manager"
"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault."

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240105 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240105 Fri, 05 Jan 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-01-05 Nixers Newsletter

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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." — Rick Cook

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That's a lot of Unix content for one week! It seems like there's a hype to write about anything related to OS since the start of the year, it's thrilling.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240119 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240119 Fri, 19 Jan 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-01-19 Nixers Newsletter

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Code never lies, comments sometimes do. — Ron Jeffries one of the founders of XP methodology

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240126 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240126 Fri, 26 Jan 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-01-26 Nixers Newsletter

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"When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it." — Michio Kaku

Do you think the same applies to computer science and programming, simple programs are beautiful, but what does this imply on the proof?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240202 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240202 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-02-02 Nixers Newsletter

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F U cn rd dis U mst uz Unix. — Tim Roberts

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"Knowledge is power." — Francis Bacon

Do you agree that knowledge alone is power? What about taking action?

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Shit happens!

Hope everything is going fine in your life. Let's appreciate the small pleasures of everyday, we never know what tomorrow will bring.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240223 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240223 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-02-23 Nixers Newsletter

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"Words are where most change begins." — Brandon Sanderson

The words we use often reflect how we think, even implicitly. We say 'fake it till you make it', that doesn't work most of the time, but with language it has a big effect.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240301 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240301 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-03-01 Nixers Newsletter

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We learn from history that we do not learn from history — Hegel

What do you think?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240308 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240308 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-03-08 Nixers Newsletter

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You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am. — Kant

What's identity, and are we only what we portray or do we all have a 'true' me inside of us. This is relevant in the age of the internet, everyone with one or multiple online persona that are puppet identities of us, molded how we want.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240315 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240315 Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-03-15 Nixers Newsletter

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"Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals." ― Jean Baudrillard

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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire." — Roland Barthes

Communication is frought with issues, remember the Shannon–Weaver model, among others, that portrays such things.

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  • Explorative Programming
    https://blog.dziban.net/essays/explorative-programming/

    I like how this simple concept is presented, it's something we've all done and probably always do. Starting with miniature self-contained testable units is definitely a great way to explore things, and learn. It can be used as a teaching/mentoring tool too.

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"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal." ― Guy Debord

Do you agree with this quote, what's the difference between traveling, adventure and tourism? Does the reach of multi-media platform convert these into objects of consumption?

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"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us." — Marshall McLuhan

Do you agree with the idea that the most prominent medium of communication of an era is what defines it? What about the internet and social media, how do they define this generation?

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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." ― Søren Kierkegaard

These days even the past can be re-interpreted, what do you think of that?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240419 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240419 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-04-19 Nixers Newsletter

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"No pressure, no diamonds." — Thomas Carlyle

That's a classic quote, part of the pop culture, and of the modern day myth. But does it stand true, is anything of value only coming out of pressure, why is pressure valorized as the impetus or the action giving rise to what is cherished. What are diamonds and why do we value them? Isn't it because of marketing campaigns originating in the 40s.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240426 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240426 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-04-26 Nixers Newsletter

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  • The end of the web
    https://archive.is/BF0lR

    An article putting into words the obvious: the state of the web with the advent of AI content.

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"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time." – Voltaire

In what age do we live in?

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"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

That's a beautiful quote, what does it remind you of? Growth, mentoring, children, early beginnings, etc..?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240524 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240524 Fri, 24 May 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-05-24 Nixers Newsletter

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"Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome." — Nietzsche

Is that a control-freak quote, or do you see it in another light? Does freedom of action equal to power, and, "hence", happiness.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240531 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240531 Fri, 31 May 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-05-31 Nixers Newsletter

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"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened." — Michel de Montaigne

As far as I'm concerned, I think this quote is about how worrying and anxiety is worse than the actual events. Do you agree, how would you interpret this?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240607 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240607 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-06-07 Nixers Newsletter

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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James

Do you agree to agree, are you a contrarian, or others?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240614 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240614 Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-06-14 Nixers Newsletter

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"If you hate a person, then you’re defeated by them." — Confucius

Confusius, aka Kong Fuzi, had a much nicer way of saying "Living rent free in your head".

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240621 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240621 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-06-21 Nixers Newsletter

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"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names." — Chinese proverb.

There's also the saying that the map is not the territory. Hence, maybe we should describe properly what we're talking about before even jumping to conclusion based on words that might carry meanings that were not initially intended.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240628 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240628 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-06-28 Nixers Newsletter

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"He who angers you conquers you." — Elizabeth Kenny

Seems like trolls on the web control a lot of people.

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"Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from." — Earliest attribution to a listener to The Minimalist Podcast during call-in

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240712 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240712 Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-07-12 Nixers Newsletter

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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." — John A. Shedd

A classic quote to incite you to be out there this week.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240726 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240726 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-07-26 Nixers Newsletter

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"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches." — Dita Von Teese

I don't know the author of this quote, but I felt it properly encompasses the idea that people have different likings and that we should be ok with it.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240802 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240802 Fri, 02 Aug 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-08-02 Nixers Newsletter

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"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." — Ayn Rand

Now that's what news addicts will tell you, but then what are they doing with the info they get?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240809 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240809 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-08-09 Nixers Newsletter

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Credula est spes improba.
He that lives on hope will die fasting.
He that lives on hope dances without music. — Latin proverb

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240816 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240816 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-08-16 Nixers Newsletter

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Meet them where they are.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240823 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240823 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-08-23 Nixers Newsletter

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"It is possible to commit no errors and still lose, that is not failure. That is life" — Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240830 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240830 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-08-30 Nixers Newsletter

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven — John Milton

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240906 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240906 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-09-06 Nixers Newsletter

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90% of the work is always maintenance, life is maintenance.

Enjoy the longer than usual newsletter this week!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20240913 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20240913 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2024-09-13 Nixers Newsletter

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If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive. — Paulo Coelho

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"No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been
Since Good, though only thought,
Has life and breath -
God's life - can always be redeemed from death.
And evil in its nature is decay,
And any hour may blot it all away.
The hope that lost in some far distance seems,
May be the truer life, and this the dream."
― Adelaide Anne Procter

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Families, when a child is born, Want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope the baby will prove, Ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life, By becoming a Cabinet Minister
Su Tung-Po (K. Rexroth's translation)

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"When a man is stung, he doesn't destroy all beehives." — proverb from Tanzania

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The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective. — Noam Chomsky

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"Peace begins with a smile." — Mother Teresa

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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." — Leonardo da Vinci

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"Common sense is for common people" — A random internet user

But what does it mean?

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Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person. — Doctor Who

Now I got to add Doctor Who to my watchlist.

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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

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"Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking." ― NNT

Or in other words, we are hurt by our unfulfilled desires, whether they emanated from us or society.

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"Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves." — Friedrich Nietzsche

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. — Alan Watts

What do you think: plunge in the change, or resist change?

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  • A New SUPERPOWER
    https://danielwirtz.com/blog/spot-the-difference-superpower

    Simply said: they discovered stereograms aka magic-eye.

  • Adulting
    https://grantslatton.com/nobody-cares

    They've just realized the world is a mishmash jumble of random stuff held together by people who care just enough to keep the crumbling mess functional. Also, the grass isn't always greener, don't go on believing it's not the same everywhere, no need to be idealist either. How I personally cope: a bottom-up approach, I care about my personal space and stuff and then move up if I still have the time and energy. How do you do it?

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." — Aldous Huxley

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. — Peter Drucker

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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate." — Chomsky

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"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." – Lao Tzu

What makes you enter your flow state?

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"When all think alike, then no one is thinking." — Walter Lippmann

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"The press may not be very successful in telling us what to think, but they are extraordinarily successful in telling us what to think about." — Bernard Cohen

Or in simple terms: They pick who and what gets free rent in your head.

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"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument" — Bacon

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Hold your identity lightly.

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"What a useful thing a pocket-map is!" I remarked.
"That's another thing we've learned from your Nation," said Mein Herr, "map-making. But we've carried it much further than you. What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?"
"About six inches to the mile."
"Only six inches!" exclaimed Mein Herr. "We very soon got to six yards to the mile. Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. And then came the grandest idea of all ! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!"
"Have you used it much?" I enquired.
"It has never been spread out, yet," said Mein Herr: "the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight ! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well."
— Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Chapter XI, London, 1895

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"Myth is not a lie: it is a system of signs." — Roland Barthes

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"Power operates most effectively when it is invisible" — Colapietro

Another interesting one, that might be related

"Propaganda is most effective when it is least noticeable"

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"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less" — Through the looking glass

"There are no facts, only interpretations" — Nietzsche

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." — Jean-Luc Godard

Basically: read my mind. Communication is tough.

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Motho ke motho ka botho

For those who know and remember.

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I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool — The Brains Trust

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It is language which speaks, not the author; to write is, through a prerequisite impersonality, to reach that point where only language acts, 'performs', and not 'me'. — Roland Barthes

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"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes" - Kafka

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The successful man was out and on the job long before opportunity came a-knocking. And this same opportunity, by the way, is ofttimes disguised as hard work — No attribution

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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." — George Shaw

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Unix

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"Metaphors are not just a matter of language, they are a matter of thought." — George Lakoff

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20250606 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20250606 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-06-06 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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The text is a lazy machine that demands the bold cooperation of the reader to fill in a whole series of gaps — Eco

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20250613 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20250613 Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-06-13 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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"You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies." — Tutu

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"Old fires leave warm ashes, until someone stirs them again."

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"The sea does not apologize for its storms, and yet the sailor learns to dance with the waves."

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"The long-term is just a series of short-terms you didn't waste." — A common saying

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It's nice/swell to be important, but more important to be nice/swell. — An antimetabole of different origins

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"Yes, of course duct tape works in a near vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped." — Andy Weir

Duct tape programmers will still have jobs, right?

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"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." — Donald Knuth

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"How inappropriate to call this planet 'Earth,' when it is clearly 'Ocean.'" — Arthur C. Clarke

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20250808 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20250808 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-08-08 Nixers Newsletter

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"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not." — Picasso

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"Halving requirements is the same as doubling capacity." — Nigel Calder

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20250822 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20250822 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-08-22 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Increasing TCP congestion window?
    https://jeclark.net/articles/tcp-initcwnd/?tag=performance

    We've had a few articles in the newsletter on this topic, see also "Up your networking knowledge" in 214 and "Tuning TCP" in 191 for example. I'll personally also try out what they're suggesting with congestion window and congestion algo.

  • www still needed?
    https://mw.rat.bz/www/

    I think I've heard fewer of the new generation say dabyudabyudabyu.

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Consciously or unconsciously we often seek our value in the world as a quest that may have different pursuits. Some find it in the toil of hard labor and physical output, feeling a deep sense of purpose from the tangible results they see. Others are drawn to intellectual, artistic, and knowledge-related outputs, finding fulfillment in the mastery of a field. On the other side, many seek external worth, finding it through titles, such as doctor, judge, or police, granting an air of authority and social standing. Similarly, some might prioritize their social capital and reputation above all else, focusing on what they see as appearance and influence within a community. This direction is either deliberate or not, focusing and shaping the sense of self-worth and purpose in the world. How do you balance these in your own life?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20250912 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20250912 Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-09-12 Nixers Newsletter

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"We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault." — Thomas Fuller

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20250919 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20250919 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-09-19 Nixers Newsletter

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"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell" — Karl Popper

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"More haste, less speed."

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20251003 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20251003 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-10-03 Nixers Newsletter

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"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." — Andy Warhol

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20251010 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20251010 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-10-10 Nixers Newsletter

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies." — George Bernard Shaw

When truth is taboo, courage sounds impolite.

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"The hardest part of watching someone you know change is that the shift is often invisible to them. You're left to accept a new person they haven't even fully met yet."

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"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher." — Ancient Chinese Proverb

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"There are no life hacks, only trade-offs." — James Clear

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"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." — Seneca

Can we learn something from the great stoics?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20251114 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20251114 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-11-14 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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"First you think you know, then you realize you don't, and finally you understand." — Zen proverb

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20251121 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20251121 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-11-21 Nixers Newsletter

Unix

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"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." — Marie Curie

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20251128 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20251128 Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-11-28 Nixers Newsletter

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"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." — Arthur C. Doyle

We all suddenly exclaim this after debugging something for hours and it turns out to be a menial issue.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20251205 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20251205 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-12-05 Nixers Newsletter

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"Appear weak when you are strong." — Sun Tzu

Or the reverse: be afraid of people that have reached high ranks in a discipline but don't look at all the part.

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No one is unjust in being fortunate. — Plutarch

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Unix

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"We are all a little crazy." — Any psychologist

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20251226 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20251226 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2025-12-26 Nixers Newsletter

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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." — T. S. Eliot

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260102 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260102 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-01-02 Nixers Newsletter

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When I chisel a wheel, if I hit it too softly, it slips and won't bite. If I hit it too hard, it jams and won't move. Neither too soft nor too hard – I get it in my hand and respond with my hand. But my mouth cannot put it into words. There is an art to it. But your servant can't show it to his own son, and he can't get it from me. I've done it this way seventy years and I am growing old chiselling wheels.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260109 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260109 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-01-09 Nixers Newsletter

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Never wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Back then, we also used to say "Don't feed the trolls", but apparently most people on the internet forgot that adage.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260116 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260116 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-01-16 Nixers Newsletter

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We are all Great Abbreviators.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260123 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260123 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-01-23 Nixers Newsletter

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Don't let your dreams be dreams. Yesterday you said tomorrow. So just do it. DO IT!

If you know, that should make you smile. Have a nice week!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260129 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260129 Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-01-29 Nixers Newsletter

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We used to say things like "don't believe what you read on the internet, most of it is fiction and lies". Well, we should probably still keep saying it.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260206 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260206 Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-02-06 Nixers Newsletter

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"Journeys are the midwives of thought." — Alain de Botton

Traveling is a teachers, or μαιευτική (midwives) as Socrates would've said. The road challenges us, and pushes us forward, helping us clarify our thoughts.
Enjoy the content of this newsletter, most of it was inspired by talks at FOSDEM!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260213 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260213 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-02-13 Nixers Newsletter

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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight — Mencius

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"To pursue learning is to be human, to give it up to be a beast" - Xunzi

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260227 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260227 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-02-27 Nixers Newsletter

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"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." — Jim Morrison

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260306 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260306 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-03-06 Nixers Newsletter

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"Meet them where they are."

Probably one of my favorite saying, both metaphorically, psychologically, and geographically.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260313 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260313 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-03-13 Nixers Newsletter

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"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain" — Khalil Gebran

Poets and philosophers have told us for centuries that the twin side of happiness is grief. But is it truly?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260320 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260320 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-03-20 Nixers Newsletter

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"To start a fight, one does not need to bring a knife that cuts, but a needle that sews." — Bahamian proverb

Don't quarrel without keeping in mind a way for conflict resolution and rebuilding the relationship. Instead repair the wounds right away.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260327 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260327 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:16:03 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-03-27 Nixers Newsletter

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  • Markdown is everywhere
    https://matduggan.com/markdown-ate-the-world/

    Text file formats went through a lot, from horribly corruptible format, to XML, to the rise of markdown for simple docs.

  • Personal wiki
    https://whoami.wiki/blog/personal-encyclopedias

    Digitalizing photos forces us to reconsider what they mean, the story behind them. However, do you feel like they lose a bit of value when doing this, or that we somehow put them in a box that we'll forget about more easily if it's in the digital ether?

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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." — Carl Jung

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260403 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260403 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:16:04 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-04-03 Nixers Newsletter

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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." — Epictetus

The Greek stoics always have amazing quotes; Do you agree with it? What does looking foolish and stupid mean to you?
What about the saying "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260410 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260410 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:16:04 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-04-10 Nixers Newsletter

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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." — Jung

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260417 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260417 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:16:04 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-04-17 Nixers Newsletter

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"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." — Laozi

The great ancient proverb; Everything needs to start somewhere.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260424 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260424 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:16:04 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-04-24 Nixers Newsletter

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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." — Mark Twain

We all fit within patterns and templates, yet it's a must to stand outside and think about what they mean and if we truly agree with them. Not simply to be a contrarian, but to pick and chose what fits us and be more deliberate.

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260501 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260501 Fri, 01 May 2026 07:16:04 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-05-01 Nixers Newsletter

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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." — Oscar Wilde

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260508 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260508 Fri, 08 May 2026 07:16:04 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-05-08 Nixers Newsletter

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"One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things." — Henry Miller

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260515 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260515 Fri, 15 May 2026 07:16:04 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-05-15 Nixers Newsletter

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"When walking, walk. When eating, eat."

Enough said!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260522 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260522 Fri, 22 May 2026 07:16:04 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-05-22 Nixers Newsletter

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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

There was a mixup with the title numbering of the newsletter sent by mail, so don't freak out. This is issue 340 actually!

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260529 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260529 Fri, 29 May 2026 07:16:04 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-05-29 Nixers Newsletter

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"You only know where you are on the ocean by memorizing where you came from" — Nainoa Thompson.

Do you think learning about history, and our origins help us grow and expand?

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]]> nixersnewsletter https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php?id=nixersnewsletter_20260605 newsletter-nixersnewsletter_20260605 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:16:04 +0000 nixersnewsletter — 2026-06-05 Nixers Newsletter

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"Life must be understood backwards. But… it must be lived forwards." — Søren Kierkegaard"

So does the past repeat itself, is history cyclical, or do we actually learn and move forward.

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