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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| Very nice project: https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/
Taking webinterfaces out of the way of the terminal...
My turn:
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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18-09-2022, 02:56 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| It reminded me of https://humungus.tedunangst.com/ but no! I will have to look further... |
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18-09-2022, 02:50 AM |
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Thread: messaging app
Post: RE: messaging app
| In case you are tempted to start your server at Discord or another of these commercial services, consider IRC!
IRC is a modern protocol (see https://modern.ircdocs.horse/ for how it evolves) and also... |
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josuah |
Android & Iphone
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16-09-2022, 06:45 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| Small tip: the most critical information that is missing from any default shell, in a portable way: the last command error code.
I do it this way:
Code:% PS1='%${?#0} '
% true
% false
%1 true
% ^... |
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josuah |
BSD
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16-09-2022, 08:10 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (12-09-2022, 12:34 PM)jkl Wrote: cd sh<tab>f<tab> does not work. I wonder if I could write a function to fix that.On plan 9, iirc, it is Ctrl + F, which sends a signal to RC, which shows... |
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josuah |
BSD
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16-09-2022, 07:54 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| Maybe it was a bit harsh, given it was not even the domain of UNIX per-se, but sibling.
Although, in the early days, there was not so much difference between electronics and IT: more tightly coupled t... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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11-08-2022, 01:47 PM |
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Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine
| In the end, a lot of the regularly contributed content of Nixers forum is summarized here: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1939 |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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25-05-2022, 04:53 AM |
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Thread: Which BSD do you use?
Post: RE: Which BSD do you use?
| I see a lot of OpenBSD, and few NetBSD and FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD... The latter three are very cool too!
NetBSD has its own in-kernel virtual machine, but unl/ike OpenBSD's vmm(4), it uses qemu as ... |
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josuah |
BSD
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23-05-2022, 06:38 AM |
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Thread: How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`
Post: RE: How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`
| This mode of "tidy bazaar" organisation (overly flexible in order to never be messy whatever mess you throw at it) encountered here and there reminds me what Bogatin often says:
Quote:Do not consider... |
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josuah |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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22-05-2022, 08:56 AM |
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Thread: How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`
Post: RE: How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`
| Remarks
Short note on /home/src related to OpenBSD: there is not enough room on /usr to fit /usr/obj, /usr/src, /usr/ports on my system, so these three are symlinks to matching subdirectories of /hom... |
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josuah |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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22-05-2022, 08:51 AM |
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Thread: How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`
Post: RE: How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`
| I am slowly moving toward using multiple users in /home just for myself:
* I have been the only one using my computer actively
* even if sharing it like a UNIX server, it makes sense to organise thin... |
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josuah |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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22-05-2022, 08:44 AM |
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Thread: Logos and Artworks in the Unix World
Post: RE: Logos and Artworks in the Unix World
| (28-04-2022, 03:12 PM)akoizumi Wrote: (05-07-2016, 06:17 PM)pranomostro Wrote: Also note the logo of 9front, which is cirno, some anime character. For some reason, they decided glenda
was outdated... |
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josuah |
Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software
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17-05-2022, 06:50 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| I kind of like the daemon command from FreeBSD.
It is a nice intermediate between a system service manager (like rc, s6, openrc and the controversial systemd), and running a command in the background... |
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josuah |
BSD
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16-05-2022, 06:03 AM |
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Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine
| My question was weird. So a HTML/CSS-based typesetting, ok. I used that, and noticed how good HTML/CSS was at producing a paper-style document. After-all, it was meant for this from day one, and the a... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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10-05-2022, 01:41 PM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| Oh hello there sailors of Pino! http://100r.co/site/about_us.html
I could not remember the domain name for them (rad projects from them!), so looked that up down the latest Nixers newsletter. Thanks ... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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10-05-2022, 01:21 PM |
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Thread: HDL (Verilog, VHDL, Migen, Chisel, Clash...)
Post: HDL (Verilog, VHDL, Migen, Chisel, Clash...)
| Hardware Description Languages!
This drift away a tiny bit from the main Unix topic of the forum, and for help with tinkering on Verilog, this place https://www.eevblog.com/forum/fpga/ could be the b... |
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josuah |
Other Embedded Platforms and Hardware Hacking
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23-04-2022, 07:12 AM |
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Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine
| A two-column layout was just added to The Gopher Times (troff-based): https://gopherproxy.net/bitreich.org/9/t...-opus4.pdf
I am not as good as Seninha about this, but that is the best I can do. :)
... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-04-2022, 06:36 AM |
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Thread: blogs
Post: RE: blogs
| (22-08-2016, 07:16 PM)z3bra Wrote: Makefiles (20-04-2022, 08:48 AM)seninha Wrote: makefiles
One very good things with static websites generators and Makefiles are incremental builds.
A huuuuge (ab... |
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josuah |
The WWW
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23-04-2022, 06:30 AM |
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Thread: Yet another self-introduction
Post: RE: Yet another self-introduction
| (20-04-2022, 04:38 PM)akoizumi Wrote: hardly-working raspberry pithese damn beasts never do what we tell them to huh?
Welcome aboard!
(18-04-2022, 11:15 AM)akoizumi Wrote: I think that's all by ... |
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josuah |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-04-2022, 06:26 AM |
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Thread: Maemo thread (Nokia 770/N8x0/N900)
Post: RE: Maemo thread (Nokia 770/N8x0/N900)
| Hello thread of 2014... Did you know that Maemo is alive and kicking?
Or rather "Maemo Leste": https://maemo-leste.github.io/ |
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Other Embedded Platforms and Hardware Hacking
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14-11-2021, 10:52 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| (11-11-2021, 08:58 AM)pyratebeard Wrote: https://lowtechmagazine.com ?In its solar-powered version: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/0...bsite.html |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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13-11-2021, 04:25 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| (13-11-2021, 04:56 AM)venam Wrote: ARGBEGIN/ARGEND, E/ARGFAvailable on an UNIX machine near you TODAY https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/arg.h.html
(13-11-2021, 04:56 AM)venam Wrote: However, ev... |
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josuah |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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13-11-2021, 06:54 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| (13-11-2021, 04:56 AM)venam Wrote: It's great that the return status can be a string, it allows for more
explicit errors.IIRC there is a "error message" field in 9P, so that errors strings can come ... |
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13-11-2021, 06:43 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| ## Chapter 1
The group-based permission system is interesting, and solves the "shared directory" problem, which is a very common one: have one directory in read-write access by anyone in the group.
... |
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13-11-2021, 06:22 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| https://docs.automotivelinux.org/en/lamp...ansmitter/
Gotcha! But now I have to read the whole article due to curiosity not letting me down. :P
dionys: How did you land on this page? What is the stat... |
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josuah |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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10-11-2021, 01:35 PM |
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Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine
| Articles from Nixers.net (not post themselves, references to nixers.net) have just been published on Gopher on the first edition of a new newspaper!
gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes
Code:curl -O goph... |
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josuah |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-10-2021, 05:36 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (23-09-2021, 04:15 PM)seninha Wrote: X11 File Manager
Many times, when facing complex software, or crashes, or something they did not understand, I figured users ended-up seeking for two things: the... |
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josuah |
Programming On Unix
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22-10-2021, 01:55 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (07-08-2021, 11:53 AM)pkal Wrote: I just finished cleaning up a IRC library I wrote for (GNU) AWK a few years ago, and published it here: https://git.sr.ht/~pkal/irc.awk
Would be interested in seei... |
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josuah |
Programming On Unix
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22-10-2021, 01:51 PM |
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Thread: The Gemini protocol
Post: RE: The Gemini protocol
| Gemini seems to have a lot of agitation around it. Either praise or hate...
Fear not, Gemini will not stand any chance to receive the amount of hatred and lost hairs caused by modern web frameworks.
... |
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josuah |
The WWW
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22-10-2021, 01:20 PM |
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Thread: Carte blanche
Post: RE: Carte blanche
| (09-06-2020, 10:23 AM)sokx Wrote: - Dylan Araps
- 2f30
- 9front
- Suckless
- Sourcehut
These people make cool stuff and I'm sure none of them are millionares so...
There are definitely small projec... |
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josuah |
Off topic
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14-06-2020, 06:48 PM |
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Thread: Carte blanche
Post: RE: Carte blanche
| (14-06-2020, 09:17 AM)vain Wrote: WebKitGTKThat sounds like the big battle out there: Web Browsers. There are definitely big funds put by big companies to develop these titanic (hue hue) projects. |
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Off topic
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14-06-2020, 06:46 PM |
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Thread: Carte blanche
Post: RE: Carte blanche
| I would give it to meeee! So that I can be myself the one who work on open source projects. :)
I would call it the OnlyMeee foundation.
What about giving SEL4 a boost while we are at it? I would be ... |
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Off topic
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14-06-2020, 06:44 PM |
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Thread: Minimal Computing Principals
Post: RE: Minimal Computing Principals
| Quote:Minimal WYSIWYG
I use WYSIWYG a lot: I publish plain text, so $EDITOR becomes a WYSIWYG editor. :o) |
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josuah |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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01-05-2020, 03:43 AM |
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Thread: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, where does pkg management stands
Post: RE: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, w...
| (08-04-2020, 03:43 PM)jkl Wrote: Define “dependency-heavy”?
Another definition: When it takes more than 500Mb of memory to compile one binary:
Code:# github.com/42wim/matterbridge/vendor/[quote="jo... |
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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18-04-2020, 01:48 AM |
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Thread: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, where does pkg management stands
Post: RE: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, w...
| @z3bra: yes, the state is not so bright regarding static linking, and from what you says, you have the bagguage to say that.
But these flags are really meant for the library package, not for the bina... |
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josuah |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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09-04-2020, 10:29 AM |
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Thread: Unix Ricing
Post: RE: Unix Ricing
| This is another proposal for socket activation, which makes use of fd-passing : http://skarnet.org/software/s6/socket-activation.html
This is for daemon which already started and receive client conne... |
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josuah |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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09-04-2020, 05:10 AM |
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Thread: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, where does pkg management stands
Post: RE: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, w...
| One tip for doing static linking :
It is terribly hard to configure it, so instead of configuring it, it is possible to /not/ build the shared libraries, and only expose the libsomething.a to the com... |
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josuah |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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08-04-2020, 04:41 PM |
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Thread: GUI pipes
Post: RE: GUI pipes
| I feel stupid for sticking this talk everywhere I go, but here is it again: https://invidio.us/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
The crux of it related to the context of this conversation : there ARE pipes in toda... |
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josuah |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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08-04-2020, 04:35 PM |
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Thread: Homestuck
Post: Homestuck
| https://invidio.us/watch?v=S0ximxe4XtU
TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!!
What's the tunnel snakes? That's us! and we rule!
In that post-apocalyptic world scene, with everyone stuck home due to a world-wide-thre... |
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Off topic
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08-04-2020, 04:23 PM |
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Thread: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, where does pkg management stands
Post: RE: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, w...
| jkl: I'd say 2 options combined:
when a package.lock has more than 10 entries and the author says "minimal dependencies"
when a library that pull dependencies on another library is a common practice.... |
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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08-04-2020, 04:06 PM |
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Thread: Unix Ricing
Post: RE: Unix Ricing
| (05-04-2020, 01:41 AM)Halfwit Wrote: (Also minor edit, I renamed ubqt to altid, located now at https://github.com/altid. Ubqt was used just everywhere)
That made me learn about Ubqt, hum, Altid, whi... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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08-04-2020, 04:03 PM |
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Thread: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, where does pkg management stands
Post: RE: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, w...
| It is surprising that the recent compiled languages go static by default, given that they are "dependency forest languages" : it is really easy to go get some go-get-maintained package rather than pac... |
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josuah |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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08-04-2020, 03:22 PM |
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Thread: Comparing the single-file efficiency of version control systems
Post: RE: Comparing the single-file efficiency of versio...
| So it seems that availability of git is a strong argument. I also like the (unpacked) storage format though naming files by their hash.
Git status is also very very efficient (maybe it uses tricks w... |
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josuah |
Programming On Unix
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08-04-2020, 03:17 PM |
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Thread: How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`
Post: RE: How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`
| tmpfs for the download directory, great idea (that I have seen above too) !
At work I have all documentation put on a sshfs in the meantime that the team agree on a documentation tool for all (zillio... |
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josuah |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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28-03-2020, 05:09 PM |
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Thread: Hello world
Post: RE: Hello world
| I did never try Slackware...
You might be pushing me toward using it. :)
At first (before trying it) I did hate C++.
Then, after trying C++, I did hate it more because it was very badly used at th... |
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