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(23-08-2022, 05:11 AM)venam Wrote: As for the language, I often avoid installing applications that require a specific language I haven't configured on my machine. Sometimes I feel it's ironic to set...

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BSD

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26-08-2023, 06:46 AM

Thread: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
Post: RE: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"

(20-08-2022, 01:54 PM)ckester Wrote: (31-05-2021, 09:55 AM)seninha Wrote: 1985 would be too limiting. CP/M might be an interesting choice for circa 1985. Bonus points for anyone who has an old Mo...

Dworin

Old school stuff

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26-08-2023, 06:42 AM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

(05-09-2022, 09:08 AM)adi Wrote: Just launched a couple of themes for my simple static site generator , mkws! I like mkws and am using it for a simple blog (not nix related)

Dworin

Programming On Unix

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01-10-2022, 01:38 PM

Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard

The puzzled are moving towards mathematics more than algorithmic programming. Today's (day 7) puzzle can be solved by formula. I feel like I'm cheating that way.

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07-12-2021, 04:58 AM

Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard

I have spent an unreasonable amount of time (I would definitely not get hired!), mainly because I had to figure out how to read data from a file into my variables. Should be quicker from here on out a...

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05-12-2021, 08:03 AM

Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard

Ha, I joined the board as henkmet. I'm using octave because I'm really not a coder. You can see my code at https://github.com/henkmet/aoc2021

Dworin

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03-12-2021, 10:00 AM

Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management

I simply use a keepass system from cli, called kpcli. I have the file mirrored between two systems, because I may need the passwords there and also in case of disc mishaps.

Dworin

Security & Cryptography

51,717

08-12-2020, 10:57 PM

Thread: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd you get them?
Post: RE: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd yo...

(03-12-2020, 03:36 AM)venam Wrote: but I think most people use them to give a better visual appearance to their laptops. Probably also to make them recognizable. The number of different laptop model...

Dworin

Hardware talk

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03-12-2020, 04:44 AM

Thread: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd you get them?
Post: RE: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd yo...

stickers or no stickers, perception and prejudice will be there. Our new laptop has a radeon sticker. I know this, because the edge curls up and I can't stop myself from fidgetting with it. There is ...

Dworin

Hardware talk

14,032

03-12-2020, 01:57 AM

Thread: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Post: RE: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications

Of course I don't use cronjob for everything. Clock and mpd info go through system calls and libmpd respectively. If I were doing the CPU/temp/etc things (in which I have no interest), I'd probably al...

Dworin

Desktop Customization & Workflow

12,035

03-12-2020, 01:36 AM

Thread: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Post: RE: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications

I have some info for my bar that I only need to update once an hour. I just have a cronjob dump it in some temp file and have the bar read it from there. I update my bar every second because I have my...

Dworin

Desktop Customization & Workflow

12,035

02-12-2020, 11:43 PM

Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking

(23-11-2020, 06:34 AM)z3bra Wrote: Resizing windows with the mouse feels more natural, and quick as you simply point where you want the windows to be, rather than press an arbitrary amount of keys i...

Dworin

Desktop Customization & Workflow

41,661

26-11-2020, 02:16 AM

Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

I'm experimenting with having my terminal not full-size, though the rest of my system is still tiling. Made a dwm rule (isfloatsingle) to identify progs that should float if they're alone on the tag. ...

Dworin

Desktop Customization & Workflow

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26-11-2020, 02:09 AM

Thread: You worst moment on a Unix system
Post: RE: You worst moment on a Unix system

(24-11-2020, 12:36 PM)venam Wrote: (24-11-2020, 12:21 PM)s0kx Wrote: Earlier today I managed to accidentally create a file name * in a directory with other files. I almost ran If you want to talk ...

Dworin

Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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24-11-2020, 10:35 PM

Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?

(24-11-2020, 06:09 AM)pyratebeard Wrote: https://andrewhulshult.bandcamp.com/ I find quite a lot of video game music is good for when I am working. These albums by Andrew Hulshult have an industri...

Dworin

Off topic

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24-11-2020, 06:19 AM

Thread: Are you a member of any ~tilde's
Post: RE: Are you a member of any ~tilde's

I made an account on tilde.town but I don't really know what to do there. I guess it's not really for me.

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24-11-2020, 05:59 AM

Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?

https://elianetapes.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-air Drone music on church organ. With the stops slowly going in a nd out to get microtonal and phasing effects.

Dworin

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22-11-2020, 10:51 PM

Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking

I'm beginning to realise that full-screen/tiling works for me in many situations but not so much for terminal. The screen is wide, the letters small and that means the eye gets lost moving along the l...

Dworin

Desktop Customization & Workflow

41,661

22-11-2020, 10:45 PM

Thread: Tweaking the forum’s night mode
Post: RE: Tweaking the forum’s night mode

A minor tweak with a great effect. I like it.

Dworin

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22-11-2020, 12:29 PM

Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programming Environment
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programmi...

Most has been said but some of my observations (even if redundant): I remember some file system hierarchy 'wars' but in this case, I must confess that older is really not better. On my systems, only...

Dworin

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22-11-2020, 08:39 AM

Thread: Keyboard input redirection in X?
Post: RE: Keyboard input redirection in X?

This might be interesting: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Key...es_in_Xorg but it kinda stops at the X11 level while 'our' problem occurs after that. Some info on the process can also be found ...

Dworin

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17-11-2020, 12:07 PM

Thread: Remote work solution
Post: RE: Remote work solution

I'm glad my pc in office is still up, so I can access whatever files are not on a share. All meetings through either google meet or MS teams, online classes ditto with assignments, tests and later exa...

Dworin

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

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17-11-2020, 07:46 AM

Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programming Environment
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programmi...

It may be a good idea (at least for those on archlinux lie me) to install the package group Code:posix to follow along all the examples. For example, I found out I didn't even have Code:ed installed.

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15-11-2020, 07:36 AM

Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programming Environment
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programmi...

This is a great idea. I hope it will force me to read a bit more on the backgrounds of unix. If we don't go too fast, I'm in.

Dworin

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14-11-2020, 12:28 PM

Thread: File extensions
Post: RE: File extensions

(13-11-2020, 09:03 PM)mattrose Wrote: In debian and all of it's derivatives, except for ubuntu 18 and up, Redhat and all of it's derivatives, and Arch and all of it's derivatives /bin/sh is a symlin...

Dworin

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

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14-11-2020, 12:01 AM

Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?

I had these broken chords from the beginning of 'Colour my world' in my head, so I asked mpsyt to pull up an old Chicago album. (the immediate problem with that is that I'm supposed to finish some hor...

Dworin

Off topic

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13-11-2020, 10:56 AM

Thread: File extensions
Post: RE: File extensions

Some software expects file extensions ((la)tex for example, expects .tex and writes a bunch of files with .aux, .bbl, .log etc). sane writes file extensions when scanning etc, etc. I guess I could jum...

Dworin

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

7,271

12-11-2020, 11:52 PM

Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag

That would be https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/passin...ta-to-awk/ Then a website that kept boredom away in hospital last week (spent wayyyy too much time there!) [Image: https://0x0.st/id5r.png]

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06-11-2020, 10:46 AM

Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag

Found it on https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/sta...thors.html but I have to zoom in one step to get the same alignment. here's one more: [Image: https://0x0.st/idn9.png]

Dworin

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06-11-2020, 09:00 AM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

Exactly. Now if you can tell what the first letter stands for, your solution is really complete. Either way, well played, over to you. With the flags, I was referring to this (famous?) cartoon: https...

Dworin

Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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04-11-2020, 02:33 AM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

Your first thought was closer. Perhaps daily is a slight exaggeration.

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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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04-11-2020, 02:19 AM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

Then it's my turn to try. This should be easy, hope it hasn't been asked before: My name refers to a storage medium that is now only found in a museum. I am used daily by all and have more flags than...

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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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04-11-2020, 01:44 AM

Thread: Nixers Conf 2020 [Recordings and Feedbacks]
Post: RE: Nixers Conf 2020 [Recordings and Feedbacks]

z3bra, in your talk you show nearly all scripts and configs but I think you missed ~/.mutt/fmt.conf. Is it possible share that somewhere?

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03-11-2020, 12:54 AM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

Probably not correct but I was thinking of: fmt

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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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02-11-2020, 09:57 PM

Thread: Nixers Conf 2020 [Recordings and Feedbacks]
Post: RE: Nixers Conf 2020 [Recordings and Feedbacks]

(01-11-2020, 04:53 PM)venam Wrote: Did you find the talks interesting? What did you like about them?Yes, they were very diverse. The one I'm most immediately thinking to apply is the mail setup but ...

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02-11-2020, 06:44 AM

Thread: xnotify: popup a notification on your screen
Post: RE: xnotify: popup a notification on your screen

I'm using notify-send/dunst. Quick test shows a popup on top of fullscreen.

Dworin

Programming On Unix

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31-10-2020, 11:18 PM

Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?

(27-10-2020, 08:52 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: On a slight tangent: I am wondering whether a new thread for this or not, but do people listen to internet radio? if so, what stations? I listen nearly exclus...

Dworin

Off topic

21,470

28-10-2020, 05:30 AM

Thread: Nixers.net Conf 2020
Post: RE: Nixers.net Conf 2020

I'll cast my votes for 1 (I'm one of those who 'will do a backup soon when I have more time') and 3 (I really need to learn mutt)

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13-10-2020, 09:49 PM

Thread: Hey Nixers!
Post: RE: Hey Nixers!

Welcome I0bster. Nice to meet you and enjoy your stay here.

Dworin

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07-10-2020, 11:02 PM

Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole

That's not how I remember it and Webring also suggests the previous/next links were fixed at time of creation. Incidently, it also mentions webrings became obsolete when search engines were good enoug...

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06-10-2020, 01:33 AM

Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking

(02-10-2020, 05:05 PM)ckester Wrote: I'm partial to the vertical stack layout myself -- although I sometimes wish I could put the master window on the right when I'm working with two side-by-side mo...

Dworin

Desktop Customization & Workflow

41,661

03-10-2020, 12:35 AM

Thread: What IRC channel's do you auto connect to?
Post: RE: What IRC channel's do you auto connect to?

I autoconnect to #nixers_net, #archlinux, #suckless and #luakit (between freenode and oftc, I keep mixing them up too, very annoying!)

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