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Thread: Switching From Machine To machine
Post: RE: Switching From Machine To machine
| Ohhh, p.s., adding a new machine to the fray is not too bad. I don't PXE boot my FreeBSD machines as I have very fast disks in my desktop, and RPIs are more annoying to PXE boot; but I could do so tri... |
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Halfwit |
Hardware talk
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20,918 |
11-01-2021, 04:52 PM |
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Thread: Switching From Machine To machine
Post: RE: Switching From Machine To machine
| I love this thread, nice!
So I have a few machines at the moment. A laptop, a desktop, a server, some raspberry pis, and a phone. I have other machines that could be used eventually, but this is wha... |
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Halfwit |
Hardware talk
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20,918 |
11-01-2021, 04:47 PM |
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Thread: Plan 9 and derivates
Post: RE: Plan 9 and derivates
| I was mostly working from Equis, which is an X11 server that builds on plan9 |
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Halfwit |
Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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19,488 |
28-11-2020, 10:26 PM |
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Thread: Plan 9 and derivates
Post: RE: Plan 9 and derivates
| It's literally just a DDX for Xserver though, and I get X11 apps and Xwayland baked in. Like the code itself is fairly well trivial, most of the work was on draw for 9. (I don't know if it works yet, ... |
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Halfwit |
Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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19,488 |
28-11-2020, 09:07 PM |
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Thread: Git updater shell script
Post: RE: Git updater shell script
| I did ~/local for all my xdg dirs, so ~/local/cfg was under git revision, it was entirely painless. Suggestions if you do: gitignore *, and git add -f whatever |
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Halfwit |
Programming On Unix
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4,197 |
28-11-2020, 09:00 PM |
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Thread: Plan 9 and derivates
Post: RE: Plan 9 and derivates
| Yeah, netsurf is ported, it works pretty damn good. There's even a native UI for it! There's git, even git/serve to host from; and a plethora of other cool shit being worked on pretty much every day.
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Halfwit |
Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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27 |
19,488 |
26-11-2020, 03:12 AM |
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Thread: How Many Ways To Start An Xserver
Post: RE: How Many Ways To Start An Xserver
| I always liked this, a friend made some time back.
https://github.com/Earnestly/sx |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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48,797 |
06-09-2020, 02:16 AM |
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Thread: Git as a Plan 9 file system
Post: RE: Git as a Plan 9 file system
| Ohhhh man, netsurf just full on works now. git9 is stable, etc etc. I use 9 as a daily driver, and if I ever need a modern browser I just vncclient into something on a Unix/Linux machine. |
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Halfwit |
Programming On Unix
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10,843 |
12-05-2020, 03:13 AM |
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Thread: Unix Ricing
Post: RE: Unix Ricing
| (Also minor edit, I renamed ubqt to altid, located now at https://github.com/altid. Ubqt was used just everywhere) |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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27,992 |
05-04-2020, 01:41 AM |
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Thread: GUI pipes
Post: RE: GUI pipes
| (25-01-2020, 08:27 PM)eduarch42 Wrote: Yeah, i have tried 9plan (9front actually) because i want to take inspiration to a set of programs i'm trying to develop. A DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) tha... |
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Halfwit |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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17,108 |
28-01-2020, 08:58 PM |
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Thread: GUI pipes
Post: RE: GUI pipes
| In plan9 there's control.h, which could be technically mangled into a file server for creating UI applications from say, a shell script. It's crazy cool. It uses channels internally (think Golang chan... |
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Halfwit |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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17,108 |
28-01-2020, 08:54 PM |
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Thread: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
Post: RE: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
| Switch. Just do it. And take the opportunity while you've obliterated your muscle memory to undo every last poor typing habit you've developed. If you're a perfect Qwerty typist, you aren't reading th... |
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Halfwit |
Off topic
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36,385 |
18-10-2019, 01:23 AM |
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Thread: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
Post: RE: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
| I know both US qwerty and Dvorak, I can mooostly fluidly change between the two |
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Halfwit |
Off topic
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36,385 |
09-10-2019, 04:46 PM |
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Thread: Battlestations!
Post: RE: Battlestations!
| That's a pretty looking update! I'm without a room at the moment, let alone a battlestation but I'll try to remember to update when I'm actually settled in properly |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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231,452 |
29-09-2019, 10:08 PM |
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Thread: What software have you made to improve your workflow or rice?
Post: RE: What software have you made to improve your wo...
| I actually used mpv as my front end to mpd for a long while, but went to ogg123/mpd123 out of frustration with it having to draw a window. I'd simply "hide" the thing, but at the end of the day I neve... |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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20,059 |
22-09-2019, 05:03 PM |
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Thread: What software have you made to improve your workflow or rice?
Post: RE: What software have you made to improve your wo...
| Yeah, it's pretty much what I have in my hooks.lua, I do a bit of window management to handle resizes when the video switches (the tiling I use maintains video aspect ratio for no black bars anywhere)... |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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20,059 |
22-09-2019, 05:02 PM |
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Thread: What software have you made to improve your workflow or rice?
Post: RE: What software have you made to improve your wo...
| I use mpg123/ogg123 for audio and pipe the now playing title to a file, which is then read by my status bar. It's super useful, and works well with external mpd/radio streams. Mpd you can have as a mu... |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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20,059 |
21-09-2019, 02:11 PM |
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Thread: Using Directories as Configuration Fomats
Post: RE: Using Directories as Configuration Fomats
| > Did you implement it yourself, or is there some library for this?
I'm using a Go lib for it, https://github.com/mischief/ndb
Also worth noting that practically speaking most everything on plan9 ... |
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Halfwit |
Programming On Unix
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8,404 |
13-09-2019, 12:09 AM |
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Thread: Using Directories as Configuration Fomats
Post: RE: Using Directories as Configuration Fomats
| There's a page on the Arch Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory) outlining how to achieve a pretty clean home dir. I have a pretty clean setup, mostly everything lives in ~/lo... |
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Halfwit |
Programming On Unix
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8,404 |
12-09-2019, 02:07 AM |
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Thread: What software have you made to improve your workflow or rice?
Post: RE: What software have you made to improve your wo...
| Anyways for me, https://github.com/halfwit/dsearch is my main utility for any query, from opening a file, to a link in the correct program. It uses dmenu as a backend, and many bespoke pieces are tigh... |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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20,059 |
09-09-2019, 03:12 PM |
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Thread: What software have you made to improve your workflow or rice?
Post: RE: What software have you made to improve your wo...
| Hey, https://github.com/cloudef/bemenu works fine on Wayland |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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20,059 |
09-09-2019, 02:52 PM |
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Thread: Hey Nixers, what do you do when you are stuck on a programming/tech problem?
Post: RE: Hey Nixers, what do you do when you are stuck ...
| Rubber ducking and paper programming are fundamental tools, though indeed getting out and burning off energy is key to all manner if productivity. |
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Halfwit |
Off topic
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29-07-2019, 10:28 AM |
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Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
| I literally just add the colour after generating. It's as easy. |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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134,863 |
24-07-2019, 11:49 PM |
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Thread: How much do you actually care about your ideologies?
Post: RE: How much do you actually care about your ideol...
| *throws plan9 into the ring* (9front, a fork, runs perfectly well on both systems mentioned; and VNC exists if you need access to a very modern browser |
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Halfwit |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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17,298 |
19-07-2019, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: blogs
Post: RE: blogs
| I made mine in POSIX sh, with a really naive parser. It's at github.com/halfwit/blog, I think I hard code stuff, but you could adapt for your needs I'm sure if you're so inclined. |
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Halfwit |
The WWW
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01-07-2019, 12:47 AM |
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Thread: managing dotfiles with gnu stow
Post: RE: managing dotfiles with gnu stow
| I use a custom zdotdir to wrangle all my dots into one $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which is a repo using a gitignore with * in it. i git clone once, and never link anything and am good to go. It's really th... |
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Halfwit |
GNU/Linux
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21,712 |
29-06-2019, 10:35 PM |
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Thread: Scavenger Hunt (June 2019)
Post: RE: Scavenger Hunt (June 2019)
| I was playing for a bit with this, but I'm pretty busy working on a few projects, so this hit the backburner. |
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Halfwit |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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14-06-2019, 01:28 AM |
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Thread: ROCK64 is amazing
Post: RE: ROCK64 is amazing
| I just got an rpi3 due to hardware support on plan9, but they have arm64 now... maybe this will be my next upgrade! |
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Halfwit |
Other Embedded Platforms and Hardware Hacking
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10,031 |
09-06-2019, 09:30 PM |
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Thread: Raspberry Pi <3
Post: RE: Raspberry Pi <3
| I use a pi as a thin client at a station I use to write documentation and do research/drawing. It's powerful enough, really. I'm actually waiting for an Rpi3b+ to come in, and I'll be able to PXE boot... |
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Halfwit |
Other Embedded Platforms and Hardware Hacking
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60,095 |
03-06-2019, 11:44 PM |
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Thread: Simple encryption software
Post: RE: Simple encryption software
| Yeah I'd like that, I'll work on that over a few days' time here. |
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Halfwit |
Security & Cryptography
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01-06-2019, 01:02 PM |
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Thread: Simple encryption software
Post: RE: Simple encryption software
| The factotum and secstore pair isn't without it's imperfections. Mostly due to age of it, the paranoia of the crypto isn't quite where you'd want it to be; though 9front (A plan9 fork) has done work o... |
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Halfwit |
Security & Cryptography
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23,767 |
01-06-2019, 01:00 PM |
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Thread: Simple encryption software
Post: RE: Simple encryption software
| Definitely! I use it frequently, both on plan9 proper and via plan9port on Unix; it's quite nice, and when it's integrated well into other things it's near perfect. (The secret store could be handled ... |
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Halfwit |
Security & Cryptography
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31 |
23,767 |
01-06-2019, 03:37 AM |
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Thread: Simple encryption software
Post: RE: Simple encryption software
| Oh right! "DO NOT store secrets in memory" --> this method uses an rpc through a tightly namespaced socket (well, it's plan9 so it's just a file read/write) from the factotum to the client program,... |
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Halfwit |
Security & Cryptography
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23,767 |
31-05-2019, 06:59 PM |
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Thread: Simple encryption software
Post: RE: Simple encryption software
| With the `secstore` on plan9, you lock files into a vault of sorts. It works in tandem with the `factotum` agent, which handles all authorization on behalf of the user, and secstore. You can't directl... |
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Halfwit |
Security & Cryptography
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23,767 |
31-05-2019, 06:54 PM |
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Thread: Key And Trust Store on Unix-like OS
Post: RE: Key And Trust Store on Unix-like OS
| Hey, I would like to throw secstore and factotum in the mix from plan9port. Secstore is a secret store, and factotum is an agent to act on behalf of authorized process (like ssh-agent). It isn't well ... |
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Halfwit |
Security & Cryptography
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31-05-2019, 05:04 PM |
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Thread: Unix Ricing
Post: RE: Unix Ricing
| I've never heard the edit of this yet, wow this turned out great! |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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27,992 |
31-05-2019, 04:56 PM |
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Thread: Brainstorm About Scientifically Proven Digital Attention Helpers
Post: RE: Brainstorm About Scientifically Proven Digital...
| I can attest to at least perceived effect of a good majority of those points. Though, I am sort of inclined to tune my colorscheme to change away from blue-based at night having read this again. |
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Halfwit |
Off topic
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14,075 |
29-03-2018, 03:40 PM |
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Thread: Workplace benefits
Post: RE: Workplace benefits
| xero, that sounds wonderful. |
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Halfwit |
Off topic
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14,474 |
12-04-2017, 01:02 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Default Theme
Post: RE: Nixers Default Theme
| I like the blank and night mode. It's awesome on my phone |
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Halfwit |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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34,607 |
28-03-2017, 01:28 PM |
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Thread: Ahoy!
Post: RE: Ahoy!
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Halfwit |
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7,043 |
15-03-2017, 03:12 PM |
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Thread: Less Ties With A Machine
Post: RE: Less Ties With A Machine
| I came up with a solution I'm going to try for this.
Basically, i'm going to set up a server on my desktop, serving up many things - one of which is a PXE server
I'll then have my main work machines,... |
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Halfwit |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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29,445 |
02-03-2017, 03:45 AM |
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Thread: The reliability of cat-v.org
Post: RE: The reliability of cat-v.org
| It's been pretty rock solid for me, but you could always venture on to #cat-v on freenode to investigate whether this was an anomoly. |
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Halfwit |
Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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5 |
6,759 |
27-02-2017, 03:03 PM |
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Thread: messaging app
Post: RE: messaging app
| I just use a signal-like app called Silence |
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Halfwit |
Android & Iphone
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39,777 |
27-02-2017, 01:08 PM |
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Thread: Your personal (programming) hero
Post: RE: Your personal (programming) hero
| I'm a huge fan of Brian Kernighan. From Awk, to his ability to write amazingly good books he's always been someone I look to. |
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Halfwit |
Old school stuff
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24-02-2017, 08:51 PM |
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Thread: Hello everyone I guess ?
Post: RE: Hello everyone I guess ?
| Lol jkl. Setting the great impressions, right off the bat. Welcome MssRobot! |
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Halfwit |
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19-02-2017, 02:01 PM |