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  Thread: Cyber hunt
Post: RE: Cyber hunt
That's epic! I've been waiting for your scavenger/cyber hunt for a while.
 venam Off topic 4 850 18-10-2023, 08:26 AM
  Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
(16-09-2023, 09:56 PM)ckester Wrote: The biggest advantage of CLIs is probably their scriptability. Then why not both, and have something like what is proposed in these two thread here and here. Scr...
 venam BSD 114 67,966 17-09-2023, 01:32 AM
  Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
(04-09-2023, 02:01 PM)80x24 Wrote: Here's the build plan:What's a "build plan", it's the first time I encounter this when it comes to fonts. Is it something specifically related to iosevka or it's a...
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 109 90,801 05-09-2023, 03:49 AM
  Thread: What do your usernames mean?
Post: RE: What do your usernames mean?
(04-09-2023, 01:53 PM)80x24 Wrote: 80x24 doesn't need explaining :)Hence the question that follows: Do you use these values as your terminal and text editor setup?
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 72 50,677 05-09-2023, 01:51 AM
  Thread: XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc
Post: RE: XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc
It's always a good idea for a tidier home to override the XDG directories. It's easier to do with the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file or whatever is the default $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but then it'll be a...
 venam Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related 4 1,167 02-09-2023, 09:39 AM
  Thread: What's everyone's daily driver device?
Post: RE: What's everyone's daily driver device?
I've also been on the same machine for quite a while, and it serves me well. An Acer Aspire V5-551 A8, 6GB ram. (09-08-2023, 12:59 PM)movq Wrote: 32 GB of RAM was a lot backI still think it's quite...
 venam Hardware talk 7 1,618 10-08-2023, 04:23 AM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
Pretty minimal! Can you share more info on the WM and what you're running?
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,734 1,953,967 03-06-2023, 11:15 AM
  Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords
Buzzwords are not there for you, they're there to appease marketing teams and confuse competing companies making them feel like they're not ahead of the curve. I've always wondered whether these tren...
 venam Off topic 11 4,432 15-11-2022, 05:29 AM
  Thread: Historical GUI Websites
Post: RE: Historical GUI Websites
that's a really nice find! I especially like the ads and the tutorials, they're perfect to give you a general feeling of the OS or software and how it was perceived at the time. I'd be curious of what...
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 4 4,397 11-10-2022, 03:42 AM
  Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
(06-10-2022, 12:55 PM)jkl Wrote: gopassThis one: https://www.gopass.pw/ ? (06-10-2022, 12:55 PM)jkl Wrote: files are (necessarily?) named like the passwords (often = like the websites) is a red f...
 venam Security & Cryptography 61 47,827 07-10-2022, 10:52 AM
  Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?
(02-10-2022, 12:51 PM)kuba Wrote: My first post here.Hello there, welcome! That's a lot of languages.
 venam Off topic 97 66,256 02-10-2022, 01:54 PM
  Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
Hello there! Welcome to nixers. (04-09-2022, 01:15 PM)ckester Wrote: Welcome, and thanks for keeping those old laptops out of the landfill!If I remember there was a thread about the oldest hardware...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 7 4,208 04-09-2022, 02:50 PM
  Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living
This sounds like an amazing retirement plan.
 venam Off topic 6 5,692 25-08-2022, 01:56 AM
  Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
(23-08-2022, 04:12 AM)ckester Wrote: For example, is the license or programming language an important criterion for you?The license for me is a bonus factor, as long as I can read the code and that ...
 venam BSD 114 78,310 23-08-2022, 05:11 AM
  Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
(02-05-2022, 09:52 AM)pfr Wrote: Dont think this ones been done yet..? I know this one, but I'll just give a hint because I was coincidentally adding a link to their website for next week's newslett...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 91 30,493 02-05-2022, 10:01 AM
  Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
https://512kb.club/ [Image: https://i.imgur.com/cfdLwy0.png]
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 91 30,493 26-04-2022, 07:02 AM
  Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine
(23-04-2022, 06:36 AM)josuah Wrote: A two-column layout was just added to The Gopher Times (troff-based): https://gopherproxy.net/bitreich.org/9/t...-opus4.pdf I had a blast reading this! These are ...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 15 5,717 23-04-2022, 06:56 AM
  Thread: Yet another self-introduction
Post: RE: Yet another self-introduction
Welcome to nixers! That's a lot of machines, are you using them all, on a home network?
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 5 4,791 20-04-2022, 09:20 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(17-04-2022, 05:26 PM)adi Wrote: the web site for my static site generator mkws The name is really well-chosen. However, I got a tip, you're sharing the binaries in a tgz file directly but I can't f...
 venam Programming On Unix 414 277,093 18-04-2022, 02:26 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(17-04-2022, 12:28 PM)akoizumi Wrote: [2]: https://git.patchysicp.xyz/novaburst/ayu That's very nice and straight forward, it seems many persons are building their own password management tools. It ...
 venam Programming On Unix 414 277,093 17-04-2022, 01:03 PM
  Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
(25-03-2022, 09:57 AM)VMS Wrote: I'm interested in a newsletter; didn't even know this was a thing, as I'm rather new here. Is there an atom feed available?There's an RSS feed: https://newsletter.ni...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 41 31,840 25-03-2022, 10:28 AM
  Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
After a long while, I'm announcing that we're going to be restarting the newsletter. Feel free to send contributions and propose ideas if you have any. It would also be nice to merge the concept with ...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 41 31,840 25-03-2022, 05:14 AM
  Thread: Syntax help error
Post: RE: Syntax help error
You're right, the size is in pt and the help is misleading on what the actual output will look like. XX-Large It's better to use text instead of numbers, such as: Code:[size=xx-small]XX-Small[/size]...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 1 4,088 11-03-2022, 12:17 PM
  Thread: Recommended UPS?
Post: RE: Recommended UPS?
Before installing solar panels I used any random UPS that had been thrown away. I'd modify it to remove the noise it makes when it's on power supply, connect the internal circuit to a 150amp truck bat...
 venam Hardware talk 1 4,788 08-03-2022, 12:00 PM
  Thread: Share your file-opener script
Post: RE: Share your file-opener script
There's a discussion on lobsters related to this. An interesting custom solution is this one from vermaden.
 venam Programming On Unix 5 5,195 07-03-2022, 02:47 AM
  Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
(28-02-2022, 11:48 AM)DECnet Wrote: I like to have per-session historyWhat's your process to search in the history file? Do you purge old files also? For many the histfile is a huge source of knowl...
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 18 7,413 01-03-2022, 06:04 AM
  Thread: Audio and music on Unix
Post: RE: Audio and music on Unix
What I personally use is still a combination of mpd and client interfaces such as ncmpcpp. I like the whole architecture of having a server manage the music library and be able to interact with it fro...
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 33 22,978 23-02-2022, 02:45 AM
  Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor
On that note, I also forgot I have a script for battery status that pops up at certain intervals. It's running as a systemd user timer (~/.config/systemd/user/timers.target.wants). The timer unit Code...
 venam Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 13 7,140 13-02-2022, 05:49 AM
  Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: What do you use as a system monitor
Hello nixers, Here's a simple thread: What do you use as a system monitor and do you have recommendations. I normally go for htop and top but I'm looking to broaden my horizons. Be sure to mention t...
 venam Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 13 7,140 10-02-2022, 01:22 PM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
Alright, last two chapters of the book! # Chapter 13 This chapter is about building a file server using P9 proto. It starts by describing disk devices, devices defined as `/dev/sd*`. The driver ca...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 9,690 08-01-2022, 04:27 AM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
Book club time, happy new year. # Chapter 11 A chapter about threads and channels. Threads are independent of processes and so they have their own threadID. I think we call that user-level threads ...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 9,690 01-01-2022, 05:16 AM
  Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living
Let's kick this off! I work in a company that specializes in remotely configuring devices. This is mainly about telecom handsets/sims and routers. We have components that plug into the network nodes ...
 venam Off topic 6 5,692 23-12-2021, 07:14 AM
  Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: What Do You Do for a Living
Hello fellow nixers, What do you do for a living, or have done? A lot of members work in different fields, some not even in tech-related field. There's quite the diversity of fields. It's good to sha...
 venam Off topic 6 5,692 23-12-2021, 07:13 AM
  Thread: Retrospective 2021
Post: RE: Retrospective 2021
(19-12-2021, 03:45 PM)seninha Wrote: Weirdly, this small school project of mine got popular and there was a course using it.That's really cool, I like the serendipity of life. On the retrospective,...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 2 4,071 23-12-2021, 06:10 AM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
Let's resume the book club. # Chapter 9 Chapter 9 wasn't very exxeptional, most of it was about learning regex related stuff. there's a typo that hits hard in 9.4: Quote:There is another tool is us...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 9,690 18-12-2021, 12:14 PM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
Dear UNIX diary, Today I learned, because it's good to be humble, that IPv6 addresses can be built automatically from the mac address (something called EUI-64). I'm wondering if this isn't too much ...
 venam Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 166,993 17-12-2021, 03:49 PM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
(11-12-2021, 06:25 AM)seninha Wrote: I have been rewriting some of my C programs into higher-level languages. I think normally, in a perfect hypothetical scenario, people would go the opposite route...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 10,002 11-12-2021, 06:43 AM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
(06-12-2021, 06:09 PM)movq Wrote: Then I had a look at your repos and saw that you completed this super fast. What the heck, I feel dumb.Frankly, this has nothing to do with "smartness", most of the...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 10,002 07-12-2021, 02:44 AM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
(05-12-2021, 05:54 AM)movq Wrote: This really promotes “quick and dirty” solutions. Hmm.This could be said about all these interview-like programming challenges such as hackerrank/leetcode. They're ...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 10,002 05-12-2021, 06:11 AM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
Time for the book club review and discussion. ## Chapter 7 This chapter was captivating because it tackled aspects that I'm not used to. Here are some notes: - The environment variables are cached ...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 9,690 04-12-2021, 05:25 AM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderbord
I'm going to join the leaderboard this year. It's a fun way to hone my rusty algorithms skills. For those wondering, the leaderboard code above is still valid, so reuse it.
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 10,002 30-11-2021, 03:10 AM
  Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Quote:I've noticed that I can't frame myself as specialist in anything I'm still not a specialist in anything, and can't seem to get into any particular topic. Thus, I can't find a job position. (2...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 17 5,904 30-11-2021, 02:48 AM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
Time for the book club discussion. Chapter 5 and 6 were interesting because they started to give an overview of the decoupled, decentralized, architecture of Plan 9. They also emphasize the strong en...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 9,690 27-11-2021, 06:45 AM
  Thread: Where is what
Post: RE: Where is what
A recent blog post reminded me of this: https://www.madebygps.com/an-intro-to-fi...-in-linux/
 venam Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 11 8,244 23-11-2021, 01:45 PM
  Thread: rm -i
Post: RE: rm -i
When I want to override and alias, I prepend it with "command". So maybe you could try: `command rm -r`.
 venam BSD 8 6,882 21-11-2021, 08:18 AM