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  Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
(11-09-2023, 05:38 AM)Dworin Wrote: It's installed by default and I'm too lazy to change it. No prob, just wait for the next shellshock bug so someone can do it for you remotely ;)
 z3bra BSD 114 62,828 12-09-2023, 12:49 PM
  Thread: Help needed to build a lookup tables
Post: RE: Help needed to build a lookup tables
Alright, that was quick ! We crushed through the 3Gib (and beyond!) in barely 3 days. Thanks to those who sent me hashes, you're legends!
 z3bra Security & Cryptography 2 455 18-08-2023, 09:18 AM
  Thread: Help needed to build a lookup tables
Post: Help needed to build a lookup tables
Hey everyone, I need an Argon2id hash lookup table for a project I'm working on. The thing is, I need A LOT of them (the final final must be around 2/3Gib). I did the math, that's ~20,000,000 hashes....
 z3bra Security & Cryptography 2 455 14-08-2023, 07:45 PM
  Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
(29-10-2022, 11:07 PM)ckester Wrote: Just a heads-up: The gopher proxy on vulpes.one hasn't been working lately, so any http links to gopherholes that use it will be broken. The g.nixers gopher se...
 z3bra Community & Forums Related Discussions 47 17,591 03-11-2022, 07:02 AM
  Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
I did an experiment with a pass-like password manager, to get around the filenames issues : Basically add an entry named "index", containing all your entries names. Then, using a wrapper, hash the pa...
 z3bra Security & Cryptography 61 45,183 13-10-2022, 07:27 PM
  Thread: wmutils tricks and tips
Post: RE: wmutils tricks and tips
Workspaces can be reduced to a list on windows to show at a given time. Say you start on ws#0. When you "switch" to ws#2, you save the list of currently visible windows, hide them, then get the list o...
 z3bra Desktop Customization & Workflow 27 20,372 09-02-2022, 07:22 AM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
(17-12-2021, 03:49 PM)venam Wrote: I'm wondering if this isn't too much information disclosure though, because the mac address can inform you about the manufacturer. This is a legitimate concern, an...
 z3bra Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 159,579 20-12-2021, 08:34 AM
  Thread: wmutils tricks and tips
Post: RE: wmutils tricks and tips
This is not possible to do, while maintaining the way xmmv works right now. The behavior you expect involves that xmmv runs as a background process, while grabbing the shortcut Mod4+click. By doing so...
 z3bra Desktop Customization & Workflow 27 20,372 14-12-2021, 01:59 PM
  Thread: Where is what
Post: RE: Where is what
I don't know which shell you're using, but you can do the same by prefixing the command with \ in most shells (even dash(1)): Code:% alias ls='ls -l' % ls code data tmp % \ls code data tmp
 z3bra Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 11 7,724 29-11-2021, 07:50 PM
  Thread: rm -i
Post: RE: rm -i
As said above, you can simply "rm -rf directory" as it will expand to "rm -i -rf directory" and -f takes precedence over -i.
 z3bra BSD 8 6,312 21-11-2021, 03:55 PM
  Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
Should be fixed now. I inadvertently pushed the default index.gph of the server's project, which took precedence over the correct one. Sorry about that and happy gophering !
 z3bra Community & Forums Related Discussions 47 17,591 19-11-2021, 03:34 AM
  Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/co...-edit.html Keep it up ! [Image: https://0x0.st/-Rpf.png]
 z3bra Community & Forums Related Discussions 91 27,846 16-11-2021, 07:27 AM
  Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
It's just that the server wasn't registered to start on boot. This should be fixed now.
 z3bra Community & Forums Related Discussions 47 17,591 04-11-2021, 06:22 AM
  Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
It was indeed, the gopher daemon didn't start after the reboot. Not sure why thouhg… Thanks for the notice, it should be back up now !
 z3bra Community & Forums Related Discussions 47 17,591 03-11-2021, 06:02 AM
  Thread: The Gemini protocol
Post: RE: The Gemini protocol
@freem, dude you're overreacting a bit there. You seem to take it personally at this point 😂 I used to think just like you, specifically about the crypto part. However, I've been digging through crypt...
 z3bra The WWW 17 10,513 25-10-2021, 10:58 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
I've been working on a Go based file sharing system (posing as an HTTP server). Result is here: partage. I wanted a self-hosted solution for my family to share big files (eg. pictures, videos, …). In...
 z3bra Programming On Unix 413 246,688 25-10-2021, 06:36 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(22-10-2021, 03:46 PM)humky Wrote: Here is regex, any critique is welcomed: Code:grep -aEo "(((http|https|git|gopher|gemini|ftp)://|www\\.)[a-zA-Z0-9._-]*[:]?[a-zA-Z0-9./@$&%?\#...
 z3bra Programming On Unix 413 246,688 25-10-2021, 06:29 AM
  Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
You guys should mount your download directory as TMPFS 😉 This way everything I download goes to ~/tmp and is wiped as I reboot. So when I download archives, I extract them right in ~/tmp, and only mov...
 z3bra Desktop Customization & Workflow 18 6,808 25-10-2021, 05:47 AM
  Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
Why the hell do you guys use rm(1) so much ?
 z3bra Desktop Customization & Workflow 18 6,808 20-10-2021, 02:39 PM
  Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs
(15-10-2021, 12:49 PM)freem Wrote: This tool (sorry z3bra) also seems to only support power of two units, not power of 10 ones (unit(1) might be able to do that, though, not sure). Haha no problem. ...
 z3bra Programming On Unix 31 31,085 17-10-2021, 07:54 AM
  Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
Holy cow that post was 1 year ago already ! Good retrospective, given that your top command is vim, I'd suggest aliasing it 😉 That's funny to see you use tree rather than ls. isn't it too verbose when...
 z3bra Desktop Customization & Workflow 18 6,808 15-10-2021, 02:26 AM
  Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine
Good idea ! I tried to start a similar thing in the past, but it never caught up… A few links: https://nixers.net/Thread-Nixers-magazine https://github.com/nixers-projects/magazine https://i.imgur....
 z3bra Community & Forums Related Discussions 15 5,102 12-10-2021, 12:13 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
I decided to make my email stack more robust, so I built a secondary mail server to queue up mails in the event that my primary server goes down. Turns out, it's super easy with opensmtp ! I did that ...
 z3bra Programming On Unix 413 246,688 01-10-2021, 02:11 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(30-09-2021, 04:36 AM)Ssynicil Wrote: I've been trying to increase my knowledge on computers and have began running linux (more specifically the Ubuntu distribution) through a virtual machine. Prett...
 z3bra Programming On Unix 413 246,688 01-10-2021, 02:07 PM
  Thread: window manager development thread
Post: RE: window manager development thread
(13-09-2021, 01:11 AM)seninha Wrote: But it is too slow to redraw the window at every mouse motion... There is another solution: only redraw every once in a while. Mouse motion events occur at a rea...
 z3bra Desktop Customization & Workflow 11 4,573 13-09-2021, 08:58 AM
  Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution
No idea, I didn't look it up in a while.
 z3bra GNU/Linux 16 5,589 10-09-2021, 03:31 AM
  Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution
404 ?? shows just fine to me. https://z3bra.org/pm or https://git.z3bra.org/pm (the website is a glorified version of the readme file). I also wish musl had better support !
 z3bra GNU/Linux 16 5,589 01-09-2021, 04:31 PM
  Thread: how do you know which tools you (really) use?
Post: RE: how do you know which tools you (really) use?
It's funny that you mention that your "mindmap" looks like a roadmap to create a new distro. In the process of making a distro myself (which I never accomplished btw), I wrote a package manager for my...
 z3bra Community & Forums Related Discussions 3 1,806 30-08-2021, 03:03 PM
  Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
So I finally managed to do everything I wanted, and get my very own configuration working. There are multiple key points, so I'll list them here: X.org session startup Ubuntu 21.04 ships with GDM3 a...
 z3bra GNU/Linux 13 3,994 30-08-2021, 01:15 PM
  Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution
Best reason to use Void is to have a fully working musl-based distro in no times, and easy to use. However, last time I tried (probably monthes/a year ago now), a 100% musl distro was painful in some ...
 z3bra GNU/Linux 16 5,589 30-08-2021, 11:19 AM
  Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
Ubuntu default's session is Xorg, but wayland is supported also. I didn't want to "hack" around the distro, that is, leave GDM running, change TTY and login+xinit. If I'm stuck with a distro, I might...
 z3bra GNU/Linux 13 3,994 30-08-2021, 06:51 AM
  Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
Window management mostly. And some application launchers that I use (xmenu, sxhkd, dmenu) for which I need the ability to start them when the session starts. In this regard, there are also a lot of th...
 z3bra GNU/Linux 13 3,994 22-08-2021, 01:34 PM
  Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
Because my usage of a linux distribution goes beyond typing stuff at a shell. The softwares I'm used to is different from what's shipped by default on Ubuntu.
 z3bra GNU/Linux 13 3,994 22-08-2021, 01:05 PM
  Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
Mmmmh, for me it's my toolbox, and I spend 7+ hours working with it. I just can't convince myself that gnome-shell is the solution to my problems. To "work" on this issue, I decided to install it ahe...
 z3bra GNU/Linux 13 3,994 08-08-2021, 07:27 AM
  Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
I wish I had the choice.
 z3bra GNU/Linux 13 3,994 06-08-2021, 04:48 PM
  Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: How do I Ubuntu ?
Hello folks, This thread will be a little awkward (for me at least!). Next monday, I'll have my work laptop reinstalled under stock Ubuntu 21.04, as per my company's policies. The thing is, I have n...
 z3bra GNU/Linux 13 3,994 06-08-2021, 12:36 PM
  Thread: Backing up and Deploying
Post: RE: Backing up and Deploying
Edit : Removed my whole description, because I'm stupid. I already described my setup last year, in this same thread. Like, 4 posts above… No need to spam redundant info here, sorry for the noise !
 z3bra Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 25 20,660 04-08-2021, 08:46 AM
  Thread: Launchers
Post: RE: Launchers
Mostly dmenu, bound to super+x. And I have my most used software launchable via a menu when I click the root window. Back when I ran wio on wayland, I liked that I could just fire up everything from ...
 z3bra GNU/Linux 28 16,926 20-07-2021, 03:03 AM
  Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Yup that's it ! Well done ;)
 z3bra Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 173 120,774 05-07-2021, 04:38 AM
  Thread: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
I wish I knew how to record the screen under wayland. Anyway, I don't have much to show off yet as I'm still figuring out how to make a usable wayland desktop. Looking forward to the full vid !
 z3bra Desktop Customization & Workflow 32 10,992 30-06-2021, 10:21 AM
  Thread: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
Post: RE: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
I use a modified version of the "new azerty" layout (french), created by the AFNOR committee. It's fresh and new, so don't have much adopters (eg, no manufacturer print it yet), but it makes much more...
 z3bra Off topic 43 31,167 24-06-2021, 05:05 AM
  Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs
(21-06-2021, 06:23 AM)phillbush Wrote: Instead of a -h option for different programs to produce human readable values, use a utility, such as z3bra's human, that converts values from its input into ...
 z3bra Programming On Unix 31 31,085 24-06-2021, 04:59 AM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Review and next book #3
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Review and next book #3
The Wayland book is IMO the best starting point at understanding how Wayland works. It explains all the concepts of wayland from the ground up, which is extremely valuable. My main problem with it is ...
 z3bra Community & Forums Related Discussions 5 2,409 30-04-2021, 04:49 AM
  Thread: Alternative formats
Post: RE: Alternative formats
It does, but is much more complex than cat(1). If videos where just streams of data, you could simply concatenate them by appending one after the other.
 z3bra Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software 14 5,170 09-04-2021, 04:35 AM
  Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
The only argument I have against this technique is password reuse. I do agree that having a long plaintext password is secure enough (eg, a quote from a movie, book extract, …). For it to remain secu...
 z3bra Security & Cryptography 61 45,183 18-03-2021, 10:30 AM