nixers

According to a number of GitHub tickets, the gopass developers plan to have full repository encryption with the “age” backend that might eventually replace GPG. Once implemented, I may switch over.

jkl

Security & Cryptography

38,750

09-11-2022, 09:20 AM

Thread: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code
Post: RE: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing yo...

It will also be an interesting case considering the future of "Fair Use" which doesn't exist in wide parts of the world, but Microsoft GitHub's lawyers claim that (e.g.) my code on GitHub is freely ac...

jkl

Off topic

1,336

03-11-2022, 07:01 PM

Thread: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code
Post: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your c...

Good news, everyone: Quote:Today, we’ve filed a class-action lawsuit in US federal court in San Francisco, CA on behalf of a proposed class of possibly millions of GitHub users. (...) By train...

jkl

Off topic

1,336

03-11-2022, 06:10 PM

Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management

(07-10-2022, 10:52 AM)venam Wrote: This one: https://www.gopass.pw/ ? That one. :)

jkl

Security & Cryptography

38,750

11-10-2022, 01:55 PM

Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management

I gave gopass a(nother) serious try this week, but the fact that its files are (necessarily?) named like the passwords (often = like the websites) is a red flag for me. If anyone gains access to my ha...

jkl

Security & Cryptography

38,750

06-10-2022, 12:55 PM

Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?

(02-10-2022, 01:54 PM)venam Wrote: That's a lot of languages. Not really, unless you’re from the US where even a second language is a lot. :-p

jkl

Off topic

54,036

06-10-2022, 12:50 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

I use the rc with readline port, not the p9p version. Maybe it works differently. (I sometimes use p9p because it has Sam and Acme, but most of the systems on which I want to use rc don’t even have a ...

jkl

BSD

52,501

16-09-2022, 11:57 AM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

(03-06-2020, 01:44 AM)jkl Wrote: rc is quite awesome on Plan 9 because all of its history commands are meant to be used with mouse chords. But I couldn’t even modify its prompt easily. FWIW, I found...

jkl

BSD

52,501

12-09-2022, 12:34 PM

Thread: CB UNIX: DevOps before it was cool
Post: RE: CB UNIX: DevOps before it was cool

After all, obscure computer utilities are an interesting hobby. ;-) Thank you.

jkl

Old school stuff

1,926

12-09-2022, 12:05 PM

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

Well, at least I hope that someone finds a use for it. :) edit: Redbean - https://redbean.dev - is a similar project indeed. It does not seem to support asset conversion (like zb does), but it is a c...

jkl

Programming On Unix

402

212,869

30-04-2022, 12:06 AM

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

Ted Unangst wrote that creating a self-contained website in Go does not work well because Go has broken support for zip files. I still found the concept interesting, so I wrote one in Rust instead. h...

jkl

Programming On Unix

402

212,869

29-04-2022, 12:27 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

(15-11-2020, 09:40 PM)mattrose Wrote: I am desparately trying to get used to zsh after macos stopped shipping recent versions of bash. macOS also has the tcsh. :)

jkl

BSD

52,501

27-04-2022, 05:02 AM

Thread: Syntax help error
Post: Syntax help error

i noticed that the nixers syntax help is incorrect: Code:[size=3]This text is size 3[/size] This should, according to the help, produce quite readable text. It does not: "3" seems to be "3pt".

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

2,331

11-03-2022, 10:39 AM

Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands

Just in case anyone wonders, this command works on macOS (with the tcsh): Code:% history | awk '{print substr($0,index($0,$3))}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10 (I won't post my ...

jkl

Desktop Customization & Workflow

4,801

05-03-2022, 10:27 AM

Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor

I’m perfectly fine with the built-in tools. I noticed that the additional overhead is just not worth it.

jkl

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

3,988

21-02-2022, 11:31 AM

Thread: Mechanical Love
Post: RE: Mechanical Love

My Unicomp PC122 had met my living room’s floor. The “4/$” key cap broke in multiple parts. I could get a replacement key cap from eBay. For more shipping cost than actual cost. (Living in Germany...

jkl

Hardware talk

44,239

21-12-2021, 03:28 PM

Thread: Retrospective 2021
Post: RE: Retrospective 2021

I won’t speculate about my 2021 before I arrived in 2022.

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

2,570

19-12-2021, 10:21 PM

Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]

I have become famous (as a member of the city council), still working on becoming rich though. My code projects are mostly dormant these days. I should change that.

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

4,228

03-12-2021, 08:12 AM

Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution

I stopped using Linux for FreeBSD and I have since stopped using FreeBSD in favor of OmniOS and OpenBSD. (Talking about servers, exclusively. My desktops are a mess.) The two things which matter to m...

jkl

GNU/Linux

4,381

17-11-2021, 12:04 AM

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

I usually recommend just using Gophernicus behind inetd. Never had a problem with reliability here.

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

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04-11-2021, 12:41 AM

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

I uninstalled my last own FreeBSD server (I still am in charge of one for a local community who wants to do it themselves one day) last night, replacing it with another OpenBSD server. There are too m...

jkl

Programming On Unix

402

212,869

26-10-2021, 12:15 PM

Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs

Heh: Quote:The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn’t have a mouse and therefore you’ve got all these commands. Bill Joy, 1984. https://web.archive.org/web/200607010830...joy84.html

jkl

Programming On Unix

27,240

12-10-2021, 05:59 AM

Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution

It works now. When I clicked it, it went to /p.

jkl

GNU/Linux

4,381

02-09-2021, 04:01 PM

Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution

^ pm is 404 here. (I wish musl was supported by more applications.)

jkl

GNU/Linux

4,381

01-09-2021, 03:00 PM

Thread: how do you know which tools you (really) use?
Post: RE: how do you know which tools you (really) use?

I like to play with tools which I don’t know much yet, just for the knowledge itself. So I guess that I don’t use most of my tools. But I do notice missing POSIX tools on servers, as I usually try the...

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

1,407

27-08-2021, 07:27 PM

Thread: best solution for virtualizing multiple operating systems?
Post: RE: best solution for virtualizing multiple operat...

Doing Docker, but wrong: https://antranigv.am/weblog_en/posts/2021-08-13-13-37/

jkl

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

6,761

23-08-2021, 04:06 PM

Thread: display managers
Post: RE: display managers

That’s a nice one!

jkl

Desktop Customization & Workflow

5,348

23-08-2021, 06:03 AM

Thread: 2038 - The Borking of Unix Systems Across the World
Post: RE: 2038 - The Borking of Unix Systems Across the ...

Don't worry - we'll be doomed two years before 2038. https://blog.koehntopp.info/2021/08/18/epochalypse.html

jkl

BSD

7,702

19-08-2021, 09:06 PM

Thread: Less Ties With A Machine
Post: RE: Less Ties With A Machine

(19-08-2021, 07:41 AM)_-_Specter_-_ Wrote: I'd recommend playing around with the (unstable) Flakes feature, which can be used to set up a new machine running NixOS with all of your dotfiles on it a...

jkl

Desktop Customization & Workflow

22,159

19-08-2021, 12:17 PM

Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?

Quote: How do I Ubuntu ? Please don’t.

jkl

GNU/Linux

2,929

06-08-2021, 02:40 PM

Thread: Backing up and Deploying
Post: RE: Backing up and Deploying

Currently I’m cross-storing .tbz2 backups between my servers. I hope that not too many of them will stop working at the same time.

jkl

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

17,762

02-08-2021, 11:12 AM

Thread: Launchers
Post: RE: Launchers

I still use the terminal and/or - I have become lazier - the desktop‘s default launcher, depending on the OS and the application.

jkl

GNU/Linux

14,408

19-07-2021, 10:38 AM

Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Programming
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Pr...

I wonder what C standards will be named in 60 years from now. C11 is - in theory - before C89.

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

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03-07-2021, 12:14 PM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

It probably would; however, although I find GNU Emacs amazing for serious programming, its export functionalities are annoying to use in my opinion. A matter of taste, I guess?

jkl

Desktop Customization & Workflow

163

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30-06-2021, 06:31 PM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

As all WordPress (yes, I still use that) Markdown plugins I tried (which is exactly one) are quirky and org2blog is too complex for short one-sentence blog entries (I’d need to spend more time on usin...

jkl

Desktop Customization & Workflow

163

105,746

30-06-2021, 10:30 AM

Thread: CB UNIX: DevOps before it was cool
Post: CB UNIX: DevOps before it was cool

At least Columbus UNIX - an internally used UNIX at Bell Labs - seems to have come with the allofc command which I could not find in any other system. Quote:The allofc utility program was created to ...

jkl

Old school stuff

1,926

29-06-2021, 10:50 PM

Thread: Command-line interface on GUI programs.
Post: RE: Command-line interface on GUI programs.

In my opinion, a GUI should never be more than a number of knobs to control the underlying CLI application - or library, of course. Not only would that allow severe upgrades of the underlying code wit...

jkl

Programming On Unix

1,387

25-06-2021, 01:08 PM

Thread: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]

I must admit that I won't find a chance to use the week as planned - I'll need to use this machine for work and Cmd+Tab'ing from/to the nixers environment with all of 2021's glory would feel like chea...

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

4,855

24-06-2021, 07:32 PM

Thread: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
Post: RE: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"

(17-06-2021, 01:56 AM)venam Wrote: What's your take on those, do you recommend any of the tools listed, do you have one installed? I use bat (aliased from cat - technically, bat is a less replacemen...

jkl

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

21,811

17-06-2021, 07:06 AM

Thread: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
Post: RE: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?

(18-12-2018, 04:02 PM)jkl Wrote: I find non-QWERTZ layouts weird, to be honest. Update: I still use QWERTZ exclusively, but, depending on the keyboard, I started to use layers; e.g. my F XT has both...

jkl

Off topic

27,220

14-06-2021, 05:19 AM

Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?

Good quote above! Also, my attempts at adding Japanese have not come any further during the pandemic - I even unlearned Greek!

jkl

Off topic

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07-06-2021, 12:28 PM

Thread: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]

In theory, the "week of the vintage software stack" sounds exactly like something I should participate in - have we agreed on a definition of "vintage" yet?

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

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