nixers

247,167

29-09-2023, 09:13 PM

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

AppleTalk's auto-configuration features mostly live on in Bonjour, (GUI) scripting is preferably done with the Automator and Apple's own AppleScript (that resembles Smalltalk): https://en.wikipedia.or...

BSD

62,845

18-09-2023, 04:30 PM

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

I know that this might sound heretic, especially on Nixers, but the best possible way to do actual work in a non-emergency situation is not the CLI. This is not related to the inadequacy of the surrou...

BSD

62,845

13-09-2023, 06:18 PM

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

Graphically? Do you need more pictures?

BSD

62,845

13-09-2023, 11:35 AM

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

Ah. Why do you use boring software? ;-)

BSD

62,845

09-09-2023, 01:52 PM

Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?

Current state: Input for sans-serif, Hack for monospace, Garamond for serif.

Desktop Customization & Workflow

109

85,746

04-09-2023, 02:49 PM

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

bash is not a standard.

BSD

62,845

04-09-2023, 02:46 PM

Thread: XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc
Post: RE: XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc

(02-09-2023, 01:33 PM)adi Wrote: I'm in the process of renaming ~/Downloads to ~/dl Why?

Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related

443

02-09-2023, 04:03 PM

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

As using the WordPress editor is a horrible thing to do, I am currently working on my first parser/lexer project, a WordStar (WordTsar) to Markdown converter. Goal: to be able to use a good word proce...

247,167

21-08-2023, 05:05 AM

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

In case any of you are very bored: a few hours ago I came across MIT TECO EMACS version 170. Over 7 megabytes in size!

Old school stuff

6,742

17-08-2023, 10:41 PM

Thread: RIP, Bram Moolenaar
Post: RE: RIP, Bram Moolenaar

That solves the Emacs vs. Vim war. All of Emacs's "founders" are still alive. ;-) Seriously though, Vim will probably survive. chrisbra and/or k-takata are most likely to just take over leadership du...

590

08-08-2023, 05:56 PM

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

I wrote a license: https://paste2.org/WktV4zaN Modified ISC, inspired by this: https://sy.nthia.dev/objects/85eddcf7-c7...d4067d9ad4 Quote:software license where you're not allowed to attribute the ...

247,167

03-08-2023, 10:25 PM

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

You don't need to use the same interactive shell as you use for your scripts. Never had, never will.

BSD

62,845

12-06-2023, 05:30 PM

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

As I (personally) use Fahrenheit, but Germany is mostly a Celsius country, I rewrote my Celsius<->Fahrenheit converter for PowerShell in a portable language: COBOL. https://code.rosaelefanten.o...

247,167

12-06-2023, 11:44 AM

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

rc seems to get rid of autotools and no longer has the history only as an optional feature. Good. https://github.com/rakitzis/rc/commit/0e...3110fdec57

BSD

62,845

11-06-2023, 08:57 PM

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

At work, I have the recurring task of keeping an inventory of all software installed on company computers. I’m writing a desktop application to generate CSVs for that, so everyone stops sending me scr...

247,167

24-05-2023, 12:45 PM

Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction

Welcome, Kohaku!

3,660

16-05-2023, 08:00 AM

Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction

Ahoy nrmc, life still exists.

3,660

05-05-2023, 09:34 PM

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

9term is a rather good idea which I did not have myself, thank you. :) rlwrap would probably work too. I'll see what I can do with it... edit: Quote:rlwrap: warning: rlwrap appears to do nothing for...

BSD

62,845

07-04-2023, 07:57 PM

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

Sadly, on macOS's Homebrew, rc comes without readline. I don't really want to install pkgsrc on this computer just to have that. I wonder if there is an easy fix.

BSD

62,845

27-03-2023, 06:35 PM

Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords

Quite close. “Serverless” roughly equals “having an uncertain number of unknown servers”.

3,610

11-01-2023, 11:14 AM

Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords

(29-12-2022, 01:21 AM)pizzaroll1 Wrote: A real failure of terminology. Have you heard the word “serverless” yet?

3,610

29-12-2022, 05:54 AM

Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords

“CI”/“CD” is an empty phrase that is usually used to tell people that your code is compiled on a server instead of your computer.

3,610

15-11-2022, 03:49 AM

Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management

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.

Security & Cryptography

45,194

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...

2,780

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...

2,780

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. :)

Security & Cryptography

45,194

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...

Security & Cryptography

45,194

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

62,534

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 ...

BSD

62,845

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...

BSD

62,845

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.

Old school stuff

2,666

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...

247,167

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...

247,167

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. :)

BSD

62,845

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".

3,701

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 ...

Desktop Customization & Workflow

6,820

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.

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

6,390

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...

Hardware talk

49,825

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.

3,879

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.

5,358

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...

GNU/Linux

5,589

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.

17,628

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...

247,167

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