JayGuerette

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by JayGuerette 6mo ago
I use ProxyCommand in edge-case devices where key auth is not an option and the password is not controlled by me. ProxyCommand points to a script the retrieves the password from the vault, puts it on the clipboard for pasting, reminds me vi
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by JayGuerette 7mo ago
A good portion of the world and Lenna herself have asked that image be retired.
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by JayGuerette 9mo ago
Also -X or --no-init " ... desirable if the deinitialization string does something unnecessary, like clearing the screen." I prefer to not clear the screen. I usually want to continue to refer to something or even copy/pas
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by JayGuerette 9mo ago
I'm confused. Every TV is a dumb TV if you don't give it your Wifi password.
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by JayGuerette 1y ago
About 8y ago we were looking at a used Mini Cooper. Car Fax reported no major problems. I went to the bank to get a loan. They reported 2 minor and 1 major accident that the car had been in that were NOT reported by Car Fax. Once we knew wh
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by JayGuerette 2y ago
Any TV that doesn't have your WiFi password is a dumb TV. No TV I've owned to dated has required network connectivity to work.
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by JayGuerette 2y ago
My pet peeve, grep unnecessarily followed by awk/sed. Original: df -h | grep "$partition" | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/%//' Efficient: df -h | grep -Po "\d+(?=%\s+$partition)"
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by JayGuerette 2y ago
"I'm not sure why it is that Windows 3.1 is the go-to when people name a Windows OS of this era." It's because business was the primary market for PCs and Windows 3.11 added a network stack and changed everything. Networ
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by JayGuerette 4y ago
Apple isn't creating neural hashes for CSAM detection, as they'd have to be in possession of source material to create them, so they're getting them from someone else. Since it's indistinguishable in it's hash form,
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by JayGuerette 4y ago
I've used XFCE seemingly forever, at least 20 years. In recent years I've grown to dislike Thunar and a variety of other things that were mostly GTK issues and some XFCE issues. I was really frustrated with clicking on the system
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by JayGuerette 4y ago
"... a terminate-and-stay-resident program (or TSR) was a computer program running under DOS that uses a system call to return control to DOS as though it has finished, but remains in computer memory so it can be reactivated later. Nee
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by JayGuerette 4y ago
I've used pushover for years as well. I wish they would charge me $5/y instead of a $5/lifetime. I've asked them to do that. I want this service to last. I set up Tasker on my phone such that when a specific low-priori
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by JayGuerette 4y ago
pv is a great tool. One of it's lesser known features is throttling; transfer a file without dominating your bandwidth: pv -L 200K < bigfile.iso | ssh somehost 'cat > bigfile.iso' Complete with a progress bar, speed, an
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by JayGuerette 4y ago
1. Disguise payload as space junk 2. Design to "fall" on populated area 3. Say "oops" 4. ...
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by JayGuerette 4y ago
For static content and cgi-bin, busybox is much faster.
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by JayGuerette 4y ago
Thanks!
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by JayGuerette 4y ago
My version, better alignment, grayscaled icons, eliminates duplicates on navigation: // ==UserScript== // @name hacker news favicons // @match https://news.ycombinator.com/*
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by JayGuerette 5y ago
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian Kernighan
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by JayGuerette 5y ago
His claimed inspiration, Hillel Wayne’s post “Why Python is my Favorite Language”, is a piece of fluff that basically says "I only like the things I already know". I was so uninspired , I couldn't read further.
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by JayGuerette 5y ago
Looks like a variation of lanterne: https://www.alamy.com/lanterne-pasta-image2466309.html
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by JayGuerette 6y ago
37% of programmers are using Retina displays? Since the OSX market share is ~8.5%, your numbers are way off.