Linux-Fan

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by Linux-Fan 16d ago
> > a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else. > Isn't that pretty much impossible? You need a phone number for verification, which effectively ties it to that phone number. I just want to follow-up on this becaus
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by Linux-Fan 26d ago
I use the terminal for most things which are not web browsing hence for me it makes sense to prefer TUIs for "lightweight" GUI needs. I love how I have to configure font size and family only once in the terminal emulator and not
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by Linux-Fan 2mo ago
I was asking myself the same question and looked it up: < https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/t... > The most important differences seem to be: * `:` is a builtin vs. `true` is an u
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by Linux-Fan 3mo ago
Please continue to blog about the obvious stuff. It happens all of the time that I want to explain to someone what I think is an obvious concept and then I am sometimes surprised to find out that there are no good blogs where I could link t
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by Linux-Fan 4mo ago
I like the Lobsters stance on AI. Also posts are tagged hence you can decide for yourself if the topic may be interesting despite being touched by AI. I haven't found a way to join Lobsters yet hence for the meantime I keep posting h
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by Linux-Fan 4mo ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted, but I totally thought about that AT protocol first. Apparently, the OP refers to < https://atproto.com/ > per the FAQ at < https://docs.rocksky.app/faq-
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by Linux-Fan 5mo ago
On Github, there is a way to leave individual comments in the code and in addition give a review a summary. In addition to hitting the "approve" button, I typically spell it out explicitly in this summary: "Please check my co
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by Linux-Fan 5mo ago
Where I work I can and am still allowed to push to mainline directly, as are all other developers on the team. Some new colleagues started with PRs and since then it has been a slow move towards using PRs more and more (but still not mandat
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by Linux-Fan 6mo ago
`set -o vi` is quickly typed in anger...
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by Linux-Fan 6mo ago
Another way to make XML awesome (especially for config files and the like) is to completely avoid CDATA i.e. no <config><key>value</key><key2>value2</key2></config> but rather: <config k
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by Linux-Fan 6mo ago
I liked the content of the article enough to read it to the end, but I did have a hard time due to inflation with LLM-isms. Then again I am not a native so how would I know if this is good English? I can only tell that to me, it is hard to
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by Linux-Fan 7mo ago
After some search for programming languages which promise to reduce the number of bugs, I decided to give Ada (2012) a try. I like it better than C and C++ and the compiler is included in Debian in a reasonably recent version that it can co
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by Linux-Fan 7mo ago
> - Since maintainers do owe basic human politeness, and they know people will be interacting with them, maintainers do owe this culture some form of communication of their intentions. If they don't want to take any changes, put tha
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by Linux-Fan 7mo ago
My exposure and usage of “AI” has been very limited so far. Hence that is what I am and have been doing all the time: Read the text mostly irrespective of origin. I do note that recently, I wonder what was the point the author wanted to mak
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by Linux-Fan 7mo ago
This is a powerful technique that has helped me a lot in the past as well, especially for those projects where I rarely progressed on (mostly private stuff, the work topics are more streamlined). Nowdays in my private projects I often use a
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by Linux-Fan 8mo ago
UNIX provides the Makefile as go-to tool if a simple pipeline is not enough. GNUmake makes this even more powerful by being able to generate rules on-the-fly. If the tool of interest works with files (like the UNIX tools do) it fits very we
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by Linux-Fan 8mo ago
I wonder if this is due to Linux being harder to work on or because it is possible to fix some errors which would be catastrophic on other OSes? Back when I used Windows a lot (Windwos XP times...) I also had the "long, scarring evenin
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by Linux-Fan 8mo ago
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/293/
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by Linux-Fan 8mo ago
https://masysma.net - my site doesn't fulfil the “well received in past HN discussions” requirement, though.
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by Linux-Fan 8mo ago
I don't think anybody needs all of the features at once but people have different preferences. E.g. I typically do well without bold formatting (I only need one level of emphasis which is served well by italic) but I want tables, links
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by Linux-Fan 8mo ago
I don't think that is sufficient for the general case because I would like to be able to use the markdown like _emphasis_ or [hyperlinks]( https://www.example.com ) even inside the table rows and this doesn't render prop
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by Linux-Fan 8mo ago
The original Markdown has fewer features than listed for the more advanced formats in the table. Hence if someone uses reStructuredText it is more precise than just saying “Markdown” because Markown could refer to anything from the original
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by Linux-Fan 9mo ago
> precise time syncing with PTP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt-zRIG5co I am not so much into videos but due to some extended interest in the matter I decided to watch the recording of that talk and I do not regret
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by Linux-Fan 9mo ago
Fun to think of it but I think my website actually got removed from that list because it has a logo on top of each page. It is available as “text only” (although not text/plain but text/markdown) by substituting the .xhtml with .m
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by Linux-Fan 9mo ago
I do it and it works. The only thing you might be missing: I don't think it helps many people really. I personally still like the feature because I put my website under a free software license and then it is only fitting that you could
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by Linux-Fan 11mo ago
I don't know of any list, but I know at least of the following “clubs” pages: size-related - < https://14kbclub.com/ > - only learned about it today but I am not sure if my site would qualify (it is only ~12 KiB, b
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by Linux-Fan 11mo ago
The signature function of the German ID card (“neuer Personalausweis”). Its 2025 and we still haven't solved secure online identification and we are still not using end-to-end encryption for e-mail, most e-mail is not even signed. Inte
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by Linux-Fan 1y ago
I have a few old PCs (towers) here which don't support amd64 mostly Pentium 4-based. They all still have DVD reader drives and are nice for ripping CDs. Despite the fact that the drives are nearing 20 years of age (machines are from ~2
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by Linux-Fan 1y ago
It is a well-known issue with probably less well-known solutions, cf. < https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/723675/debian-ubunt... > echo exit 101 > /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d chmod +x
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by Linux-Fan 1y ago
I wrote about it extensively here: < https://masysma.net/37/why_terminal.xhtml >. Short summary: No animations, No symbols, No touch optimization, no responsive design and I do most of the other stuff in the Termin

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