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by anjbe 4y ago
bool, true, and false as native keywords are on track to show up in C23. https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2393.pdf
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by anjbe 4y ago
> I'm pretty sure even OpenBSD packages OpenSSL in ports for third party software, since so many pieces of software basically require it and do not work with LibreSSL anymore. Theo Buehler talked about the current status of LibreSSL
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by anjbe 4y ago
Good post! I must point out, though, the correct symbol for minutes and seconds is actually the prime. As in, 10° 33′ 19″.
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by anjbe 4y ago
I do the same, except instead of xmodmap I use “setxkbmap -option compose:ralt” (plus a few other options) as described in the xkeyboard-config(7) manpage. It has some useful features: https://man.openbsd.org/xkeyboard-confi
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by anjbe 4y ago
In the old days of ASCII several characters were heavily overloaded. On teletypes it was not unusual to create accented characters by typing ` or ' (which looked more like ´), then backspacing and typing a vowel, to get (e.g.) è or é.
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by anjbe 4y ago
When that day comes, a machine running sshd on a high port will have to be wiped, because how can you trust that nobody’s scanned your ports, exploited your server, and eliminated the traces? When an OpenSSH zero‐day gets released, you can
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by anjbe 4y ago
If animals in nature had a defense against predators as effective as “PasswordAuthentication no”, they wouldn’t need camouflage.
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by anjbe 4y ago
> You can maintain a .ssh/config file with all the port that you used (and backup it) Once you start distributing config files to all your clients you might as well switch to keypair authentication, which so completely reduces risk
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by anjbe 4y ago
Do people using high ports actually check their logs enough for it to matter?
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by anjbe 4y ago
The thesis of the article, that security through obscurity is underrated, is “because it has a low implementation cost and it usually works well.” But I contest both of those things. Common obscurity methods provide low benefit for the amou
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by anjbe 4y ago
The article mentions that two of her books ( The House of Arden and The Railway Children ) are being republished this fall. That said, her copyrights have expired, so they’re also available now as open‐source, public domain ebooks at Stan
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by anjbe 4y ago
Star Wars is a particularly salient example because the original cuts that made the films such cultural icons are completely unavailable from anyone other than third‐party sellers, due to the wishes of the (former) rights holder. After the
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by anjbe 4y ago
The article mentions GOG’s movie selection (which is indeed extremely limited: https://www.gog.com/en/movies ). It’s worth pointing out that Vimeo also provides some DRM‐free digital downloads through its “On Demand” im
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by anjbe 4y ago
Complete scans of Harvard Classics, a notable predecessor to Britannica’s Great Books collection, are available on the Archive: https://archive.org/details/harvardclassics?tab=about Standard Ebooks also has a growing c
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by anjbe 4y ago
Another commenter posted a source that mentions in passing that ISO 8601 was the result of a 1978 UN declaration that Monday should be the first day of the week. Now I wonder where that came from!
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by anjbe 4y ago
You’re not wrong that “the Sabbath day” has sometimes been used by Christians to refer to Sunday, but the context of this thread is that a comment claimed that calling Sunday the first day of the week is inconsistent with the Bible, and tha
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by anjbe 4y ago
Thanks for the link. It had another interesting fact: > In 1978, the UN recommended that Monday be made the first day of the week in most countries. It was established in 1988, according to ISO 8601, an international standard for excha
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by anjbe 4y ago
I’m actually really interested in this. Clearly in Jesus’s time the Hebrew week went Sunday–Saturday. That definition remained at least for long enough to make into Ecclesiastical Latin and further into, e.g., Portuguese (segunda-feira, etc
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by anjbe 4y ago
> > What is agreed upon by near universal scholarly consensus is instead that Jesus was baptized and crucified. > You're going to need an awful lot of citations there. > Firstly, define the scholars you're referring to
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by anjbe 4y ago
What’s unlikely about that? The Jewish seventh‐day Sabbath is literally the founding principle of the seven‐day week.
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by anjbe 4y ago
I’ve seen this theory proposed, but is it actually widely accepted by historians? Wikipedia says that a connection “has been suggested”[0], which doesn’t seem like very strong wording. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by anjbe 4y ago
> Moreover, most of European countries where workweek starts on Monday already consider it the 1st day of the week, why can't US do the same and be done with it? What benefit would we get from doing so? Metric I can understand the b
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by anjbe 4y ago
There’s a good exchange in the classic video game Star Control 2 (now open source, available in most package managers as “uqm”), when the player encounters a species of plant‐like alien: >> I am Captain Zelnick from Earth. We come in
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by anjbe 4y ago
Then why does the US, a very young culture compared to Europe, universally consider Sunday the first day of the week? Calling Sunday the seventh day must be a very recent development.
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by anjbe 4y ago
While the majority of Christians meet on Sunday and consider it the “new” Sabbath or the fulfillment of the Sabbath, in commemoration of Jesus’s resurrection, how does that relate to restructuring the week so Sunday is the last day? The Bib
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by anjbe 4y ago
Seventh‐day Adventists are definitely the most prolific Christian keepers of a Saturday sabbath, but they are not totally alone. The next most prominent groups I can think of are Seventh Day Baptists and Messianic Jews. SDAs are in the te
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by anjbe 4y ago
The Quakers numbered their weekdays and also their months, to avoid referencing foreign gods in their calendar. https://www.swarthmore.edu/friends-historical-library/quaker...
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by anjbe 4y ago
An incredibly limited subset for sure. WebM with VP8/VP9/AV1 is a far cry from how Matroska is typically used, with supported codecs like h.264/h.265 and chapters, subtitles, multiple audio tracks, and linked external files.
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by anjbe 4y ago
I was taught D’Nealian in elementary school. I took to it fine, but within a few years decided it looked dumb, and dropped the tails and loops that looked out of place compared to the letter forms I saw in print. I learned cursive easily in
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by anjbe 4y ago
9/11 , directed by the Naudet brothers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_(2002_film) Notable for containing the only footage I know of that shows the first plane hitting the tower, because they were alre

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