henry_flower

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Debian CVE Fixes over Time(sigwait.org)
1 points by henry_flower 2mo ago|0 comments
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Linux Apps That Maybe Run(sigwait.org)
1 points by henry_flower 3mo ago|0 comments
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Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images(sigwait.org)
89 points by henry_flower 4mo ago|13 comments
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Left Behind: A BeOS and Be Incorporated Post-Mortem (2024)(macfolkloreradio.com)
2 points by henry_flower 5mo ago|0 comments
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by henry_flower 9mo ago
That was super interesting! I think you should self-publish. With your existing audience, you'd sell plenty of copies, and nobody would push "AI" into your work.
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Obfuscating Image Links(sigwait.org)
1 points by henry_flower 10mo ago|0 comments
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Offline Math: Converting LaTeX to SVG with MathJax(sigwait.org)
47 points by henry_flower 11mo ago|11 comments
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Comparing Compression (2024)(sigwait.org)
2 points by henry_flower 1y ago|0 comments
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SourceForge Sunsets Developer Web Hosting(sourceforge.net)
3 points by henry_flower 1y ago|0 comments
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The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years(sigwait.org)
190 points by henry_flower 1y ago|137 comments
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Escape Sequences in File Names(sigwait.org)
3 points by henry_flower 1y ago|0 comments
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by henry_flower 2y ago
not exactly daily, but I use llama3.2-vision (via ollama) to generate a .txt file alongside every photo I take, containing a description of the photo. then I can just grep for, say, "selfie": $ alias omglol='find -name
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Microsoft is paywalling AI features in Notepad and Paint(pcworld.com)
5 points by henry_flower 2y ago|1 comments
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1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected(tuhs.org)
425 points by henry_flower 2y ago|148 comments
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Doug McIlroy on 'use case' and 'concatenate'(lists.gnu.org)
1 points by henry_flower 2y ago|0 comments
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Exploring pre-1990 versions of wc(1) (2023)(sigwait.org)
58 points by henry_flower 2y ago|25 comments
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The Cheapest NAS(sigwait.org)
342 points by henry_flower 2y ago|297 comments
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by henry_flower 2y ago
it is
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by henry_flower 2y ago
His autobiography in the epub format: https://gitlab.com/sigwait/computer_connections
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by henry_flower 2y ago
heh, I recently "ported" a Linux app to Windows and wrote a simple installer using wix 5 (it was horrible) to even obtain wix v5: first, using scoop, I installed "dotnet-sdk"; second, using the "dotnet" command
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Shell Postcards(sigwait.org)
2 points by henry_flower 3y ago|0 comments
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by henry_flower 3y ago
> you have to start at the beginning for now add this comment to the course's page, as it may not be obvious that it is not locked due to the beta status
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by henry_flower 3y ago
You can always create an EPUB. If you enjoy tinkering with HTML, here is a short book on how to create a custom toolchain (disclaimer: I am the author): https://sigwait.org/~alex/p/pg2e/
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by henry_flower 3y ago
what really drives me crazy is when invoked $ foo -h I get "haha, you idiot, there is no such option -h, rerun with --help" when I rerun with --help, it prints a worse than useless usage string and says "for more hel
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by henry_flower 3y ago
late to the party, but https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/ topics: linux (usually in some sort of critique), javascript, emacs, & random quotes from books I'm reading
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Adding Line Numbers to Code Blocks(sigwait.org)
1 points by henry_flower 3y ago|0 comments
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You, Robot (1991)(sigwait.org)
1 points by henry_flower 3y ago|0 comments
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A Practical Guide to ePub(sigwait.org)
3 points by henry_flower 3y ago|0 comments
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I Asked ChatGPT How to Resolve a Symlink in PowerShell(gromnitsky.blogspot.com)
1 points by henry_flower 3y ago|0 comments
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by henry_flower 4y ago
Heh, I started using Mutt only because of "peer pressure" during my university years: all cool guys were using it! (Still with Mutt, > 10 years later.) I think this is somewhat akin to Emacs: startup costs are enormous, but you

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