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    svag avatar svag 1 month ago | link | on: If only more writers knew about the power of Unix...

    FYI here is a video from a writer describing his impressions using emacs.

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      svag avatar svag 3 months ago | link | on: Managing processes with htop

      A bit irrelevant, I was using htop for a while now, but lately I found glances which gives more information for your system and I am happy with this for now…

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        svag avatar svag 5 months ago | link | on: Mozilla fixes pwn2own security bug in under 24 hours

        The relevant bug

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          fkooman avatar fkooman 5 months ago | link

          https://git.xiph.org/?p=vorbis.git;a=blob;f=CHANGES;h=5db9d05fba5b7f2cd4dcc14fcd14a10b412a3193;hb=d22c3ab5f633460abc2532feee60ca0892134cbf

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          evaryont avatar evaryont 5 months ago | link | on: Elementary Knightship Found

          I’m not familiar with the Life community’s terminology, could someone give a primer?

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            Forty-Bot avatar Forty-Bot 5 months ago | link

            elementary knightship

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              svag avatar svag 5 months ago | link

              Well, there is a lobster spaceship

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            svag avatar svag 6 months ago | link | on: MiniModem: Software Modem to Transfer Files Over Audio

            I remember playing with Quietnet a long time ago, which you could send messages using ultrasound.

            I believe Android has the Nearby messages API which

            uses a combination of Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi and near-ultrasonic audio to communicate a unique-in-time pairing code between devices.

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              svag avatar svag 9 months ago | link | on: Living with an open-source phone

              I was expecting the article to be related with something like Purism, but according to their page, it’s still under development…

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                svag avatar svag 9 months ago | link | on: Using a logbook to improve your programming

                I came across recently to plan files from John Carmack which are kind of similar to a log book.

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                  svag avatar svag 10 months ago | link | on: Everything that is wrong with sudo, and how I fixed it

                  I am getting a 404, here is the archived page

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                    svag avatar svag 11 months ago | link | on: git git git git git

                    Another issue about typing git is that sometimes I type gti, so I have installed this beautiful application http://r-wos.org/hacks/gti

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                      myfreeweb avatar myfreeweb 11 months ago | link

                      I just type g, because alias g=git. Since it’s one of the most common commands, it deserves to be just one letter.

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                        qznc avatar qznc 11 months ago | link

                        I do that as well. Also, l=ls, m=make. Then there are shortcuts like gl for git log, gd for git diff, st for git status, gup for git pull --rebase, etc.

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                          myfreeweb avatar myfreeweb 11 months ago | link

                          Ohh… my git aliases are actually “vim-like”: https://github.com/myfreeweb/dotfiles/blob/master/dev-base/gitconfig

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                          peter avatar peter 11 months ago | link

                          Seriously. Why bother with ls when you have git? Counting command frequency, my alias gs has over 20 times the usage of ls.

                          alias gs='g status -sb'
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                            myfreeweb avatar myfreeweb 11 months ago | link 
                            alias l="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 1"
alias l2="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 2"

                            etc.

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                              peter avatar peter 11 months ago | link

                              That would blow up my terminal. I have a very… flat… organization strategy. Really even using ls in my home dir is useless without a glob. ?

                              And my home dir is a git repo anyway.

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                          dguaraglia avatar dguaraglia 11 months ago | link

                          ROFL, that’s hilarious. I wish there was an equivalent thing I could install so whenever I press “Esc” on my keyboard I get an annoying animation (I’m trying to teach myself to use Caps-Lock as an Esc key, seeing as I’ll probably be doomed to buy one of the new Macbook Pros with the stupid touchbar soon.)

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                            Sietsebb avatar Sietsebb 11 months ago | link

                            Why bother with an animation? If you really want to stop hitting Escape, buy that Macbook :-P

                            More seriously, and in case Escape is important because you use Vim: I have grown very fond of :inoremap jk <Esc>. Perhaps that’s of use to you, too?

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                              don avatar don 11 months ago | link

                              As someone who uses jk repeatedly to find where they are on screen when i get lost, that might just kill me. But ctrl+c will exit you from insert mode in vim. As will ctrl+[. Both of which have been really nice when using a touchbar mac.

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                                Sietsebb avatar Sietsebb 11 months ago | link

                                In truth, jk doesn’t work for me, either, because I type a lot of Dutch. I use nj, instead. It rolls nicely off the fingertips. I have also heard people recommend jj.

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                              coypoop avatar coypoop 11 months ago | link

                              it doesn’t have to be a burden, I swap esc and caps lock for better ergonomics.

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                              ngoldbaum avatar ngoldbaum 11 months ago | link

                              There’s also sl: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

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                                skade avatar skade Rust Community Team 11 months ago | link

                                Of which I’m a huge fan. Also contains criticism of gti, debian and systemd.

                                Sorry for linking to a comment on a different platform, but in this instance, I don’t want to waste vertical space here.

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                              svag avatar svag 11 months ago | link | on: Nouveau Developers Remain Blocked By NVIDIA From Advancing Open-Source Driver

                              I suppose Linus’s remark remains…

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                                talklittle avatar talklittle 11 months ago | link | on: Hackers compromised free CCleaner software, Avast's Piriform says

                                Technical details: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html

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                                  svag avatar svag 11 months ago | link

                                  There is a similar blog post from the affected company: http://www.piriform.com/news/blog/2017/9/18/security-notification-for-ccleaner-v5336162-and-ccleaner-cloud-v1073191-for-32-bit-windows-users

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                                    friendlysock avatar friendlysock 11 months ago | link

                                    We’re more on the technical side here–so, please prefer submitting the technical stuff instead of news writeups.

                                    (Keep news writeups on HN. <3 )

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                                    svag avatar svag 1 year ago | link | on: Text Editor From Scratch by Gary Bernhardt

                                    Antirez, the creator of redis, made a blog post a long time ago, about creating a minimal editor here

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                                      kaveman avatar kaveman 1 year ago | link

                                      SanOS edit[1] is a simple editor good for study. StyledText from SWT is another great example for an editor-from-just-a-canvas. Both use gap-buffers for text storage.

                                      [1] - http://www.jbox.dk/sanos/editor.htm

                                      [2] - https://goo.gl/okqQo5

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                                      svag avatar svag 1 year ago | link | on: Happy 5th Anniversary, Lobsters

                                      https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/1/5262422/il_570xN.266401662.jpg :-)

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                                        svag avatar svag 1 year ago | link | on: Panopticlick: Is your browser safe against tracking?

                                        18.62 bits for the system fonts. I wonder why the system fonts are exposed from the browser?

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                                          svag avatar svag edited 1 year ago | link

                                          Hmm interesting, looking at this question, the culprit should be Flash.

                                          So, if I disable the Flash add-on, the bits are reduced to 9.98.

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                                            reezer avatar reezer 1 year ago | link

                                            That’s odd. I use Firefox without Flash I still get around 16 bits.

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                                          svag avatar svag 1 year ago | link | on: How a 64k intro is made

                                          Most recent version in web archive

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                                            svag avatar svag 1 year ago | link | on: Not OK, Google: Burger King advert designed to hijack Google Home speakers backfires

                                            I would expect that those devices somehow are able to recognize, or at least trained to recognize, the owner or at least you can specify who to use. I suppose you cannot do that, because anyone can speak and be understood by the device.

                                            1. Usermac avatar Usermac 1 year ago | link | on: How to replicate IBM Watson hardware and systems design for your own use in your basement (2011)

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                                                svag avatar svag 1 year ago | link

                                                Check the web archive version https://web.archive.org/web/20111209143804/http://www-03.ibm.com:80/innovation/us/watson/watson-for-a-smarter-planet/watson-schematic.html

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                                                orib avatar orib edited 1 year ago | link | on: How the Circle Line rogue train was caught with data

                                                Interesting analysis, but by the end I was hoping to hear how this train was actually causing the issue, on the physical level. Anyone have information on that?

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                                                  svag avatar svag 1 year ago | link

                                                  If you check the press release stated in the link, there is the explanation there

                                                  1. Further tests on PV46 by engineers from LTA, DSTA and Rohde & Schwarz showed that faulty train signalling hardware on PV46 was emitting erroneous signals in addition to the ones it was supposed to emit. These erroneous signals occasionally prevented trains travelling in the vicinity of PV46, including in the opposite direction, from properly communicating with the trackside signalling system. This loss of communications led to the activation of the trains’ emergency brakes.
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                                                  superpat avatar superpat 1 year ago | link | on: Alpine edge has switched to libressl

                                                  So now we both Alpine and Void Linux on libressl, have any other distributions switched as well?

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                                                    qbit avatar qbit 1 year ago | link

                                                    Void uses it as well.

                                                    1. nyx avatar nyx 1 year ago | link

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                                                        svag avatar svag 1 year ago | link

                                                        There is a good write-up (from 2014) of the problems replacing openssl with libressl…

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                                                      svag avatar svag 1 year ago | link | on: Taking PHP Seriously

                                                      Recently I came across this comic strip, How to Save the Princess in 8 Programming Languages, which one of the languages is PHP.