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jpmens

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Small-scale fiddler, enjoys doing & teaching. Wrote a thick book on FLOSS DNS servers. Dreamed up @OwnTracks over MQTT. Ansible with NOCOWS=1. Loves plain text. I (re-)toot in several languages. https://jpmens.net

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jpmens, to random
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"Does your stuff need computers working 5,000 kilometers away? Does your stuff need people working on your product 5,000 kilometers away that you might no longer be able to reach?"

"So if your ship is on fire, and you need to call to the deck and say, “Hey, the ship is on fire,” this thing will actually work, unlike your voice-over-IP setup"

so good! By @bert_hubert

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/

jpmens, to random
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One of the features I miss most on this platform is the ability to simply format text. Something like a stripped down version of Markdown: I don't expect links (nor do I think they'd be valuable, maybe too dangerous), but code blocks with non-proportional font would really be something I'd use.

jpmens,
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@mpts there are Fediverse implementations which have it. https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/posts/

jpmens,
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@tdp_org @mpts I don't see any formatting in your post. ;)

jpmens, to random
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mdBook is a command line tool to create books with Markdown. It is ideal for creating product or API documentation, tutorials, course materials or anything that requires a clean, easily navigable and customizable presentation.

https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/

https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook

jpmens, to random
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So lisp and postgres and zero documentation and not even a word about the db schema.

Enjoy.

jpmens, (edited ) to random
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EDIT: ignore this, and thanks to Maxime for putting me right:

cat /dev/zero | :

completes immediately.

(Yschaef also said this, but I didn't get it.)

===============

Holy moly: TIL from @abimelechbeutelbilch that piping to colon ( |: ) in the shell is much faster than writing to the bit bucket ( > /dev/null ). Just tested.

This is in German, but you'll see the commands and times clearly: https://mastodon.social/@abimelechbeutelbilch@fulda.social/112435707590643241

jpmens,
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@max @abimelechbeutelbilch

I don't see so.

jpmens,
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@max @abimelechbeutelbilch

so sarcasm used or intended. The important bit is from the man page:

: [arguments] No effect; the command does nothing beyond expanding arguments and performing any specified redirections. The return status is zero.​

IOW we can also pipe to

| : bla

jpmens,
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@max @mpts @abimelechbeutelbilch

oops. You are quite right.

I failed in properly testing!

jpmens,
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@max @mpts @abimelechbeutelbilch

thank you, Maxime: I have edited my post.

cc: @yschaeff

jpmens,
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@yschaeff

Duty calls: https://xkcd.com/386/

@max @mpts @abimelechbeutelbilch

jpmens, to random
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I follow curl news ;-)

jpmens, to random
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I'm the chap who only uses two protocols in curl.

jpmens,
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@icing make it as good as dig(1), and I still won't use it -- muscle memory. ;)

Brownie points if you add a functioning version of the n-word

jpmens,
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@icing that is a good idea.

jpmens, to random
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So, because Daniel asks nicely, I'll take the curl survey: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/14/curl-user-survey-2024/

mnot, to random
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I have changed my desktop resolution and it is messing with my mind

jpmens,
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@icing that's when your desktop computer decides "from today onwards, I want Windows"

@mnot

zhenech, to random
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If I ever have my own company (no worries, won't ever happen!), I will establish the following rules:

  • It's forbidden to use TLAs to abbreviate team, tool or product names.
  • It's forbidden to use company-name abbreviations to prefix those team/tool/product abbreviates to avoid the TLA rule by making it a 4LA, 5LA or WTFLA.
jpmens,
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@zhenech regarding those forbidden abbreviations ... I suppose I could google all those acronyms, but I'll skit it.

isotopp, to random German
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Siehe auch:

Warum ich kein Team in Teams anlegen kann, das prn heißt.

Weil zu jedem Team ein Workspace gehört.

Und der Workspace ein Folder auf einem NT Server ist, der so heißt wie das Team.

The actual folder name in bash is bla:fasel.

jpmens,
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@isotopp com1 oder nul dürften auch schwierig sein ;)

jpmens, to random German
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Neu gestaltet

jpmens, to random
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MS-DOS v4.0, now MIT-licensed.

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

jpmens, to random
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"As a capability of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, automated policy as code will aim to drive policy-specific automation across the hybrid cloud, bringing governance and greater consistency to the AI boom and traditional IT operations alike"

What the fuck does that even mean? I understood the first few words, and then I experienced a core dump.

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-policy-code-help-address-ai-complexities-scale

freyfogle, to random
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What is the logic of making it so difficult to get images out of a Google Doc? Does anyone have a clue? 🤷‍♂️

jpmens,
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@freyfogle vendor lock-in? ;)

jpmens, to random
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Forcing me to sign up to your corporate invoicing thing weeks ago was such a wonderful experience, thank you for that. And I particularly love that you ask me to send you my invoice days after I submitted it electronically to the portal.

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