Ever wondered whether htop could be used to render the graphics of cult video games? I know I have. In order to quench our curiosity and for your viewing pleasure, I created doom-htop

Sixty years ago today, IBM announced the System/360, a line of computers that took over the computer industry. The big idea was that all the systems were compatible and supported all applications (a 360° range from business to scientific). 1/9

The new "Simple standalone #SSH Agent for #OpenPGP cards" (https://crates.io/crates/openpgp-card-ssh-agent) is now available as a package for #Arch Linux, by the way :arch: 😏

This agent offers a frictionless UX when using ssh with keys that are stored on OpenPGP card devices: No more ongoing PIN entry required! 🚀

@dvzrv has once again done amazing packaging and documentation work! 🥳 Thank you 😃

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SSH_keys#OpenPGP_card_ssh-agent for details.

I hate apps that don't allow you to copy text from a comment field. It gives you a taste of the world without Larry Tesler and Tim Mott, and it's not a magnificent one

[Note: Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!. While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, and Gypsy, the first word processor with a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Xerox Alto. During this, along with colleague Tim Mott, Tesler developed the idea of copy and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software. ]

Let’s say I want to keep the latest version of each file as they are replaced or removed; essentially I want a “trash can”-like behavior. For this, I create the following script and store it as /Users/jb/bin/onlylatest.sh (i.e. the bin directory in my home directory):

Das Problem lag in den Weiterleitungsregeln des HTTP-Servers. Hier war "/Verse" als Startseite mit einem großgeschriebenen Anfangsbuchstaben definiert, was dazu führte, dass die HTTP-Weiterleitung nicht ordnungsgemäß funktionierte. Nachdem dies korrigiert wurde und "/verse" als Startseite festgelegt wurde, funktionierte die HTTP-Weiterleitung einwandfrei, und somit war das ACME-Protokoll auf den jeweiligen Domino-Servern einsatzbereit.

Right now, I want to talk about the heritage of these input/output mechanisms. Why is it that punched paper tape and the teleprinter were the most obvious way to interact with the first electronic computers? As you might suspect, the arrangement was one of convenience. Paper tape punches and readers were already being manufactured, as were teleprinters. They were both used for communications.

Fasd (pronounced similar to "fast") is a command-line productivity booster. Fasd offers quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells. It is inspired by tools like autojump, z and v. Fasd keeps track of files and directories you have accessed, so that you can quickly reference them in the command line.

The name fasd comes from the default suggested aliases f(files), a(files/directories), s(show/search/select), d(directories).

Fasd ranks files and directories by "frecency," that is, by both "frequency" and "recency." The term "frecency" was first coined by Mozilla and used in Firefox (link).

GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place. For example, /usr/local/bin could contain symlinks to files within /usr/local/stow/emacs/bin, /usr/local/stow/perl/bin etc., and likewise recursively for any other subdirectories such as .../share, .../man, and so on.

This is particularly useful for keeping track of system-wide and per-user installations of software built from source, but can also facilitate a more controlled approach to management of configuration files in the user's home directory, especially when coupled with version control systems.

Stow is implemented as a combination of a Perl script providing a CLI interface, and a backend Perl module which does most of the work. Stow is Free Software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

zoxide is a smarter cd command, inspired by z and autojump.

It remembers which directories you use most frequently, so you can "jump" to them in just a few keystrokes.
zoxide works on all major shells.

Sticker. Hm. "Sticker"

$ Ohne Graphik, trotzdem da
$ Commandline only Antifa

I embraced OS X as soon as it was available and have never looked back. So a lot of In the Beginning...was the Command Line is now obsolete. I keep meaning to update it, but if I'm honest with myself, I have to say this is unlikely.[1]

Difftastic is a structural diff tool that compares files based on their syntax.

Here's the truth. Ted Kowalski, username frodo, may he rest in peace, was the original author, just down the hall from my office in Murray Hill, and his name for the program had a 'u' where there is now an 's'. Management made him change it for distribution, but they couldn't make him change his pronunciation.

The binary size difference is presumably because the 'test' binary omits the version and help text, along with the code to display it. But if you look at the relevant Coreutils test.c code, the relevant code isn't disabled with an #ifdef. Instead, LBRACKET is #defined to 0 when compiling the 'test' binary. So it seems that modern C compilers are doing dead code elimination on the 'if (LBRACKET) { ...}' section, which is a well established optimization, and then going on to notice that the called functions like 'usage()' are never invoked and dropping them from the binary.

From the "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" department:

This commit added automated scaling of scheduler settings with the number of cores in 2009.

It was accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores. Oops. The magic value comes from an older commit and remained as it was.

If you are like me and have some systems with fully encrypted disks, where you can’t or don’t want to be physically present for a system (re)boot, or which don’t have OOBM/KVM/CIMC access, this might be for you!

A Simple and static blog generator in manpage design - written in Python.

some day you try to connect to some new system and get rudely disconnected before you get prompted for a password. The direct answer to what's happening is that you've run into the server's limit on how many different authentication options it will let you try