Posts by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
(DIR) Post #AvIbgbF3NClyhFeeVE by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-06-19T14:21:53Z
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My guilty pleasure is old IT books (can I hashtag it as #RetroComputing ?). So I bought another treasure. It's a Russian translation of "Red Hat Fedora 4 Unleashed" by Andrew Hudson et al. Pretty huge tome (~1100 pages) from 2006. Blessed times indeed.It covers everything from installation to administration to desktop usage to Python/PHP programming (in a nutshell).Sweet bonus is a Fedora 4 installation DVD.Rest assured, I immediately proceeded to the installation in a VM.#Fedora #RedHat
(DIR) Post #AvIbgkDG1FgSWHsqS8 by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-06-19T14:28:52Z
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Installation went smoothly with absolutely no issues. Also, this is anaconda from ~2005.What's interesting, by default anaconda creates ext3 partition for /boot and LVM group with ext3 volume for / and volume for swap.
(DIR) Post #AvIbgsZWwKFmRgMkHQ by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-06-19T14:29:58Z
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Remember the times when #Gnome was cool?
(DIR) Post #AvIbh1RLy63nwvbqHg by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-06-19T14:32:42Z
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Alas, Firefox 1.0.4 is not up to the task anymore.
(DIR) Post #AwaVTV8ONyqbLAiFrE by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-07-28T08:54:58Z
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I think, one of the lost arts of The Olden Webs is the art of a good rant. It was an important tool for any decent Web Crusader fighting the Holy War of Whatever. Modern rants are either too whiny or not a rants at all ("It's ok if you like <x>..." — what the hell, show me your war face! Bullshit, I'm not scared). In the olden days people were not only convinced they are right, they had enough humour and style in them to show their rightness with splendour.Nowadays it's like reading Cicero's orations. It doesn't matter which side you're on, you read them as a piece of art.So I found a beautiful example of such rant "vi vs. Emacs" from the Year of Our Lord 1996!Just look at these amazing quotes:"Emacs is for people who desperately want to get drunk, but feel guilty doing so without a reason.""But vi is on everything and emacs isn't so it's obvious the best Unix editor to learn, besides, what difference does it make that you can't tell what mode you're in if you happen to answer the phone in the middle of an edit and it doesn't really matter that typing your name can cause you to program a complete web server if you happen to be in command mode, so vi is obviously really cool".http://www.rru.com/~meo/rants/emacs.html#Emacs #vi
(DIR) Post #Awvy0vWc5ILsQa1Oi0 by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-08-07T16:44:33Z
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That's probably the stupidest IT thing I've seen this year, but...My bank retired its smartphone app in favor of just the web page. Like in good old times, right? Wrong.When you visit the said page, it fully loads, but then a huge banner appears that asks you to scan the QR with your phone.You scan the QR and... it just opens the same page in your web browser ON THE PHONE. So you can't use the web page on desktop, only on the phone.Of course I did the only logical thing. I just toggled Developer Tools in my desktop browser, changed the resolution to some phone resolution, opened the page, and IT WORKS.People get paid for these ideas.
(DIR) Post #AxMHB4YKKBgCYrKfrM by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-08-20T08:54:50Z
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Turns out, if you type #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD or #Linux in DuckDuckGo search bar, cute duck logo changes respectively.But not for #NetBSD! NetBSD people, rise up!
(DIR) Post #Axbu05lyG7KCk8rtw0 by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-08-26T16:25:41Z
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@oxyhyxo He looks like I owe him money.Next week, I promise!
(DIR) Post #AxjOiJaGcycv3E7ILQ by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-08-31T13:57:52Z
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@evgandr I don't know why, but pings to mastodon.bsd.cafe and ya.ru give me equal results.Despite the fact I'm in Kazakhstan, and bsd.cafe is much, much further away from me than ya.ru.Also mastodon.bsd.cafe is 14 hops away via tracepath, ya.ru — tracepath just stops at 30 ("too many hops").
(DIR) Post #Ay28EnETvJSZ3P4AbI by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-09-09T11:41:49Z
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Another NPM supply chain attack, this time it affects packages with around 2 billion weekly downloads total.Looks like it tries to intercept and change crypto transactions.This is why I dislike "supply chain languages" like JavaScript, Go, Rust, Ruby.With them it's always "when", not "if".https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-npm-packages-with-2-billion-weekly-downloads-in-supply-chain-attack/
(DIR) Post #Ay28Ew70uRpkaqdpi4 by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-09-09T11:44:14Z
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And here's another sign of the times: original article contains link to the description of the attack someone posted on Github.And it is... an analysis of the malware that is made by ChatGPT.Oh dear.
(DIR) Post #Ay8oUMRGfhc1bwucvQ by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-09-12T18:15:34Z
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I found this screenshot again and I still think it's brilliant. The best OS overview I've ever read.#Linux #FreeBSD
(DIR) Post #AzRRrN7sfkQ4uI5B7g by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-10-21T16:41:35Z
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So I've been reading "Rust in Action" for some time and I have a question. How did it happen that #Rust became associated with the most annoying rainbow-haired people who try to reinvent every wheel in existence, at least as a cliché?I mean, there are extremely simple and friendly languages like Python which attracts a lot of starry-eyed people, because you can learn the basics quite literally in 15 minutes, and at the same time leverages very important tasks like being a #1 language of choice in many fields of science.But Rust is actually hard. It's not a newbie language, it's not a language that does everything for you and instead of you. Writing some big application in Rust takes a lot of effort, at least because of compiler that likes to shot you in the face and make you write correct code.So I guess most Rust programmers aren't newbies either. Also it's not a language for every possible field you can imagine, it has quite a strict field of application.How come it's one of the most popular and at the same time most annoying languages (and by that I mean general opinions)?
(DIR) Post #AzrOnGA1TauJWVXn6W by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-11-03T06:38:20Z
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@daniel Wow. So, basically, it is possible to produce floppy music players? Ultra-nerdy device. It could be called FLOP (FLoppy Opus Player).
(DIR) Post #B0RUKAU9sLv7bSlZEe by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-11-20T16:24:28Z
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@kaixin disklabel in OpenBSD supports human readable format via -h flag. And in interactive mode you can "p [unit]" to display partitions in any unit you want.
(DIR) Post #B1a5iOymUb7NQxKu0G by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-12-24T17:28:52Z
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This is a CDE on Mageia 9. It took me several hours and consultations with friendly people on Mageia forums to make it work.CDE is very archaic so I had to rebuild the whole Motif library reverting some recent patches before compiling CDE itself. My tiny HP Stream 14 laptop with Intel N3060 CPU had a hard time building this monstrosity.Now the hardest part comes: figuring out why I did this and what do I actually do with it.#Mageia #CDE #Motif
(DIR) Post #B1mYunRcaPX5Lzbiy0 by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-10-03T06:24:07Z
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@gumnos What the hell! Honestly, things like these make me fear vim more than AI.It looks much more sentient than your average chatbot.
(DIR) Post #B2XdFo0DdfXoCW2wVc by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-01-21T14:00:44Z
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@vermaden I never understood why they followed this idea in the first place. KDE with its tight systemd integration, Wayland-only and "move fast and wreak havoc" approach will always be a moving target.XFCE, on the other hand, is always stable and predictable.
(DIR) Post #B2Xz8f1Kpj2XJAZCE4 by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-01-22T11:25:22Z
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The Interwebs are full of interesting people. Like locksmiths who maintain #IRIX software distributions in their free time somewhere in the middle of Virginia.
(DIR) Post #B2eVmDrrHmHnTeLdUe by chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-01-25T08:13:41Z
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Stumbled upon this golden joke that says volumes:WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI.