Posts by jpmens@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AQKayJbxVcOV3l2jXE by jpmens@mastodon.social
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Martine écrit en UTF-8
(DIR) Post #B4YNBQXxVI4HRXrS5I by jpmens@mastodon.social
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days since the Arch Linux wiki provided the better documentation: 0
(DIR) Post #B4Yx2SAngSWsEP37JI by jpmens@mastodon.social
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Billions of dollars and Euro. Many billions. For AI and other bullshit.But you still can't get an email client (MUA) to alter "Re:" into a national version on an incoming message for displaying (eg. Swedish "SV:" or German "AW:") and replace it into "Re:" on the way out again.Losers.
(DIR) Post #B4v2LA8NkbEH2DmEpU by jpmens@mastodon.social
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I hope @ed1conf isn’t looking …“The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor.”https://ex-vi.sourceforge.net
(DIR) Post #B5PabyyXiXB8X8AGXo by jpmens@mastodon.social
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My copy of Kernighan & Pike's 1984 book "The UNIX programming environment" is almost falling apart due to heavy use, but this remains my favorite footnote!#unix
(DIR) Post #B5PabzJSSluPZzwy92 by jpmens@mastodon.social
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and this masterpiece, last updated this year, can only have been written by an artficial idiothttps://linuxvox.com/blog/why-create-system-call-is-called-creat/
(DIR) Post #B5zx0flXT64MsRolE0 by jpmens@mastodon.social
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WOT?!
(DIR) Post #B5zx0g3yMYoZncRTxQ by jpmens@mastodon.social
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@ingo_wichmann bad news, also for you, I’m afraid. DeNIC has really borked it here…
(DIR) Post #B5zx0gEFkL2QJVFgyu by jpmens@mastodon.social
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I try posting a message to dnsops, but heh guess what? I can’t send it because server can’t verify *.de sender.
(DIR) Post #B65zp7kX45u90GI7c0 by jpmens@mastodon.social
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DENIC: “Analysis of the DNS outage on 5 May 2026”English: https://blog.denic.de/en/analysis-of-the-dns-outage-on-5-may-2026/German: https://blog.denic.de/analyse-des-dns-ausfalls-vom-5-mai-2026/#dnssec
(DIR) Post #B660bmqtY8duNfTItU by jpmens@mastodon.social
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@lanodan ignore what @shaft said — he’s trolling me.
(DIR) Post #B6BVegtSEGRR8dKi5A by jpmens@mastodon.social
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RCS—A System for Version Controlhttps://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/tichy-paper.pdfhttps://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCShome/
(DIR) Post #B6Fii1piuLFUzGLjEm by jpmens@mastodon.social
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"There are now many vi clones and derivatives to choose from, and I couldn’t find a good comprehensive list of all of them with links, so here’s mine."https://lpar.ath0.com/posts/2026/05/the-vi-family/#unix #linux #editing (and I hold my breath for @ed1conf to release a good comprehensive list of all ed(1) releases with links 😜)
(DIR) Post #B6hLmrddrP2bexfD4i by jpmens@mastodon.social
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It's better with watermelons!
(DIR) Post #B6yPWRLtSGiWbMhcSu by jpmens@mastodon.social
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If you have a really really important reason and a good pitch, ICANN might lower the $227,000 application fee for a new TLD by 75% for you, and they even have an important-sounding name for it: Applicant Support Program (ASP)As I said, if you have a really good reason.https://www.dotfurry.org(/via @gregr)
(DIR) Post #B8BpIH5v6fjJkKqPEO by jpmens@mastodon.social
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Single Sign-On (SSO) in a Web browser is when the page gets so many redirects and reloads/refreshes that my desk begins to vibrate until the whole lot grinds to a standstill and I have to re-enter my credentials anyway.#modernTimes