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    $ cat /etc/gemrc
    # --user-install is used to install to $HOME/.gem/ by default since we want to separate
    #                pacman installed gems and gem installed gems
    gem: --user-install

chocolateboyon CIA Targeting Linux Users With OutlawCountry Network Traffic Re-Routing Tool

Neither requires root:

* https://github.com/creationix/nvm

* http://kazhack.org/?post/2014/12/11/npm-install-g-without-su...

* http://kazhack.org/?post/2014/12/12/pip-gem-install-without-...

chocolateboyon Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines and more

http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.htm...

chocolateboyon Show HN: FSSB – A filesystem sandbox for Linux

See also: Firejail

* https://firejail.wordpress.com/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12239840

chocolateboyon UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

> it's entirely possible to install local untrusted addons. You just have to poke some settings that are intentionally hidden from most end users

It's possible to install unsigned addons in ESR, developer and unbranded builds of Firefox. It's no longer possible to install them in the regular release or beta versions. The hidden setting was disabled in Firefox 48.

chocolateboyon Show HN: Min – web browser with better search and built-in ad blocking

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-lite/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-unload-t...

chocolateboyon Why Pi Matters (2015)

s/Storgatz/Strogatz/

chocolateboyon Babel 6.0 Released

> Can anyone point me to any resources which address and discuss this issue?

https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/631

chocolateboyon Show HN: Streaks, a todo list that helps you form good habits

The UI looks slick. I prefer the look of it to the one I've used. [1]

A good keyword for finding these "Don't break the chain" [2] apps on Android is "Seinfeld". [3]

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.lixi.mychai...

[2] http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...

[3] https://play.google.com/store/search?q=seinfeld%20chain|habi...

chocolateboyon Order – a functional programming language implemented in the C preprocessor

Comments by the author here. [1] See also: Esoteric Language Implemented in Preprocessor. [2]

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CeePreprocessor

[2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/ELIP

chocolateboyon Mastering Git submodules

The metadata in the commit message isn't used in any way, so you can always:

  git commit --amend

I personally find it a useful default, though, i.e. there's not usually much more I want to say than "added a subrepo: [metadata...]", and, for something like this, I'd rather err on the side of too much information than too little.

chocolateboyon Mastering Git submodules

> It generates pretty verbose (and ugly) commit messages made of json.

This was fixed recently. [1]

> I haven't tried subtree yet, will do that next :-)

The git-subrepo intro has a pretty good overview of the issues with git-subtree. [2]

[1] https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo/issues/40

[2] https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo/blob/master/Intro....

chocolateboyon Mastering Git submodules

For a less painful [1] solution, see git-subrepo. [2]

[1] https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo/blob/master/Intro....

[2] https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo

chocolateboyon Mathematician's anger over his unread 500-page proof