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i recently used this to download a PDF of an industry standard i legally had access to in a DRM-PDF format which i could not open on my computer. completely legal according to local legislation, just as long as the publisher doesn't find out ;-)

Mandiant is also Google and responsible for a lot of these "disclosures" about the Russkies & Chinks under the bed. https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-27...

Mhmm. "First disclosed by Google." Sources include the State Department which commands the military arm of the CIA. Don't you know Google works for them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(company)#Google_Ideas

never used a huawei phone, but the huawei stuff i have used has been as bad as google & apple vis a vis taking linux, locking it down, & then pretending its somehow opensource

according to the CIA lol. & i suppose theres weapons of mass distruction in iraq too? sure buddy

it is a dash. you could use an em dash - or a 2em dash - but this dash is probably shorter than 1em - unless like me you have a monospace font. if it can be a hyphen-minus, it can be a hyphen/minus/dash. and that is what it is, because that is how it is used, ASCII be damned. the english language and its typography is beholden to neither ASCII™ nor UNICODE™.

a short dash - with spaces around it - is clearly a punction mark, not a word-joiner. what nonsense! anyway, you can not expect everyone to use 4 or more different key combinations depending what style they want. the only solution is to make firefox, word, etc choose the right dash for word-joining, punctuation, minus, number ranges, etc. somewhat similar to how they can choose the width of spaces in justified text.

if microsoft ever makes something that doesnt suck it will be a vacuum/hoover

the author condones public protest for the public sector; why not private protest for the private sector? had trump been master of ceremonies i suspect the author would support some protest.

as a unix hacker whose peace is often ruined by micros**t warez, i really dont care about bill nor gates. as a worker who can have my livelihood taken away at the whim of any myriad capitalists, i admire the will of american workers to risk their own livelihood to defend the lives of the many palestinians who will not live to the "precocious age of 19," which incidentally is older than the girl epstein procured for bill gates.

the amount lost is insignificant compared to that lost to wage theft, inflation, rent, interest -- forms of capital expansion

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Pa...

the data downloads i have done (that could be done by anyone with my unlocked phone and logins, such as US border forces) clearly do not even try to adhere to most of the clauses there (e.g. recipients of the data). tech companies dont try to apply GDPR outside of EU, but they are generally happy to give information to the police in all countries except china. i wonder if the chinese can download their data?

extraction by whom? i dont buy that. i have "downloaded my data" before and it never includes any kind of analytic marketing inferences they have made about me, only what i have done on the site, and they know i dont live in the EU. i assume pretend GDPR compliance is just a handy excuse thought up by marketing, killing two birds with one stone. im sure i heard at least one absurd marketing claim that it was to "let you take control of your data."

the amount lost is insignificant compared to that lost to wage theft, inflation, rent, interest -- forms of capital expansion

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Pa...

sadly this does not demonstate national sovereignty when it is done in obedience to america

after enabling JS in uBlockOrigin on Firefox, i had to press ctrl+f5 to flush the cache to get it to load after i got a CSP error in the JS console

is this why you can "download your data" from social media app sites? to make it easier for a fed to grep for wrongthink after they make you give them your login and phone password?

typo

    su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz'

should be

    su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz /usr/src'

i didnt understand it until i stumbled on the bsd supp docs that openbsd couldnt be ****** to include. i dont have the sources, but v7 vol2 is close enough:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/plan9-bell-labs/7thEdMan/bswv7.html

vol2 contains fuller book like manuals and tutorials for complicated things like ed, C, filesystem, UNIX, etc. and should be your first introduction to UNIX/BSD, while the man(1) program (vol1) serves as a complementary quick reference for experienced users and for short programs that dont need much explanation. sadly V7 wont tell you about the internet because that was started by the "net" releases of 4.3-4.4BSD (see kirk mckusicks history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEr6dT-4uQ )

for vi, get the PostScript.ps files for the OTHER manual from keith bostics sources (openbsd src only has troff source and no troff):

https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/the-berkel...

    echo pkg_add ghostscript | su root
    tar xfz nvi-1.79.tar.gz
    cd nvi-1.79/docs/USD.doc
    (cd vi.ref; ps2pdf vi.ref.ps)
    (cd vi.tut; ps2pdf vi.tut.ps)

the interactive vi tutorial is also great:

    cp /usr/src/usr.bin/vi/docs/tutorial/* ./
    vi vi.beginner
    vi vi.advanced

assuming you installed the relevant src tar:

    ftp -C https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/"`uname -r`"/SHA256.sig &&
    ftp -C https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/"`uname -r`"/src.tar.gz &&
    signify -Cp /etc/signify/openbsd-"`uname -r|tr -d .`"-base.pub -x SHA256.sig src.tar.gz &&
    su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz'

wouldnt it be nice if installation did this and syspatch patched it and sysupgrade merged it?

openbsd is also not very good at pointing you to the right manual. making them grepable was a small improvement for me.

    mkdir man && cd man &&
    for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
    do for m in /usr/share/man/man$n{/,/"`machine`"/}*
    do test -f "$m" && man $n "`basename $m .$n`" | col -b > "`basename $m`"
    done
    done
    grep relink * | grep kernel

maybe use it to train an LLM, idk.

the 15 min long boot is due to relinking done by /etc/rc

you can try pressing ^T to see whats going on at boot and ^C to skip anything

or just delete it from /etc/rc

    login root
    cp /etc/rc /etc/rc.old
    ed /etc/rc
    g/reorder/p
    /^reorder_libs[^()]*$/s/^/#
    /^wait_reorder_libs[^()]*$/s/^/#
    /reorder_kernel/s/^/#
    wq

you are now on the beginning of the long, tedious, futile and soul crushing journey of dealing with documentation and source code on openbsd.

for some reason firefox wasnt saving my changes when i saving as html-only, but saving as complete web page it did.

the tex file is huge because its got rasterized images in it, still nice to have though

openbsd literally had the morris worm vulnerability up til very recently. not sure this is a great idea. the way it is (still) programmed is just asking for it.

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2020...

Philosophy itself goes to Ancient Greek. Following the rules in the Wikipedia article, I found Ancient Greek led to Philosophy again. Actually the first link in the Ancient Greek article is [hellɛːnikɛ́ː], but this is parenthesized, so the rules say to ignore it: "Parentheses would pick up language links that quickly railroad the subject, such as Txorierri line linking to Basque language instead of Narrow-gauge railway". However following such links does also lead eventually to a different Philosophy and Ancient Greek loop. The last article I read was that on the Chodzony, or Polonez, which also leads to Philosophy.

the supposed 15 hand holds is a little misleading as it doesn't account for holds where a hand is placed on the body, which is important to many dancing traditions, such as the mirror image polka hold, with the man's left arm stretched to his left holding his girl's right hand, and his right on her body, or the rotationally symmetric ceilidh hold, where both partners hold left hands, and pass their right hand over and through the hold to grasp their partner's left side, inside of their left arm. the statement needs a big caveat so it is clear that it does not accurately describe all real dance holds.