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dim13··on Show HN: Toast, a beautiful by default in terminal IDE
Nerdtree is such a waste of screen real estate. I prefer netrw.
dim13··on Decompiler Explorer
Trowed in EICAR test "virus" (a valid DOS executable) -- all decompilers just "segfaulted".

https://www.eicar.org/download-anti-malware-testfile/

dim13··on Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free
> Vim users seem often quite happy with the vim emulation they get

Not at all. Never seen any vi-emulation, which wasn't totally broken.

dim13··on 1-Bit LLM in the Browser
Fails "car wash" test miserably. Ask it:

> I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

Ref: https://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-test

dim13··on SDL bans AI-written commits
Had same idea some time ago: https://imgur.com/a/11StYkd ;)
dim13··on Am I German or Autistic?
Neither Somehow.

German 29%, Autistic 22%

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

dim13··on OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier
"OpenBSD does not want to attract GNU newbies." misc@

And that's IMHO is a good thing.

dim13··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
Finally I see some people around. Was pretty lonely, as it launched.
dim13··on Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal
Glad to have played with it a bit before it got Slashdotted. ;)
dim13··on Fahrplan – 39C3
It is no longer the same. It went from somewhat exclusive dining experience to full blown nuclear junk food chain vibe.

I've stopped attending it about 10 years ago. I rather prefer to watch some few interesting topics online, and skip all the wanna-be political junk.

dim13··on Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020)
Reminded me of GNU Terry Pratchett[1].

[1]: http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/

dim13··on Size of Life
Also: Banana - Although not technically living, it does make for a good size comparison.
dim13··on Things I don't like in configuration languages
To be honest, all I see is https://xkcd.com/927/

All config formats are bad. You either don't need all the features at all, except key:value. Or you quickly run into weird limitations and quirks.

What I rather like instead, are custom build english-like DSL's, like:

- https://man.openbsd.org/pf.conf - https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf - https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.conf - … and many more

dim13··on Claude outage
I've never started. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And also not going to. I see enough crap, colleges produce, to never touch this pile of dung.
dim13··on GNU Midnight Commander
… since 1994
dim13··on macOS Tahoe
Read most of the comment, was hesitated. Then thought "it can't be that bad". Ok, it is that bad. I absolutely hate extra round corners and extra margin in the windows. Sigh.
dim13··on No Hello
I usually take it even a step further by skipping useless "hello".

Instead of "Hello, did you notice, that db is down? Can you check it please?"

Just terse "DB seems to be down. Please check it."

dim13··on [dead]
Hilarious, how an old joke from 2003 is still relevant today.

Please, please, please don't execute it. It will try to wipe you disk.

    cat "test... test... test..." | perl -e '$??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{;;y; -/:-@[-`{-};`-{/" -;;s;;$_;see'
Origin: https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/development/392747
dim13··on Calendar.txt
Little known, but there is already calendar(1) [1] in OpenBSD with much more sane format.

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/calendar.1

dim13··on Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format
Grandfather of Protobuf is ASN.1
dim13··on The smallest Hello World program
Some more:

Quick'n'dirty:

    .model small
    .code
     org 100h
    start:
     int 19h                 ; Bootstrap loader
    end start
More "correct":

    .model small
    .code
     org 100h
    start:
     db 0EAh                 ; Jump to Power On Self Test - Cold Boot
     dw 0,0FFFFh
    end start
Even more "correct":

    .model small
    .code
     org 100h
    start:
     mov ah,0Dh
     int 21h                 ; DOS Services  ah=function 0Dh
                             ;  flush disk buffers to disk
     sti                     ; Enable interrupts
     hlt                     ; Halt processor
     mov al,0FEh
     out 64h,al              ; port 64h, kybd cntrlr functn
                             ;  al = 0FEh, pulse CPU reset
    end start
dim13··on Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it
I once recorded an half-hour drive and uploaded it to YT as private video for my own convenience. Got immediately a copyright claim about radio playing some music in the background.
dim13··on The correct amount of ads is zero
> with zero ads the internet would be a smaller, darker place

Yes, please!

Once a while I turn off ad-blocker to remind myself how bad it got. And OMG! It is bad, Bad, BAD! Unusable. Sometimes is less more.

dim13··on Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract
It did not digest https://github.com/torvalds/linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
dim13··on Show HN: Bullshit Remover
Let us play a recursive game. Will it loop?

> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

> Blah blah blah, fancy Latin gibberish. Look at me, I'm so intellectual! Just kidding, this is meaningless filler text. Move along, nothing to see here.

> Meaningless filler. Keep walking.

> Move it, chump.

> Get lost, loser.

> Bye, champ.

> Later.

> Bye.

> Later.

> Bye.

dim13··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
Funny, 174 by me too.
dim13··on Hacker Purity Test (1989)
Anybody remembers Geek Code?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code

dim13··on A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar (2021)
That's also, what's article is about.

> This is one reason why hard-buttons are so effective in old-school cars. They all use these same standard icons so it’s easier for new users to scan across them and find the one you want without any training.

dim13··on OpenBSD 7.5 via QEMU on Hetzner physical machine (no phys. access / KVM console)
Well, I did it 11 years ago. There is little magic. Boot linux rescue system. Fire qemu. Go with auto-install. Even with raid setup if you want to. Done.

The only tweak -- auto-detection of swap space, as it is derived from RAM available and you cannot give all 100% RAM to qemu. So you need to adjust for it.

https://www.dim13.org/Install-OpenBSD-on-remote-host-without...

dim13··on Wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files
A simplest alias `dl='curl -O'` just does the same for me.
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