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Finish It with Love & Interest But Undesired Stuff Therefore Exists Ramshackley

also known as FILIBUSTER - where you prioritize finishing stuff you like, pushing back the things you lack interest in, indefinitely ;P

perhaps worth pointing out the "some unique features" instead of being so vague about it ;)

it's a very subjective question, depending on stuff like how much you care to update the system, but I'd say:

you might like https://mxlinux.org/ which has seen growing popularity, it's based on debian stable, but with more up to date software, and ability to use newer kernels in case you need better hardware support for very new hardware

you might also just run normal debian, if you don't care for latest versions of everything... Debian is what Ubuntu is based on, and Ubuntu is very close copy of Debian, except Debian's release cycles are very long, so you'll be running on old software all the time, if you choose debian's stable branch...Ubuntu picks packages from debian's Testing branch, verifies it's good enough, and pushes them to ubuntu users, while debian stable is trying to be "super ultra mega stable", so it takes a loong time until everything's sufficiently tested...but using debian's testing branch is pretty fine (unstable is often fine, but might break sometimes)

and another contender: I feel like OpenSUSE is criminally underrated... as they get their money from the enterprise side of things (paid support for linux servers, etc, much like red hat and others), they don't have any reason to mess with what works, and they've been around for like, over a decade also, I forget how long, but a looong time... it would be a bit different, though, using RPMs instead of DEBs, and such, but one very useful feature is, they have builtin YaST control panel which allows you to, either GUI or TUI interface, do a lot of common tasks, without having...

"crazy old" likely has years and years of people documenting all the workarounds and hacks that need to be done to achieve X while "crazy new" might not have that much cruft, but you'll be stuck trying to figure it out by pretty much alone

but of course it also depends on how clever the people beforehand have been, is it stuff tied to impossible knots that cross over 5 parallel dimensions, where nobody knows what it does or how it's doing it, just that "it somehow works, so we don't touch it, that guy was a wizard", or is it just layers of faith held together with duct tape and rope, where people tried to fix stuff over years, throwing in patches that "probably should help, I think, maybe", which could be condensed into less than a third of the size, when rewritten...

I'd think it probably just splits to two groups: 1) IT is critical, therefore we'll use modern tech that makes it more reliable or better, VS 2) Meh, It Works™, so why change it? We've got better things to do than figure out the latest pointless tech...(especially the case at smaller places, where there's less budget for the invisible backend machinery)

I will say, I WOULD absolutely love it, if it weren't for the little problem...that...I can't "just add to the zip"...because for whatever reason, it ruins the special setup... on windows, 7zip and windows explorer's builtin zip stuff refuse to modify it, as if it was corrupted (understandable), but explorer can view it, on linux, zip (apparently info-zip 3.0 according to the version) can add to it just fine, but ruins the special properties, on linux it just spawns the debug gdb with "no symbol table loaded" and no register or assembly data, and on windows it's either wrong format, or `check failed: 0x1 == 0x0 (32)` so also broken... I definitely love the idea of this, and the APE in general, and it works as-is, but modification seems impossible to me...changing to .zip doesn't change the breakage

anyone else had luck with adding stuff to it? is it just me? or is it like "it works with openbsd zip command only"?

I mean, it's not hard to test that ;) firefox has a builtin offline mode, for example

seems to be fine on my end?

I'd upvote thrice if I could ;) there's so many ways to utilize ternary, on different levels, you could use this kind of ternary hardware serialisation as an addon to normal binary stuff, not only base-3 computing, for example if -1 is the "empty" then I'd imagine it'd make it trivial to interface with, and emulate binary systems (so a ternary cpu would not need take a hit for binary emulation, only the architecture), which could be the gateway to get people interested in it initially, without needing 100% new everything, etc... just my uneducated guess tho...

because windows has no concept of an executable bit, so a rename could make it runnable? or a benign looking program has a built-in interpreter run code from external file?

uninformed guess: every commit is a version bump, every push to master is a major version bump?

I think the site probably just died because it couldn't handle HN storming in to all the chats ;p

I think you mean grayscale, not black and white? VERY different things, black and white is strictly 2 colors, grayscale is any gray shade

they are LARGELY useful... they do what they say on the tin, at least unless you visit some super agressive site which uses anti-adblock, but, then again you can conf up an anti-anti-adblock ;)

more the fault of the site devs for not using css media queries, or svg ;p

I imagine it should be pretty easy with javascript to set up dummy images, and replace them... probably also doable in pure css, just make them a block element or something, with a set size...

I especially hate the way gnu utils treat character groups like [:alnum:] which, if you have utf8 version of a locale, matches characters in ANY unicode language set... so if you, say, grep for numbers in /dev/urandom with a shell script, you can end up with, say, some characters that are technically numbers but in a totally different language, say, arabic, or hebrew...

well, gnome creates folders in whatever language you installed with, tho it can translate the file manager's sidebar items, I think... so a change of locale means you'd still have the old dir left, and show as old name everywhere except the special shortcuts

I've never had any such problems in my life with FF... not even when opening over a thousand tabs (of course not all active at the same time, lol)... sux they removed actually useful extention format, but otherwise it's great, even if it's only on google's and cloudflare's life support, pretty much...

I'm preeettty sure that's just because it's relying on the separate WebView app, using WebView is also how it's possible for people to make sub-megabyte android browsers, such as [Naked Browser](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fevdev.nak...) and [Via](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mark.via.gp&hl...)

*correction, according to https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview they are still separate, it references android L dev preview so not the latest source tho...

it IS trivial to port forward though, lol

what happened to the simple invocation of `which "$(echo $0)"` ?

which "$(echo $0)" should work no matter the invokation ;p if full path, it still returns full path, if just "bash" or such it finds it from $PATH, badoom!

with that I'd put myself up with, but nice would be if more was written text along the lines of this...

I mean... have you heard of ansi escapes and utf8? you can underline, bold, italic, color, and some other stuff with escape codes, and use box drawing characters to make nicer UI like <hr> equivalent lines or, well, boxes, there's also hacky ways to use utf8 characters as alternate fonts, such as fraktur characters (you can search up fancy text generators for the hacky character sets)

I think it wouldn't be that hard to cut open a hand either...

I'd think you can see who owns the IP range and check if it's some ISP... probably some api somewhere also... oooor just check the reverse dns and see if it's dyn.someISP

you mean like Estonia's digital signing? ;) and pretty sure that most sane-ish companies already delay and notify people of major stuff like account deletion and such, less hassle on both parts, company also benefits as it can just batch process requests weekly or monthly or so.

I don't know, but I'd think it's slightly true I'd guess you'll be marked in THEIR database, so if the hotel happens to use that company's lists, you might be marked, but not be high risk in anyone else's books...