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manbart··on Show HN: Hyperboot – Run Linux distros on your Chromebook
Most of the links on the repo's landing page point to eupnea-linux.github.io and return 404 (e.g. supported devices).
manbart··on "When I worked on Android security there was one project I wanted to sabotage."
Newpipe allows this (until Google decides to cut them off anyway)
manbart··on [dead]
I'd rather see such posts flagged. There are plenty of places online to argue about the culture war, let us have some place we can get away from the division and just talk about tech
manbart··on A better tool than jq for just extracting data, antonmedv's fx
You could try Xidel[1]. It supports JSON, XML and HTML using XPath/XQuery 3.1

It has some extensions to the standard that are pretty nice (JSONiq, CSS selectors, html “template” matching), but you can limit it to just standard XPath/XQuery if you like.

I recommend getting the nightly v .99 build if you give it a try, the stable .98 version is pretty old and I’ve had no issues with .99

1. https://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html

manbart··on Living sound forever: The genius of Wendy Carlos
There’s also the ‘Clockwork Orange’ soundtrack
manbart··on Shortest Path Bridging Architecture Design Guide
I wish more switch vendors supported it, I would love to try it out sometime. From a high level description, it sounds pretty cool. I wonder if there some major downsides to it that is preventing wider adoption?
manbart··on Buy a rural hospital for $100? Investors pick up institutions for pennies
I’d love to see a follow up in 5 years to see if they can actually pull it off. It’s hard to imagine such places could ever be profitable.
manbart··on The Yaml document from hell
I'm surprised XQuery never became more popular, it's essentially XSLT with a 'normal' syntax
manbart··on A Brief Defense of XML
Current versions of XSLT, XQuery and XPath support JSON natively now.
manbart··on Seattle tech worker charged for theft inspired by the movie 'Office Space'
I thought it was gonna be someone stealing printers to smash them in a field
manbart··on Ask HN: How to protect against endless SSH login attempts to my server?
Depending on your use case/business model; geo IP blocking. Blocking non-USA IPs wholesale cuts down on it significantly in my experience
manbart··on Atom was archived today
There’s already an attempt to keep it going

https://pulsar-edit.dev/

manbart··on Memory Safe Languages in Android 13
How about in the OS? This sounds like exactly the type of thin SELinux is meant to handle
manbart··on Comparing OpenSUSE MicroOS and Fedora Silverblue 37
Nice write up. I’ve yet to take the plunge to a system of this sort, but MicroOS seems pretty nice. Hopefully Silverblue can copy some of the improvements mentioned, as I’m already used to traditional Fedora so it seems like the natural choice for me
manbart··on Show HN: Xq – command-line XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor
Hadn’t heard of XQilla, but looks like it’s limited to XPath 2.

You should try an XPath 3 based implementation. XQuery 3.1 has some nice features not found in XPath 2 implementations e.g. native JSON support, the arrow operator (piping), group by clause in FWLORs. XSLT 3.0 has some nice new stuff too, but I use that less

manbart··on [removed]
Seems like satire, especially given the name
manbart··on Microsoft is showing ads in the Windows 11 sign-out menu
Given the option, I would run Clippy in MS Office today. It’s camp and nostalgic, and could inject some humor when I get shoulder tapped in the office
manbart··on Shortest Path Bridging
I wonder why this never caught on?
manbart··on Arturo Programming Language
NetRexx uses it too

https://www.netrexx.org/Tutorial/nr_9.html

manbart··on Modula-2 GCC compiler front-end patches sent out for review
The documentation for it is great too
manbart··on SQLite – Code of Ethics
Not at all what I was expecting lol
manbart··on The Dec/Compaq Turbo Laser 6 AlphaServer KN7CH Processor
It also underlies Cisco’s Unified Communications line of VoIP products, so many organizations are depending on it without realizing. Have about 10 instances of it running at my workplace alone.
manbart··on Ask HN: What concepts have you never truly understood?
call/cc in Scheme. I’ve tried a few times to understand it (and I kind of do on a certain level), but still don’t get how to actually use it effectively in my code
manbart··on In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether
Code is lol
manbart··on Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of Service
AFAIK all the newer Cisco IOS boxes are running Linux now, i.e. IOS XE
manbart··on Unix: Why Not Stdlog?
Sounds like you are describing syslog. Writes to /var/log/messages by default, but you can edit the syslog config to log programs to a specific file, conventionally somewhere in the /var/log folder
manbart··on The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification
I think that IBM z/OS is the strangest entry on the list. It’s also notable that Hawaii EulerOS is a Linux distro based on CentOS
manbart··on How and why the Relational Model works for databases
Tutorial D is one such example of a non-SQL relational db language
manbart··on “You Don't Own Web3”: A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Crypto to Retail
That seems to be the whole point of “crypto” (I.e. selling facsimile securities to avoid regulation)
manbart··on PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds
Freezing the account or booting the user from the service is one thing, but seizing the money as a result without any due process seems pretty messed up IMO
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