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I use ProxyCommand in edge-case devices where key auth is not an option and the password is not controlled by me. ProxyCommand points to a script the retrieves the password from th…

A good portion of the world and Lenna herself have asked that image be retired.

Also -X or --no-init " ... desirable if the deinitialization string does something unnecessary, like clearing the screen." I prefer to not clear the screen. I usually want to conti…

I'm confused. Every TV is a dumb TV if you don't give it your Wifi password.

About 8y ago we were looking at a used Mini Cooper. Car Fax reported no major problems. I went to the bank to get a loan. They reported 2 minor and 1 major accident that the car ha…

Any TV that doesn't have your WiFi password is a dumb TV. No TV I've owned to dated has required network connectivity to work.

My pet peeve, grep unnecessarily followed by awk/sed. Original: df -h | grep "$partition" | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/%//' Efficient: df -h | grep -Po "\d+(?=%\s+$partition)"

"I'm not sure why it is that Windows 3.1 is the go-to when people name a Windows OS of this era." It's because business was the primary market for PCs and Windows 3.11 added a netw…

Apple isn't creating neural hashes for CSAM detection, as they'd have to be in possession of source material to create them, so they're getting them from someone else. Since it's i…

I've used XFCE seemingly forever, at least 20 years. In recent years I've grown to dislike Thunar and a variety of other things that were mostly GTK issues and some XFCE issues. I …

"... a terminate-and-stay-resident program (or TSR) was a computer program running under DOS that uses a system call to return control to DOS as though it has finished, but remains…

I've used pushover for years as well. I wish they would charge me $5/y instead of a $5/lifetime. I've asked them to do that. I want this service to last. I set up Tasker on my phon…

pv is a great tool. One of it's lesser known features is throttling; transfer a file without dominating your bandwidth: pv -L 200K bigfile.iso' Complete with a progress bar, speed,…

1. Disguise payload as space junk 2. Design to "fall" on populated area 3. Say "oops" 4. ...

For static content and cgi-bin, busybox is much faster.

Thanks!

My version, better alignment, grayscaled icons, eliminates duplicates on navigation: // ==UserScript== // @name hacker news favicons // @match https://news.ycombinator.com/* // ==/…

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."…

His claimed inspiration, Hillel Wayne’s post “Why Python is my Favorite Language”, is a piece of fluff that basically says "I only like the things I already know". I was so uninspi…

Looks like a variation of lanterne: https://www.alamy.com/lanterne-pasta-image2466309.html

37% of programmers are using Retina displays? Since the OSX market share is ~8.5%, your numbers are way off.