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This is a semantic quagmire, and the threads on what undefined behaviour is are interminable. But just note this time around that correctness is not the same as conformity.

The old fallacies of WWW site changes equals software changes, and unchanged code equals non-existence, and Wikipedia being gospel for computing topics, rear their ugly heads again…

For comparison: NetBSD, as headlined, supports Berkeley LFS and WAPBL journalling on FFS.

MirOS BSD is still around, too.

As someone who has used old BSDs, I can say from direct experience that it does not. For starters, on the old BSDs there was no Almquist shell, unless you went to Usenet, grabbed t…

Did you read the JSON file?

If you're going to support the ADM-3A terminal up/down navigation characters k and j, also support the vi navigation characters Control+N and Control+P. And Control+S and Control+Q…

Forwarding proxy DNS servers leading to a (yes) single resolving proxy DNS server at the end. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/dns-server-roles.html

It's bad the other way, too. btop on a 50×232 terminal over an actual 57600 BPS serial line is unusable, even in 16-colour mode. It does not have even the most basic of full-screen…

Well, unless one is using FreeBSD or OpenBSD, where the btop code is still using 32-bit integers to calculate 64-bit sizes, and falling prey to unsigned integer wraparound. htop's …

Screws have been around for about 3 millennia at this point. They have patently failed to obviate the use of nails. So by this analogy we can expect the 'Only GPUs do the work.' be…

It's already C64 BASIC inside an SQL server. Don't give them ideas of emulating a cassette tape, with Datasette for PostgreSQL, too! (-:

Ports is on 1.4.7. * https://freshports.org/sysutils/btop/ The fix is still pending being even made to the origin version. * https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/pull/1728

It's the version where a committee put in em-dashes to replace Jefferson's semi-colons, if those pictures are accurate. This is not unexpected given the provenance; but a semi-colo…

Actually, it's orthodox; and it's fetch that isn't. FreeBSD is actually the odd one out, for having an extra tool for doing the same thing. The ftp tool in all of the BSDs, includi…

That does not really present any argument that we should be teaching your way of working to VIM novices, instead of teaching them the obvious arrow keys first and the hjkl navigati…

The arrow keys can be used as motions for operators in VIM. Try them. This is also true for nvi.

Yes, hjkl navigation is certainly one of the things that should learn about a vi clone. But are novices well served, in the 2020s, by that being the primary thing that they learn b…

Given what is discussed in the commentary to the post, I wonder whether the author would be amenable to some Doxygen.

Also: You boot from the 'system' volume, and the operating system is stored on the 'boot' volume. (-: * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/boot-and-system-volumes.html 'Windows subsystem for' ac…

I wonder how many people immediately thought about whether similar things had been snuck into xfishtank and xpenguins.

The naïveté of that position is that the users are not informed ahead of time that there's a random chance of a political protest popping up on their screen, so do not get to make …

It is interesting to read M. Allbery's comment side by side with the discussion here on Hacker News about a CLAUDE.EXE program with hidden behaviour that subtly changes the way tha…

I am sure that DARPA, BBN, USC Information Sciences Institute, and many others will be overjoyed to learn that they've been erased from history by the new narrative that Venture Ca…

I am wondering whether there will be any effect to petition e-7124. It seems unlikely, to me. * https://noscommunes.ca/petitions/fr/Petition/Details?Petitio...