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bool, true, and false as native keywords are on track to show up in C23. https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2393.pdf

> I'm pretty sure even OpenBSD packages OpenSSL in ports for third party software, since so many pieces of software basically require it and do not work with LibreSSL anymore. Theo…

Good post! I must point out, though, the correct symbol for minutes and seconds is actually the prime. As in, 10° 33′ 19″.

I do the same, except instead of xmodmap I use “setxkbmap -option compose:ralt” (plus a few other options) as described in the xkeyboard-config(7) manpage. It has some useful featu…

That’s the Unicode way of doing things (which I heartily subscribe to), but in ASCII’s original conception what you describe as “abuse” was a feature. For instance, in RFC 20 which…

In the old days of ASCII several characters were heavily overloaded. On teletypes it was not unusual to create accented characters by typing ` or ' (which looked more like ´), then…

When that day comes, a machine running sshd on a high port will have to be wiped, because how can you trust that nobody’s scanned your ports, exploited your server, and eliminated …

If animals in nature had a defense against predators as effective as “PasswordAuthentication no”, they wouldn’t need camouflage.

> You can maintain a .ssh/config file with all the port that you used (and backup it) Once you start distributing config files to all your clients you might as well switch to keypa…

Do people using high ports actually check their logs enough for it to matter?

The thesis of the article, that security through obscurity is underrated, is “because it has a low implementation cost and it usually works well.” But I contest both of those thing…

The article mentions that two of her books ( The House of Arden and The Railway Children ) are being republished this fall. That said, her copyrights have expired, so they’re also …

Star Wars is a particularly salient example because the original cuts that made the films such cultural icons are completely unavailable from anyone other than third‐party sellers,…

The article mentions GOG’s movie selection (which is indeed extremely limited: https://www.gog.com/en/movies ). It’s worth pointing out that Vimeo also provides some DRM‐free digit…

Complete scans of Harvard Classics, a notable predecessor to Britannica’s Great Books collection, are available on the Archive: https://archive.org/details/harvardclassics?tab=abou…

Another commenter posted a source that mentions in passing that ISO 8601 was the result of a 1978 UN declaration that Monday should be the first day of the week. Now I wonder where…

You’re not wrong that “the Sabbath day” has sometimes been used by Christians to refer to Sunday, but the context of this thread is that a comment claimed that calling Sunday the f…

Thanks for the link. It had another interesting fact: > In 1978, the UN recommended that Monday be made the first day of the week in most countries. It was established in 1988, acc…

I’m actually really interested in this. Clearly in Jesus’s time the Hebrew week went Sunday–Saturday. That definition remained at least for long enough to make into Ecclesiastical …

> > What is agreed upon by near universal scholarly consensus is instead that Jesus was baptized and crucified. > You're going to need an awful lot of citations there. > Firstly, d…

What’s unlikely about that? The Jewish seventh‐day Sabbath is literally the founding principle of the seven‐day week.

I’ve seen this theory proposed, but is it actually widely accepted by historians? Wikipedia says that a connection “has been suggested”[0], which doesn’t seem like very strong word…

> Moreover, most of European countries where workweek starts on Monday already consider it the 1st day of the week, why can't US do the same and be done with it? What benefit would…

There’s a good exchange in the classic video game Star Control 2 (now open source, available in most package managers as “uqm”), when the player encounters a species of plant‐like …

Then why does the US, a very young culture compared to Europe, universally consider Sunday the first day of the week? Calling Sunday the seventh day must be a very recent developme…