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It's just a shell prompt. There really won't be much in the way of bugs. And it's popular. Doing a quick scan of github issues, there's no shortage of questions where some other ra…

> If zsh has its completion fully configured by default, there will be no need for most people to turn knobs nor will it be a "half decent shell." It'll be the best shell, if it is…

If you've only compared against zsh's out-of-the-box completion then you're comparing against the fully backward compatible with how things were in 1993 state. Turn on compinit, an…

I'd be rather skeptical about the "fix" of updating the completion cache once a day only. Enabling oh-my-zsh already runs `compinit` and it does so after changing the function path…

Has anyone actually got this llama stuff to be usable on even moderate hardware? I find it just crashes because it doesn't find enough RAM. I've got 2G of VRAM on an AMD graphics c…

This article implies that you have to use NAT with Wireguard which really isn't the case at all. Normal subnet routing works fine provided your destination hosts know to use the wi…

This really looks quite useful. Pity it doesn't do RSS feeds as that'd be an easier way to follow projects.

I've always found the fact that zsh copes with NUL characters in variables etc to be really useful. I can see why this approach makes sense for OpenBSD but they can't prevent NULs …

When I was studying in the late 80s / early 90s, the text books contrasted the "old" waterfall approach with the more "modern" iterative approach. That was long before Agile or wha…

We use Oracle Linux where I work because we used to use Solaris. At one point it looked suspiciously like Redhat had explicitly removed support for some Oracle hardware from their …

If you want to grant particular systemctl start/stops to normal users, that can be done with policykit,

You can do `zfs set copies=2` for a ZFS dataset if you think there's value in the extra copies. That's better than a copy of the file because with a single bad block, the checksum …

My workplace has been using ZFS for years. I've yet to see an alternative come close to being compelling. We use OpenZFS on all our RHEL servers and even workstations with XFS for …

Maybe salaries are crazy in Silicon Valley, but in Europe I really don't see this. I got a decent starting salary 25 years ago but having remained in a technical role I've never go…

Letters she sent were decoded at the time. The evidence leading to her being executed was largely based on that. It is a simple substitution cipher so vulnerable to letter frequenc…

Companies are always finding ways to justify lacks of pay rise. The company I was working for got acquired by a much bigger company with all these complex procedures in place and t…

I assume the author is realigning to get only one bit for each letter. This relies on having an alphabet of 26 characters where 26 is less than the 32 available in a u32. In most r…

What this shows is that a lot of people don't use bookmarks but simply search for things every time. Google probably tries to nudge people in this direction because it is better fo…

I long ago concluded that trying to line stuff up in columns like this in code is a mistake. It often results in realignment of blocks for small changes so what should be a small d…

Many things are similar. What differences bother a particular user will vary. In many cases, zsh's approach is better so the value of crippling it is questionable. A common example…

The shell's defaults are conservative because when you change the defaults you change the setup of many existing users. So unconfigured, the shells feel much the same as they did t…

Even with Java 1.4 the obvious mapping of class diagrams to data structures made for terrible data structures. You end up with an interconnected maze of objects that is totally ine…

Seems like a nice idea but choosing recipients based on popularity is not going to reach the most deserving. Of the nominees, they should cut it down to those who are doing open so…

I migrated to mblaze after many years with MH and nmh, mostly because the Maildir backend allowed me to serve mail out as IMAP to have access from a mobile. Some things it does muc…

If you need to see the output of commands and tasks in ansible, select a different output callback. Where I want something rudimentary, I use `ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=json` and a t…