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A direct link to the Ubuntu post https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/8...

Some of this elegance discussed from a programmatic point of view https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/utf8_programming.html

LOL (I used to work for Meta, so appreciate the facetious understatement)

It seems dotslash would complement uv well https://dotslash-cli.com/docs/ DotSlash to get the interpreter for your platform, and uv to get the dependencies. Perfect for corporate s…

GRUB is mentioned but not detailed. Here are some details: https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/14d24f7a5 That bring GNU date(1) line coverage from 79.8% to 87.1%

I see you use flags to determine if a file needs syncing. When we used fiemap within GNU cp we required FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC to get robust operation. (We have since removed the fiemap …

The benchmark is against unibyte text. You would get more accurate results by doing `export LC_ALL=C` in your benchmark script

Note the terminal -> HTML conversion used to serve wttr.in is based on https://github.com/pixelb/scripts/blob/master/scripts/ansi2h...

A similar tool for ini files https://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/crudini/

I wrote about ASCII and UTF-8 elegance at: https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/utf8_programming.html

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The commit with more details on that perf change is: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/fcfba90d0d27a1... A summary of other changes just released in GNU coreutils 9.5 a…

(Hi Giuseppe!) Right, the standard centos system binaries are used to provision services and manage hardware. The internal services linking against the runtime libs you mention, ar…

Use ldd on any service binary to see that it's linked against a separate distro. (It's best to use the ldd from the corresponding platform). There are actually three distros on eac…

It's worth noting that this discusses the centos based provisioning and hardware management platform. The actual distribution used to _run_ all Meta backend services is completely …

Reminds me of my website from 2006 (not entirely reproduced) at https://web.archive.org/web/20060208131821/http://www.pixelb...

Definitely not

All the main platforms have realpath(1). It was added to GNU Linux over 10 years ago now, to aid portability, and be a more natural command to access this functionality than readli…

Yes, macos takes its utils from FreeBSD. An interesting factoid is that FreeBSD/macos sort(1) was using GNU code until recently, since this is quite tricky to implement. Eventually…

czkawka is basically a rust port of my python FSlint tool, which I no longer have time to maintain: https://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/

Padding is only required if concatenating / streaming encoded data. I.e. when there are padding chars _within_ the encoded stream. Padding chars at the end (of stream / file / stri…

We generally give credit if at all possible. Even if a patch is extensively adjusted, we'll commit under the original author's name

I optimized yes because: * The fast version is still simple enough * The general functionality being provided is to output arbitrary data repeatedly, and it can be useful to do thi…