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> More sensible, IMHO, might be to bolt the FreeBSD user space unto the Linux kernel. Chimera Linux is doing something like this, although without aiming for the full BSD experienc…

Would muxfs be easily portable to other operating systems, or does it rely on non-standard APIs?

I have two accounts in my name, one for me personally and one for work. I got the offer on behalf of my employer, and was like; what would this even mean for this account? I'm pret…

> From the wizard's hat hangs something with various initials, maybe a tape, a tail(1) or a strip(1). Hah, why is the cat(1)'s tail(1) missing from the drawing? Talk about missed o…

Not at all since "case _:" is assigning to a variable you do not care about.

Are there any standalone Android RSS readers? What about for iOS?

You missed the second sentance. The length of the translated string is less critical for a tooltip compared to a toolbar filled with buttons. Imagine when an app is to be translate…

An elegant protocol for a more civilized age. (I'm sorry, just had to do that.)

What do others feel are the best maintained Linux software repositories today? Example candidates are: * Debian * RHEL * Slackware * pkgsrc * Nixpkgs * Guix From a quality, quantit…

That's why Rhapsody was absolute peak for me. Haiku might beat it, though I'm probably stuck on Linux anyway.

> How are you going to play music you've added in the last three years, but not heard for a month, from the "Latin" genre, with two or more stars, using only the file system? BeOS …

Maybe it's less of an issue because your window manager doesn't need to connect to ssh servers or even do any kind of heavy lifting.

Well, it's 3/4 the regular price, and they disable the daily filesystem snapshots. [0] So it's still 6x the price of B2, which made me go with Backblaze. [0] https://www.rsync.net/…

Ok, good to know, thanks. The point still stands that the receiver's client probably doesn't bother styling the message. I mean even if GMail, say, was persuaded to do it, Outlook …

That would be nice if it was standard for clients to display text/markdown rendered as styled text. This would require an actual standard for the markdown syntax though. Without th…

> f=$(mktemp) && ssh-keyscan korell > $f && ssh-keygen -l -f $f && rm $f > Unfortunately ssh-keygen does not support input from stdin, so this example is slightly more complicated …

That would mean two stages of password query, which I think might be a con. Also, the file names would either not be encrypted in the git repo or not be compatible with e.g. Androi…

For this reason I'm thinking of switching from gpg to encfs. It has an option for auto-unmounting after a period of unactivity. It would also play well with programs that need to r…

I guess the next OS revision you mention would be "Dano", which according to the Wikipedia article[0] was leaked on the day the company closed down. In that case, there should be q…

The very first web browser had editing built in. That's why HTTP has the concept of verbs in the first place! Otherwise GET would probably be implicit. Forms and POST came later, b…

Yes, for X11 the client/server roles are backwards so I shouldn't have included it in the list. I want to use my TV as a VNC/RDP client, and either buy a wireless keyboard for it, …

This. Shouldn't there be an app for my SmartTV to let it connect to a VNC/X11/RDP server?

Knowing what it's like to write an HTML rendering engine in Rust is especially useful since the purpose of this language in the first place is to write the next generation Mozilla …

This reminds me of Bedrock Linux, which allows you to run multiple linux distros on a single kernel instance. It does so using good old chroot, but has an implementation that is ca…

And then, even if all of the servers involved in delivering your mail communicate securely, the reciepent is going to reply in plain text, quoting your entire message...