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LWN's article on unveil() is a good explanation - the restrictions are permanently applied to the process and its children until termination: https://lwn.net/Articles/767137/

Someone gave me a book called "Danger UXB", about the teams that removed unexploded bombs across the UK during and after WWII, which was unexpectedly fascinating. Incredibly danger…

It's hopefully not too tricky - it can't be packaged as a crate using (say) debcargo, as the install path still requires CMake. The Debian experimental package changes are mostly a…

The University Computer Club at UWA also has a door sensor! https://door-status.ucc.asn.au/ucc Runs off a Raspberry Pi with a bodged-up version of https://github.com/ide/pico-door-…

It's geek code in the cloud! https://web.archive.org/web/20090220181018/http://geekcode.c...

Mostly it's because you can't copy and paste stuff from blogs or Stack Overflow.

If you want to write C++03, that's true, but as a maintainer of the fish build system I was having to backport compilers in order to use C++11 features on supported systems until 2…

They're animated GIFs, which were an extension of the longstanding format and predate CSS

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Now that's how you write a headline.

It's the "similarily old" ZIP comparison for me

It's fine, I won't be staying up late just for HN points!

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

Interesting how much timing affects HN submissions https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/fish-shell

It doesn't even support named pipes - the function's been broken for years. Interestingly it doesn't actually seem to matter a great deal, at least now that temporary files are usu…