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> pip allows it but it's with a timestamp A PR to be able to use a relative timestamp in pip was merged just last week https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/13837/commits

You might like https://cs.brown.edu/~spr/codebubbles/

I used to like having a "depend" target to make the dependencies explicit and so minimize build time, although that fiddles with the contents of the Makefile (some discussion at ht…

Is it coming? I notice that OpenSSL now has support for raw public keys. The spec (RFC 7250, "Using Raw Public Keys in Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer S…

We already have Macaroons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroons_(computer_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon

And Layer Cake

There was a sense of "wasting a port". A modern Linux /etc/services has only 200 or so reserved TCP ports (out of a possible ~50k) so that fear might have been overblown. I suspect…

> you are supposed to still continue if you strictly follow the standard Which standard? RFC 3207 (for STARTTLS over SMTP), 2002, says: "If the client receives the 454 response [TL…

def execute(f) f.call "test response" end perform = TOPLEVEL_BINDING.method(:execute) perform.call Kernel.method(:puts)

You still need to pull out the paths? A sprinkling of grep/perl (awk/sed/ruby/...) is mostly good enough eg: strace -e trace=%file cat /etc/passwd 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep ^open | gr…

You can use "-e trace=open" to trace only open(2) calls Alternatively "-e trace=%file" to get all file-related system calls (will catch eg failing pre-emptive checks using access(3…

> whatever "SSH-2.0-SSHD" is (the authors don't know either) I think this is from the j2ssh/maverick SSH server, used in a bunch of enterprisey Java products. https://jadaptive.com…

Tangential question: there is one reason to use NODELETE in the dlopen(3) man page: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlopen.3.html RTLD_NODELETE (since glibc 2.2) Do not unloa…

The PDF ("sec23summer...") has metadata creation/modification timestamp of 20221004165319Z (October 2022). So presumably the paper was written last October and released for Usenix …

Slightly silly sketch (bash): sqlite-utils create-table ~/commands.db commands id integer text text --pk id PROMPT_COMMAND="( fc -n -l -1 | perl -p -e 's/^\s+//; chomp if eof' | sq…

I think one of the motivations for splitting the stdlib into gems was for exactly for this kind of scenario: some users might not be able to update their Ruby immediately. The ruby…

Rexml has been gemified. Shale's gemspec doesn't require a specific version of rexml and rexml See http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/04/05/xml-round-trip-v...

This old dog is reminded of trn(1), "threaded read news". See top right: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Trn_cons...

Cute! But I get an error if I try "require 'resolv'", is this expected? :85:in `require': cannot load such file -- socket (LoadError)

I wasn't aware of the figurative connotation, I will remember this next time I'm retreating from a climb. "HMS carabiner" is also common amongst anglophone climbers (for the "Halbm…

Is that due to SPECTRE & Meltdown mitigations?

Larry Wall, inventor of Perl: "We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris.", "Programming Perl", 1ed 2ed says: "Lazi…

LeGrand's Mosaic range is very similar. I would also be interested to know if there is a standard (although I suspect not). https://www.legrand.fr/catalogue/interrupteurs-et-prises…

A colleague used to call this "reading the manual in the bathroom".

I'm in a similar boat. I use pocket almost exclusively when I'm travelling. It works really well for that but I'd love to extend it. Eg download and store video content, or permit …