bthylafh @bthylafh@social.privacytools.io
Figment of the Internet's imagination. G+ and Usenet refugee.
Joined Jun 2019
@woozle Could be. I don't ever make it a link. My process is (on Windows) copying %APPDATA%\Mozilla to the new user folder in the same position and Firefox finds it every time. This method preserves the random profile folder names as well.
@woozle I can't say this has ever happened to me and I have done it literally hundreds of times on Windows machines, and a few on MacOS and Linux. Maybe you're missing a step?
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A fascinating idea. Viewing your browser tabs as part of the filesystem, allowing you to use standard Unix filesystem tools to view and manipulate the tab contents. The Unix "everything is a file" concept is still a powerful one.
Via Hacker News [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25600338 ]
@tindall Another rec for using borg for backup, and there's a nice GUI for it called vorta.
Otherwise FreeNAS is very nice and backing it up to an external drive or other host via ZFS snapshots is super easy.
@requiem I've been a paid VPN user for around 3 years now. I haven't used other VPN services so I can't compare it with others, but overall it's been a good experience.
You can pay monthly and the "plus" tier is $10 per month, so trying it for a month is pretty cheap.
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PDX (SE Stark), stolen vehicle, cop mention, please boost
Our truck just got stolen, if you see it, please reach out.
Our truck is a dark grey F350 diesel, with our bunk bed and 5th wheel hitch in the back, license plate #806-AQH (Oregon plates).
There were two yellow-lid tubs in the front passenger seat, and we have an aluminum box on the back that was secured with a single bungeecord.
Please boost.
If you know of any resources to help find a stolen vehicle like this please call it out...already putting in a police report, but are assuming they'll do basically nothing...we depend on our truck for work, housing, and...
...idk, everything?
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One fun thing about writing an emulator is you go through a phase where unimplemented functions expose rarely-seen error messages, like this one from SkiFree:
@sean Sarah Jarosz; she released a new album this year and her older stuff is great too. I also enjoy bluegrass / gangsta rap fusion like Gangstagrass.
@pzmyers I have a cow-orker who believes all kinds of conspiracy theories, up to and including that 9/11 was a controlled demolition. Even he looks down on flat-Earthers.
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The socially acceptable replacement for a handshake is now, "Wonder Twin powers, activate!"
@georgia not a DE but you might prefer the fish shell. byobu is nice for managing terminal stuff, sessions and windows and such.
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arnold schwarzenegger became a naturalized US citizen in 1983, around the same time that he started filming the first terminator film. in other words...
he terminated and stayed resident
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@feld "Next, we're going to use a PXE configuration to boot several FreeDOS VM's on this machine. We'll use the XMPP protocol to pass messages to the HURD Inter-Process Communicator on the main system so that these VMs can talk to each other."
"I-isn't XMPP an instant messaging protocol?!" a frightened acolyte cries out.
"Fool! It is a flexible protocol standard for passing data around! We can do everything we need with XEPs!" you bellow ominously as thunder mysteriously cracks. The weakling backs down.
You clack around on your vintage IBM keyboard, which you have garishly modified to contain Razer LEDs.
"There! It is done!"
The hard drive crunches and shrieks as a single JSONb tree containing thousands of x and y coordinates is dangerously vomited back and forth between mongodb instances and the oracle database. An Xterm application pops open, and, like fingernails on a chalkboard, pixels scratch into signage on an ncurses background.
"WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!"
"I-isn't XMPP an instant messaging protocol?!" a frightened acolyte cries out.
"Fool! It is a flexible protocol standard for passing data around! We can do everything we need with XEPs!" you bellow ominously as thunder mysteriously cracks. The weakling backs down.
You clack around on your vintage IBM keyboard, which you have garishly modified to contain Razer LEDs.
"There! It is done!"
The hard drive crunches and shrieks as a single JSONb tree containing thousands of x and y coordinates is dangerously vomited back and forth between mongodb instances and the oracle database. An Xterm application pops open, and, like fingernails on a chalkboard, pixels scratch into signage on an ncurses background.
"WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!"
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@feld there has to be. There must be!
"For our next activity, we'll be doing media encoding and decoding...inside of an Oracle database...using Haskell objects wrapped together like a nested burrito!"
"For the love of God, make it stop!" a nerd cries. You slap him.
"RMS cannot hear you now. But listen!"
"JooooIN uSss nOw aNddd ssssSharre tHe SoooftWAare..." the computer moans through a poorly implemented MT-32 chip.
"That was a DOS program," you cackle.
"For our next activity, we'll be doing media encoding and decoding...inside of an Oracle database...using Haskell objects wrapped together like a nested burrito!"
"For the love of God, make it stop!" a nerd cries. You slap him.
"RMS cannot hear you now. But listen!"
"JooooIN uSss nOw aNddd ssssSharre tHe SoooftWAare..." the computer moans through a poorly implemented MT-32 chip.
"That was a DOS program," you cackle.
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Imagine trolling a GNU/Linux User Group meetup by showing up and unironically showing off your GNU HURD / Haiku/ ReactOS hybrid to everyone there.
"I compiled it with LLVM", you say smugly, "and all of the libraries are system32 reimplementations running on a translation layer for the Haiku desktop runtime. The CPU is an old Setun chip that I ordered from Russia. The whole thing runs on balanced ternary instead of binary. The body is an OG Xbox and a Sun SPARC computer that I welded together. There's an Amiga X1000 co-processor in there."
The head of the group glares at you. Veins are throbbing in his temples. Sweat is running down his brow.
"It also features a TempleOS emulator."
He blacks out. You have bested him. You push him out of his chair, and sit in it.
"This is my user group now," you announce sternly. The Linux users cower in fear as you fire up a TempleOS app.
"Oh, mighty Temple," you pray, voice booming fearsomely, "what shall we do next?"
"I compiled it with LLVM", you say smugly, "and all of the libraries are system32 reimplementations running on a translation layer for the Haiku desktop runtime. The CPU is an old Setun chip that I ordered from Russia. The whole thing runs on balanced ternary instead of binary. The body is an OG Xbox and a Sun SPARC computer that I welded together. There's an Amiga X1000 co-processor in there."
The head of the group glares at you. Veins are throbbing in his temples. Sweat is running down his brow.
"It also features a TempleOS emulator."
He blacks out. You have bested him. You push him out of his chair, and sit in it.
"This is my user group now," you announce sternly. The Linux users cower in fear as you fire up a TempleOS app.
"Oh, mighty Temple," you pray, voice booming fearsomely, "what shall we do next?"
@dredmorbius "this doesn't seem healthy", heh. Takes all kinds.
@FreePietje @liw There's also "cheat": https://github.com/cheat/cheat
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Every manpage should have an EXAMPLES that shows how to do the very basic, most obvious thing with the command line tool or library function.
Figment of the Internet's imagination. G+ and Usenet refugee.
Joined Jun 2019
