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My mail notifier avoids interrupting me (2010)
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3 points
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todsacerdoti
5 months ago
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Connecting M.2 drives to various things (and not doing so)
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59 points
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kencausey
5 months ago
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54 comments
Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems
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62 points
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zdw
5 months ago
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64 comments
The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web
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7 points
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ingve
5 months ago
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Getting Linux nflog and tcpdump packet filters to sort of work together
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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2 points
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speckx
5 months ago
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ZFS scrubs check (much) less than you probably think they do (2018)
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3 points
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susam
5 months ago
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1 comment
How not to check or poll URLs, as illustrated by Fediverse software
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6 points
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zdw
5 months ago
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Being Nibbled to Death by Moths
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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2 points
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thelastgallon
5 months ago
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Another reason to use expendable email addresses for everything
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27 points
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ingve
5 months ago
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13 comments
Implementing a basic equivalent of OpenBSD's pflog in Linux nftables
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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11 points
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zdw
5 months ago
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Abuse systems should handle email reports that use MIME message/rfc822 parts
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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2 points
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thomasjb
5 months ago
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The problem of Python's version dependent paths for packages
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4 points
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ingve
5 months ago
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Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring
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24 points
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bobbiechen
5 months ago
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8 comments
I'm working to switch from wget to curl (due to Fedora)
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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3 points
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josephcsible
5 months ago
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Starting scripts with ' /usr/bin/env <whatever>' is rarely useful
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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5 points
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ingve
6 months ago
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1 comment
Some practical challenges of access management in 'IAM' systems
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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3 points
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gm678
6 months ago
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People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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90 points
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sugarpimpdorsey
6 months ago
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58 comments
Another thing V7 Unix gave us is environment variables
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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2 points
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ingve
6 months ago
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Unix had good reasons to evolve since V7 (and had to)
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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6 points
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ingve
6 months ago
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2 comments
Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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166 points
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zdw
6 months ago
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past
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49 comments
Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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126 points
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blobcode
6 months ago
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86 comments
Projects can't be divorced from the people involved in them
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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5 points
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zdw
6 months ago
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past
Checklists are hard, but still a good thing
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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171 points
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zdw
6 months ago
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past
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84 comments
People want someone to be responsible for software that fails
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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4 points
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zdw
6 months ago
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Doing web things with CGIs is mostly no longer a good idea
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4 points
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ingve
6 months ago
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Filesystems and the problems of exposing their internal features
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3 points
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colinprince
6 months ago
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(Maybe) understanding how to use systemd-socket-proxyd
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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2 points
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zdw
6 months ago
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What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature
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2 points
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colejohnson66
6 months ago
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The easiest way to interact with programs is to run them in terminals
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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2 points
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ingve
6 months ago
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past
Filesystems and the problems of exposing their internal features
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utcc.utoronto.ca
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4 points
by
ingve
6 months ago
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past
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