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

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