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\_/________________________________________________________________________/Sounds like a lot of work compared to any good tiling window manager. Windows should be automatically maximized on opening, unless there are others on the desktop, in which case just hitting a two finger key chord should do it without requiring contorting a wrist or moving an entire forearm away from the home row.
Most of the projects on https://sr.ht/ (basically all that aren't only mirrored there from somewhere else) do (as it did itself).
¹requires configuration (under "Special Files and Screens", set "Visited Pages" to "As Visit Tree")
Surprisingly and unnecessarily so:
> ["DSV"] is to Unix what CSV (comma-separated value) format is under Microsoft Windows and elsewhere outside the Unix world. CSV (fields separated by commas, double quotes used to escape commas, no continuation lines) is rarely found under Unix.
> In fact, the Microsoft version of CSV is a textbook example of how not to design a textual file format. Its problems begin with the case in which the separator character (in this case, a comma) is found inside a field. The Unix way would be to simply escape the separator with a backslash, and have a double escape represent a literal backslash. This design gives us a single special case (the escape character) to check for when parsing the file, and only a single action when the escape is found (treat the following character as a literal). The latter conveniently not only handles the separator character, but gives us a way to handle the escape character and newlines for free. CSV, on the other hand, encloses the entire field in double quotes if it contains the separator. If the field contains double quotes, it must also be enclosed in double quotes, and the individual double quotes in the field must themselves be repeated twice to indicate that they don't end the field.
> The bad results of proliferating special cases are twofold. First, the complexity of the parser (and its vulnerability to bugs) is increased. Second, because the format rules are complex and underspecified, different implementations diverge in their handling of edge cases. Sometimes continuation lines are supported, by starting the last field of the line with an unterminated double quote — but only in some products! Microsoft has incompatible versions of CSV files between its own applications, and in some cases between different versions of the same application (Excel being the obvious example here).
— The Art of Unix Programming http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s02.html
It doesn't seem to support all of OpenBSD's privilege separation, but there are OpenBSD::Unveil(3p), OpenBSD::Pledge(3p), and https://github.com/rfarr/Unix-Pledge
¹(Edit) You can't make this stuff up: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211148
$ lua5.3
Lua 5.3.3 Copyright (C) 1994-2016 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> 2*3
6
$ rlwrap luajit
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 -- Copyright (C) 2005-2017 Mike Pall. http://luajit.org/
JIT: ON SSE2 SSE3 SSE4.1 AMD fold cse dce fwd dse narrow loop abc sink fuse
> 2*3
stdin:1: unexpected symbol near '2'
> =2*3
6That’s why eg. all Purism products with them have hardware kill switches (to physically disconnect them).
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen macOS users saying they can’t leave it in part because of Preview. But IDK if any have listed any features not present in both GNOME’s Evince and KDE’s Okular (not that I’ve ever needed or used any of the three).
TFA:
> Screen tearing with the intel driver. Come on. This was solved on xorg and now with Wayland it's back.
OpenBSD has canfield (solitaire), cribbage, [go]fish, mille [bornes], and even monop[oly] and bcd (format input as punch cards) out of the box (and way more! this is just a fraction of intro(6): http://man.openbsd.org/man6/intro.6). Unfortunately I’m not aware of any GNU distros that do, but you can get them with a simple `sudo apt install bsdgames` on Debian (also emacs has tons of games of course https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGames).
I don’t think this is unique to taxes at all, I don’t have a Twitter account or really use it but there’s one account I check regularly: https://nitter.cc/crimeaday (random example https://nitter.cc/CrimeADay/status/1091488611269332993#m).
I hadn’t heard of this, I assume you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26566925?
So for basic conversions like that, Fink isn’t worth reaching outside of my package manager (and I don’t want to use a web interface, I want a light, portable CLI tool). What I do find interesting is the date/time math (https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/#DateTimeHandling, that and maybe the text translation https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/#TextTranslation). I can use GNU date for some basic stuff, eg.…
# 2001-08-12 04:00 UTC #
date -d'2001-08-12 04:00 UTC'
Yes, IMO their business model is more accurately described as “gilded cages/jails” than just general “gilded/good-appearing stuff”. They deeply care about the strength of their DRM — including at the expense of end-user security, eg. you can’t access the internet through the Tor browser installed the normal macOS way without macOS broadcasting that you used Tor Project products to Apple’s DRM servers.¹
> They are pretty serious about trying to prevent data exfiltration from locked iOS devices as well.
They definitely care about the appearance of trying to prevent that exfiltrating (they don’t publicly appear to help the FBI do it), but they don’t try hard enough to actually prevent it (including in situations were preventing exfiltration seems to have been proven possible, see nearby comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667141).
¹Edit: ocsp.apple.com, enabling targeting of the people who need or want security the most.
To the people downvoting: I’m trying to make an evidence based refutation of the less supported speculation/assertions in the parent post. If you have counter-evidence or any reason to downvote other than fanboyism, please explain it so we or I can learn.
> Maybe she thought physical paper would be safer from digital surveillance than an email. So she printed the documents at her office [my emphasis] and then mailed them
Sounds like the tracking tech is implemented in the proprietary drivers. If only the free software movement had filled its original purpose (freeing printer drivers¹) for more models…
¹https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201...
Edit: looks like it may be in the firmware on the printer itself, not drivers on computers, as h-node warns of tracking even on printers with full compatibility with blobless, FSF-endorsed distros eg. Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre: https://h-node.org/printers/view/en/2215/HP-DeskJet-2700-ser...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26605151
Free speech means freedom to express “illegitimate” views, “the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered”. No one has reached a universal agreement on what “legitimate” criticism is. Of course there are often prevailing societal opinions, but those change with the society. Eg. the Federalist Papers were largely written by someone who was literally labeled “illegitimate” by society at his time (and were full of slurs, stereotypes, etc.¹). Someone who got killed in a duel — the meaning of civility changes with the civilization. IMO ours is at a fairly high point at the moment (in part because of the value placed on tolerance for differing values), but it’s only a matter of time before it inevitably collapses much like the Greek and Roman ones before it (likely in part because of intolerance for free expression).
¹Eg. stereotyping the Republics of Greece and Italy as “petty” and slurring opponents as “advocates of despotism”. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Federalist_(Dawson)/9