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copperbrick25on Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

Tried it out for a minute and it crashed because I had a broken recursive symlink in my home directory:

1. Create a recursive symlink to itself: `ln -s test test`

2. open superfile and navigate to it.

3. Observe crash

copperbrick25on The most prolific packager for Alpine Linux is stepping away

What issues exactly did you have with contributing? I found it very easy to contribute to alpine, I wrote an APKBUILD, created a pull request, someone reviewed my PR and pointed out an issue, I fixed it and my PR was merged. I can't think of a way that could be made any easier.

copperbrick25on P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)

I looked at multiple messages on that website and the pattern seems to be triple letters are for single letters and abbreviations. My theory is because if you get a letter wrong in a word and "possible" becomes "possifle" then it is still intelligible, but if "u five one four" means u-boat 514 and you get the U wrong, then it could end up as A514 and mean something airplane 514, so to be safe the letter u gets transmitted thrice.

copperbrick25on Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

same here, firefox on arch. Right after it finished loading and I selected a team my browser crashed.

copperbrick25on Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

All I can say is that this site crashed Firefox on arch linux.

copperbrick25on Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files

Sadly XPS is not supported by most software, I'd love to use something better than PDF, but even LibreOffice can't export as OXPS.

copperbrick25on Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant

Since when does police issue warrants? A warrant is issued by a judge, unless it somehow works differently in the US. I assume police just didn't do anything with that warrant.