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sirmac1k

29 karma · joined October 17, 2015

solving problems since 2007, hacker, programmer, devops/SRE, cybersecurity trainer.
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sirmac1k··on Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good?
Speaking from my experience in Poland for example, in order to open legal herbalism therapy practice or herbal shop you need to pass two exams (usually preceded by a course with both theoretical and practical lessons) and gain government registered certificate. In case of a shop you also have to adhere to quire strictly controlled requirements based on what type of products you want to sell. If you want to grow and then sell herbs you have to obtain separate certificate (again by passing exams and complying with all requirements for your plantation and rest of the process) and grow them using seeds originating from government mandated sources.
sirmac1k··on Please help improve Magit
Subscribed. Big thanks to all Magit developers for creating one of the best pieces of software that I have a pleasure to use daily.
sirmac1k··on C++23 “Pandemic Edition” is complete
Stroustrup++ (;
sirmac1k··on C++23 “Pandemic Edition” is complete
I see him right there on the bottom right in remote participants section. Last row, 4th from the right.
sirmac1k··on OpenBSD 7.1
Thanks. Unfortunately that's what I was afraid of. I need it mostly in TTY, so still gonna wait for some improvements there.
sirmac1k··on OpenBSD 7.1
Does anyone know what is the current state of UTF-8 support in OpenBSD?

Last time I tired it I had big problems with it in base install. Both editors and mandoc were falling short in that regard.

sirmac1k··on Unix as IDE (2012)
terminal emulator by suckless https://st.suckless.org/
sirmac1k··on Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
With online photo galleries either private or work related for many years I'm always relaying on piwigo. It's great, handy and easy to setup after the first try. We're hosting even big internal photo archives with upload via ftp, and piwigo does a great job at handling it.
sirmac1k··on Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
After reading resignation you've linked... That's no way to lead an innovation. Especially for such a big FOSS project.

Automattic's position of quite verbally "throwing" Gutenberg at users and developers at any cost just shows a really bad example of business driven FOSS project as a base for commercial product (.org for .com).

A11y is just one of the victims. Other community members creating WordPress based websites, services and plugins (myself included) are mostly thrown overboard as a collateral damage. Either learn react fast and figure Gutenberg out by yourself or maybe we'll let you come back later if and when we get to work at least on some documentation and the well-known issues that affect you. With Gutenberg's extensibility being the biggest and most harming one for WP ecosystem.

sirmac1k··on OpenBSD Foundation Receives Silver Contribution from John Carmack
While there isn't many companies supporting obsd officially it took me a little over 5 minutes to spin it on my own VPS at OVH.

So if your provider gives you the access to kvm console you just need to download bsd.rd, add GRUB entry and reboot. Do your install and you're a happy OpenBSD user in the cloud.

In the next step I think I'll automate that process with bash/ansible and autoinstall file.

sirmac1k··on What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012)
I loved reading this comment. Thank you for this long quote which contains few familiar thoughts. I've shared similar points during one of my presentations few years back.

Yet years passed and we in FLOSS world seem to be stuck in the same place. We're creating more and more overbloated-I-do-it-all-better software than to improve with small drop in solutions. We can see that the only integration efforts are done by replacement of small good tools with crappy rewrite inclusions. Not compilation and redistribution of original small but good software following good old UNIX pipeline philosophy.

Sure, the are projects like suckless keeping up the good work but there is no connection with more mainstream solutions like Ubuntu or KDE. Which instead of serving with experience about UX and stuff do their own rewrites according to their own APIs.

Writing independent GUI applications becomes more and more of a chore. So many different ways of doing simple things to support. Like multimedia keys or even a tray icon. Try to do it for multiple operating ststems: you do macOS, Windows and when it comes to Linux: Unity, Gnome, KDE and there is I think still at least standard X-window way of doing things for others which should work quite fine for other UNIX based open operating systems.

sirmac1k··on Systemd v228 local root exploit
I personally vote for it as a feature, makes nice effect on my desk. Little WOW effect for colleagues.
sirmac1k··on Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser
My stable from Ubuntu repositories for 15.04 just gives me segmentation fault. It's a shame that bug tracker is currently broken. Gonna try with Ubuntu devs.