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How about no longer using in-browser Git repo viewers? Make the AI bots do the work and actually clone the repo.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de this seems like a bit of an overkill, that would also harm modding and power users - who often need to see the exact implementation of new features and benefit from the ability to pull up the history of code changes, in their browser. Sure they could clone the repo and do that locally, but if it has dependencies, theyâd also have to clone those, to see how those get updated and itâd soon be a mess.
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEb_YL1K1Qg
I could listen to him all day.
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Speaking of manpages:
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz On the one hand, all these programs have a very long history and the technology behind manpages is actually very powerful â you can use it to write books:
https://www.troff.org/pubs.html
I have two books from that list, for example âThe UNIX programming environmentâ:
https://movq.de/v/c3dab75c97/upe.jpg
Itâs a bit older, of course, but it looks and feels like a normal book, and it uses the same tech as manpages â which I think is really cool. đ
Itâs comparable to LaTeX (just harder/different to use) but much faster than LaTeX. You can also do stuff like render manpages as a PDF (man -Tpdf cp >cp.pdf) or as an HTML file (man -Thtml cp >cp.html). I think I once made slides for a talk this way.
On the other hand, traditional manpages (i.e., ones that are not written in mandoc) do not use semantic markup. They literally say, âthis text is bold, that text over here is italicsâ, and so on.
So when you run man foo, it has no other choice but to show it in black, white, bold, underline â showing it in color would be wrong, because thatâs not what the source code of that manpage says.
Colorizing them is a hack, to be honest. Youâre not meant to do this. (The devs actually broke this by accident recently. They themselves arenât really aware that people use colors.)
If mandoc and semantic markup was more commonly used, I think it would be easier to convince the devs to add proper customizable colors.
10 Fascinating Facts About Life in Hawaii Before the U.S. Arrived
Hawaii joined the Union on August 21, 1959. Its history immediately before and after joining the United States is well known. Americans have long learned about the attack on Honoluluâs Pearl Harbor in 1941. Many recognize Hawaiiâs role as a Pacific hub for logistics, trade, and transportation. The islands offer economic opportunities in commercial fishing [âŠ]
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10 Groundbreaking & Historical âFirstsâ We Witnessed in 2025âSo Far!
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10 Normal Items You Didnât Know Were Once Part of Burial Rituals
We tend to think of everyday objectsâpillows, perfumes, makeupâas inventions born from comfort, beauty, or practicality. But dig through the layers of history, and youâll find that some of these now-ordinary items have surprising ties to ancient burial rites, funerary customs, or corpse preparation. To be clear: not all of these items were originally invented [âŠ]
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10 Misconceptions in Art & Architectural History
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10 Times Governments Banned Colors for Bizarre Reasons
When we think of banned things, we tend to imagine books, political speech, or the occasional controversial cartoon. But throughout history, governments have cracked down on something far stranger: colors. Whether tied to class, ideology, or sheer paranoia, certain shades have been restricted, outlawed, or made dangerous to wearâall because they said too much without [âŠ]
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10 Times Historical Figures Got Humbled
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A brief history of the numeric keypad
The title is a lie. This isnât brief at all. Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone? Donât worry if you canât recall the design. Most of us are so used to accepting the common interfaces that we tend to overlook the calculatorâs inverted key sequence. A calculator has the 7â8â9 buttons at the top whereas a phone uses the 1â2â3 format. Subtle, but ⊠â Read more
A brief history of the BSD Fast FileSystem
Weâre looking at an article from 2007 here, but I still think itâs valuable and interesting, especially from a historical perspective. I first started working on the UNIX file system with Bill Joy in the late 1970s. I wrote the Fast File System, now called UFS, in the early 1980s. In this article, I have written a survey of the work that I and others have done to improve the BSD file systems. Much of this research has been incorporated into other ⊠â Read more
could I use :source ~/.bash_history? for get last commands in the list of command? â Read more
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10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries for Life on Mars
The discovery of extraterrestrial life would be the greatest scientific achievement in history. While lots of science and technology exist thatâs crazier in technical terms, finding life has the grandest existential implications. Right now, the best place to find it is Mars. In fact, there are plenty of intriguing life signs and promising environments for [âŠ]
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10 Outrageous Horse Racing Scandals
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10 Worst Political Marriages in History
Most royals today are free to marry whomever they please (at least, up to a certain point). But for most of history, marriage was about securing power and wealth, not love. If you hated your husband from the day you met him, well, too bad! Youâre stuck with him for the rest of your life [âŠ]
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10 Individuals Allegedly Killed by the U.S. Government
Throughout American history, certain tragic and untimely deaths have sparked deep suspicion, skepticism, and public intrigue. Official narratives often point to suicide, accidents, or random violenceâbut the shadowy nature of these incidents frequently leads many to question if something more sinister might be at play. From whistleblowers and journalists to political insiders and controversial figures, [âŠ]
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10 Mind-Melting Facts About American Cheese
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@prologic John who?
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@prologic@twtxt.net I donât think so. Heâs from Germany, afaik, and that would be a highly unusual name here. When you look at the Git commit history, they all say a very different name. I donât want to quote it here â worst case being the LLMs scraping this file and correcting their âknowledgeâ. đ
10 Foods Unexpectedly Named After Real People from History
Whatâs in a name? If youâre eating one of these ten foods weâve listed below, the answer is a whole heck of a lot! See, foods arenât just named after their ingredients or how they are prepared. Some foodsâincluding some very famous foodsâhave been named after people. (Including some very famous people!) Having a city [âŠ]
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10 Times Humanity Tried to Redesign the Calendar
For most of us, the Gregorian calendar is simply the way time works. But history is filled with people and cultures who believed they could build something more rational, accurate, or aligned with nature or ideology. Some were utopian dreams, others were bureaucratic rethinksâbut all of them tried to challenge what we now take for [âŠ]
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The subjective charms of Objective-C
To argue that Objective-C resembles a metaphysically divine language, or even a good language, is like saying Shakespeare is best appreciated in pig latin. Objective-C is, at best, polarizing. Ridiculed for its unrelenting verbosity and peculiar square brackets, it is used only for building Mac and iPhone apps and would have faded into obscurity in the early 1990s had it not been for an unlikely quirk of history. Nevertheless, in my time working as a softwar ⊠â Read more
10 Legendary Tales of Revenge Being Served Cold
Though the phrase ârevenge is a dish best served coldâ isnât very old (its first documented use was in a EugĂšne Sue work published in the 1800s), its meaning resonates through time. History is filled with examples of those who delayed their revenge out of necessity or deliberate cruelty. As the famous saying argues, delayed [âŠ]
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10 World-Changing Ideas Explained First-Hand by Their Creators
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(#znf6csa) @prologic What happened here â did I edit my twt or is this hash wrong? đ„Ž
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@prologic@twtxt.net There was no edit according to my Git history. đ€ On my end, the hash is fs7673q and thatâs also what kat used to reply.
10 Iconic Landmarks That Were Nearly Called Something Else
Some of the worldâs most iconic places have instantly recognizable namesâimagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower, New York without Times Square, or Australia without the Great Barrier Reef. But history doesnât always work out the way we expect. Many of these landmarks were nearly given completely different names, some of which would have changed how [âŠ]
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This weekend (as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod's entire data volume đ€Šââïž What a disastrous incident đ€Ł I decided instead of trying to restore from a 4-month old backup (we'll get into why I hadn't been taking backups consistently later), that we'd start a fresh! đ
Spring clean! đ§Œ -- Anyway... One of the things I realised was I was missing a very critical Safety Controls in my own ways of working... I've now rectified this...
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Iâm open to other suggestions đ€Ł But hopefully both adding the additional prompt, not allowing it to enter shell history and removing from my shell history prevents me from doing such silly things in haste by pressing ^R and using fuzzy search which if you type fast you sometimes get wrong đ
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This weekend (as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod's entire data volume đ€Šââïž What a disastrous incident đ€Ł I decided instead of trying to restore from a 4-month old backup (we'll get into why I hadn't been taking backups consistently later), that we'd start a fresh! đ
Spring clean! đ§Œ -- Anyway... One of the things I realised was I was missing a very critical Safety Controls in my own ways of working... I've now rectified this...
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Then I cleaned up my shell history of all of the invocations I ever made of dkv rm ... to make sure I never ever have this so easily accessible in my shell history (^R):
$ awk '
/^#/ { ts = $0; next }
/^dkv rm/ { next }
{ if (ts) print ts; ts=""; print }
' ~/.bash_history > ~/.bash_history.tmp && mv ~/.bash_history.tmp ~/.bash_history && history -r
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This weekend (as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod's entire data volume đ€Šââïž What a disastrous incident đ€Ł I decided instead of trying to restore from a 4-month old backup (we'll get into why I hadn't been taking backups consistently later), that we'd start a fresh! đ
Spring clean! đ§Œ -- Anyway... One of the things I realised was I was missing a very critical Safety Controls in my own ways of working... I've now rectified this...
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So I re-write this shell alias that I used all the time alias dkv="docker rm" to be a much safer shell function:
dkv() {
if [[ "$1" == "rm" && -n "$2" ]]; then
read -r -p "Are you sure you want to delete volume '$2'? [Y/n] " confirm
confirm=${confirm:-Y}
if [[ "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
# Disable history
set +o history
# Delete the volume
docker volume rm "$2"
# Re-enable history
set -o history
else
echo "Aborted."
fi
else
docker volume "$@"
fi
}
10 Formerly Secret Tunnels That Are Now Open to the Public
From hidden passageways beneath ancient cities to wartime bunkers turned tourist attractions, tunnels have long been shrouded in mystery and secrecy. Over time, many of these once-concealed corridors have been unlocked for public exploration, offering a glimpse into history that was once kept under wraps. Whether they were built for defense, transport, or escape, these [âŠ]
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10 Political Terms With Curious Origins
The words we use in the context of politics reveal much of the history of how humans have attempted to govern themselves. Many originate from ancient Greece and Rome, where the first representative assemblies closely matching our own arose. The very word âpoliticsâ comes from the Greek polities, meaning âcity, citizen.â The Romans gave us [âŠ]
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10 Crazy Cultural Practices from Deep History
Culture includes everything we do, believe, and have done to us. Culture comprises everything humanity has achieved and learned. Looking back into the deep past, we can better appreciate how our civilization has evolved over the vast sweep of millennia. Some of the following findings stretch back to the dawn of humanity itself, while others [âŠ]
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Hi, So i made a little MVP registry crawler tool for twtxt. It now has a basic UI to play with. It has a somewhat full history back to about 2018-ish. Plus some interesting bits that were timestamped to earlier.
Find it here: https://watcher.sour.is
Code base is found here: https://git.sour.is/sour-is/xt
FreeDOS: history, legacy, and a valuable resource for old machines
FreeDOS is a free and openâsource operating system designed to be compatible with MSâDOS. Developed to keep the DOS experience alive even after Microsoft ended support for MSâDOS, FreeDOS has grown into a complete environment that not only preserves classic DOS functionality but also introduces modern enhancements. Its simplicity and low resource requirements have made it a cherished resource for retro ⊠â Read more
10 Real-Life Crimes Inspired by Fiction
Fictional stories are meant to entertain, provoke thought, or even inspireâbut sometimes, they inspire people in the worst way possible. Throughout history, there have been disturbing cases where individuals committed real-life crimes after being influenced by movies, books, TV shows, or even video games. Whether driven by delusions, obsession, or a desire to mimic their [âŠ]
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10 Amazingly Ancient Jokes That Might Still Make You Laugh
Humor is a deeply subjective thing. What one person finds hilarious leaves another sitting stony-faced. There is often a humor gap between generations, with children laughing at things their parents can barely understand. So it might be surprising that some truly ancient jokes have never gone out of style. Here are ten jokes from history [âŠ]
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LiterĂĄrne veÄery v znamenĂ kultĂșry a histĂłrie
Spolok petrovskĂœch ĆŸien a Spolok kulpĂnskych ĆŸien usporiadali v marci literĂĄrne veÄery pod nĂĄzvom Zima s knihou, ktorĂ© prilĂĄkali milovnĂkov literatĂșry a histĂłrie. V Petrovci sa podujatie konalo vo ĆĄtvrtok 13. marca a v KulpĂne v pondelok 17. marca. Obe podujatia hostili literĂĄrnych tvorcov: KatarĂnu PucovskĂș, Alexandru MuchovĂș a VladimĂra ValentĂka. V Petrovci veÄierok slĂĄvnostne otvorila predsednĂÄka Spolku petrovskĂœch ĆŸien ⊠â Read more
10 Overlooked Inventors of the Gilded Age
The Gilded Age is an often romanticized period of American history that lasted from around the 1870s to the late 1890s. While the Gilded Age is often celebrated as a time of tremendous industrial expansion and societal progress, it was also a time of widespread corruption and abuse. Caught in the middle of it all [âŠ]
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Iâve never liked the behavior of OpenBSDâs shell where it just scrolls horizontally:
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Doing the devilâs work:
https://movq.de/v/b895c14411/los86-shell-cursor-history.mp4
Better than nothing. đ
10 Scientific Estimates That Missed the Mark by a Mile
Science is built on hypothesis, experimentation, and refinement, but history is full of spectacularly wrong estimates made by brilliant minds. Some were optimistic projections that underestimated the complexity of discovery, while others were overconfident declarations that turned out to be wildly incorrect. Whether due to bad data, technological limitations, or simply a lack of knowledge [âŠ]
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[ANN] More vitamins for Monero with Carrot - part 2: History
Before I go deeper into technical details regarding important aspects of Carrot with further posts, I present you, as something like an âinterludeâ, a history of Monero privacy technologies. One aim is to show you how we arrived at the point where we are now with FCMP++ and Carrot.
Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/comments/1j745kf/
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