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bgm1975 commented on I set my phone to 'do not disturb' three years ago – and have never looked back theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/jethronethro

jwnin · 6 months ago

Would be interested in seeing how the author's position has evolved in a few years when her children are in school, have activities, are with friends and need a pick up.

bgm1975 · 6 months ago

You can set contacts to bypass do-not-disturb settings. At least on the iPhone you can.

bgm1975 commented on Okay, I Like WezTerm alexplescan.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/alexpls

vladvasiliu · a year ago

X11, the "old" [0] Linux graphics server.

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[0] "old" because there's a new kid in town: wayland.

bgm1975 · a year ago

And a middle-age'd man named XFree86 lol.

bgm1975 commented on Leafy vegetables found to contain tire additives e360.yale.edu/digest/tire... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

bgm1975 · a year ago

No one thing is going to "fix our environmental problems." Only by doing a lot of "things" can we hope to "fix" our problems.

bgm1975 commented on Lunatik: Lunatik is a framework for scripting the Linux kernel with Lua github.com/luainkernel/lu... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

lneto · a year ago

Happy to see this on HN =). Lunatik’s main author here. AMA.

Please feel welcome to join us on Matrix [1] as well.

[1] https://matrix.to/#/#lunatik:matrix.org

bgm1975 · a year ago

What are some of the main use cases for this project?

bgm1975 commented on Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell github.com/xonsh/xonsh... · Posted by u/thunderbong

theli0nheart · 2 years ago

I recently (i.e., yesterday) migrated my 15+ year old bash config to zsh. zsh has some great quality of life improvements compared to bash and is basically 1-1 compatible. I had to spend about an hour migrating my prompt, but other than that it was a smooth transition.

zsh is now the default shell in macOS, so I'd say it's a safe bet if that's what you work with.

bgm1975 · 2 years ago

I switched a few years ago and while there's a lot to like about (and power in) zsh, there's a lot i really dislike about it. For starters, it adds so much additional functionality and compatibility that the documentation (man pages are terrible). Also, the additional history & variable expansion capabilities are messy/ugly in shell syntax (imho). I think ultimately the problem is that, for shell scripting, bash has clearly won, but other shells show that there's room for an alternative specifically for a user's interactive interface...but zsh didn't get the memo so is trying to be all things to all people. One of these days, i'll probably swing over to fish...if I can get the energy to change my environment yet again.

bgm1975 commented on Billion file filesystem blog.liw.fi/posts/2024/bi... · Posted by u/pabs3

nyrikki · 2 years ago

Unless you need filesystem features, object stores are probably a better target.

Or possibly a document based data store.

The monolithic persistence layer is an anti pattern unless you have specific reasons to support it.

ZFS is quite nice as filesystems go but it is still a filesystem.

bgm1975 · 2 years ago

As the saying goes: If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

bgm1975 commented on RFC9460: Service Binding via the DNS (SVCB and HTTPS Resource Records) rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc946... · Posted by u/teddyh

throwawaaarrgh · 2 years ago

I don't get your first point. CDNs are about content distribution, not load balancing. And you can already add multiple web servers to your A/AAAA record, that is still available to regular people. I believe different DNS providers even shuffle the order of the result to get clients to change up their connections

The different port thing is something that won't ever happen because the big players in the industry are petrified of the "middlebox bogeyman" and they won't allow any changes to web infrastructure that would make their jobs difficult, even if it would work fine for everyone else. We are doomed to use 443 for eternity.

We could just change the DNS spec to stop the apex madness. I don't know why nobody ever did, other than keeping the status quo.

bgm1975 · 2 years ago

I’m assuming the op is referring to relying on a commercial CDN provider’s anycast implementation but I could be mistaken.

bgm1975 commented on test, [, and [[ (2020) jmmv.dev/2020/03/test-bra... · Posted by u/mattrighetti

driggs · 2 years ago

Because Apple switched the default macOS shell from the GNU-licensed `bash` to the BSD-licensed `zsh`?

bgm1975 · 2 years ago

Apple switched when bash switched from GPL2 to GPL3 which they didn’t like. The older bash is still available.

bgm1975 commented on test, [, and [[ (2020) jmmv.dev/2020/03/test-bra... · Posted by u/mattrighetti

re · 2 years ago

Well, zsh too :)

https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Conditional-Expressio...

bgm1975 · 2 years ago

And ksh (ksh88 & later)

bgm1975 commented on USB-C cable with the bandwidth and USB type imprinted on the connector theverge.com/2023/11/6/23... · Posted by u/alphabettsy

bgm1975 · 2 years ago

Considering the number of features and capabilities that can be given to a usb-c cable, I think a better alternative would be to take cue from the humble resistor and use color coded bands around each of the ends. Text can only really cover 1-2 capabilities and it’d be nice to have a way to know exactly what a given cable can do, even if it requires a decoder ring.