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neitsab commented on Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim pikuma.com/blog/origins-o... · Posted by u/amosjyng

gustavopezzi · 4 months ago

Author here! I remember struggling with the decision of adding that last sentence or not. But at the end I was sure most readers would get that it is obviously a joke. Maybe a bad one but still a joke.

neitsab · 4 months ago

I read it as sincere, gratuitous and unfounded mud-slinging, which made me end this remarkable article on a pretty underwhelming note. We all have different senses of humor, mine would have needed some caption here :'-)

neitsab commented on Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF redhat.com/en/blog/red-ha... · Posted by u/twelvenmonkeys

dbacar · 10 months ago

To all those interested in podman, this book by Daniel Walsh is a gem. Highly recommended and it is free.

https://developers.redhat.com/e-books/podman-action

neitsab · 10 months ago

Let me present you a full 212-page RHEL 9 docs PDF on everything Podman, updated as of this month:

https://docs.redhat.com/en-us/documentation/red_hat_enterpri...

neitsab commented on Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting becomesovran.com/blog/ser... · Posted by u/joelp

tiffanyh · a year ago

Love seeing devops post on HN.

Wish it included server monitoring as a section.

neitsab · a year ago

Funny how that kind of posts is now called "DevOps", while 10 years ago it was simply called "system administration" ;-)

Besides I fail to see any DevOps tenets in it, quite the opposite: a shell script at the bottom is little in the way of reliable automation.

To me this post reads more like someone relatively new to server management wanted to share their gathered tips and tricks, i.e. me 10 years ago when I started my self-hosting journey :-D

neitsab commented on "Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you" mastodon.social/@mcc/1127... · Posted by u/notamy

krono · a year ago

There is chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml but many options shown there are nonfunctional. The relevant option is listed but I'm not sure if setting it to false has any effect.

Edit: Just found out that on that link above, you can set general.aboutConfig.enable to true to enable about.config.

It looks like the xml page and the about.config one are the same, as the modifications I made are synced.

neitsab · a year ago

Thank you so much for that! I was missing the ability to configure a very important option for me in Stable (layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override), but couldn't keep using Nightly because of its instability... You're a lifesaver!

neitsab commented on Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool github.com/Stirling-Tools... · Posted by u/gitinit

frooodle · a year ago

Creator here, I think there is some confusion in my doc. It's not made with fully with chatgpt

It was initially created as a 24 hour challenge to make a full app with chatgpt 3.0 in a set time limit to test what chatgpt was like last year.

I posted on Reddit it got lots of demand and I turned it into a full app,the only full chatgpt was the first 24 hours, it's over a year later now

neitsab · a year ago

Yes, it would be a great idea to update the wording as there is no way to derive that from the current one.

Even being sympathetic, my thought reading this was "probably bad code quality/rotten core despite the great feature set".

You can have a "History/Background/Origin" section where you put exactly what you wrote in your comment and it will be fine.

This notwithstanding, thank you very much for developing this app! I will look into deploying it on my server, it will be of great help to people around me who often need manipulating PDFs but are not super technical!

neitsab commented on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat releases.ubuntu.com/noble... · Posted by u/jeswin

EspadaV9 · a year ago

I haven't been able to complete a fresh install on an empty drive yet. Either the installer crashes (most common), the installer throws an error, or the live USB freezes during booting.

neitsab · a year ago

That sounds a lot like a corrupted ISO/install media! I suggest verifying the checksums and trying a different USB drive.

neitsab commented on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat releases.ubuntu.com/noble... · Posted by u/jeswin

ahartmetz · a year ago

Snap taking a dump into the output of "mount" alone is reason enough for me to hate it. I want to see my drives, not that three bundles of libraries are separately mounted into "firefox snap dir" and three others into "snap base package dir" or whatever. There are other offenders, but Snap is the worst. I resort to "df" these days, but it doesn't show filesystem type and mount flags.

neitsab · a year ago

Workaround: mount | grep -v snap

which you can record in an alias for easy access.

Not great, but you implement it once and are done with it.

neitsab commented on Tell HN: I think there are major issues with Google –> Squarespace domains · Posted by u/jc_811

xd1936 · a year ago

I've enjoyed switching everything I can to Cloudflare Domains. They sell at-cost.

neitsab · a year ago

A never mentioned but crucial issue with Cloudflare is that you are required to use their nameservers; you cannot change to use third party NS without transferring out.

Sources:

- https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/get-started/tran...:

> All domains using Cloudflare Registrar must use Cloudflare DNS on a full setup. This also means that you cannot change to another DNS provider while using Cloudflare Registrar.

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer...:

> We built our registrar specifically for customers who want to use other Cloudflare products. This means domains registered with Cloudflare can only use our nameservers. If your domain requires non-Cloudflare nameservers then we’re not the right registrar for you.

- https://community.cloudflare.com/t/can-i-register-a-domain-a...