Note the terminal -> HTML conversion used to serve wttr.in is based on https://github.com/pixelb/scripts/blob/master/scripts/ansi2h...
Readit Newspixelbeat__ commented on Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service github.com/chubin/wttr.in... · Posted by u/saikatsg
A similar tool for ini files
https://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/crudini/
pixelbeat__ commented on The Elegance of the ASCII Table danq.me/2024/07/21/ascii/... · Posted by u/thewub
I wrote about ASCII and UTF-8 elegance at:
pixelbeat__ commented on XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." bsky.app/profile/filippo.... · Posted by u/junon
Has anyone proposed a name for this exploit yet?
rxzec
The commit with more details on that perf change is:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/fcfba90d0d27a1...
A summary of other changes just released in GNU coreutils 9.5 are:
- mv accepts --exchange to swap files
- env accepts --argv0 to override command name
- od supports half precision floating point formats
- timeout fixes various races
- chmod -R avoids symlink replacement attack
For all the release details see: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2024-0...
pixelbeat__ commented on Adventures of Linux Userspace at Meta [video] media.ccc.de/v/all-system... · Posted by u/iso8859-1
This is not accurate, the system packages are from the CentOS binary distribution. You might be thinking of C/C++ runtime libraries, which are distributed as separate packages used by the internal ("fbcode") binaries, but system binaries link to the standard distribution.
(Hi Giuseppe!)
Right, the standard centos system binaries are used to provision services and manage hardware.
The internal services linking against the runtime libs you mention, are actually linking against about 2000 built from source packages, and are essentially a separate distro (with a distro in this sense being an ABI compatible set of libs running on a kernel)
pixelbeat__ commented on Adventures of Linux Userspace at Meta [video] media.ccc.de/v/all-system... · Posted by u/iso8859-1
> The actual distribution used to _run_ all Meta backend services is completely separate and built from source (it does share the kernel).
That does not seem to be true. The hosts I'm looking at have systemd and glibc RPMs that were built on centos.org hosts, with coreutils from redhat.com. The kernel was built on a Facebook host, but that's it (of the handful of components I've spot-checked).
Use ldd on any service binary to see that it's linked against a separate distro.
(It's best to use the ldd from the corresponding platform).
There are actually three distros on each host. Current runtime platform, previous runtime platform, centos platform.
pixelbeat__ commented on Adventures of Linux Userspace at Meta [video] media.ccc.de/v/all-system... · Posted by u/iso8859-1
It's worth noting that this discusses the centos based provisioning and hardware management platform.
The actual distribution used to _run_ all Meta backend services is completely separate and built from source (it does share the (non centos) kernel). This is done for flexibility, performance, service isolation reasons
pixelbeat__ commented on DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser dustinbrett.com/... · Posted by u/coxley
There's also https://www.windowmaker.org/
The website of a window manager impersonating the window manager.
Reminds me of my website from 2006 (not entirely reproduced) at https://web.archive.org/web/20060208131821/http://www.pixelb...
pixelbeat__ commented on A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '[' utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/ingve
Does Apple compensate or sponsor that work at all?
Definitely not