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- fd: an improved find Depends on what you need to do, at least without constructing a pipeline like it's 1990 (modern..), probably on your age, and how much you suck at typing. I have it installed as well, but most of the time still use find and not just in scripts which hopefully is a no-brainer. Some rather weird decisions went into that iteration, or call it taste if you prefer. Even the name is a joke honestly. But what in and out of Rust isn't. Re-inventing the wheel, ok. But then why not, err, also improve on it?

- hexyl: a better xxd Like what?!

- ripgrep: a cornerstone of my workflow, an improved grep No, it's a by default recursive grep which grep emphatically isn't, wasn't and never aimed to be. It has many, many more features, is bigger, newer, shinier and (yes) a bit slower. But that's ok, I use it too where it makes sense, as usual. An improved silversearcher, maybe that!

I'm barely using anything of the mentioned. But then I hate colors, and when I want to see nice pictures I'm off to the movies. At least your definition of modern is actually funny.

While I still believe it's mainly about attention seeking and remaining the topic of discussions on the part of the EU, which is not an easy task yet as such mildly effective as we see again, one could get the feeling there's somehow more to it. Like a collusion, however tacit or pragmatic, that would in general work both ways but in this case so as to provide national governments an opportunity to make a few extra points from time to time, (mainly) on domestic ground, and to look prudent or generous, at least to certain groups of voters. In this case a benefaction to the unlikely German "critics" in particular. Its ruling coalition certainly is desperate for it. For anything really. I already had this feeling years ago when we were wearing ourselves out on the darned question of so-called "upload-filters" amid the entire EU copyright law issue. What even became of it? Well, due to ultimately national implementation and copious room for legal interpretation, at least in Germany not much. A kind of nothingburger in fact, certainly relative to to the racket that went before, or shall we say, was supposed to go before. Back at the time it made (then) Merkel's big-coalition government suddenly look a little sunnier. To be blunt, it feels rather artificial to me and I don't expect anything like it being supposed to actually transpire no matter what. That is even without considering how unclear matters of technical realization remain, even if you've seen all the polito-pseudotechnical BS bingo there is to see at the moment. Like, how to even enforce client-side scanning when applications (or OS) are free software? It's just rubbish, and supposedly can be as no one never seriously planned for anything like it. But why not just talk the big talk about it? Maybe it helps. A few very optimistic quarters may even hope for some sort of (shallow) deterrence effect. For a bit of ruffling and scaring up the evil agents. Good luck as for that one.

At least in Debian there's already the inevitable discussion about a supposed opportunity for "finally" moving to zstd. Which to me, frankly, feels a bit like getting out of the frying pan and into the fire, or what I think Arch (yuck) did years ago. That's not because I'm so much into xz. It's kind of funny there's a possible Debian connection, of all things, considering that quite a lot authorities and services in areas like China, Russia or Iran are recently migrating, for obvious reasons, from Windows/Mac to more or less home-made (~styled) Linux distributions, that just often happen to be based on Debian. I don't think this is too popular in English speaking countries in particular, but then I really didn't want to chime in on the speculations. ;P

Yes, the concluding paragraph is the most succinct (and fitting) here, there are better explanations as for the technical aspects. I know it's not related, but for the Germans around, this is just great: https://inka.de/angebot/

A community ISP. Last changed 02.05.2001, in case you missed it. ;) Millennium blues. I wasn't aware about the possibilities back then, but it's just before my time.

I've just had a look into my flatpak installation, where my default "Platform" (runtime) is still vulnerable. That didn't even seem too much of a worry though since as I found out all of the flatpak apps I use that have a dependency ship their own libwebp. And sure enough, except for Firefox which is patched, none of them is.

$ flatpak update --no-related --force remove

Checking for updates...

Nothing to do.

My base system (Debian) got the patch almost two weeks ago. Might as well trash flatpak for good.

From sailplane straight to (at least) a Cessna looks more like another level, supercharge and weight class all in one. I guess it's fair to locate 'micro' rather somewhere in the in-between, a middle ground and then there are in fact not that many contenders on the CLI, or else they're fossils. I would've thought this is what makes it attractive to some? Whereas others don't really have a use case. As for 'nano' on the other hand frankly there are about as many proper and more modern alternatives as there are Linux distributions and I'm sure anyone who's still a console regular has their favorite or two. I'm a vimmer but for quick snaps or in very strange places I *really* like dte. Am not associated with the project: https://github.com/craigbarnes/dte

I did exactly the same thing. In fact Bram was the first "well known" developer I ever got into "contact" with. Kept his reply mail to this day. ;)

A very interesting angle, you don't read this often though it seems there is something to it and for some time now I had a quite similar impression. It's almost as if the US are doing specifically better with border cases and "extremes", on both ends that is. For that reason I'm not sure if it holds water if or as long as you're "just poor"; very poor is a different story though. Especially in the case of homelessness it seems to me like at least the big cities (even in not so blue states..) are _way_ more active on that front, also proactive, aggressive in the good sense, and there's lot more opportunity to get assistance or advice. More often than not privately based of course, something in particular we hardly know over here (where it's gonne be the churches, at best). Apropos kept out of sight: true, but that is also changing and noticeably so. Living in a rather smallish town in Germany, just recently I ran across something you might as well expect somewhere in the rundown parts of LA, I've never seen it round here before: a person, mid-aged male, that apparently had "moved into" my bank; which has a lobby that's (well, was^^) kept open overnight for the ATM service and stuff. Even used it as a toilet, obviously. Why? Well again, I just don't think there are too many options. And coming to think of it I could even understand it: 24/7 CCTV, certainly doesn't subtract from your safety (subjective or not), there's light, air-conditioning (we too are having a heat wave), any more wishes? This indeed is Germany, 2023.

I've forgotten almost everything about Perl, but one thing I dimly remember is that for just about anything exceeding your one-liner/dirty one-off script (outgrow bash??) you'd use some library anyway, even for purposes like this. Just to make it sane. In other words it came down to more or less what you do in Python post Y2K: run(['blah'], ...) Not necessarily shorter (how?), probably not better (how?), certainly not safer (nope!) and "even" to reproduce everything subprocess can do these days I think you'd rather needed 3 or 4 imports, minimum, and remember this is Perl. So we're not talking standard library. Off to CPAN you were. Not all was great, even in heyday, and eventually people jumped ship for reasons, different reasons. Still, Perl deserved better than a bizarre zombie afterlife or undead pseudo-existence hinging on hardly more than worn out UNIX yarn. Funny how no one ever recalls tcl? Such is true rest. Such is nirvana. Yet tcl got that actual object system that never arrived for Perl. Tcl could do threads when Perl hardly knew there's such a thing! Oh and yes, tcl shipped its own GUI on top, consider that, vanilla Python even comes with it today I think. That's a way to go.

Hmm?

"HuggingChat is based on Meta's LlaMA LLM. This has the advantage of access to data collected up to April 12, 2023."

Pascal was probably intended to mean "classic"/procedural Pascal and that's been out of use for ages even in academia (just like Scheme). One might as well call out Algol. Anything even remotely useful these days wouldn't clock in that far behind Java or C++ from 20 years ago as for "surface", or indeed behind the closely related Ada no one would dream to suggest either. I realize you were not referring to the keyword measure, and Python already demonstrates how useful that is, but for a rough guide:

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Reserved_words

That's clearly more than 30 something. It's a huge system in other respects, baroque, I guess somewhat like Common Lisp once compared to Scheme. Whether still useful debatable. Lua indeed and JavaScript is what comes to my mind. Or if you already like Python and it's just about "speed" that's what Nim is supposed to be all about. Besides hardly getting more performant I'd keep my fingers off dead technology (like Forth!) unless you're really into the history thing, exotica or the sheer mind-boggling, which is also cool but sadly rarely productive.

Feels almost like the end of that part of the internet to me. ;) Or like with electricity or even drinking water, where you no longer realize how essential something is, until it fails. CoM, or what a this point appears most recommended, unfortunately doesn't do the trick for me, though I appreciate all efforts of course. Doesn't even work on BBC or Guardian, let alone on German sites that's where I'm based. Even when and where it does something, seems you still get to see everyting that's going on, there's a silly animation and it takes ages. Ages. Don't get me wrong but this is a step backward unless you're fantastically slow, and/or mouse-bound. I have the impression it's rendered all the more useless since I'm "private" mode only user (Firefox) and used to close windows often. Obviously still a better choice than IDCAC now. Anything is. But no way out for me. Until there is, I might as well go text browser only, for news, wikipedia and passive reading of stuff like HN.