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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864252 got more traction.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649785 was posted earlier with a subscriber link.

Search for "yen sign path separator".

Discussed ~2 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425528 (over 300 comments)

Discussed also in 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709802 (16 comments)

Yes, you can do "apt-get install --dry-run ./nyancat_1.5.2-0.2_i386.deb" these days.

Their signed package formats (there are two) add extra sections to the `ar` archive for the signature

APT does not verify package-level signatures (and nobody uses them anyway), so this is irrelevant.

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If bat is not available, vet uses less, which is not a faithful pager:

https://github.com/jwilk/unfaithful-less

It seems at least some versions of bat have the same problem, but I didn't look into the details.

str.format() can be cursed too, e.g.:

  >>> '{:{}{}}'.format('m', 'o<2', 3)
  'moooooooooooooooooooooo'

canid predators like hyenas

Hyenas are not canids; they are feliformia ("cat-like" carnivorans).

Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480845 (1 comment at the moment)

(2008)

Discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16002444 (5 comments)

Once the bug report becomes publicly visible, it will be linked here.

Here it is: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2025-06/msg00149...

shady domain registrar from SEA

What's SEA?

Not much. The only non-cosmetic difference is:

  -Premake supports Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 (and 2012 supports 2010 project files via conversion).
  +Premake supports latest Visual Studio 2018 and 2022 project files via conversion).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto... says:

A key factor that made the reaction possible was that [back then] the fissile isotope ²³⁵U made up about 3.1% of the natural uranium, which is comparable to the amount used in some of today's reactors.

Reported as <https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/135835>.

Enriched Uranium is less radioactive than natural Uranium

[citation needed]

Notes are copied to from the original to the rewritten commit by default. See https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes#Documentation/git-notes.t... for details.

But I have this in my IRC logs:

  < _jwilk> TIL git-notes rewriting doesn't work properly when doing amend within rebase. :/

I'm doubtful it's a majority.

Yup. It's linked from https://owlsintowels.org/about/ (search for "More ways to get yer fix").

"Malware-free backdoors"? What does that mean?

That's more likely NAME_MAX, which is 255.

It's 404.

Discussed on HN back then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39417231 (147 comments)

It's been reserved by ICANN:

https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/mater...

Resolved (2024.07.29.06), the Board reserves .INTERNAL from delegation in the DNS root zone permanently to provide for its use in private-use applications.