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tbe | 4 years ago | on: Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2021

I have two accounts in my name, one for me personally and one for work. I got the offer on behalf of my employer, and was like; what would this even mean for this account? I'm pretty sure I would take the offer had it been for my personal account.

tbe | 4 years ago | on: The Unix Magic Poster

> From the wizard's hat hangs something with various initials, maybe a tape, a tail(1) or a strip(1).

Hah, why is the cat(1)'s tail(1) missing from the drawing? Talk about missed oppertunity!

tbe | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Mono Icons – A simple, consistent open-source icon set

You missed the second sentance. The length of the translated string is less critical for a tooltip compared to a toolbar filled with buttons.

Imagine when an app is to be translated to 20 languages. Only the original language had the luxery of having a voice in how many buttons fit on the toolbar.

tbe | 7 years ago | on: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

> How are you going to play music you've added in the last three years, but not heard for a month, from the "Latin" genre, with two or more stars, using only the file system?

BeOS actually solved this 20 years ago with its file system BFS. Haiku is an open source reimplementation of BeOS that recently progressed from (high quality) alpha releases to its first beta.

tbe | 7 years ago | on: Exwm – Emacs X Window Manager

Maybe it's less of an issue because your window manager doesn't need to connect to ssh servers or even do any kind of heavy lifting.

tbe | 8 years ago | on: Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown

Ok, good to know, thanks. The point still stands that the receiver's client probably doesn't bother styling the message. I mean even if GMail, say, was persuaded to do it, Outlook for instance wouldn't.

tbe | 8 years ago | on: Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown

That would be nice if it was standard for clients to display text/markdown rendered as styled text. This would require an actual standard for the markdown syntax though. Without the rendering, markdown is just text/plain.

Are there any mail clients that will send both the markdown source and the rendered HTML as a multi-part message?

tbe | 10 years ago | on: SSH: Best practices

> f=$(mktemp) && ssh-keyscan korell > $f && ssh-keygen -l -f $f && rm $f

> Unfortunately ssh-keygen does not support input from stdin, so this example is slightly more complicated than it should.

Any shell that supports process substitution can fix this for you with something like;

ssh-keygen -l -f <(ssh-keyscan korell)

tbe | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Manage passwords with GPG

That would mean two stages of password query, which I think might be a con. Also, the file names would either not be encrypted in the git repo or not be compatible with e.g. Android app I guess.

Thanks for the autofs hint, will try it and see how that works out re unlocking.

tbe | 11 years ago | on: WebIDE lands in Firefox Nightly

The very first web browser had editing built in. That's why HTTP has the concept of verbs in the first place! Otherwise GET would probably be implicit. Forms and POST came later, but PUT and DELETE was part of the original idea behind the web.

I totally agree that browsers should allow editing. Even if you are not authorized to PUT the page back to the server, it would still be useful to be able to edit before you print or save the page locally.

I really have no idea why we were robbed of this capability! It was probably just laziness from the people who wrote mainstream browser and httpd implementations.

tbe | 12 years ago | on: Wireless HDMI for Everyone

Yes, for X11 the client/server roles are backwards so I shouldn't have included it in the list.

I want to use my TV as a VNC/RDP client, and either buy a wireless keyboard for it, or just let it act as a passive display.

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