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everyone who ever argued with me that "the GPL is an anti-capitalist license" owes me an apology

Some code is so bad it deserves to be buried thousands of feet underground with a sign above reading: "nothing valued is here, what is here was dangerous and repulsive to us"

Using system("echo") to create a text file ... using user-generated input. No words.

"Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope"

tortel.li/post/insecure-scope/

servals look exactly like if a creature from a medieval bestiary came to life

I’m no financial expert, but it looks to me like they’re organizing a hedge fund.

This is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

if you want a pronouns website without a "backend" or "logging in" you should check out pronoun.gdn

Also, to save yourself from nasty surprises, verify the hostname of the system you're on when you start a screen/tmux session. This tip doesn't work if you do it on your local machine instead of the remote.

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Good morning, folks. Have a sysadmin tip:

When you ssh to a remote system, make it a habit to run either `screen` or `tmux` first. Always. Even for just a quick little command.

That way, when your crap ISP monopoly drops your connection for no reason whatsoever, your remote command won't be SIGHUP'd, & you can resume with `screen -r` or `tmux attach` when they decide your connection can be restored.

two new CGA portraits commissioned by @bustrider ! these were fun to do!

if you want one like these, check out my page! maple.pet/commissions

RIP Don Lancaster, author of The Cheap Video Cookbook and Son Of Cheap Video, among other early hobbyist microcomputer projects. gilaherald.com/obituary-for-do

you can now tag @iconolog with a simple term query and get a best-match result for it

it very likely won't be a great match, but now you can get icons whenever you want

"Sex work is real work, being a landlord isn't"
Seen in Porto, Portugal

Apple rant: handheld computers edition 

Did you know Safari on iPhone won't load a page over HTTP if even 1 subdomain of that site is HTTPS?

It gets better!

1. Instead of showing a message, it loads a completely different page & shows that to the user, leaving the user baffled.

2. It hits all the proper URLs anyway, making a liar out of the user to the website operators.

I'd have blamed the user, too, if I didn't watch it live from both ends.

Free Faces: freefaces.gallery/
A repository of free fonts you can use for personal and commercial projects, categorized by type (cursive, display, monospace, etc.)
#Typography #Fonts

The moment we had to decide if a self driving car should prioritize running over one person versus another is when we should have gone back to trains

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