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# SilentSunday
Andrew Wood
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XYZ 0.3.0 is released today - https:// ivarch.com/p/xyz This release adds JSON output support to more actions, and fixes a reliance on a shell feature not specified by POSIX. XYZ is a lightweight cybersecurity tool for administrators to check a GNU/Linux or BSD system for common faults that could cause sensitive information or interfaces to be exposed, such as service accounts without a password,…
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# SilentSunday
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Pipe Viewer 1.11.0 is released today: https:// ivarch.com/p/pv This release introduces a new feature; performance improvements on Linux; several bug fixes; more translation coverage; and enhancements to stability and maintainability. The new "--monitor" feature runs a command and monitors its input, output, or both, and can show the ratio of bytes in to bytes out. On Linux, faster transfer methods…
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The CentOS 5 issue suspiciously disappeared after I added the missing timed signal interrupt to the splice code. Didn't debug it, didn't investigate it, it just disappeared as an apparent side effect of fixing an omission I noticed while tidying up for the new copy_file_range call. Anyway I'm now waiting to see if the next benchmark run - this time on multiple operating systems - is going to…
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Having just re-watched "They Live", from 1988, I can confirm it's still a fairly accurate documentary. Very much recommended. # movies # films
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The three awk scripts in a trench coat have pretended to be a grown-up tool for long enough to point the way, though the analysis portion is definitely doing the "is this version's measurement better or worse than the previous version" calculation the wrong way so I'm kind of just eyeballing the results. Among other things, the next version of Pipe Viewer will extend the "%T" / "%{buffer-percent}"…
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Pipe Viewer has been close to a new release for a while now, but so much has changed in it that I've been worried that its performance may have dropped. There was no benchmark tool so I've had to make one, a little hampered by not starting out with very clear requirements, and by some very rusty high school maths. Now I've got some results. They show that it's got better in some places, and worse…
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Here is a long-running thread from the forums of humour site Something Awful about life in the corporate world. I'm only up to page 339 of 2143 so far (that's 11 years behind). If you like red flags, horror stories, and the occasional serf triumph, visit it at https:// forums.somethingawful.com/show thread.php?threadid=3295066 (you will need a forums account). A more recent one, half the length…
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This cheered me up today. Time Is A Bomb by Metric - https:// song.link/t/482411345
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RT::Extension::EmailReplyDelimiter 0.11 is released - https:// ivarch.com/programs/RT-Extensi on-EmailReplyDelimiter.shtml This release adds support for Base64-encoded messages. The project is a Request Tracker extension, for RT 4.2 through 6.0. It alters email while it is being received by RT, removing text and any associated image attachments appearing after a reply delimiter such as "##- Please…
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# SilentSunday
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The unreliable buttons were probably down to the wear and corrosion on the circuit board, so I tidied those parts up with a bit more contact cleaner and some light scrubbing. Some soldering was needed on the blue wire, which was connected when I opened the case, but popped off at some point while I was moving things around. That was one of the wires to the battery compartment. What looks to be a…
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Here are some pictures of an alarm clock from the 1980s that I spent a couple of hours pulling apart today. It's a Casio MA-10. The display had grown faint, the light had stopped working, and the buttons were getting less and less responsive. And then, this morning, when pressing buttons to try to change the time, it died. The battery compartment cover was a bit stuck, and it turned out the…
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Someone has kindly provided more Polish translations for PV, but unfortunately I did not see them, so they haven't been included in 1.10.5. I've added a step to the release checklist to remind me to look in future.
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Pipe Viewer 1.10.5 is released today: https:// ivarch.com/p/pv This release fixes a bug in the "--bits" option where the bits-per-second rate was miscalculated, which prevented "--gauge" from working properly with it. Pipe Viewer (pv) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a Unix pipeline and modifying its flow. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two…
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Here's a link I came across recently. It seems to explain a lot. Excerpt: "A huge amount of the economy is driven by people who are, simply put, highly suggestible. That is to say that it is very, very easy to get them excited and willing to spend money." https:// ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainw ash-an-executive-today/
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Pipe Viewer 1.10.4 is released today: https:// ivarch.com/p/pv This release improves the "--size" option when used with a parameter of "@PATH", by allowing PATH to refer to a directory, in which case the total size of all files under that directory is used. Pipe Viewer (pv) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a Unix pipeline and modifying its flow. It can be…
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# SilentSunday
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Side note -- later, when testing the new feature on multiple operating systems, it broke on NetBSD because one of the hard-coded parameters needed to dynamically adjust to the right value for each type of system. The NetBSD manuals recommend "fts_*" over "nftw", with this to say about the "fts" functions: "The fts utility was expected to be included in the IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 ("POSIX.1")…