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Written by John de Largentaye on 2025-01-29 at 22:44

Why are the regex metachars for start and end of string respectively '^' and '$', considering '$' is to the LEFT of '^' on a US keyboard, so mnemonically more associated with the start of a string?

I always get annoyed when I use vim, to navigate to the beginning or end of line.

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Written by John de Largentaye on 2025-01-27 at 21:58

macOS is a shitty server platform.

In particular, Apple has no concept of LTS releases.

If you have a bug in the current version, for example filesystem freeze in a CI job, it's likely the fix will only be released in the Next Major Version.

Which of course means picking up that version also bundles a bunch of other changes you didn't want, such as 15.3 automatically enabling Apple Intelligence. Did you want 7.5 GB of AI Models?? Now you got'em.

(I'm forced to use macOS because of CI)

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Written by John de Largentaye on 2024-12-19 at 03:10

On an Ubuntu Server VM:

ansible@socpe-git-vm:~$ cat /etc/default/motd-news

[...]

[#] This is a useful way to provide dynamic, informative

[#] information pertinent to the users and administrators

[#] of the local system

[...]

"pertinent information" ? Like what?

" * Strictly confined Kubernetes makes edge and IoT secure. Learn how MicroK8s just raised the bar for easy, resilient and secure K8s cluster deployment.

https://ubuntu.com/url-elided"

Oh, you meant ads. "Pertinent information" is ads.

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