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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2025-01-22 at 03:07

I sincerely wish web browsers would not frantically grab for the status of "default browser" every time I run them. I use multiple browsers for different things, I'm happy with my default!

[#]linux #web #browser

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2025-01-20 at 00:48

I rly dnot undstnd why C is alws wrtn lik ths. It jst mks it impsbl to rd, u spnd 90pct of the tme figrng out hw to dcrypt acrnyms, abbrevs, nd partial wor

[#]C #programming #rant #linux

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2025-01-14 at 03:03

Found one that I liked, under an Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 license. https://flic.kr/p/vM56Jz Thanks to Bryant Olsen for this!

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2025-01-14 at 02:34

I hate to be a cheapskate, but does anyone have a good recommendation for a source of, for lack of a better term, open-source or source-available landscape photography? My neck of the woods has tons of good landscape photography opportunities, but I don't have any good camera to capture them. I want a landscape picture as a desktop background, and every time I see something legitimately breathtaking, it's also impossible and illegal to download. I don't have anything against people who want to sell their photos (or even just keep them, it's their photos and capturing those is extremely hard work I'm sure), but I don't have the means to buy them.

I'm perfectly fine with licenses that prohibit commercial use. I just want something I can legally throw on my desktop and look at when my windows are minimized. (Also, I'm specifically interested in landscape photography only.)

[#]landscape #photography #free

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2025-01-13 at 23:53

I wish GitHub would give you a notification on their website when they were having an outage. Getting git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey). when trying to pull a repo just about gave me a heart attack thinking someone had hacked me.

On the bright side, I have my credentials rotated out now, so that's good I guess :P

[#]git #github #programming #linux

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2025-01-13 at 03:43

TIL Linux lets you bind-mount individual files, not just entire directories.

Mind = blown.

[#]linux #til

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2025-01-07 at 23:37

New fear unlocked: Linux commands that assume you're in some specific directory even if you pass an absolute path to them.

So far only find and sha512sum have bitten me this way, but they bite hard!

[#]linux #bash #programming #posix #unix

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2025-01-01 at 05:50

Well this is a new take on "I will take the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh". (Ezekiel 36:26) Music is awesome, words are awesome though you may have to look up the lyrics since they're a bit hard to make out in some parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Vb3qAjKM0

[#]christian #music #rock #hardrock #ninelashes

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-12-23 at 20:16

Vim: Uses Ctrl+W followed by an arrow key for pane switching

Tmux: Uses Ctrl+B followed by an arrow key for pane switching

Me: Keeps trying to use Ctrl+W in Tmux and Ctrl+B in Vim

My work: Keeps getting messed up

[#]linux #tmux #vim #terminal #frustration

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-12-18 at 06:35

Wow. This is one of those songs that get better almost every time I listen to it.

Kutless - Your Love Awakens Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZJ2Er5j6Fk

(This is a cover of a Phil Wickham song - the original is really good too, but this is spectacular if you like rock music.)

[#]christian #music #kutless

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-12-17 at 00:24

Wow, I just discovered pyuic from PyQt, and I'm instantly loving it. I thought making Qt apps in Python was an exercise in pure anguish until finding this.

[#]python #qt #linux #programming

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-11-12 at 04:54

At this point I'm not sure who's crazy - me, the computer, or whoever designed the websites I'm trying to parse. All I know is something has gone crazy.

[#]linux #bash #programming #regex

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-11-06 at 02:34

If you happen to be a well-known person in an open-source project you contribute to, please consider not responding negatively when you see someone you don't recognize suggesting a big feature in your project. They may be a random user who thinks they have a grand idea that everyone else will implement... or they might be someone who would have been willing to do immense amounts of work to contribute to your project. Mistaking the future contributors for clueless users is how you get great devs to stay away from your project. (And really, the clueless users might become future contributors if you're nice to them.)

[#]linux #opensource #programming #development #community

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-10-30 at 02:23

An appeal to all website creators (and maybe to browser makers too) - please don't add "convenient" single-letter keyboard shortcuts to your websites. Someone, usually me, will accidentally trigger like five or seven of these at a time trying to type into something totally different, causing your website to freak out and do all sorts of interesting things. For instance, typing git pull into YouTube will cause the currently playing video to go into picture-in-picture mode, pause it, and fast-forward five or ten seconds.

[#]browser #website #typing #shortcuts

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-10-27 at 22:27

Holy brain melt, debian-installer preseed files are NOT easy to work with! Especially not if you have to configure partitioning. I feel like I just ran a marathon with my neurons instead of my legs.

[#]linux #debian #debianinstaller

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-10-21 at 17:10

So diff -r cannot be limited to only recurse to a certain depth. Is there any "diff++" tool that acts similar to diff, but provides some more versatile options like depth recursion limits? I specifically do NOT want a visual diff tool or an interactive tool.

[#]diff #linux #ubuntu #debian #bash

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-10-21 at 01:39

Disturbing shell scripting fact for the day - both true and echo '' can exit non-zero. All you have to do end up in some esoteric edge case that results in a SIGPIPE being triggered.

Guess what I just spent the last thirty minutes of my life trying to figure out.

[#]bash #sh #linux

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-10-20 at 21:29

Note to self: think twice before removing an "automatically assume yes" option from your build system. You may find that your build suddenly requires lots of manual intervention.

[#]linux #debian #programming #what_have_i_done

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-10-14 at 21:40

Idea for a server distro:

• Immutable, consists of a single kernel image (probably a UKI), a single filesystem image, and a single directory for mutable state.
• Directly UEFI-bootable, does not require a bootloader.
• All applications are embedded into the filesystem image, allowing for library and configuration sharing between individual apps so you can tightly integrate various components without duplication.
• The base OS acts as a hypervisor only, running one VM for each service the server provides.
• For each service, the OS re-executes itself in a virtual machine, passing an argument through the command line instructing which of the embedded applications the virtual machine should run and where it should save state files at.
• Updates are run by rebuilding the system image and copying it onto the server, overwriting the old filesystem and kernel images. After replacing the images and rebooting the server, you can then do any needed migration operations.
• OS is distributed in source-code form only, is based upon Linux From Scratch, and can be built entirely from source into a ready-to-use server image on an Ubuntu machine, a Debian machine, or using the server OS itself.
• Docker never comes into the picture.

Horrible idea or does this actually sound remotely useful?

[#]linux #ubuntu #debian #linuxfromscratch #sysadmin

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Written by Aaron Rainbolt on 2024-09-04 at 22:49

echo "${BASH_REMATCH[0]%"${BASH_REMATCH[0]##*[![:space:]]}"}"

I like #bash, but sometimes there are days...

[#]linux #programming #mindblown

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