I like batcat aka bat, but nominate the humble ‘cat’ instead.
Want to copy a disk image to a device? You can use cat for that: cat file.iso>/dev/sdf
What to copy local stdout over ssh? Use cat.
ls -l | ssh myhost 'cat >out.txt'
That’s simple and surprisingly powerful.
For some cases I use “|| true”.
The idiom accepts that the preceding command might fail, and that’s OK.
For example, a script where mkdir creates a directory that might already exist.
Nginx has a number of compile-time optional features and they aren’t all enabled in the pre-built packages. For example, the ability to echo back HTTP requests for debugging.
Yes, Fish excels at being an interactive shell.
What do you check two hours later?
https://www.cloudns.net/ Makes dynamic DNS very easy.
This is the day after iOS 18.2 was released with native ChatGPT integration.
First time seeing this? Man, that’s fwupd.
There can be fees for low-amount transactions with cash back. Some in the US are documented here:
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-reports/issue-spotlight-cash-back-fees/
Sounds like cash back.
It’s so old it’s not called self-hosted.
Moneydance https://moneydance.com/
Started using it close to twenty years ago and keep using it because it seems fine.
I use QGIS, which needs to stay in sync with a number of Python packages and plugins. I have thought of using Nix for that, but am not sure if everything I need is packaged for Nix.
I’m using Conda now, a Python package member which seems more popular for this niche need.
I agree. Flatpak could be used to further lockdown what Firefox can do, but it has so much features and complexity that I also expect it to be difficult to successfully lockdown.
I would either start with a product that explicitly has just the features a web-kiosk needs or use something based on ChromeOS, which explicitly has a set of enterprise policies that are there to allow admins to lock down a fleet of Chromebooks as they need.
This is based on the security principle that a system is far more secure if you explicitly allow what you need vs trying to explicitly block or disable all the things you don’t want.
Over time, the features you need to allow your web kiosk needs maybe somewhat static and in your control, while all the features you need to disable in Firefox could be constantly evolving and put of your control if you are keeping Firefox up to date.
I like the project but use DIY Sway.
Yes, particularly the variant distributed on a business-card sized CD rom. To be carried in your wallet for emergency use.
At one time there were browser extensions that allowed you to comment on any web page and allowed other extension users to see your comments.
The comments were hosted through the extension and not on the pages themselves.
Something like that would be possible but I don’t know anyone offering it now. I presume no one wants to moderate that.
This coverage provides an example of what is sent, and it includes neither MACs nor HDD serial numbers.
Good example. It’s true that an even a GET request not designed to mutate data might still fail to validate input, allowing a SQL injection attack or other attack that escalates to the privileges that the running app has.
Ironically, when I tried to load Wired’s story about this travesty, Wired quickly hid the content with pop-over asking me to subscribe.