Combat Unicorn @kurtm@bsd.network

If you decide to follow me because I like OpenBSD or write tips about vi, be warned:

I believe:
-CoCs are good
-LGBTQA folks are awesome and deserve rights just like any of us
-Women and minorities have been screwed in tech and we need to fix it
-Nazis deserve punching
-As a white dude, if you/I get called out on something we did, the best response is to apologize and stop talking
-Meritocracies aren't

If you take issue with any of these statements, this place is not for you.

(pinning this)

Stopping git naming the first branch "master":

reducto$ git config --global init.templateDir ~/.config/git/template
reducto$ mkdir -p ~/.config/git/template
reducto$ echo "ref: refs/heads/main" > ~/.config/git/template/HEAD
reducto$ mkdir newRepo
reducto$ cd newRepo/
reducto$ git init
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/kurt/newRepo/.git/
reducto$ git status
On branch main

No commits yet

nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)

From https://twitter.com/_Gaeel_/status/1184740771548803077

First, just hit the Escape key for good measure before any of these. If you are in an insert mode it will exit it, and if you're not it doesn't hurt (except for maybe making a beep).

:q
-Quit, unless I changed the file

:q!
- Quit. Now. Discard any changes.

:x
-Write the file if it changed, and then quit

ZZ
-Write the file if it changed, and then quit

:wq
-Write the file and then quit

#VITips

(Feels wrong to capitalize vi, but trying to help screen readers)

Back in Computer Science House at RIT[1] I knew someone who _was_ talented, but more importantly, he was stubborn and patient: Frank Barrus.

CSH had acquited all these Kodak KIMS Stations that were diskless vaxstations with amazing greyscale monitors[2] and documentation for the QDSS[3] 2-bit greyscale graphics boards.

The documentation was innacurate. The "Advanced Research Group" had worked for months and couldn't get them working with anything. Digital wouldn't acknowledge these boards they made for Kodak even existed.

Frank Barrus got one and locked himself in his room for the weekend and by the end had a wireframe enterprise-D rotating on the screen. He also wrote a basic serial terminal program for the ROM.

He searched through the rom until he found the bitmapped fonts. Then he searched through the ROM for the places that addressed that part of the ROM. And kept going from there.

Stubborn wins over talent.

[1] RIT is an evil place that some good things happened at in spite of it.
[2] Like 27" CRTs with the most clear dot pitch.
[3] http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/dragon.html - Alright, not the same machine, but references QDSS

Just saw on a random tiktok collection of posts "You're not talented, you're stubborn, and stubborn wins more often."

Yes. Yes it does.

Firefox: "We are the last bastion for user choice!"

Firefox: "Except that. You can't choose that."

Firefox: "Why did you make our browser ugly? We're overriding you."

#firefox

If you are also a casualty in the newest battle of firefox's war on their users:

You can disable the new awful rounded tabs by going into about:config, searching for nova, Change browser.nova.enable to false.

Also, you'll need to re-enable your old theme. Firefox "helpfully" disabled my dark theme.

#firefox

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/

"Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that
may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information
leaks."

1313

I don't think they know what "several" means.

Is a docker container a flerb?

Yes. Yes it is.

What is a flerb? It's like a lightweight virtual machine. FreeBSD jails and other containers are examples of flerbs.