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morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 1h

Isn't the viral licensing of KHTML affecting how they have closed source parts of Chrome?

nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 1h

Today's popular browser engines have deep roots in KHTML, which was originally built for the open-source software KDE. I guess we all own a big thank you to the KDE project.

More @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML#D...

morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 1h

about to start more streaming on thursday! more starcraft 2! twitch.tv/morhook

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moar starcraft 2 from Linux! 🧉 Commands: !matecraft !messi !cup_america !linuxcraft

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morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 22h

English. What was the answer?

nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 1d

Can you guess the programming language that is as fast as C, as productive as Python, and as scalable as Java, but simpler than all three?

morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 1d

starting up some streaming on factorio and dia del petardo! twitch.tv/morhook

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moar starcraft 2 from Linux! 🧉 Commands: !matecraft !messi !cup_america !linuxcraft

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morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it was because the old talking system en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU

SHRDLU - Wikipedia

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 1d

FAFO moment: Synology drops unpopular proprietary HDD rule to stop plummeting NAS sales. www.guru3d.com/story/synolo...

Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet

Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own Synology...

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morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting article! Hopefully we can continue making NAS safely with Synology on the future. FAFO means “Fuck Around Find Out”

nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 1d

Synology HDDs are rebranded Toshiba or Seagate drives, and they added an extra premium on top of it while banning all other manufacturers with firmware updates. So, people simply stopped buying their crap. This is how you teach lessons to these companies. They thought they were Apple of NAS world 🤣

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morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 1d

Are you the son of SHRDLU ? What’s your relationship with that project?

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morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 1d

This cheatsheet is awesome as always thanks! `cat` can be slow on a GIANT file? I've heard only legends about that, but if @b0rk says it, it's because it can happen.

Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 1d

redirects

wizardzines.com/comics/termi...

(from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

redirect to a file:

cmd > file.txt terminal emulator into program, program out to file.txt, error out to terminal emulator
append to a file:

cmd >> file.txt terminal emulator into program, program out to file.txt (append mode), error out to terminal emulator
send a file to stdin:

cmd < file.txt file.txt into program, program out and err to terminal emulator
redirect stderr to a file:

cmd 2 > file.txt terminal emulator into program, program out to nowhere, err out to file.txt
redirect stdout AND stderr:

cmd > file.txt 2>&1 terminal emulator into program, out and err to file.txt
pipe stdout:

cmd1 | cmd2 terminal emulator into program 1, 1 out to program 2 via pipe, 2 out to command line, program 2 out 1 and 2 to terminal emulator
pipe stdout AND stderr:

cmd1 2>&1 | cmd2 terminal emulator into program 1, 1 and 2 out to program 2 via pipe, program 2 out 1 and 2 to terminal emulator
three gotchas

cmd file.txt > file.txt will delete the contents of file.txt some people use set -o noclobber (in bash/zsh) to avoid this

but I just have “never read from redirect to the same file” seared into my memory.

sudo echo blah > /root/file.txt doesn’t write to /root/file.txt as root. Instead, do:

echo blah | sudo tee /root/file.txt or sudo sh -c 'echo blah > /root/file.txt'

cmd 2>&1 > file.txt doesn’t write both stdout and stderr to file.txt. Instead, do: cmd > file.txt 2>&1

cat vs <

I almost always prefer to do:

cat file.txt | cmd

instead of

cmd < file.txt

it works fine & it feels better to me

using cat can be slower if if’s a GIANT file though
&> and &|

some shells support &> and &| to redirect/pipe both stdout and stderr

(also some shells use |& instead of &|)

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morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 2d

starting some streaming from our favorite OS Linux! more starcraft 2! twitch.tv/morhook

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 2d

Microsoft Blocks Windows 11 Workarounds for Local Accounts, Forces Internet Connection During Setup. I think it is time to switch to macOS or Linux or BSD 🤓 alternativeto.net/news/2025/10...

Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update removes all remaining methods to bypass Microsoft Account requirements during setup, enforcing online sign-in and blocking any possibility of creating local-only a...

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morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 3d

I thought this tech was took out of the Linux kernel. Glad is still going round!

nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 3d

NFS at 40: Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System (NFS). NFS remains a fundamental technology for today’s distributed computer systems. The 40th anniversary of NFS was recently celebrated at the MSST Conference in Santa Clara, CA, in September 2025. Happy 40th birthday NFS.

NFS AT 40 – Sun Microsystems NFS

This website gathers material related to the Sun Microsystems Network File System, a project that began in 1983 and remains a fundamental technology for today’s distributed computer systems.

nfs40.online

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MS-DOS Games, Programs, Trivia, Pixels, Grog @scumm-bar.bsky.social · 3d

Monkey Island in its full glory

HiRes:
gamehistory.org/wp-content/u...
Source:
gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/

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morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 3d

A normal developer.

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morhook @morhook.bsky.social · 5d

Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are inflating the bubble because they depend on this to be able to monetize. New tech, new players, destabilize the internet and the world. We are on the verge of inventing an internet 3o (pun intended). blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2...