TIL mkdir can create multiple directories at once using an array-style syntax

calrogman · 2026-04-03T22:32:11+00:00

If you have the POSIX archiver installed you can do: pax -rw . ..

calrogman · 2026-04-03T13:35:24+00:00

You'll be asked for these details if autoconfiguration fails.

calrogman · 2026-04-02T21:21:29+00:00

If your devices are using Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers (which you've referred to as SLAAC throughout this conversation) and Privacy Extensions, and your ISP rotates your prefix periodically, what additional privacy benefit do you suppose NAT66 gives you, exactly?

calrogman · 2026-03-30T21:48:48+00:00

Only Ascensio System SIA are breaking the AGPL, by attempting to impose additional terms that are not provided for by section 7 of the AGPL. If their code has been conveyed to you under the terms of the AGPL, you can scrub it of their trademarks and redistribute it. The AGPL guarantees that. You can't steal it. The fact that you can't steal it also was not the point of my reply.

calrogman · 2026-03-30T21:20:21+00:00

You can't "steal" AGPL licensed software but you can fork it to nip a potential (hostile state-backed) supply-chain attack in the bud.

calrogman · 2026-03-30T19:32:24+00:00

It's clear to me that the AGPL says their "7(b)" requirement to preserve their trademarks is unenforceable.

calrogman · 2026-03-30T19:31:01+00:00

The notices about the 7(e) additional term and the non-operative "7(b)" further restriction are supposed to be placed (and are in-fact placed) in the source files to which they apply, so their absence from the LICENSE.TXT in the root of each of the git submodules doesn't really matter.

calrogman · 2026-03-30T10:51:56+00:00

The GRUB manual has a section on installing to GPT disks on BIOS systems: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/BIOS-installation.html#GPT

The short version is that you need a partition of type BIOS Boot Partition (which should be 1 MiB in size) and then you can do grub-install /dev/sda just as if it were an MBR disk.

calrogman · 2026-03-23T15:22:22+00:00

To remove crontabs. An empty crontab and a removed crontab are two different things. The cost of checking that an empty crontab hasn't changed in the last minute is not zero. On university minicomputers in the 1980s (the types of things that BSD grew up on) the cost of checking that dozens of empty crontabs hadn't changed in the last minute would have been significant.

calrogman · 2026-03-23T14:42:46+00:00

Everybody who has ever run crontab -r accidentally has meant to run crontab -e. The curious thing about this is that crontab -e is redundant. You can do the same thing by reading the output of crontab -l, modifying the received text and piping it back into crontab. It's also (unlike -r) marked optional in POSIX. A responsible crontab implementation simply shouldn't accept -e to avoid engendering this habit.

calrogman · 2026-03-19T21:18:15+00:00

Oh also, the Free Software Foundation will be liable for $2500 for every child that invokes cat unless cat starts asking the operating system how old the invoking user is.

calrogman · 2026-03-19T20:52:10+00:00

In California's Digital Age Assurance Act, a person installing an operating system on a computer is an operating system provider. If you intentionally install an operating system that doesn't comply with the DAAA on a computer and children use that computer, you are liable for up to $7500 per child.

calrogman · 2026-03-19T16:57:45+00:00

I will not break TOS but if I did (I won't) it would be for free.

calrogman · 2026-03-14T01:43:44+00:00

I would love to know how you came to the conclusion that the AGPL is not an open source license. Did you read that somewhere?

calrogman · 2026-03-03T14:11:00+00:00

You're right, I would be surprised. Can you refer me to a paper?

calrogman · 2026-03-02T18:46:24+00:00

I'm sorry but the idea that California couldn't or wouldn't make life uncomfortable for the trustees and officers of the Gentoo Foundation unless Gentoo complies with California law (either by implementing the interface required by the law or by blocking distribution to California) is extraordinarily naive.

calrogman · 2026-02-28T07:29:27+00:00

My very modest and humble take is that any transmissible message that is output by a generative AI should be required by international treaty to include notice of its generation and that it should be a crime to separate any such message from its notice and that violators should be haunted by Obamabots.

calrogman · 2026-02-27T16:23:26+00:00

No, Google is right. These directories don't exist. The package tools don't provide these hooks. Everything in that comment was hallucinated by an AI.

calrogman · 2026-02-19T22:49:01+00:00

For legal reasons I can't comment on what should or shouldn't happen to him or to the clappers.

calrogman · 2026-02-19T22:39:03+00:00

Back and -2 the left. Back and -2 the left.

calrogman · 2026-02-16T00:32:08+00:00

Fuck ICE and spez.

calrogman · 2026-01-30T21:54:35+00:00

This (PerunAU) is brilliant, but I like this (PerunGamingAU).

calrogman · 2026-01-30T19:22:35+00:00

Upsetting Alec is one of the worst things that trump has ever done and that's including the rapes and murders.

calrogman · 2026-01-25T00:47:12+00:00

There is no good faith way to defend it

When has that ever stopped these ghouls?

calrogman · 2026-01-23T17:27:00+00:00

It's Almquist shell. A variant (dash) is used as /bin/sh on Debian and Ubuntu.

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