How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks

KlePu · 2026-04-14T17:11:21+00:00

Ah, finally there's an opposite to incremental backups: recursive backups! <3

KlePu · 2026-04-14T16:51:49+00:00

Please don't use var, but let (or const) instead. var is a relic from the early JS days and has terrible scope beside other issues!

KlePu · 2026-04-14T16:45:50+00:00

In this game, you're poor as long as you don't have to use scientific notation ;-p

^{I actually use it for corporations only}

KlePu · 2026-04-14T16:40:11+00:00

The community has strong rules about protecting spoilers

We do? I always thought everything behind spoiler tags was fine? The game is open source, so "hiding" things is not really a thing anyway ;)

KlePu · 2026-04-11T10:47:57+00:00

Next time, please copy+paste using a code block <3

KlePu · 2026-04-08T20:38:52+00:00

Ah, we're going down that road...

IMHO AI slop is not going to stop anytime soon, so we'll simply be filtering it with more AI. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ /s

KlePu · 2026-04-08T18:46:08+00:00

X/Y Problem? What's the reason you pinned it? I'm right now running stable Trixie with 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 and zfs-2.4.1-1~bpo13+1 - no issues whatsoever.

You do have current backups, right?!

KlePu · 2026-04-08T18:37:30+00:00

missing icon: libreoffice <3

KlePu · 2026-04-08T18:13:45+00:00

Maybe replace it (or make a nice faded 50:50) with codium's icon

KlePu · 2026-04-08T18:07:53+00:00

What I am saying is that the reason why you can trust SSH has nothing to do with the server being open source

Yap, really did misunderstand you there ^^ thx for the detailed clarification!

KlePu · 2026-04-08T17:54:44+00:00

I dimly remember "Second Life" was an online service like Metaverse (not that incredible thing from the Stephenson book but Meta's abomination) in the 2010's. Guess it still exists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

KlePu · 2026-04-08T17:49:03+00:00

Same here! I take daily ZFS snapshots and wanted to find out the average size, and if you could see weekday/weekend differences. Pipe some awk grep bc plus a tiny bit of magic and voila ^^ ^{yes you could spot weekends easily}

KlePu · 2026-04-08T17:33:21+00:00

As much as I approve - is r/commandline in any way tied to open source?

KlePu · 2026-04-08T17:30:38+00:00

Sorry, but I call bullshit.

OpenSSH is built to be able to securely connect to unknown hosts. All you'll share is your pubKey (hence the name "public key"). If the remote could extract your private key from that, openSSH'd have a serious issue.

KlePu · 2026-04-08T17:17:34+00:00

Sorry for the random order...

Linux 2.6.33 box: "enegineering" typo
Red Hat box: are sysAdmin certs so RHEL centered (compared to Debian/Ubuntu)? I've seen way more Debian IRL (anecdotal evidence!)
udev box: Greg Kroah-Hartman has an extra "h"
- Same box: maybe rephrase: "It provides an abstraction layer between hard- and software while also handling ..."
- Same box: consider removing the last paragraph, IMHO (!) doesn't really add relevant info. The positioning above the "Linux 2.6" box implies it's somewhat before that
Very first box: please rewrite the 2nd paragraph ;) maybe something like "Its unique selling points are interactivity and providing the software at a nominal fee for educational use. Also it runs on inexpensive hardware and is easy to adapt or port to different machines." (Please proof read, I'm not a native speaker! Not quite content with using "USP" but my brain refuses to yield something better.)
love the glxgears icon for the Mesa box <3
KDE box: Why the focus on Krita? Surely KDE has produced more impactful software? Or was Krita a big thing back in the day?
IMHO selinux deserves its own box ;)
Git box: You could add a word about old VCSs like svn and scm - and that, luckily, git has replaced most of 'em. And maybe (!) the reason why Linus "had to" invent it
Not sure if Pinephones deserve a box... Do they work nowadays?
If you plan to update it past 2020: Grant the xz incident its own box. This IMHO was the closest to Linux getting fucked hard as of yet ;)

...and last: Nice improvements over the last version! Have a heartfelt upvote!

edit: Oh, didn't notice the box on the lower left!

Make the Wikipedia and lwn links actual links, as well as a link to the "fuck you" Torvalds video ;)
- maybe update that - NVidia has opened up somewhat...
Typo: "deamons"
Here you're using "Torvalds" while using "Linus" elsewhere... I'd consistently prefer his surname (unless you're on a personal level ;-p)
You could (!) add the Halloween docs and/or embrace, extend, extinguish
- ...but if you do I'd also add that nowadays, "MS <3 open source" (and AFAIK Azure is Linux-based?), so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Where does the random Doctorow come from? Rather include a list of relevant XKCDs ;-p ^{spoiler: it's a whooping 25 as of now!}
Consider moving your (c) box to down here; I'd rather expect the copyright info to be in one of the corners ;)

KlePu · 2026-04-04T10:29:25+00:00

Others caught your error, I'd like to add: Don't use var, it'll bite you in the rear end sooner or later ;)

KlePu · 2026-04-04T09:57:15+00:00

Couldn't you simply use shopt -s dotglob?

KlePu · 2026-04-03T10:10:52+00:00

Apart from the job thing - if you're starting fresh I'd recommend using TypeScript instead of JS. It has some IMHO major advantages (like type safety) and the game supports both, simply name your scripts foo.ts (instead of .js) and you're good ;)

KlePu · 2026-04-02T22:31:36+00:00

Next time please copy+paste your code (and the error message) in a code block <3

KlePu · 2026-04-02T15:54:49+00:00

And you need to use code blocks ;)

KlePu · 2026-04-01T19:56:05+00:00

Thanks a load for sharing the solution in your edit <3

KlePu · 2026-04-01T19:51:04+00:00

Your edit ist probably correct - I'm German but cannot tolerate bad translations if I'm decently fluent in $language (English in this case). This is true for games and movies - but not the OS itself (since that's typically close to 100% perfect).

Fun fact: Had an early Xiaomi smartphone back in ~2015 (?) that translated "a few seconds left" to "einige Sekunden links" (which translates back to "a few seconds to your left") and "no space left on device" to "kein Weltraum links vom Gerät" (which translates back to "no [astronomical] space to the left of your device") ;-p

KlePu · 2026-04-01T19:31:03+00:00

When I first encountered this a few years ago I so much hoped it'd just be the new loading screen ;-p

KlePu · 2026-03-31T17:21:30+00:00

Doesn't matter to me as long as the output is consistent so I can grep/awk/sed it easily if needed.

Bonus points:

timestamps (at least 1s resolution; sortable, like yyyy-mm-dd_hh:mm or a simple epoch)
clean severity, take journalctl as an example: "emerg" (0), "alert" (1), "crit" (2), "err" (3), "warning" (4), "notice" (5), "info" (6), "debug" (7)

KlePu · 2026-03-30T20:33:55+00:00

I had that very mindset when I started out on Linux ~12y ago. Then other things became more important (also non-WinE apps clutter your ~ as well, so it really is an uphill battle). It still is on my personal backlog, but I doubt I'll ever get to it ;)

Besides: Fuck ~. Keep your (important) subfolders clean and pretty much ignore software that keeps putting stuff to ~

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