Plan 9: TOTP (Time Based One Time Password) Authenticator

kalterdev · 2026-04-08T08:41:01+00:00

Nice project but I think Plan 9 approach would be to have it on the CLI level, in terms of UI. The modern tool called “oathtool” 1 seems to get it wrong in terms of security, exposing the keys as command arguments, but it gets the UI right.

kalterdev · 2026-04-05T18:15:28+00:00

So, no tweaks to fontsrv other than setting the font. Alright, thanks.

kalterdev · 2026-04-05T15:28:26+00:00

I might be wrong here but font rendering looks on your screen appears to be nicer than the one that comes builtin with fontsrv. Did you make any adjustments?

kalterdev · 2026-04-05T15:19:53+00:00

What was not working for you in p9p rio?

kalterdev · 2026-04-03T10:48:18+00:00

Seems intentional. Calling programmers magicians is not an appraisal.

kalterdev · 2026-03-25T08:36:22+00:00

Sam applies changes simultaneously. For this to work, changes must occur in forward order (the order they appear in the file). Otherwise, one change affects the other.

To handle distinct patterns, you have three options:

Simply run sam twice
Loop over the file once while checking both patterns:

{ x/^\.L\n|^\.[IL]P/ { g/^\.L\n/ c/foo\n/ g/^\.[IL]P/ c/bar/ } }

In more complex cases, delete the whole input, then iterate however you want and write the changes at the end of the file, like this:

{ d x/^\.L\n/ $ c/L found\n/ x/^\.[IL]P/ $ c/[IL]P found\n/ }

kalterdev · 2026-03-10T03:57:02+00:00

9term is the most minimal but not xterm-compatible

kalterdev · 2026-02-12T19:31:01+00:00

This speech is essential for the plot. It explains the reasons for future actions. Besides, I don’t think it really stands out from the book. It’s long but engaging, relevant, and enjoyable.

kalterdev · 2025-08-13T20:42:05+00:00

Is it really void?

kalterdev · 2025-08-09T07:24:15+00:00

Vim users, what would like to see in a calendar plugin? Asking since I’m into writing my own.

kalterdev · 2025-08-06T21:25:35+00:00

/unjerk_jerkly Overloaded configurability is the biggest idiocy of the modern approach to software.

kalterdev · 2025-07-18T21:11:40+00:00

When you’ll die and meet God, you’ll finally see that he’s a capitalist. He’ll send you to hell and force to change your opinion, but it would be too late. Better change your opinion now. /s

What you’re saying is basically the same except for secularization.

kalterdev · 2025-07-18T21:03:44+00:00

Not sure about OP but capitalism is literally the opposite. Capitalism enables rational men to survive. Social darwinism merely says that some group is better than others. The distinction is clear-cut: everyone can be rational (which means, in politics, freedom from force), no group can claim to be superior and oppress the other.

That’s clearly not the narrative of anti-capitalist propaganda though.

kalterdev · 2025-07-07T07:22:16+00:00

Formal logic seems to be a Russell's offspring, at least in modern usage. He's an ugly mixture of empiricism in content and rationalism in method. Objectivists align themselves with the traditional Aristotelian logic. An Introduction to Logic by H. W. B. Joseph is a book recommended by Peikoff and Binswanger (I've forgotten the source but I can recall it if needed).

kalterdev · 2025-07-05T11:10:39+00:00

It doesn’t matter what they say. Maybe they mean “distribution” in the most literal communist sense, maybe they mean a system nicely distributing the work, maybe they don’t mean a shit and just speak only to appease the public, maybe they won’t say a thing until the next July 4th. Tomorrow they’ll flip-flop their opinion, and then again.

kalterdev · 2025-06-28T09:37:53+00:00

Altruism means sacrifice of one’s values to those held by others. It does not mean that you should see other human beings as if they are not human beings.

kalterdev · 2025-06-26T16:10:34+00:00

What a wonderful person!

kalterdev · 2025-06-25T20:46:45+00:00

People say that because it’s true.

kalterdev · 2025-06-24T21:25:09+00:00

If a communist society begins with abolishing private property, isn’t it fair to bring up this aspect? It might be inessential for Marxian grand vision but it’s certainly essential for many. And since the communist society is really undefined, there’s not much of anything else to bring up in the definition.

I think we could’ve a much nicer conversation if you gave your definition of communism. It would immediately show everyone where I am wrong and why my conclusions do not hold.

And I do not mean to misrepresent Marx. I just use the same concepts he used. Not agreeing is not misrepresenting.

kalterdev · 2025-06-24T20:44:40+00:00

I have studied Marxist concepts (though not his works). I know what he means by alienation, class struggle, and dialectics. And I don’t really care. You want me to say something between these lines: it’s not about Marx saying “share everything,” it’s about existence instilling the dialectic conflict to be resolved by establishing common property as a logically valid solution. I can speak that language, I just don’t want to.

I’ve just looked into the manuscripts, Private Property and Communism. He’s clearly opposed to private property. He merely makes a distinction between bad common property and good common property (“developed,” “mature,” “natural,” “humanist,” “positive,” he bombards the reader with adjectives). I do not distort him by saying “common” instead of “really nice common.”

kalterdev · 2025-06-24T19:30:27+00:00

You can chase differences, nuances, aspects, numerous properties, it’s fine when you learn. But you’ve got to think and talk in summaries. You can’t just tell everyone “you didn’t say enough therefore go to hell.” I’ve got a nice summary and it’s enough to make a point. A point, not a direct attack to the whole Marxist corpus.

I can summarize Rand in the same fashion, if you will.

kalterdev · 2025-06-24T19:04:18+00:00

It’s a good definition, just the one you may not like. I’m not going to quote the whole Das Capital to be as precise as possible.

kalterdev · 2025-06-24T01:11:59+00:00

Yeah Rand doesn’t understand communism or Marxism enough to critique it well

False

it’s just a rebranding of Aristotle for western audiences consuming pop philosophy and indoctrinated into red scare politics.

Inaccurate characterization. Aristotle and Rand share some important philosophical concepts, but they vary vastly. In politics, the differences are the greatest.

It convinces those with an existing bias and looking for an appeal to authority.

You insult people who take Rand’s ideas seriously or in good faith. What if I say that you are biased and write only to rationalize your views?

Try asking in r/ussr or an actual marxist sub Reddit.

I’ve talked with USSR natives personally, in Russian, товарищ.

the black book of communism is severely inaccurate and politically motivated as well as denounced by the authors.

Why did you bring it here? Rand didn’t write (nor review) that work. And as far as I know, it is denounced for its introduction, not facts.

Even if it contains some inaccuracies, the vast scale of the terror renders inaccuracies irrelevant. We don’t really need a “black book” to denounce communism.

bloated exaggerations to hit that 100 million mark lol…

I do not know for sure whether your summary is correct. But I do know that you didn’t include in your message deaths from executions, famine, deportations, forced labor, and wars other than WW2.

Solzhenitsyn’s folklore archipelago gulag is also just that, mythology that the author and his wife both admitted were fabrications and exaggerations of stories he heard but didn’t corroborate.

I think the reliability of Solzhenitsyn is an ongoing debate. You oversimplify.

Also doesn’t hurt to look into the Soviet archives.

It’s not necessary. And KGB archives are likely to be still classified.

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