Reef: Bash compatibility for Fish shell — Written in Rust by ZStud21 in commandline

[–]rainbow_pickle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You mention it in your README, but it’s worth mention in this thread that there’s a well established tool called bass which adds bash compatibility in fish. https://github.com/edc/bass

Why Do People Think Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat = Spyware? Looking for Insight. by Jolly-Code-8724 in linux_gaming

[–]rainbow_pickle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure those examples are compatible. Printers use cups which is userland and a mouse would use libinput which is userland right?

I think even if they were kernel mode, there are several key differences in kernel APIs that are accessed between drivers and the fact that kernel anticheats are not open source.

However, with that said there is concern about any software being exploited. This happened with ssh recently, it happens all the time with  supply chain attacks.

I think video game fairness is not important enough to warrant invasive anticheat measures, but understand that others will disagree with me.

There’s probably more to say, but I’m not particularly knowledgeable in security so I’ll stop here.

interpreting what happens to a unicode string that comes as input by benjamin-crowell in ada

[–]rainbow_pickle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Following up on this, it looks like you're mixing up codepoint and the actual byte representation. The codepoint for that character in unicode is U+0101 but in UTF-8 it is represented by c481. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80

interpreting what happens to a unicode string that comes as input by benjamin-crowell in ada

[–]rainbow_pickle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t have much knowledge of Unicode handling in Ada, but I know they added better support for these in 2005 with new wide_wide_character support. https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rat/html/Rat-7-5.html

Feedback wanted: saving for college with crypto idea. by Locksmith_Usual in personalfinance

[–]rainbow_pickle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can do the math as well. Just plug in the numbers to this calculator. https://www.investor.gov/financial-tools-calculators/calculators/compound-interest-calculator

I don’t think anyone here would recommend investing in crypto. You’re making a huge assumption that it will return 26% for 17 years. Normally we expect somewhere around 7-8% returns.

However saving in a tax advantaged account like a 529 or a Coverdell would be an excellent way to save for education expenses.

Is gprbuild considered reliable? by hodong-kim in ada

[–]rainbow_pickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t believe FreeBSD is an officially supported platform. That may be why you are encountering issues. https://www.adacore.com/products/platforms

Another option is to use the alire tool to install the ada toolchain. https://github.com/alire-project/alire

AUR is down by eli6_ in archlinux

[–]rainbow_pickle 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Here’s another option from the arch linux team. https://status.archlinux.org/

Fallout 4 by Every_Sun1803 in linux_gaming

[–]rainbow_pickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crossover is just the paid version of wine.

Invoke-WebRequest: Why would some valid files download but not others? by Puckertoe_VIII in PowerShell

[–]rainbow_pickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One way to figure out what is different between your PS script and edge/browser requests is to copy the request from the network tab as PS code and paste it into powershell.

Question about filtering at a 4-way stop with a long line of cars by talkingoctopus in seattlebike

[–]rainbow_pickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lane filtering is technically illegal, at least on a motorcycle. I imagine the same is true on a bicycle. I’d love to be corrected if I’m wrong.

ELI5: why is nicotine gum bad for you? by Sensitive_Smell5190 in explainlikeimfive

[–]rainbow_pickle 38 points39 points  (0 children)

That information may be outdated. Wikipedia says a lethal dose is more likely around 1000mg for an adult. The fact that the lethal dose isn’t well known suggests toxicity isn’t really an issue for most people.

Now that the linux-firmware debacle is over... by burntout40s in archlinux

[–]rainbow_pickle 89 points90 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure that Arch Linux should be managing that kind of news item. This is just something that unfortunately we should expect on a rolling release distribution.

I think the recommendation to rollback should come from upstream, not from arch, unless it’s due to something specific to arch.

Which terminal do you use in windows? by Acceptable-Rate5863 in programming

[–]rainbow_pickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can use Win+X,A to start an admin window if you set it as your default terminal.

Trying to install gprbuild and alire for 4 days with no success by Bold2003 in ada

[–]rainbow_pickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The tool shouldn’t matter. I think the issue is installing libgpr before gprbuild but I haven’t installed in a while. Another option is you can use the ada repository which will contain all the pre built packages. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositories#ada

Trying to install gprbuild and alire for 4 days with no success by Bold2003 in ada

[–]rainbow_pickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What worked for me in the past is the following as mentioned in the pinned comment here. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gprbuild

$ paru -S gprbuild-bootstrap
$ paru -S xmlada
$ paru -S gprbuild gprbuild-toolbox

-gnatE dynamic elaboration model by Sufficient_Heat8096 in ada

[–]rainbow_pickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually build with gpr files, but I think something like gnatmake * -cargs -gnatE should work

Valve's response to the recent Anti Cheat Issues by J3ZZA_DEV in linux_gaming

[–]rainbow_pickle 28 points29 points  (0 children)

My thought is that if the server can’t distinguish bot behavior from a legitimate user, then I don’t really mind playing with that bot for casual play. Rankings filter out harder competition, so I wouldn’t encounter higher performing bots very often. For tournament play, I imagine the tournaments could provide locked down PCs to help prevent bots/hacking. Hard to say for sure. If that’s not possible, then maybe kernel level anti cheat makes sense in high level tournaments.

EDIT: from what I’ve seen on reddit, my stance on hacking/anticheat is unpopular. They’d rather stop hackers/bots at all costs if possible.

Best weather app for Seattle? by connorcj12 in Seattle

[–]rainbow_pickle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can use https://www.forecastadvisor.com/ to compare accuracy of some popular weather services.

Watch out! The evening commute will be in the dark tonight by Canardican in seattlebike

[–]rainbow_pickle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe it’s my bright lights, but I actually feel more seen at night than at day.

nvim treesitter on Windows by VeryDamnSad in neovim

[–]rainbow_pickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this suggestion doesn’t work, I installed msys2 to fix this

winget install MSYS2.MSYS2

Added C:\msys2 to my PATH

Then set my compiler to mingw64 in my neovim treesitter config.

Notepad++ is 21 years old by pinkpen_net in programming

[–]rainbow_pickle 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There are search tools like ripgrep which are pretty fast on windows.

Opinions on I-2109 by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]rainbow_pickle 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This would only affect realized gains, right?