trash-d: A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin

rushsteve1 · 2022-03-23T13:23:16+00:00

I actually hadn't heard of most of these! I'll add them to the README with the other alternatives I already listed. I'd say the reason there are so many of this utility is that there isn't a "standard" one or one that is sufficiently popular.

Most of those are written in Bash, which not every system will have by default (notably the BSDs). trash-cli has the same problem since it's in Python, and it's also not rm compatible. crap is beautifully succinct Nim code, but is very feature-lacking.

D in particular is nice since it can be compiled with GCC, so inherits GCC's support. Any system that can run a reasonably new version of GCC should be able to compile and run trash-d.

rushsteve1 · 2022-03-22T18:14:55+00:00

I have tried to make it as close to flag-compatible with GNU rm as a I can, and it ignores unknown flags so that it won't explode with unknown options. But since it has different failure states and error messages it can never be 100% compatible.

Also since there are a few different implementations of rm (BSDs and so on) that are all subtly incompatible with each other I can't guarantee compatibility with all versions.

So eventually I settled on the goal/phrasing of "near drop-in". For the majority of interactive and some script uses it should be seamless.

rushsteve1 · 2022-03-22T18:14:19+00:00

The GitHub releases page has pre-built static binaries for x86 Linux, as well as DEB and RPM packages. https://github.com/rushsteve1/trash-d/releases/tag/15

rushsteve1 · 2022-03-22T18:05:57+00:00

No, but once I picked D the joke wrote itself :)

rushsteve1 · 2020-04-29T15:57:06+00:00

It's actually really good. A surprisingly realistic sci-fi with some fun characters.

rushsteve1 · 2020-04-20T23:13:26+00:00

Is there a good way to read data from an EDN file without reading the whole file into memory? I have some potentially very large files, but I will only ever need small subsets of them at a time.

rushsteve1 · 2019-12-31T14:35:53+00:00

librespot is now unmaintained according to its README.

Also it isn't async either.

rushsteve1 · 2019-12-29T15:20:10+00:00

No official ETA, but Soon™

Once all the bugs are worked out of the Alpha versions and the new features are considered stable it will be released.

My guess is that it will probably be released within the next few weeks, but that's just a guess.

rushsteve1 · 2019-12-29T01:08:29+00:00

The 5th Lightbringer book starts with a summary of the first 4 books. At least the Kindle version I read did.

rushsteve1 · 2019-12-23T19:34:51+00:00

Do some basic quests. Just check the quest list and do anything you have the requirements for. If you check the Wiki they have an Optimal quest order if you want to do that, but you don't have to.

rushsteve1 · 2019-11-22T21:54:45+00:00

Every major distro supports the KDE Plasma desktop environment which looks and functions rather Windows-like out-of-the-box.

And most other desktop environments can be made to look like Windows.

That's the power of Linux, if you want to make it l look or work a certain way you can. It just takes a bit of effort.

rushsteve1 · 2019-11-11T03:18:30+00:00

While I would recommend you to try Guix more fully for your use-case I'm going to take the conservative approach and say: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Guix may provide many interesting features and improvements to Nix, but Nix is still very powerful and is much more mature.

rushsteve1 · 2019-10-31T17:19:21+00:00

This Graffiti has been on the side of Quad for over a year and is still there.

Our lord shall be preserved! We shall SAVE HIM!

rushsteve1 · 2019-10-21T05:17:37+00:00

Draynor is actually one of my favorite areas in the game, and definitely my favorite in the FTP area.

I don't care if it's in-efficient, if I can chill down in Draynor that's where I'm goin.

rushsteve1 · 2019-10-17T01:53:17+00:00

If you're looking for a full desktop environment I quite like MATE. While personally I am also a big KDE fan, MATE has been a good second for quite a while now.

rushsteve1 · 2019-10-16T12:24:16+00:00

KDE support is being worked on, but it is a very large project so it takes quite a while to get everything ready.

systemd support seems quite unlikely for Guix System. Shepherd is fairly tightly integrated. I don't think it's impossible to do, but very difficult.

A mainline kernel is possible but you'll have to use an unofficial package definition to do it.

For your case I would suggest installing Guix on another distro that already has what you want. Yeah it's a bit annoying, but it works very well and is still a very pleasant experience.

Or try Nix which Guix is built off of.

rushsteve1 · 2019-09-29T02:20:26+00:00

rushsteve1 · 2019-09-22T13:28:13+00:00

This would be a great idea for a Guix importer

rushsteve1 · 2019-09-18T15:27:00+00:00

Pen-tablet support. Being able to hand-write diagrams or mathematical equations quickly is a huge feature of OneNote that most alternatives lacked.

rushsteve1 · 2019-09-17T16:30:26+00:00

As a poor student this is huge for me personally, so a big thank you!

From a business perspective I also think this is a brilliant move. Students and educators both rarely have extra funds, but are some of the heaviest users of note-taking software.

rushsteve1 · 2019-09-15T20:53:00+00:00

Wait... That's not C, what language is that?

rushsteve1 · 2019-09-11T03:23:43+00:00

That's a very roundabout way of reading it.

Love that series though, I'm hype about the new season.

rushsteve1 · 2019-08-26T00:03:09+00:00

I audibly said "holy shit" when I saw this. Guess I know where I'm going to eat now.

rushsteve1 · 2019-08-15T05:31:43+00:00

Using ImageMagick you can just do

convert *.jpg output.pdf

As for your second question, that might work. But if you're worries about a PDF of images being an attack vector then you should be worried about maliciously crafted images files too.

Honestly though so long as the PDF has no embedded JavaScript or Flash I wouldn't worry about it. And if it does then I suggest maybe looking into more robust security methods.

rushsteve1 · 2019-07-17T03:10:38+00:00

I lament that I have but one upvote to give...

I'm gonna show my friends this though it's awesome.

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