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@okapi

You won't get #dd to not have long options. It's had long options for the entirety of its existence, from about 15 years before #getopt long options were even invented.

What this does is give them the standard Unix syntax with dashes, in addition to the existing original JCL syntax.

The only supposed worse interface that this encourages is that which the dd command itself has had all along. (-:

@aris
#Unix

fixed my old #defconfurs badge!

#badgelife #freebsd #unix #defcon #t480

Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils https://lobste.rs/s/job3jy #unix
https://uutils.org/blog/2026-08-error-diagnostics/

Time for a Come to Jeebus moment: I will never get along with #calibre ebook management.

It's an incredible, capable, venerable piece of software, and my partially blind ass just continuously gets gut punched by its interface hard and often enough that I spent a chunk of this evening picking apart the broken bits of 5 separate Calibre libraries I've tried to maintain over time. All failed.

So, I now have a sanely curated set of named folders on my NAS for ebooks:

./fiction
./fiction/science-fiction
./fiction/science-fiction/robert-a-heinlein
./freemasonry
./freemasonry/audiobooks
./.local
./.local/bin
./art
./art/digital
./art/digital/blender
./history
./history/manuscripts
./history/manuscripts/voynich
./history/transportation
./history/transportation/mbta
./history/espionage
./gaming
./gaming/tabletop
./gaming/tabletop/world-of-darkness
./psychology
./Desktop
./tech
./tech/emacs
./tech/processing
./tech/ai
./tech/rust
./tech/security
./tech/math
./tech/culture
./tech/culture/model-view-culture
./tech/scheme
./tech/languages
./tech/games
./tech/databases
./tech/python
./tech/python/kivy
./tech/python/Music for Geeks and Nerds
./tech/python/Music for Geeks and Nerds/tracks
./tech/python/Music for Geeks and Nerds/code
./tech/python/Music for Geeks and Nerds/code/pyknon
./tech/retro
./tech/retro/amiga
./tech/retro/atari8
./tech/infrastructure-as-code
./tech/php
./tech/lisp

I am pleased with this arrangement.

Sometimes (often?) a nicely arranged #UNIX filesystem is chefs kiss perfect!

I just found Advanced C Programming for Displays by Marc J. Rochkind in the #UsedBooks shop. It's from 1988. #unix #msdos

I just found Advanced C Programming for Displays by Marc J. Rochkind in the #UsedBooks shop. It's from 1988. #unix #msdos

I just found Advanced C Programming for Displays by Marc J. Rochkind in the #UsedBooks shop. It's from 1988. #unix #msdos

I just found Advanced C Programming for Displays by Marc J. Rochkind in the #UsedBooks shop. It's from 1988. #unix #msdos

I just found Advanced C Programming for Displays by Marc J. Rochkind in the #UsedBooks shop. It's from 1988. #unix #msdos

bash: 20 minutes
ksh: 8 seconds

whatever optimizations ksh93 has, they are insane.
#ksh #bash #linux #unix

bash: 20 minutes
ksh: 8 seconds

whatever optimizations ksh93 has, they are insane.
#ksh #bash #linux #unix

bash: 20 minutes
ksh: 8 seconds

whatever optimizations ksh93 has, they are insane.
#ksh #bash #linux #unix

Firefly – a small failsafe image for illumos based distributions. Firefly is an open-source, minimalistic failsafe boot image designed for illumos-based... https://archiveos.org/firefly/ #solaris #illumos #unix #operatingsystem

Two new preprints from my #research center!

"Is Cleaning Costly? Evaluating the -fret-cleanAnti-Return-Oriented Programming Mitigation from the OpenBSD Operating System" — an evaluation and critique of #cybersecurity #engineering: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf (and #blog post about it: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html)

"Write Your Way to Better Cybersecurity Awareness Training with Active Word Games" — about identifying creating cybersecurity training as a site of learning worthwhile of studying: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Wroblewski_et_al_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#academic #academia #professor #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #unix #linux #illumos #solaris #compiler #compilers #cybersec #cyber #informationsecurity #infosec

For the interested, you can read a preprint of our latest #research on the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag here:

https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity

NexentaStor – a Unix operating system based on the illumos kernel and is a direct fork of OpenSolaris. NextenaStor provides a graphical and text-based interface for system management. https://archiveos.org/nexentastor/ #solaris #illumos #unix

A wild #blog post appears!

I discuss a new #research publication: an empirical evaluation of the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag. We examine the history of the mitigation, measure its costs, and deliberate whether or not it is worth keeping.

Worth the read if you like security and/or compilers.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity

This is a rare in depth video of the SGI O2 being used by an actual VFX artist. It's the first in a series that I'm very excited for.

The O2 has always been my favorite SGI workstation, ever since I discovered it as a teenager, in the pages of PC Magazine. It was powerful AND beautiful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezXXYgSEK5Q

#retrocomputing #silicongraphics #sgi #sgio2 #irix #unix

@paidhi it's a handsome desktop.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/72157604335087061/

#SGI #IRIX #UNIX #workstation #OS #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

@gloriouscow I have an O2. I set out to get an Indy, but got an O2. The O2 is cool, but everything I've used it for I could've done more cheaply and quietly and in less space with an Indy. Maybe get an Indy.

Right now the O2 system is on the shelf because I needed space for an Apple IIe.

Here's a gallery of my O2 in its various settings: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/72157604335087061/

#SGI #SGIO2 #O2 #O2Workstation #IRIX #UNIX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #workstation #computers #tech #vintagetech

Jurassic Park Computers in EXCRUCIATING DETAIL

https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html

#UNIX #IKNOWTHIS #SGI #Sun #Mac #Workstations #movies #films #JurassicPark #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computinghistory #tech #vintagetech #entertainment #blog #photo #nineties

@rl_dane

It's food for thought, too. All this fuss made about cat, repeated to this day in some quarters, and of the three things explicitly pointed out as wrong with what Berkeley did, only a tool to do one of them, vis(1), was ever written in 43 years.

The ironic cherry on top is that the only operating systems that come with vis out of the box are the BSDs.

#Unix #TextProcessing #nosh #cat #vis #linenumber #sqz

@rl_dane

The 'cat -v considered harmful folks' (Kernighan and Pike) invented vis(1).

> The preferred approach in this case is a separate program that deals with non-printable characters. We called ours vis […] because its job is to make things visible.

I suspect that they would approve of sqz(1) likewise abstracted from cat -s, because they also said

> cat isn’t […] for compressing multiple blank lines […] it’s for concatenating files.

#vis #sqz #cat #Unix #TextProcessing #nosh

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CyReVolt/116754366201553414

This. Please, understand people. Bash is... idek what to say man. The entire unix philosophy was... weird, to say the least.

Gotta add the unix haters handbook to uni curricula

#unix #linux #belllabs

Zinnia: A modular 64-bit Unix-like kernel written in Rust

https://zinnia-os.org/

#HackerNews #Zinnia #Rust #Kernel #Unix #Modular #64bit #OperatingSystem

Tribblix: the retro illumos distribution

http://tribblix.org/

#HackerNews #Tribblix #illumos #retro #distribution #open #source #UNIX #operating #system

@flexion Nice!!

All I got is GIMP on my O2. 🙂

#SGI #IRIX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #screenshot #OS #UNIX #GIMP #PhotoShop

I found an old WD NAS buried in all my computer parts clutter in the basement. I had completely forgotten about it after switching to the great uGreen NAS.

With 2x 4 TB WD Red drives, this WD NAS will now serve as my personal cloud at home, while the uGreen NAS will no longer function as a cloud solution connecting my smartphones and computers on the go, but rather as pure file and document storage on the internal network. So I’m splitting these functions between two NAS devices.

I’d been thinking about this for a while, and I was even planning to spend a lot of money on another uGreen NAS... but with today’s storage prices, that’s a massive expense that needs careful consideration—and thank goodness I took my time with it until I made this discovery today.

#linux #unix #opensource #freesoftware #nas #ugreen #westerndigital #cloud

@sjvn @ZDNet Lets not forget #Microsoft also had its own #UNIX distribution called #XENIX which was used with their internal version control system #SLM as the repository for their proprietary platforms source code such as #Office and #Windows. They also had one of the largest SUN Solaris installations for handling internal mail before Exchange also for running #Hotmail.

2.11BSD recebendo correções até hoje.

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/05/04/2-11bsd-recebendo-correcoes-ate-hoje/

#MundoRetro #211BSD #aniversrio #BSD #patch #RetroBSD #SistemaOperacional #UNIX

Daniël has shared this wonderful post about curl fandom

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116421914904713038

#curl #programming #billions #fetch #UNIX #BSD #linux #radio #TV #car #truck #excavator #technology #OpenSource #Android #win64

Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]

Hmm ...fascinating!!

#UNIX #belllabs #operatingsystem #research #CSRG #Innovation #luminaries

https://youtu.be/XvDZLjaCJuw?si=GuHOp_hi25YD4byn

Ah, get one for yourself, if you haven't had it already ....invaluable....👍

#UNIX #belllabs #operatingsystem

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HAz8e0qXAAE7u2N?format=jpg&name=900x900

Celebrate!!

Hero....Luminary....Mastermind....Thinker....Teacher...Programmer...

Brilliance personifies....cut above the rest!!

#UNIX #belllabs #operatingsystem

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/unixbhaskar_acmturingaward-activity-7424762820350889984-XJsZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACN_d2cB2ttNCkYVrQ3i0BMIQsK4V0UYlbw

I always liked the idea of being one of those cool Lisp programmer with the Symbolics machines doing dark wizardry on green phosphor. It looks cool, but I'm almost certain I would actually hate it. Too bad, now we can just make Google do it for us.

#lisp, #unix, #symbolics, #programming, #vibecoding

"Dialed" into the Mac Studio wirelessly across the room for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️

I had to modify the plist and shell config scripts I'd setup on the Mac since "upgrading" to macOS 26 Tahoe to get this working without gripes in the terminal.

#Mac #macOS #terminal #serialterminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinginthesnow #AppleII #AppleIIe #MacStudio #ProTerm #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #login #telnet #WiFimodem #computers #CRT #floppydrive #ByteCellar #BASH #photo #UNIX

If you take the past 75 years of world population data and paste it into Calc and tell it to find a 7th degree polynomial trend line and then paste that polynomial into Wolfram Alpha then it appears to have a root at 2037.
So, we can all stop worrying about the Unix clock problem. :-)
#JustSaying #population #statistics #maths #LibreOffice #Unix #Linux #WhatMeWorry #EndOfTheWorld #FunFact

The frontier of digital expression is returning to code and text.

Instead of massive models or flashy UIs,
trust grows in small, readable code and honest words.

ZINEs in .txt or .md, local AI, and the minimal beauty of UNIX.
True freedom comes from technology you can understand.

#TextCulture #UNIX #LocalFirst #SmallIsBeautiful #DIYTech #FediTech

MicroTimes' Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from Santa Cruz Operation (1987) #UNIX #Xenix #SCO
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microtimes-interview-with-doug-and

@argv_minus_one You know... `autoconf` was for times, when we have several #Unix systems in the field, each significantly different from each other, especially in terms of `libc` support. Today we have 3, with one having two flavours - `musl` and `glibc`; third one from #Apple is not usually that strongly supported.

Then keep in mind `autoconf` was practically non-existent on #Windows (and no, #Cygwin and #msys don't count).

[Перевод] История S.u.S.E. Кульминация

Продолжение истории про зарождение и развитие дистрибутива SuSE. В прошлой части мы остановились на том, что в декабре 2001 года компания выпустила SuSE Linux Enterprise Server для мейнфреймов IBM S/390. В тот же год в США произошла рецессия, которая ощутимо сказалась на делах компании. Продолжим…

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/888806/

#ruvds_перевод #unix #linux #kde #история_it #suse #suse_linux_enterprise #opensuse #novell #micro_focus #attachmate #eqt_ab

#minicom 2.10 has been released (#TerminalEmulator / #VT100Emulation / #ZMODEM / #SerialCommunication / #Unix / #Linux / #Debian) https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom

#Tech #Computer #RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputers #VintageComputer #RetroComputing #Magazine #UNIX #IBMPersonalComputer #Lisa2 #SantaCruzOperation #VintageAd #VintageTechAd #SCO #XENIX

In the days of Sun-3 and other early #UNIX #workstations, the #XWindow System had one window manager, the "twm" (Tom's Window Manager). The only "apps" we used, then, were XTerm, XClock, and XEyes. Some used the XCalc, but I just used the \(\texttt{dc}\) RPN calculator in XTerm, which is more convenient, and is scriptable.

I miss those simpler times, when we still held on to our #VT100, just in case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm

“É o caminhão do garbage collector passando na sua rua!”

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/10/08/e-o-caminhao-do-garbage-collector-passando-na-sua-rua/

#MundoRetro #ConvergentWorkSlate #GarbageCollector #Intel4004 #Libretto #Linux #MSDOS #RaspberryPiPico #Thinkpad #TMS9918 #toshiba #UNIX #usbc #VDP #VNCFOX #WindowsNT #Workstation

Pra não dizer que não falei de Unix…

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/09/24/pra-nao-dizer-que-nao-falei-de-unix/

#MundoRetro #68000 #computador #DEC #Motorola #PDP11 #SistemaOperacional #UNIX #Xenix #Z8000 #zilog

#UNIX Systems Expo/84 as it was described in BYTE in January 1985: "(Microsoft's) #XENIX was running all over the place"

There are so many groovy music player options for #Linux / #Unix / #BSD, even amazing command-line options like cmus, or even plain old mpv or ffplay.

But nothing quite hits the nostalgia button like #QMMP, man.

Edit: fixed spacing for hashtags

Great article about the history of #Xenix: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-xenix

#RetroComputing #Microsoft #History #UNIX #SCO