Zack Weinberg

Git for people with other VCSes wired into their fingers

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This is a handy tutorial. I'd like to suggest that you augment it with some specific help for people who are already deeply accustomed to some _other_ version control system...

fork() safety

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The global state object should be automatically invalidated on the child side of a `fork`, to ensure that the child does not produce the same random stream as the parent...

This doesn't mean anything at all to me, but it wanted me to report it: Location: http://localhost/ User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2 Iceweasel/10.0.2 d()@http://mir.aculo.us/dom-monster/dommonster.js?15401:11 {anonymous}()@http://mir.aculo.us/dom-monster/dommonster.js?15401:11 {anonymous}()@http://mir.aculo.us/dom-monster/dommonster.js?15401:11...

iOS 14 "Unable to authenticate, are you blocking cookies?"

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No matter what I do -- and I went through all of the Safari settings that appear to be relevant -- I can't get Toot! to connect to hackers.town. The...

Zack/handle login shells

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Fixes #67. See commit comments for details of each change. ~~Note that I disabled the rustfmt part of the pre-commit hook, because I got a flood of errors about options...

``` >>> fragment = 'the majestic mööse' >>> trafilatura.extract(fragment) 'the majestic mööse' ``` So far so good—the charset tag _should_ have no effect when Trafilatura is handed a Unicode string....

Fixes #5 and #6 (the latter appears to be a duplicate). Also eliminates the dependency on libcrypto (the embedded MD4 implementation is used unconditionally), cleans up the code a little...

Close comments after N days

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Feature request: I'd like to be able to tell isso that it should not accept any more comments on a particular article after N days (from the publication of the...

trio.socket.getaddrinfo may invoke a worker thread when it doesn't need to

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`trio.socket.getaddrinfo` tries to avoid invoking a worker thread when it knows that stdlib getaddrinfo won't block: the host is already an IP address and the port is already numeric. It...

Pinebook Pro + Tow-Boot 2021.10-003 = infloop on boot

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I copied `pine64-pinebookPro-2021.10-003/spi.installer.img` to an SD card and booted my PBP from it. Immediately after the old bootloader transfers control to the SD card, it goes into an infinite loop...