Bit-breaker working in cybersecurity/IT. Only languages I know are English and Programming ones.

Sometimes I write things about technology.


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  • PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzRay is basic.
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    4 months ago

    The oldest shark teeth are from the Early Devonian, about 410 million years old. These are without a doubt sharks, although different species than exist currently. The earliest fossil of a plant engaging in this evolutionary strategy is a 12 meter tall palm-like plant from China. It dates back, again, to the Early Devonian, but less than 400 million years ago.

    Which means the first toothed sharks predate the first plant which could be called a tree by 10 million years.

    Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn!











  • Lynx is awesome but not really suited for modern web pages. I’ve used lynx, elinks, browsh, and w3m. Tried chawan and brow6el. I really like browsh, but it uses a headless firefox though, so not really CLI/TUI. This is the newest CLI based browser I found, but I suppose it’s not a true CLI either; using chromium blob under the hood.




  • I did. I have an s22 flip. Not fully “dumb”, it runs android mobile. But so lacking on resources it is basically a dumb phone, with Spotify and maps. Fits my use case fine and much less distractions and constant gamifiyijng. I Miss NFC payments the most and my banking app won’t even run on it, but it does the job of being a communications device just fine.



  • A couple I use (concept of not exact), that I haven’t seen in the thread yet:

    Using grep as diff: grep -Fxnvf orig.file copy.file

    Using xargs -

    xargs reads items from the standard input, delimited by blanks (which can be protected with double or single quotes or a backslash) or newlines, and executes the command (default is /bin/echo) one or more times with any initial-arguments followed by items read from standard input.

    EG: $ find ~/Pictures -name "*.png" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cvzf images.tar.gz





  • Conventions I have are:

    • Downloads folder is ephemeral, don’t store/keep things in there I might want
    • ~/scripts - personal scripts and one offs
    • ~/Documents/projects/[subdir] - any tech project I may be working on, gets homed here
    • /tmp - always mount it noexec

    I also start off allocating ~ 50GB to / (root) volumegroup. Wine and proton have been taking up nearly the full space though, may need to expand it on my desktop soon.