Notices by Juno (jutty@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

Just found carl, a modern version of cal (the unix calendar utility that prints a tabular view of months).

What stands out for me here is the ability to highlight events from calendar files.

This is superb in conjunction with vdirsyncer, which I’ve been using for a long time for exactly the purpose of having a local directory of .ics files for each of my Nextcloud DAV calendars.

https://github.com/b1rger/carl

Also featured in my link log: https://blog.jutty.dev/links

#unix #linux #cli #vdirsyncer

Seeking recommendations of pubnixes running either FreeBSD or NetBSD with public html, SDF aside.

Care to suggest one or two?

#pubnix #unix #bsd #freebsd #netbsd #tilde #tildeverse

@BeAware Not sure if I catch your meaning, but I suppose I also like Bing considering my heavy usage of DuckDuckGo in the past!

This is the SearxNG instance I currently use:

https://search.inetol.net

Low latency, has the options I need, and I appreciate the defaults of leaving the query in the URL and in the page title.

SearXNG is a meta-search engine. You can use it as a front-end to one or multiple search engines such as DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing, Qwant, ..., it only depends on what your instance makes available.

Find more instances on https://searx.space

#SearXNG #DuckDuckGo #google #bing #qwant #search

Recently got a cheap 128 GB SSD to see how BSD would run on my main machine, and this weekend threw FreeBSD on it. I'm sending this toot from the working system, and aside from the general configuration joy of being an Unix nerd, finding almost everything I need to know in the FreeBSD Handbook is a great perk on the second joy: reading docs and being able to flow acting on them.

#bsd #freebsd #unix

After a while trying to understand if either ksh or zsh provided a way to prevent taking strings and undefined variables as 0 when doing arithmetic evaluation, there seems to be no feature specifically for it, sadly.

Closest is using set -o nounset (ksh) and setopt no_unset (zsh) to prevent undefined variables from evaluating to zero. If a "string" contains only numbers, a dot and whitespace, it will be treated as a number. Also, if it only contains the name of any other variable and whitespace, it evaluates to that.

Not that I expected shell languages to provide accurate arithmetic.

As a bonus though, it was cool learning about ksh's compound variables, force_float option and especially discipline functions.

#ksh #zsh #shell #programming