Notices by Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)

@literatesavant @nixCraft No, can't say I have. I have just used the default Git plugin, and can either tell it to build all branches (which then end up in a jumbled mess without any way to easily find a list of builds from a single branch) or set up one job for each branch to build. I ended up doing the latter.

Yup. And it's never too early to do it.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/japan_digital_end_of_life/

#Password #Death #Will

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/rip_thomas_kurtz/

READY.

@nixCraft We have been using #Jenkins at $DAYJOB for the last ten years. We didn't have any autobuilders set up when I started working here, and Jenkins was the easiest to set up.

It is painfully ignorant of branches in VCSes, which means I have to set up a new builder for every single branch I want to build from, but I've learned to live with it.

Haven't found a good alternative yet, though. Anything that cannot be installed on-premises is not an option.

@TauPan When I need to do something like that, and "git log --follow -p -C -C -M" doesn't work, I resort to "git gui blame" on the file, and look at where things are introduced, and then use the "show history context" to look at the change and "blame parent commit" to find the code as it was previous to continue searching backwards.

@klausman @nixCraft Applied a couple of minor fixes. It now at least passes #ShellCheck without complaints, which is good.

@magitian @nixCraft Yeah, but then it needs some other way to get rid of the temporary file, as xdg-open exits immediately.

@klausman @nixCraft Yeah, it has mostly evolved for private use, and I want really planning on publishing it. Probably a lot that can be cleaned up, but it had served me well over the last decade or so. But improvements are always welcome

@klausman @nixCraft The blig allows comments, or comment here.

Is it interesting enough to publish on GitHub?

@nixCraft I find man pages easier to read when using the PostScript renderer than the text-mode renderer, the problem is that there are so many steps needed to get to the file you want.

Here's my take on it, a script that opens a manual page as a PDF (pages can then be printed if wanted):
https://www.softwolves.com/wolfblog/2024/11/19/making-man-pages-easier-to-read/

This whole election would be funny if it wasn’t so dangerous.

Amazing view from #Raumabanen #train between #Åndalsnes and #Dombås today

@bagder This makes curl is perfect for checking checksums (curl ... | sha256sum -) and checking API results and I always use curl for that. This also makes curl harder to use for downloading files, so I always use wget for that. I's good to have a choice, and to have different tools available for different situations.

@neil In 1996, my first Internet banking didn't require JavaScript and worked perfectly fine in Lynx in the text console on my 120MHz Pentium. Try that with a modern bank, doing exactly the same things I did then. It didn't need to come to this...

I'm ignoring the possibility that they based it on my own "The Apocalypse Codex" because the bad guys in *that* novel were based on *them* and we really do NOT want to be living in a future where the dystopia is identifying and amplifying its own worst tendencies.

The views from the #Raumabanen #train between #Dombås and #Åndalsnes definitely rivals the Alps.

#SJ #SJNord

In recent episodes, they've now replaced the start date for #SmackDown on #Netflix on the pause screen with January 10th. What gives?

#WWE

Något av det bästa med att åka tåg är ofta utsikten. Någonstans mellan #Eidsvoll och #Hamar (Espa?). #SJ #SJNord

@Patricia "I will now slap you with the Cod of Truth and you will take it."

"– Når flere reiser kollektivt, blir det mindre kø på veiene for nærings- og godstransporten, for bussene og for dem som må reise med egen bil."
Noen har skjønt det. Ta bussen (eller sykle)!

https://mastodon.social/@NRKno_bot/113479943857587131 #SykkelTut #Buss #Kollektivtrafikk #Oslo