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Show HN: uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
I use something similar to this, the only differences are because my use case is privacy protection and avoiding algorithmic feeds. I use the Redirector extension for Firefox so that it redirects e.g. Youtube, Twitter, and StackOverflow links to the corresponding alternative frontends Piped, Nitter, and AnonymousOverflow. You can find maintained lists [1] [2] of such projects and their instances. Mostly they are FOSS and privacy-respecting, and they have distraction-free frontends because it's a helpful coincidence of being ethical software.
- Why Do You Still Use Firefox?
- Too many sites are blocking Mullvad IPs these days.
- List of privacy respecting frontends (Reddit, Twitter etc)
- Privacy-respecting web frontends for popular services
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refuse to be a commodity. use libre services.
for a full list, refer this: https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends.
- Attention Degooglers, Let's Update the SideBar
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I'm joining the LP gang
Thatās kinda of a ramble but itās the best way I can put it perspective. If it helps at all I highly suggest using PrivacyGuides, alternativeto, Alternative Frontends, and Awesome Privacy. The r/privacyguides sub will also be helpful for most questions you may want to ask. As for your YT Premium concerns... Donāt bother giving Google a cent. Not even for storage (which used to be unlimited, lol). Ublock Origin for blocking all ads on whatever browsers you use, and there are loads of yt apps like you said for andriod. You already know Iām sure, but I wouldnāt give a shit about Youtube Premium, ever. Not even worth the money for something that easily be blocked on anything, and getting video downloads even better then what they provide.
- If "twitter.com" is replaced with "nitter.net" in links, you can read without login constraints
- Wenn man in Links "twitter.com" durch "nitter.net" ersetzt, kann man ohne Login-ZwƤnge lesen.
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Show HN: Usr/bin/env Docker run
The -S / --split-string option[1] of /usr/bin/env is a relatively recent addition to GNU Coreutils. It's available starting from GNU Coreutils 8.30[2], released on 2018-07-01.
Beware of portability: it relies on a non-standard behavior from some operating systems. It only works for OS's that treat all the text after the first space as argument(s) to the shebanged executable; rather than just treating the whole string as an executable path (that can happen to contain spaces).
Fortunately this non-standard behavior is more the norm than the exception: it works at least on modern GNU/Linux, BSDs, and macOS.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/env-...
[2] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/b09dc6306e7affaf...
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From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
> building a cat from scratch
> That would be an interesting project.
Here is the source code of the OpenBSD implementation of cat:
> https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/cat/cat.c
and here of the GNU coreutils implementation:
> https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c
Thus: I don't think building a cat from scratch or creating a tutorial about that topic is particularly hard (even though the HN audience would likely be interested in it). :-)
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The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores (2016) [pdf]
the yes command, writing to /dev/null, is making IO calls, which interfere with predictable scheduling.
If you look at the source code for yes, https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c
it builds a buffer of output and then writes that in a for loop
while (full_write (STDOUT_FILENO, buf, bufused) == bufused)
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Decoded: GNU Coreutils
even an empty file? Yes. so now it was a file with a copyright disclaimer and nothing else. And the koan-like question comes to mind is "Can you copyright nothing?" well AT&T sure tried.
Then somebody said our programs should be well defined and not depend on a fluke of unix, which at this point was probable a good idea. so it became "exit 0"
Then somebody said we should write our system utilities in C instead of shell so it runs faster. openbsd still has a good example of how this would look.
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/usr....
At some point gnu bureaucracy got involved and said all programs must support the '-h' flag. so that got added, then they said all programs must support locale so that got added. now days gnu true is an astonishing 80 lines long.
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/true....
I do like that /bin/true can actually fail and return false, which technically makes a "Not /bin/false" invocation more resilient: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/true.... (and yes, I know it's the most unlikely thing, I just found it funny)
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Exa Is Deprecated
> Yes, ls is maintained. Although, maintained is a very strong word. It exists.
Why would it be a strong word? Here it is, in src/ls.c: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils
It is then packaged by tens of operating system distributions, who themselves maintain extra patchsets, some of which are then upstreamed.
It is installed and used on millions (billions?) of devices, for 3 decades.
It's a very reliable and trusty "sharp stick of metal" :)
- stupid Linux tricks - cd one shell to the current dir of another, without using the clipboard, mouse, or even the pwd command
- What's the most efficient way to get the line count in a file?
- GitHub - dcantrell/bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
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GNOMEās horrid coding practices
GIMP dates to 1995 and didn't get any public releases until 1996. Your post makes it seem like GIMP is at least a decade older than it is. It isn't "one of the earliest GNU works". Many GNU projects predate it, but most of those aren't graphical so you might not be aware of them. Those older projects include clones of UNIX utilities, such as the ones in GNU Core Utilities or "coreutils" (although technically coreutils itself is a 2002 merger of a bunch of really old utils). For instance, cat from coreutils has a copyright date of 1988.
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