aluaces @aluaces@qoto.org

@Pat many times acronyms are used to draw away strangers, but this time NFTs were widely named by the media as NFTs. Anyway, "Non-fungible Token" is clear as mud the first time one sees it.

@Pat Non-fungible token - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token

@freemo I usually thought like that, but in the end I came to the conclusion that a paper stands by itself. You don't have to be an expert to judge it, after all, papers are not light reads and require a big effort to the reader to fully understand it, therefore uncovering the possible mistakes it could have.

It does however require an expert to improve and advise the authors about their work, but this process is already shown in the published version of the paper.

Publishing the whole process would unconver bad reviewers, for example, "just everything is good", "just everything is bad", "cite my papers". But the interest is merely anecdotical.

I'm in no way against that idea, I wouldn't object about publishing my reviews, I'm just stating that it seems to me of curious or anecdotical value.

@freemo not sure what's the added value.

@tails generate gpg keys in a safe environment.

@hund #lftp

@hund I tried mbsync also but it didn't show any noticeably performance improvement over offlineimap for me.

I guess this is because most of the time is spent in both by using fsync in order to protect themselves for data loss if something happens while downloading.

@mc Not sure if I get your point, but anyway msmtp, smtpd or even sendmail if I recall correctly can be used to contact and deliver mail to an external SMTP server which does the actual work.

Have also a good weekend!

@mc the main advantages that are usually mentioned and the reason I am going to use it in the future are:

1/ since you have to write a unit, decoupled from the timer, you can start the job at will, specially important when debugging.

2/ you get a nice entry in the journal for each unit, so you do not have to grep the full logs or ~/dead-letter.

3/ much more control of the start of the process (simple, forking, etc), important when the jobs can overlap themselves.

4/ related to units: you can restrict the available resources of each job (for example limiting the directories it can access)

5/ I'm sure I'm leaving out more...

@mc whatever my MUA usually embeds. Some other times, smtpd.

@mc not yet, but planning to do it in advance for its extra features.

@orbital for sure it is, because there weren't in previous releases.

@orbital Every time I enter into a profile, I get an error message (not specific), I cannot follow anyone from the app (the button does not show up), and muting is also not working.

@orbital Yes, it is happening to me as well since a couple of releases. I'm thinking of trying another client.

Use comments after shell commands for easily retrieving them from the history:

wakeonlan aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff # start computer 1

CTRL+R in bash or up arrow key on other shells like #fishshell

Whenever I see

dd if=this of=that

I usually prefer to

ddrescue this that

(usually --force is required to write to a partition)

Not only it displays many more information than dd's default and it doesn't require blocksize tinkering, but #ddrescue is also capable of resuming and recovering from errors.

Currently reading "Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs" by Denis Bakhvalov and liking it very much.

It explains many of the arcane details of current desktop CPUs and it also has many tips about #perf #linux tool usage, plus many mentions to other useful tools as #rr.

It's a free download from https://book.easyperf.net/perf_book

@hund I'm still using it for the notifications of every of my scheduled jobs, mainly backups.

@Acer Typical memory problem. Valgrind to the rescue!