Jan
vekenjan.bsky.social
Jan
@vekenjan.bsky.social
Engineer, Dutch speaker, Linux enthusiast, Ukraine supporter 🇺🇦
The woozle ...
June 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
FF can act weird sometimes if it's an old-ish profile. I had an issue where a FF profile would stutter on youtube videos. Solved by recreating the profile from scratch (firefox -P is your friend). Never figured out what the issue was.
December 1, 2024 at 2:04 PM
First line in my debian installation script is "apt purge nano"
November 29, 2024 at 9:24 PM
You forgot the most useful of them all: grep -E ... for regexp matching.
November 29, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Seeing installp commands fly by touched a part of my brain I forgot existed. Never saw it on an Apple server though, usually F40, F50 or 43p RS/6000 machines.
November 22, 2024 at 4:39 PM
The INF treaty has been dead for several years. The US officially withdrew in 2019 because Russia kept violating it.
November 21, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Not weird and not a Linux-ism, just a sparse file, which is a concept that exists on most modern filesystems.
November 21, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Actually, no you can't. GNU is a registered trademark of the FSF, you can't just use it for unassociated projects.

GNU/Linux also does not refer to the Linux project but to a full distribution which typically contains the various GNU utilities (which predate Linux) and the Linux kernel.
November 20, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Also, I would like to offer you this link to help you as you look deeper into this issue, as you appear to be operating on a few incorrect assumptions.

hls.harvard.edu/today/there-...

Hope this is useful to you!
‘There was no promise not to enlarge NATO’ - Harvard Law School
Robert Zoellick, the U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the end of the Cold War, says Vladimir Putin’s claims about Ukraine are part of a disinformation campaign.
hls.harvard.edu
November 20, 2024 at 4:41 PM
NATO didn't aggressively expand. This is not a Command & Conquer game. Sovereign nations decided to freely join an alliance for protection, as is their right.

I'll let you fill in yourself what they sought protection from.
November 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Responsibility is too big a word, the only party responsible for attacking Ukraine is Russia. But in hindsight, it's very clear that the Western policy of appeasement towards Russia was the wrong one.
November 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Just pop a 3COM 3c509 Etherlink III in there. Supported since way back in the day.
November 18, 2024 at 2:16 AM
No, different incident.

The Soviets were paranoid about NATO doing a nuclear first strike, so they were looking for signs of an impending launch and they mistook a signals exercise called Able Archer for this and freaked out.

I don't think this is a realistic worry here.
November 18, 2024 at 12:46 AM
You're asking two different things: lsb_release gives you the distribution version, uname gives you the kernel version, which in Docker is always the same as the host. Docker containers are not virtual machines.
November 16, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Steve Ballmer called Linux a cancer *because* it was open source. Here is the direct quote:

"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches"

So he is specifically criticizing the FOSS aspect of Linux.
November 16, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Another possibility is that you're using a legacy window manager that doesn't support CSD. For example, if I run Firefox under Windowmaker, the titlebar re-appears and the option to change it disappears.
November 16, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I'm implying that it shouldn't look like that by default. Firefox made CSD the default back in 2019. So maybe you unknowingly changed it, or the setting got carried over from an old firefox profile, or your distribution is overriding Firefox defaults, ...
November 16, 2024 at 2:22 PM
This is just window manager provided decorations vs. client side decorations.

You can turn it off easily: right click on toolbar, customize toolbar, uncheck the "Title Bar" option in the bottom left. It's off by default BTW.
November 16, 2024 at 1:20 PM
*WinDEU noises*
November 15, 2024 at 4:06 PM