XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc

What's your opinion on the following config:
Code:export XDG_DATA_HOME=~/share
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~/etc
export XDG_STATE_HOME=~/local/state
export XDG_CACHE_HOME=~/var/cache
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=~/var/run
Make a lot of sense I believe.

AI crap

There is a machine learning bubble, but the technology is here to stay. Once the bubble pops, the world will be changed by machine learning. But it will probably be crappier, not better.

Contrary to the AI doomer’s expectations, the world isn’t going to go down in flames any faster thanks to AI. Contemporary advances in machine learning aren’t really getting us any closer to AGI, and as Randall Monroe pointed out back in 2018:

What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism. Its staying power will come in the form of replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy, cheap robots. LLMs...

Help needed to build a lookup tables

Hey everyone, I need an Argon2id hash lookup table for a project I'm working on.
The thing is, I need A LOT of them (the final final must be around 2/3Gib).
I did the math, that's ~20,000,000 hashes. Considering that my computer is old, and argon2id was literally made for this to be slow, it would take me more than 2 months computing hashes 24/7 to get this up. And I can't run my computer 24/7…
So I need you help, fellow CPU burners :)
If you would like to help me out, grab the code and join the hash party !
Code:git clone git://git.z3bra.org/hashcrush.git
All...

Ode to the M1

mDNS Primer

Hello from Ares!

I am pleased to be writing today’s blog post from a laptop running Ares OS. I am writing into an ed(1) session, on a file on an ext4 filesystem on its hard drive. That’s pretty cool! It seems that a lot of interesting stuff has happened since I gave that talk on Helios at FOSDEM in February.

A picture of my ThinkPad while I was editing this blog post

The talk I gave at FOSDEM was no doubt impressive, but it was a bit of a party trick. The system was running on a Raspberry Pi with one process which included both...

What's everyone's daily driver device?

Could be anything, from a laptop, to a desktop, to a tablet. I personally daily drive a MacBook Air M1.

RIP, Bram Moolenaar

https://news.itsfoss.com/vim-creator-passed-away/
I'd noticed that updates to vim's git repository has recently been more sporadic than usual. Now I know why and I'm even sadder.

The rc shell and its excellent handling of whitespace

This blog post is a response to Mark Dominus’ “The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace”.

I’ve been working on a shell for Unix-like systems called rc, which draws heavily from the Plan 9 shell of the same name. When I saw Mark’s post about the perils of whitespace in POSIX shells (or derived shells, like bash), I thought it prudent to see if any of the problems he outlines are present in the shell I’m working on myself. Good news: they aren’t!

Let’s go over each of his examples. First he provides the following example:

for i in *.jpg; do
	cp $i...


						
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