For some reason, mbsync + hydroxide for protonmail is extremely slow on OpenBSD. It takes minutes to get the Archive dir to sync. If I could make this work, I can daily-drive OpenBSD.
Working on a laptop without internet connection and X11 will make you a 10xer. Wrote four pages of the DPhil Grind yesterday.
Fun fact: link
You know how Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created Unix on a PDP-7 in 1969? Well around 1971 they upgraded to a PDP-11 with a pair of RK05 disk packs (1.5 megabytes each) for storage. When the operating system grew too big to fit on the first RK05 disk pack (their root filesystem) they let it leak into the second one, which is where all the user home directories lived (which is why the mount was called /usr). They replicated all the OS directories under there (/bin, /sbin, /lib, /tmp...) and wrote files to those new directories because their original disk was out of space. When they got a third disk, they mounted it on /home and relocated all the user directories to there so the OS could consume all the space on both disks and grow to THREE WHOLE MEGABYTES (ooooh!).
I'm amazed by how great and fast sourcehut's interface is. And it is surprisingly usable via w3m too!
Registered at SourceHut. Will be moving most of my repos over there soon.
Added a page describing setting up OpenBSD: link.
This post is done from OpenBSD. Hello world.
I installed OpenBSD on my old laptop to use it is a dev machine that does not have a display server, and is not connected to the internet. You do all the development in a no-distraction environment as if you are on a flight, and at the end of the day, you connect to the internet, upload the code to a git server and you are done for the day.
Github is down so often, it's prob more stable to self-host a git server now.
A veritasium video on the XZ backdoor.
With high DPI screens, TTY fontsize is usually tiny. A simple way to increase your fontsize is to use -d flag with setfont.
This webpage is powered with a single bash script that takes the text from a tweet.txt file, and updates html/feed.xml files with its content/timestamp.
Amazingly written! Slow death of the power user.
I managed to make fbpdf work from a TTY. No need in X to read pdfs anymore.
Started a new workflow experiment. By default, I work for TTY without X11. If I need a browser or pdf reader, I press ctrl+shift+2 to get X11 and switch back after I'm done.