Mainly here for the memes, other than that I’m interested in computer science, free and open source software and all sorts of general science topics.

other socials: mastodon website code

  • 6 Posts
  • 38 Comments
Joined 4 months ago
cake
Cake day: June 13th, 2024

help-circle




  • Thank you!

    After posting this yesterday when lying in bed trying to sleep (i posted directly before going to bed) I thought of a similar reason:

    Since (as far as i understood it) a modem is just a device that converts between 2 different types of internet signals, the ISP also needs one on their end to connect me to their data center. So it would be way easier for them to spy on their end of the cable (or signal, or whatever type of modem is used) than on my end, since there isn’t really much happening in between.







  • IFS is a special shell variable in bash, ksh and POSIX shells that lets you configure how the shell splits words

    by default it splits at spaces tabs and newlines

    I use fish a shell that is intentionally not POSIX compatible. While it borrows some principles from Bash and POSIX, it simplifies a lot of things and removes most footguns. Words are split at new lines in fish, which admittedly can also cause troubles, but not nearly as often as in bash and other POSIXy shells.



  • the standard keyboard layouts (qwerty, qwertz, etc.) are mostly trash

    are there any good alternative keyboard layouts for your native language (finnish if im not mistaken)?

    In Germany there is the Neo Family: Neo{,2}, NeoQwert{y,z}, Bone, Mine, … as well as offsprings of that, but I guess you need your diacritics: å ä and ö. While Neo layouts have these diacritics available, they are made for german, so only ä ö and ü are easily accessible.