dholland
386c99328f
Restore the catman joke.
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It needs the (8), or it fails to work for people who don't know or had
forgotten catman(8) was ever a thing.
as the de facto fortunes editor and also I think the person who added
that fortune in the first place, and given the discussion in
tech-userlevel, I think I get to do this.
2020-11-09 03:23:14 +00:00
kamil
fa5b5b5087
Revert to the original phrasing, but remove the man 8 section reference.
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catman is a historical Unix tool.
2020-11-09 00:46:00 +00:00
kamil
dfc109fe43
catman(8) is a past thing
2020-11-08 17:37:29 +00:00
simonb
2286c9861b
Add one.
2020-10-30 04:56:32 +00:00
msaitoh
cc67c5474a
s/ be be / be /
2020-08-19 02:19:06 +00:00
nia
e59dc3e7bc
Revert arc4random usage for now
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this is a host tool and needs to be portable
future plans: add arc4random to libnbcompat
2020-07-26 15:14:09 +00:00
nia
6e4479f819
fortune: arc4random_uniform for better uniform values than random() % ...
2020-07-21 03:05:40 +00:00
sevan
328e83a3c0
A revision of "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers" by
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Richard Hamming.
From The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
2020-06-15 12:57:51 +00:00
leot
5cd696c2e3
Recommend using `pkg_admin {fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities,audit}' instead of
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{download-vulnerability-list,audit-packages}.
2020-06-07 15:41:03 +00:00
leot
3acc7de7ef
Properly quote printf string
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Noticed by Ottavio Caruso on #netbsd@Freenode, thanks!
2020-06-07 15:37:04 +00:00
sevan
dc34a600e7
Heads up on Bell patents
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P21 on https://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V01.1.pdf
2020-05-18 20:19:08 +00:00
christos
58acbfa340
Simplify, little KNF
2020-04-30 12:40:11 +00:00
christos
8e08aa4add
Simplify, errors to stderr.
2020-04-30 12:32:26 +00:00
nia
669bbdba3b
unstr: Check that the input filename fits in the buffer.
2020-04-29 21:00:42 +00:00
nia
5774e6823b
strfile: Check that input/output filenames don't exceed the buffer size
2020-04-29 20:45:05 +00:00
sevan
12fff5803d
Disks can sense vibes, DTrace confirms it.
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https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4
2020-04-02 05:55:02 +00:00
sevan
8744e0a0e1
Andrew Weatherall's tattoo and a track on A Pox On The Pioneers album.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERAuddhU4AAFv3w?format=jpg&name=orig
Story:
https://www.dummymag.com/features/andrew-weatherall-interview-it-s-bollocks-it-s-discos-tell-me-tales-of-the/
2020-02-22 19:03:04 +00:00
dholland
4fb51600fe
something I apparently forgot to commit months or years ago
2020-02-16 23:14:19 +00:00
sevan
a0e35b2411
Introspection. From "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
2019-12-03 22:42:29 +00:00
sevan
cacc7f27a4
https://twitter.com/sei6r/status/1182433546331279360
2019-11-10 22:42:21 +00:00
sevan
700433206f
Definition of austerity by Alexei Sayle on Radio 4
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190916192807/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0008bbc
2019-11-10 00:54:57 +00:00
sevan
31c9b97559
Chris' happiest moment
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http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09b1zbb
2019-10-27 23:31:15 +00:00
sevan
8f2c65b576
Donnie Darko
2019-08-22 22:51:47 +00:00
sevan
608899cdf4
The mother of all demos
2019-07-26 07:41:22 +00:00
uwe
f9f52b4a0c
Use .Dl for displays with single command. Specify .Bl -width with the
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same formatting as the actual tags.
2019-07-23 11:02:29 +00:00
uwe
800ba6691b
strfile is installed, don't claim it isn't.
2019-07-23 10:40:55 +00:00
uwe
4d25743b11
Prettify formatting.
2019-07-23 09:50:27 +00:00
sevan
26965a4a65
Use double dash to simulate em dash
2019-07-22 13:44:13 +00:00
sevan
cef2b4ad5b
Use \(em to get an emphasis dash
2019-07-22 13:37:37 +00:00
sevan
a99bcdece4
Art for the masses - The Dream Machine
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The text used an em dash which I've replaced with a coma here.
2019-07-22 09:47:28 +00:00
sevan
9c44dd6276
Shorter than a season - The Soul Of A New Machine
2019-02-24 12:34:00 +00:00
sevan
f555b79219
Add Alfred North Whitehead quote.
2019-01-21 16:58:47 +00:00
jakllsch
6835f27c8d
Incite the "Purple Cow" wrath of Gelett Burgess upon ourselves.
2019-01-13 17:55:03 +00:00
pgoyette
3b35ba0696
More appropriate line-wrapping for previous.
2018-12-15 22:00:16 +00:00
sevan
92d227ffa8
Some advice from Adam Savage / Alex Jason
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https://www.reddit.com/r/mythbusters/comments/3wgqgv/the_origin_of_the_remember_kids_the_only/
2018-12-15 17:11:10 +00:00
sevan
a2bcc5e795
Advice from Bob Morris
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https://www.ieee-security.org/Cipher/ConfReports/conf-rep-Crypto95.html
2018-10-03 00:13:16 +00:00
sevan
cf2901fc1a
I've been on an Ed Wood binge.
2018-09-12 22:10:07 +00:00
maxv
782aa42924
replace ipf->npf
2018-09-02 16:08:12 +00:00
dholland
6f6568e389
typo
2018-08-25 19:38:37 +00:00
snj
9e98533ad3
make fortune fatter
2018-05-08 05:24:22 +00:00
mlelstv
600397bd19
move offensive quotes per board@
2017-12-13 21:11:27 +00:00
dholland
d5efe6ddb1
attributions are supposed to be indented.
2017-12-06 17:54:58 +00:00
kamil
06124d1060
Correct code flow of a quote translation (by Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
2017-12-06 17:41:15 +00:00
pgoyette
b637bb2dc6
Fix typos, thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-12-06 08:38:33 +00:00
kamil
17be8c5c9c
Add new fortune entry with a quote from Jozef Pilsudski
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This quote is a longer form of "the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on"
and compares Poles and Lithuanians (historical meanings used from the time
of country union of both nations).
Today is the 150th birthday anniversary of Jozef Pilsudski (1867-1935).
2017-12-05 22:51:59 +00:00
christos
b4c11f4845
revert removals while there is an active discussion on what to do.
2017-11-19 01:31:53 +00:00
maya
655cfa70ec
Remove a few offensive quotes, put in as many new quotes.
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PR bin/52735
2017-11-18 20:48:50 +00:00
jnemeth
3cfc2a4194
add quote about libraries offending everyone
2017-11-18 19:51:46 +00:00
dholland
6e9e9606f7
typo
2017-07-02 07:02:47 +00:00
dholland
495acf4f93
another one
2017-06-13 17:18:00 +00:00
