STrRedWolf

So I find a dinky little laptop, a Chwui Minibook X 2023, which has 12 gigs of RAM, a 512 GB SSD, and a screensize of 1920x1200 in a 10-and-change inch screen.

It unfortunately comes with Windows 11. Which means dealing with the quirks that Microsoft put in, and oh boy, there are many. Microsoft caught Option Removal Syndrome. Here's how I'm dealing with them:

The Taskbar does not show titles anymore.

Seriously. I can't tell if that icon goes to Firefox or some program that's faking Firefox. That's a big security risk!

Fixes:

Use ExplorerPatcher to restore the old taskbar format.

DESCRIPT.ION file format (RedWolf extension)

DESCRIPT.ION files are files used in BBSen and the programs 4NT and Take Command. These files describe other files in the directory.

Below is a technical summary of the orignal format, plus an extension to the format.

DESCRIPT.ION "back in the day"

contents    = *(file-line) [EOF]

A bit of a Pi Zero cluster setup I'm getting together, with some setup notes in case I have to rebuild it.

Four Pi Zero's connected to a Pi 2, which is connected to the network via Ethernet or Wifi.

The below script should leave the Pi Zero's mounted to verify things.

	#!/usr/bin/perl

	use strict;
	use File::Basename;

	if(scalar @ARGV < 1 \|\| @ARGV > 2) {
	print STDERR "Argument count mismatch\n";
	exit 1;
	}

	#!/bin/sh

	date=`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"`
	rsync -aP --link-dest=$HOME/Backups/current /path/to/important_files $HOME/Backups/back-$date
	rm -f $HOME/Backups/current
	ln -s back-$date $HOME/Backups/current

	#!/bin/sh

	# Remove a XFCE generated thumbnail
	#
	# Put this file in a safe place (I use ~/bin)
	# Open Thunar, then navigate to Edit >> Create custom actions.
	# Create a new action ("Remove Thumbnail")
	# Command is: /path/to/this-file %f
	#
	# Doesn't handle groups.

	@-moz-document url-prefix("https://railroad.net/viewforum.php?f=214") {
	/* Widen the site as a whole. */
	.container {
	width: 95%
	}

	/* Trim the header */
	header {
	padding: 30px 15px 5px
	}

	#!/usr/bin/perl

	# Duplicate finder. Moves dupes in what directories you've specified to a dedicated "Trash" directory for you to remove.
	# Double-checks those MD5 hashes!
	#
	# Example of usage:

	# find 00.Master -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 md5sum > master.hash.txt
	# ...etc... (repeat above line for other directories to dedupe against)
	# cat *.hash.txt \| sort \| uniq -D -w 32 > dupes.txt

	Strype @strypeisonfire

	Yanno what, it's 4:30am, let me blab about transhumanism for a while, and why I want a future like that...

	First up: CURIOUSITY. Longer lifespans because I want to see what's gonna happen. I want to see more of the universe...

	And new senses! I want to hear infrasound, ultrasound, see new colours we dont have words for yet.

	Second: Adaptability. Being outside of Earth's Troposphere is pretty hard to do. Terraforming ever harder. But if we adapt, not so much

	#/usr/bin/perl

	#use Digest::FarmHash qw(farmhash64);
	use File::Find;
	use DBI;
	use Digest::SHA qw(sha256_hex);

	#use bigint;

	$\|=1;