My name is Ivan. I'm from Kazakhstan. I am: Christian, Russian, translator, in that particular order, probably.
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Actually I wanted XLS file, but didn't put an extension manually, so LibreCalc exported to pure XML. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer So, exporting 73Kb ODS document (several sheets with one small table on each one of them) into XML in #LibreCalc results in 439Mb file. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer For years you tell yourself: "I'm better than this". npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer Another week, another week review. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer I have a strong feeling that the famous Camel Book is the worst choice when you want to learn #Perl from scratch. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k Thank you! npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer When you start stealing ideas, it's hard to stop, so I wrote a post about how I styled my RSS feed with #XSLT. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sqcg That's neat! Never heard about this, thank you. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer Turns out, if you type #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD or #Linux in DuckDuckGo search bar, cute duck logo changes respectively. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k Thank you for your words and BSSG! npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer Some time ago I tried to build my own blog using amazing #BSSG It was surprisingly easy. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer That's probably the stupidest IT thing I've seen this year, but... npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…tywj We need to wrap it in a more flashy terminology for Gen-Z. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k I don't see myself on this image and I am offended. ='( npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k I bet we've been just too toxic to her. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer If you happen to have an old PC that has a USB port but BIOS don't know how to boot from it, check out Plop Boot Manager (https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html). npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer So if you ever wondered how OpenBSD 7.7 (most recent one at the time of writing) works on 23-year old PC, I have recorded a boot process. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k I can't believe you have to explain these things over and over again to apparently adult people. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer I've been thinking about participating in #oldcomputerchallenge and even restored my first PC. 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Traditional social networks are useful to an extent of your social connections and benevolence of an algorithm. #Mastodon and probably #Fediverse in general are useful to an extent of your knowledge of hashtags. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer So, known parties tirelessly work to make Linux a new Windows. Gnome announces even harder dependency on systemd. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…jpfa Yeah, probably several years more, and people you'd be talking to via messengers would wonder: "Wait, you're actually writing your messages yourself? Why won't you let ChatGPT reply for you, like every normal person does?" npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…ehlq I'm pretty sure you can run NetBSD on it, though. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…q5wq @nprofile…sr9k It's called btrfs for a reason: Better Try Real File System. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k In case you'd want to use ZFS with Tumbleweed I'd advice to lock kernel from upgrading. Tumbleweed may happily upgrade to a kernel version that is not yet supported by ZoL. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer #openSUSE removes Deepin from #Tumbleweed and later #Leap due to numerous violations of packaging policy. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…uvhj I love how crazy simple Slackware package format is. Just write a simple 11-liner, provide a file tree, pack it all in tgz, and you're golden. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer I've been reading an interesting article by Liguo Yu et. al., "Maintainability of the kernels of open-source operating systems: A comparison of Linux with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD" (DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2005.08.014). Keep in mind, the article is from 2005 (published in 2006), so it would be interesting to know how things have changed since then. We are talking here about #Linux 2,4,20, #FreeBSD 5.1, #NetBSD 1.6 and #OpenBSD 3.3. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer This quote is amazing: npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer Charming story of struggle and finding peace in #FVWM If you like those old Linux vibes. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer I've been using #Emacs for the last couple of months now for all my daily work (I'm a translator, not a programmer) and here's a thought. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer The old FreeBSD master Vi was praised by many sysadmins for his perfect understanding of FreeBSD and pure life. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer When I want to find something interesting outside the usual internet venues (if you compare modern internet to city we degraded from flourishing agglomerations to neolithic times with two-three places where you can go)... I digressed... npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…evg9 I wonder why they don't keep old versions in case of new version build breaks. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…k06r Knowing ffmpeg and ImageMagick is the closest you can get to knowing black magic. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k Is this even legal? Even alt-text read like a crime against us, poor people devoid of true pizza. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer Today Microsoft suddenly revealed extensive plans to advance in a quite unexpected direction creating a special division called #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD Optimization Lab (FOOL, in short). npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…ms9m I can't believe the old adage is true: It's always DNS. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer My desktop #openSUSE Tumbleweed is doing some creepy things I can not explain. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer As a book translator I spend my days working with texts. Also it means I have to deal with user-hostile file formats like docx. Because editors, designers... npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer I'm just saying that in 2005 people knew how to make proper web pages in 27 Kb. #DoctorWho npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer Some many years ago IBM offered 25 Gb of cloud object storage for free. No strings attached, S3-compliant, no credit card required (imagine that). Not that well-known feature for some reason, I guess. I read about it in Fedora Magazine and started to use immediately. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k @nprofile…ynl6 As I see things, problem is that in absolutely most cases people who advocate bringing Rust into kernel aren't kernel developers either. They just kinda like Rust. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer I think that one of the most important problems of "user portability" between modern *nixes is a problem of file systems, i.e. data storage in general. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k For me it's hard to imagine how it is to live with constant 30 Mb/s connection. Because I can only dream to have one. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer It "taints" kernel. This sounds so... condescending? Arrogant? npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer Linux woes again. #openSUSE Tumbleweed got a new kernel (6.13.1), aaaand... you guessed it right, current version of ZFS on Linux does not support it. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k I was never disappointed with my HP Stream battery life. In its best days I could squeeze up to week of battery life with 1-3 hours of work every day (and the rest of the time it was sleeping). npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer My bad boy HP Stream 14 got a new battery. After 8 years of honorable service he's got a little exhausted. But after this refreshment he's as bright as ever. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer Not a bash on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed per se, but a reason NOT to use rolling distros. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer Here's my newbie two cents on Vim and Emacs no one asked about. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sr9k So... Windows Defender didn't do its job well, it seems. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…sjz5 Amazing. As the saying goes, computers were faster when they were slower. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer @nprofile…q27h It's a matter of perspective. As my man Rorschach in "Watchmen" once said, “None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!” npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer It's that time of the year again when I think I can migrate to Emacs and use OS as a bootloader for it. #emacs npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer KDE **probably** fixed a 9 year old bug (https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2607) in version 6.3.0. Across different KDE versions your desktop icons shuffle after reboot which makes using desktop icons practically meaningless. It was first reported in 2015 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354802). But actually, its first appearances could be noticed even as far as KDE3. npub1ej6mhvke5f29x37vym4zklxz7uc9gfzh4ws43p7vawsq2m4gzevqa062wx chesheer Years of using tiling window managers taught me two things:
