At least I know what it does now.

That’s because SELinux doesn’t enforce my policies. I rely on the Fedora Linux project to develop and maintain policies for the software I rely on. However, I’m not familiar with the policies that are in place on my system. There’s no configuration file or reference tool I can check to see or modify the policies. They’re just there.

It uses good old VT100 instructions.

My written words are my most precious asset. They are also a history of my life. That’s why I only use plain text files. They are the most reliable, flexible, and long-lasting option. Here’s why.

Linux features a whole suite of tools to debug many different aspects from performance to correctness. And here I am assuming that the stutters are not inherent in the game logic, because the 32-bit version works correctly.

We don’t write things down to remember them. We write them down to forget.

It was the IT folks who brought UML to the table and took it away in a puff of smoke.

MySQL’s “utf8” isn’t UTF-8.

The “utf8” encoding only supports three bytes per character. The real UTF-8 encoding — which everybody uses, including you — needs up to four bytes per character.

MySQL developers never fixed this bug.

In 2015, I gave a talk in which I called Donald Knuth the Patron Saint of Yak Shaves. The reason is that Donald Knuth achieved the most perfect and long-running yak shave: TeX.

I figured this is worth repeating.

GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems.

MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead.

We have failed to build an operating system for people who are not like us.

Lot has been said about how the web evolved to become a kind of monstrous entity. The mail protocol has followed a similar evolution but it’s a bit more subtle and has often been summarised as « too much email. ».

The text-based environment in UNIX is incredibly versatile and powerful, programmers and system administrators who log into a UNIX server remotely will typically work exclusively in the console, working on a remote desktop (similar to TeamViewer in Windows) is just too inefficient.

But can a console really function as an everyday desktop? That is what this article will try to explore, and I think you will be pleasantly surprised at just how useful a text-based environment can be!

A miracle occurred this week. Everyone I have talked to about it, myself included, is shocked that it happened.

I did find that a disproportionally big amount of these bugs was reported by players using Linux to play. I started to investigate, and my findings did surprise me.

Asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem.

There might be a way of doing complex multi-participant tasks that is better than what's being done currently, but the incentives for each participant are not aligned.

Software Engineering is really frustrating because there’s basically never a “right” answer and so most decisions come down to “whatever the senior engineer wants.”

Software distributions are often volunteer-run and represent the interests of the users; in a sense they are a kind of union of users.