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Mastodon mentions (607)

• TIL: You can open man or info pages in Firefox by man:<page> or info:<page>

  Addendum from https://mastodon.social/@mofosyne/112385581085525369 Turns out that it's because KHelpCenter in some linux distros hooks to these uris. So typing this uri would autoopen these man entries in KHelpCenter. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative

  Good news! Run0 will use polkit[1], which uses JavaScript for its rules[2], so there's no limit on how complex your rules can get! On the other hand, maybe adding a JavaScript interpreter to Linux's trusted computing base isn't such good news... [1] https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112353420303876549 [2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

  Apparently there are some stations which still have ticket gates, but I haven't seen any in the rather short time I've been in the Netherlands - they seem to be concentrated in metropolitan areas[1], and I've only been in the somewhat more rural[2] province of Limburg. As it happens, though, I have never actually used the OV-chipcard myself, as I always use an Interrail pass when travelling any further than... - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Systemd Wants to Expand to Include a Sudo Replacement

  Uh, depending on exactly how it's implemented, it could break a lot of things. If all you are using sudo on is a personal (i.e. Single user) laptop/desktop to install packages, this (along with other things like pkexec or doas) would seem to present no issues (and personally, from what I can see, I'd be happy to run `run0` on my personal systems!), but sudo does significantly more than that,... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• Ask HN: What do you think about a subscription based social media?

  Oh, TIL about https://mastodon.social/ (https://joinmastodon.org/) Looks like what you describe, doesn't it? > Social networking that's not for sale. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

MetaFilter mentions (5)

• Building ColdFusion for the Web

  Metafilter still runs on ColdFusion https://metafilter.com. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• I got my accounts wiped. Here is how.

  How would I use traceroute? I tried "traceroute metafilter.com" which showed these 4 hops:. Source: over 1 year ago

• April 13, 2022 Site Update

  The way it should have been handled is cortex should have just announced the new owner "the new owner is so-and-so, they begin to be in charge Friday the Xth, direct all communications to them now." Perhaps "metafilter.com" should just be retired and they start up a new site with better features (any features, you know, blocking, etc). Things are lost off the internet all the time. I greet everyone "who were you... Source: about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?

  Check out Metafilter. It’s pretty good for that kind of stuff. http://metafilter.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• TIL That Betty White hosted a five-and-a-half-hour long live talk show six days a week from 1949 to 1953.

  The /r/science subreddit is decent, metafilter.com is sometimes a noteworthy aggregator. I have seen a lot of inconvenient-news sorts of things show up on The Guardian, although I've heard them increasingly criticized along some axes. Of course there's the /r/covid19 subreddit here that has only the most sciencey of science news here. The /r/medicine subreddit is a good place to gauge medical industry impact. ... Source: about 3 years ago