In Bash `~sylvain` is expanded to the home directory of the user whose login is 'sylvain' I don't know if this works with other usernames though... ;) #Bash #Shell

With `collectl`, you have `top`, `free`, `htop` and even more all packed in a single tool. maketecheasier.com/collectl-advan… #collectl #system #monitoring #linux

RISC-V Evolving to Address Supercomputers and AI tomshardware.com/news/risc-v-se… #RISCV #Supercomputer #AI

`ls -lt` will show files ordered by modification date — most recent first. #ls #shell #linux

Nice illustration of several random shuffle algorithms, including Fisher–Yates Shuffle: bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/ by Mike Bostock (Mike Bostock) #Random #Shuffle #JavaScript #Array

Does the opensource adoption in public services have evolved since I published that? itsfoss.com/open-source-ad… … #FOSS #OpenData #eGovernment #PublicAdministrations #EU #Europe #YesIKnowIT

The #Bash has the notion of "integer" variable: declare A=1; declare -i B=2 A+=3; B+=4 echo $A $B ⇒ 13 6 #Shell

Display all user accounts separated by a colon in one very long line cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | paste -s -d: #Paste #Cut #Linux #Unix #POSIX #Utility

Too often, updating a device firmware means booting on FreeDos to run a proprietary utility. But LVFS might put an end to that legacy practice in a near future. opensource.com/article/17/11/… #LVFS #Device #Open #Firmware

The Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), is a standard file format for executable files used on many Unix-like x86 operating systems. Part.2 blog.k3170makan.com/2018/09/introd… by Keith Makan (I write about security stuff) #elf #linux

When you have to fight against tab completion trying to be smart: touch a.zap unzip a<tab> #nothing \unzip a<tab> #completed unzip a<esc>/<esc>/ #completed #CLI #Shell #Bash #History #TabCompletion #YesIKnowIT

Save time with Awk... ...and give your spreadsheet some vacations after having read that great article by the Free Software Magazine. freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/save_…

seq 10 | awk NR%2 Keep odd lines of a file #AWK #Shell

`make` is really a mythical tool in the Unix toolchest. pkgw.github.io/make_for_scien… Many times criticized. Feared. Improved or imitated. But still alive.

vlc -Idummy -Vcaca "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).mkv" Play #StarWars as it was originally intended by George W Lucas back in the 70s #VLC #AsciiArt #Linux #CommandLine

From a POSIX shell `$OLDPWD` holds the name of the previous working directory: cd /tmp echo You are here: $PWD echo You were here: $OLDPWD cd $OLDPWD #Unix #Linux #Shell #cd

All about JS symbols. What they are for -- and what they aren't: keithcirkel.co.uk/metaprogrammin… #Javascript #Symbol

In JavaScript the "empty" regular expression literal is written `/(?:)/` since the parser would erroneously take `//` as the start of a single-line comment ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#… #JavaScript #ECMA #Empty #RegExp

This text is the entire first chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, compressed down to 8% of it's original size. Zip, brotli, and other compression algorithms top out at about 35-50%. How? By assuming that (large) LLM's likely have many popular works encoded somewhere

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