Tootfinder

#GNU findutils help:
> ‘environment is too large for exec’
>
> This message means that you have so many environment variables set (or such large values for them) that there is no room within the system-imposed limits on program command line argument length to invoke any program. This is an unlikely situation and is more likely result of an attempt to test the limits of xargs, or break it. Please try unsetting some environment variables, or exiting the current shell. You can also use ‘xargs --show-limits’ to understand the relevant sizes.
Okay, let's check:
$ xargs --show-limits
xargs: environment is too large for exec
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#PSA regarding #GNU #coreutils #sort's unexpected or at least non-intuïtive behaviour of its --unique (-u) option togethe…

ahh den herren von #Gnu_Linux hat mein Kommentar nicht gefallen, dann wird er einfach mal gelöscht .. hmm .. soso .. dann weiss ich ja bescheid .. nicht sehr fein .. aber ich werde es in Zukunft berückstichtigen .. ;(

In 2021 I gave a talk about “openness” briefly tracing the history from the Free Software movement, #GNU, and OSS, to open formats like XML and ODF, then to the #FreeCulture and #OpenData movement like