@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialoh wow that grep|sed|awk pipeline...
I keep saying this:
Parsing strings all over the place is a funny idea that #Unix had, but inherently prone to error and, frankly, horribly insecure.
https://labs.watchtowr.com/oh-look-the-foot-gun-went-off-again-citrix-netscaler-preauth-command-injection-cve-2026-88771/
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialThey have tiny frogs as bottle deposit tokens at the Free and Open Source Frogware Conference (@… ).
Also, unicorn and flamingo slushy (purple/pink) and a bunch of old #Unix magazines from the 90ies.
@aka_pugs@mastodon.socialOTD 1941: The birth of Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of #UNIX.
I had the great honor and privilege of working directly with Dennis during my summer at Bell Labs.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#TIL how the secondary selection used to be used on #Unix desktops.
https://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~lindsec/secondary-selection.html
TL;DR: apparently you could select and copy something immediately into your current cursor position without having to move it.
