Scale manufacturers…
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Dear manufacturers of kitchen scales, could you please stop considering your clients as idiots, and start developing useful features?
Objets connectés : attention aux services
Ces derniers temps, on parle beaucoup d'objets connectés, qui sont des accessoires divers — montre, cardiofréquencemètre, podomètre, vélo d'appartement, balance… — intégrant un ordinateur, connecté à votre réseau local ou à Internet afin de transmettre les informations qu'il collecte.
Proof of address: use common sense!
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As I have just moved to a new home, I had to declare my new address to all my providers, including banks and administrations which require a proof of address, which can be a phone, DSL or electricity bill.
Well, this is just stupid, as, by definition, one will only have a bill after at least a month. Until then, that means the bank will keep a false address, and that the mail they send may not be delivered to the customer.
Using bsdtar to change an archive format
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Streamable archive formats
Archive formats such as tar(5) and cpio(5) have the advantage of being streamable, so you can use them for transferring data with pipes and remote shells, without having to store the archive in the middle of the process, for instance:
$ cd public_html/blog
$ rgrep -lF "archive" data/articles \
| pax -w \
| ssh newserver "mkdir public_html/blog ;
cd public_html/blog ;
pax -r"
Re: About choice
This is a reply to Josselin Mouette's blog article About choice, since his blog does not seem to accept comments¹.
Please note that this is not meant to be systemd-bashing, just a criticism base one a counter-example refutation of Josselin's implication that there is no use case better covered by SysV init: this is false, as there is at least one. And yes, there are probably many cases better covered by systemd, I am making no claims about that.