Stories by xfbs
While I'm as much a fan of doing things on the command line as probably most of you fellow lobsters are, I do have to admit that this is a pretty sweet and interface for git — minimalist, well-designed and quite intuitive. I know that this has been posted 2 years ago already, but they have since ope...
This week in *awesome open-source*: the ManDrake editor. This really is a gem. If you've ever found yourself needing to write a man page but noticed that there really isn't that much useful tooling out there, you'll want to check this out. It's very simple and provides a live preview of your ~desper...
There was a recent post of a video from iFixit where they demonstrated that helium gas can interrupt the MEMs oscillator (*Microelectromechanical systems oscillator*, as opposed to the quartz that is common in other devices, which are piezoeletrical, although I don't understand the difference betwee...
There is also a [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08318) and a [blog post](https://branchfree.org/2019/02/25/paper-parsing-gigabytes-of-json-per-second/) about this.
GPG Suite 2018.4 has been released last Friday and it is now a *trial*. They have also written an [open letter](https://gpgtools.org/open-letter) to their users to explain this move. It is still open source, and the previous version (which is not a trial) can still be downloaded [here](https://gpgto...
The topic of ethics barely comes up at all, possibly because it's not really relevant for most day-to-day work. But it does make me wonder, has anyone here ever been in a situation where you were ~~forced~~ suggested to do something ethically questionable, or denied a project or position on ethical ...