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Re:Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Globally on Sunday April 14, 2019 @07:19AM (#19658709)
Working in the UK.
Re:Hacking Latest on Sunday April 14, 2019 @05:52AM (#19658436)
This is not about hacking. It is a tutorial on building a live news feed using react (title: "Build a live news feed with React").
Re:Wikileaks just released dump of files on Sunday April 14, 2019 @05:49AM (#19658430)
I apologise. I on more than one occasion today saw information that said this was a fresh dump.
Re:I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash on Saturday April 13, 2019 @05:52AM (#19652019)
Shellcheck is indeed great. I needed to make a BASH script to give to my girlfriend that would install on her OS X a snake game I made. Using shellcheck made that a lot easier. For example, I didn't know that the [[ ]] syntax wasn't POSIX compliant. Really great for learning and remembering little things like that for portability.
Re:I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash on Saturday April 13, 2019 @04:48AM (#19651841)
If I'm doing any scripting, I always use BASH. However, I'm trying to actively push myself to learn another more portable scripting language. I still haven't been able to decide which out of Python, Perl and Ruby that I really want to throw myself into -- although recently I have started to become more and more attracted to Ruby.
Re:NuttX – A POSIX-compliant RTOS for embedded platforms on Friday April 12, 2019 @08:58AM (#19644348)
Cool. First time I've read about real-time operating systems. A pseudo filesystem that resides in RAM is very interesting. I like how they've strived for "greater scalability from the very tiny platform to the moderate platform".
Re:Matrix.org hacked on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:24AM (#19643326)
They closed the threads and deleted all the comments, but luckily the issues page was archived beforehand:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190412090123/https://github.co...