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Re:Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:33PM (#49927846)
At first glance the main difference seems to be that NSL uses virtual machines with systemd-vmspawn and sdme uses containers with systemd-nspawn
Re:Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:20PM (#49912468)
Could you explain the differences to tools like debspawn and the like ?

Ask HN: SSH – authorized_keys comment field format (best practices)?

Hi,I know about SSH certificates and we use them primarily but we still have systems which use classic pubkeys managed in authorized_keysFrom authorized_keys (5) Public keys consist of the following space-separated fields: options keytype base64-encoded-key comment The options field is optional The comment field is not used for anything (but may be convenient for the...

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Re:A new Debian package helper: debputy on Saturday February 03, 2024 @02:29PM (#39243863)
didn't find anything either
Re:A new Debian package helper: debputy on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:26PM (#39184187)
What an unfortunate name to search for. Searching for debhelper finds mainly documentation but search for debputy and you are lost...
Actually it is not that hard:

  - default: https://vaporup.github.io/books/the-pragmatic-sysadmin/debian-packaging/
  -   quick: https://nfpm.goreleaser.com/usage/
Re:The Magic of Small Databases on Saturday January 28, 2023 @08:31PM (#34563969)
Re:Ask HN: Best Layman's Book on Electricity on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:26AM (#34477664)
Oh man, this is great. I was always confused with this stuff and didn't notice that this is such a big mess...

Thank you

Re:What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:14PM (#33938922)
- sugar - carbs - vaccines - big pharma - chemtrails - ...
The devil's hands were busy...
Re:Cancer vaccines: the next immunotherapy frontier on Thursday November 24, 2022 @09:41PM (#33738596)
Another stupid tool of the satanic cult...
Yes, I use them for work. Checkout ssh-certinfo also:

https://github.com/vaporup/ssh-tools/blob/master/ssh-certinf...

Re:Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014) on Friday August 19, 2022 @04:15PM (#32525481)
TCL
Re:Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @04:58PM (#32501644)
Are there now any libraries which can parse dynamic YAML files?

I found it very hard to do with map[string]interface{} or figuring out which kind of structs to create...

For JSON there seem to be many libs now which can do this.

Re:SSH tips and tricks on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @07:58AM (#32495087)

Ask HN: How do you find tools?

Hi,I wondered how you discover new tools or find existing ones for your needs very quickly?Using Google or searching in Github can become quite time consuming.Currently I use - Hacker News (of course) - https://www.libhunt.com - https://sysadmin.libhunt.com - https://awesomeopensource.com - https://directory.fsf.org - https://repology.org - https://debtags.debian.org - Awesome...

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Something like https://whoosh.readthedocs.io for Crystal-Lang, Go-Lang, or as a CLI tool
Re:25+ years of personal knowledge management on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:42AM (#30918244)
Wow, I thought I was reading about my own journey :-)
Re:Ngrok Alternatives on Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:13AM (#30453795)
Re:SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @06:10AM (#30345053)
Fedora made it very difficult to get the package in and Gentoo seemed to have no interest
Re:Ask HN: What would you change on HN if you could? on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @12:37PM (#29996933)
put the "hide" button to a fixed position. Currently it is a moving target