epoch @epoch@tilde.zone

using this in a CGI to only have to run the operation pipeline if both the source data is updated, and someone actually wants to see it.

inline makefiles:

cat <<EOF | make -f- 2>/dev/null
/var/cache/output: /var/db/input
[tab]operation < /var/db/input > /var/cache/output
EOF
cat /var/cache/output

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier has a lot of neat things you can use fragment IDs for

Moved all the git repos I had in /var/git to somewhere else (mostly /usr/local/src), and now I only have bare git repos in /var/git which are less likely to get borked when I'm working on code from multiple places. I think. Maybe. We'll see.

At someone else's house and I heard something that sounded like a raccoon in the closet. Go and look and there's a little robot snoring on its charging pad.

whois.c seems to be assuming the query is a domain and normalizing it, which includes lowercasing all the letters.

assuming it is this function: idn2_lookup_ul being called on line 1233 in https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/blob/next/whois.c

upgrade the package the whois client is in.
now the whois queries get lowercased before being sent to the whois server.
:|

(btw, thank you https://dopiaza.org/tools/datauri/index.php for having a tool I could use a search away)

Looks like data URIs aren't turned into links.

I was just thinking of embedding one-time bits of code into a toot. Let's see if a data URI works...

data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,%23%21%2Fbin%2Fsh%0D%0Aecho%20Hello%2C%20world.%0D%0Aexit%201

Any know how to get a globally tagged window in dwm that won't take the focus after every tag change?

Couldn't find a mic for my computer. But I have walkie-talkies and an RTL-SDR dongle and gqrx installed, so going to try to combine those two things to work as a mic. :)

cheese stopped working with my webcam because I was fiddling with stuff. couldn't figure out how to fix it "right" and found that cheese hid its preferences in a gnomeism of a "global menu", so uninstalled it and found I can make mpv use the button on my webcam to trigger saving a photo. :)

in ~/.config/mpv/input.conf:
0x21ff8f screenshot-to-file /home/epoch/images/webcam.png

Found the hex code of the button with mpv --input-test /dev/video0