Abbie Normal @abbienormal@floss.social

Say I have a batch processor of a bunch of files

Say I want my processor to distinguish files that have been edited since last pass so they need to be processed again from those that haven't changed so there's no need to touch them

How could I make it distinguish such files using the file system API offered by a common Linux distribution ?

#Linux
#posix

what, exaclty, are the .nfo files I see in some torrents ?

the less software, the better

#showerthought

scrape a youtube channel, download the footages with youtube-dl, make a rss feed with magnet links for every footage

Publish that on a hidden service on tor

I'd like to watch some of the talks at the #LibrePlanet

Are they available on line anywhere ?

I'd love to try the #haikuos but the difinition on libos is lacking a url for the download of an image so the option is not available in Gnome Boxes

why is that ?

I'm especially intrigued by this thread

https://cybre.space/@ky0ko/104366702102975421

I read about the report written in the 80ies about harassment by Stallman but I can't find it again

Could anyone here point me to it ?

Thanks

#uninStallman

I see some really interesting arguments by the #GNOME community about the crisis of the linux distributions model

some of those arguments fly over my head

I'd love to see a discussion relating the Gnome arguments with the #Guix features

the #gnome apps I'm appreciating the most are Podcasts and Radio

It's surprising how much I use them

I use them a lot

They are great and I love how they emancipate me from a browser tab

I should say something about Polari too but that's for another post

I'd like to get a list of toots that

1) have been posted by a given account

2) I have saved in my bokmarks (not the ones in the browser, the ones in mastodon)

Can this be done in any way ?

#Fediverse

Maybe the key is this one:

"The ciphertext is the message combined with the output of the stream cipher using the XOR operation"

I'm not sure what combining the message and the stream (?) with xor exactly means

I should probably try to encrypt a string and then pass it again through the function and see what it gets me back ?

I know nothing about encryption/decryption

I could use some help with this function in libsodium

crypto_stream_chacha20_xor

the documentation says:

"The function encrypts the message _m_ ...

The cyphertext is put into _c_"

A few lines later:

"_m_ and _c_ can point to the same address (in-place encryption/decryption)"

So it can encypt AND decrypt ?

Guile (and Python, and others ?) and C are interoperable

Can the same interoperability level be achieved with, say, Nim or Zig ?

#systemprogramming #thewayforward

how does popcorntime work ?

https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop

or even in Qemu ?

is there an #haikuos image I can easily run in Gnome Boxes ?

Could I use a #nextstep desktop on my ubuntu system ?

What are my options ?

I don't understand what Olimesx boards are

Are they comparable with Raspberry Pis or with the boards by Pine64 ?

How ?

#soc