What's the deal with Hagoromo chalk? Why is it a romantic gesture?

How it's made (and why they went out of business), written by Hagamoro's president.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Hagoromo-presiden...

I have a pack. It is literally just really good chalk. When you write a lot, it's nice to have a tool that doesn't put so much strain on your wrist.

> Despite the english name of the website, it's a german page, so no use in linking it here I suppose.

No, please do link it here. First, there are many Germans here who would appreciate it. Second, people like me who cannot read German can still auto-translate the page to English and read it.

Understood - I added the link. :)

Has Usenet really died? I still see many active newsgroups with posts appearing daily.

I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to see this. Usenet is still very much alive. It's not what it once was, but I regularly participate on several technical newsgroups that are still fairly active. The signal-to-noise ratio is not great, but killfiles (filters) can help with that.

I use the https://www.eternal-september.org/ free NNTP server. There are others.

"Yes, Usenet still exists, technically. In terms of active use, outside a very few limited newsgroups (mostly peers of technical mailing lists), it's dead to today's Internet users."

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c3xyu/why_use...

(From one of the primary sources linked in TFA.)

Forgive my ignorance but how/where do you get to it? It's been so long since I even tried I'm not sure where to begin anymore.

Thanks!

Here is a long list of clients:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders

And you can get free access to the text groups (no alt.binaries.*) from, at least, either of:

Eternal September:

https://www.eternal-september.org/

or

AIOE

https://www.aioe.org/

Thanks, after I posted this I had a look at eternal-september that another poster also mentioned in a different thread.

I decided I don't have time today but bookmarked it for some other time.

Checking the list of clients I was pleased to see Claws on there, that also took me back. Might have to give it another look, it's been a while.

thanks again, I appreciate the feedback!

I suspect just as many users get just as much value today out of Usenet as they did in the early 90s, it just seems failed by comparison to explosive growth of the web.

I still use it every day too.

I was a usenet user back in the day, but I don't actually know how I would access it now. Is there any other way than using a commercial provider? My ISP certainly doesn't provide access and haven't for I don't know how long.

I use the free server at Eternal September [1] It only carries the text groups, no binaries (so no pOrn).

[1] https://www.eternal-september.org/

Me too! Well, maybe not every day, but most days. Usenet rules.

I use XFCE. Are there any good reasons to switch to KDE? Honest question.

A friend of mine just made this switch. His biggest reason was Latte Tasks, which he says is much better than any of the similar docks available for XFCE.

I'm making assumptions here about your use case, but probably not. XFCE users are typically closer to the terminal than, say, Gnome or Plasma users. You'd be better served by i3, I imagine.

I have XFCE on my laptop and KDE and i3 on my desktop. Two things I like about KDE over XFCE are the system settings app and I just prefer the look of Qt widgets.

I think so, but what exactly depends on what you need. Commonly liked features are:

- User intuitive widgets that can be easily dragged around in panels with a third party store directly in Plasma itself, containing useful widgets such as calendar events sync and todo lists

- Complete customization but also pretty by default and getting better; browse third party colorschemes, plasma themes, global themes, panel layouts (latte), application styles (kvantum), etc etc

- Powerful notification system that allows you to reply inline to telegram messages, embed screenshots so you can drag those around [https://postimg.cc/q6qLMXK1], embed files that you can also drag around + interact with, sticky notifications for ongoing operations - still having the ability to go with a do not disturb mode for a custom time and set notification importance in a granular way

- Powerful integration with phone (see phone battery, see and send messages, see incoming calls, see/stop/play videos [youtube / vlc] playing on the pc from the phone, see phone notifications, and so on) and integration with browsers (native notifications, native downloads [see notifications above], search and open browser tabs from krunner, etc)

- Powerful search (krunner) that can check spelling errors, find browser tabs, convert units, do mathematical operations, search the apps store, run command line programs, open locations, see recent documents, add task to the todo list (zanshin), supports third party runners, etc etc etc

- System tray that only shows relevant widgets so you can keep it minimalist but without loosing any possibly useful option (system tray elements for usb drives, night color, display configuration, clipboard, vaults, media playback, printers, kate sessions, etc etc)

- Third party stuff like Latte and Kvantum that allows you to customize your desktop in any way imaginable (quick browse for "Plasma" on r/unixporn will confirm this)

- Consistent apps that follow the general theme, some of them also convergent, e.g. all maui apps (index [files], vvave [music], buho [notes], pix [images], ...) work exactly the same on desktop and on your Android phone as well, so you don't have to learn to use different applications on each OS

- Light and fast. Yeah, I know xfce is very light and fast, but Plasma 5 is very light as well recently. I have a pinebook, the $100 machine, and it's usable both with Plasma and xfce (both uses around 340mib of RAM there).

- Kontact suite with Akonadi integration that allows for various apps all integrated with each other (todo from one app will appear in the other), with the generic Kontact app containing all them and being able to show a dashboard with all recent notes, to-dos, events, mails etc.

- Support for phones with Plasma mobile and other tech things (e.g.: TVs afaik and the mycroft thing), with Plasma Mobile using the same underlying plasma base component, so it's consistent + compatible

- Any application you could need, there are a lot of those all made by the KDE community, and those are all following the KDE human interface guidelines and following the global theme, so that's nice

...I kinda lost track of time, sorry for the essay, I just think that Plasma is great and this is how I can best explain why

> e.g.: TVs afaik

Wait, TVs? Where can I read more about this?

Are you using MathJax to display the equations? Why do I not get the MathJax context menu when I right-click on the equations?

It's using Katex, which is smaller and faster: https://katex.org/

Yes, I'm using katex because I found the API easier to work with.

Are you rendering the LaTeX on server-side or on client-side using JavaScript? I am asking these questions because I find MathJax code in your website:

  <script type="text/plain" cookie-consent="strictly-necessary">
    window.MathJax = {
      tex: {
        inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']]
      },
      svg: {
        fontCache: 'global'
      }
    };
  </script>
  <script type="text/javascript" id="MathJax-script" async
    src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@3/es5/tex-svg.js">
  </script>

Actually, that code should be deleted. At one time, I was experimenting with MathJax but don't use it anymore.

How about this? Write your bug report. Sign the bug report with your private key. Anonymously publish the bug report, the signature and the public key. Later when required, prove that you wrote the bug report by using your private key to sign a new message or a challenge message sent by any challenger.

This could work, as long as you trust the ones you file your bug report to. This isn't always the case for white hat hackers who interact with big corporations for example. You also don't always want to disclose the actual vulnerability beforehand to everyone either, to give them time to fix them.

If these things don't hold then you still need to find a trusted way to publish your hash or encrypted message so you can get your timestamp.

The idea is to replace social proof (that the timestamps are correct wherever it is published) with cryptographic proof, but I commented below on some of the pitfalls of doing so.

I provided a cryptographic proof that does not require blockchain.

No, yours relies on social proof (the post being public somewhere) as the timestamp. Nothing about what you described is different from just posting a hash of the prediction beforehand.

Why did the sessions disappear? Can you explain more about it?

Systemd can be configured to kill all processes belonging to a user when he or she closes the last login shell. Some people had this enabled on their servers and were surprised that their tmux/screen sessions kept disappearing.

This is a bit disingenuous; people didn't just "have it enabled", it was made a default despite a lot of concern that it was such a radical departure from the normal behavior.

Some people? Do you mean everyone who's distro did not change the default value?

Clickable link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/ci...

Really easy to find with a quick search:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/

http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

Here's a good one: https://susam.in/

Stumbled on this when his domain was hijacked accidentally due to an anti-botnet operation and his post about it came on HN (check the "Sinkholed" post). Since then I've subscribed to his blog, read the older posts and enjoyed the newer posts too.

He mostly posts about technology and mathematics. The reason why I got hooked to this blog is that they are mostly about offbeat topics that I wouldn't normally come across on my own. So there is something new to learn from every post. And they are very well written with great attention to detail.

Sinkhole incident: https://susam.in/blog/sinkholed/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21700139

Pretty scary stuff for domain buyers!

How does a domain get hijacked accidentally? Don't domain transfers take a few days and require approval from current domain owner?

The blog post states that the domain was erroneously flagged as belonging to a botnet system by a German law enforcement org, which took control of the domain to "sinkhole" what they assumed was botnet traffic.

Presumably the approval was the accident. (Or not renewing yet, so perhaps no approval necessary.)

Also, 'transfer locks' are a good idea, but not supported by all TLDs.