I am writing POSIX shell scripts quite often, mostly for speed and portability. Though, that might not even be needed, as bash might have gotten a speed increase compared to dash, ash and whatnot.

Here are some tests I plan to run to see if the speed difference is still the case

As my normal user shell I use fish since quite some time. I enjoy

• a simple PS1 that shows the git branch, git status, truncated path where I am
• autocompletion based on history
• autosuggestions from -h or --help even if the tool has no autocompletions in other shells
• abbr instead or alias is quite cool to not forget the actual commands. But I can live without

I dont use more features really. I have a couple of fish functions, and fish might just be a better bash with easier syntax. But bash is the standard, so I never use them anyways.

I wouldnt want to switch to zsh because it is weird permissively licensed. But if it is faster or better than bash, maybe?

I also like that fish is completely rewritten in rust. There is rusty-bash aka. sushi shell, anyone use that? Is is compatible with modules?

Are these extensions just scripts that you run on startup of the shell?

Use case: I want to mirror a bunch of repositories of a project. I suppose this would be pretty easy with a script.

But to the git part: I fear that the developers might force push things and thus revert commits and de facto delete code.

Is there a way to git clone and auto-checking out to a different branch or something else, to avoid force pulling and reverting commits?

Here are the parts it is built from

Took a few minutes to build, and in the end it is very stiff, light and long!

The hobbit pipe has a builtin cigarette filter holder and a fitted soapstone stand (I dont even smoke but found it cool haha)

The vaporizer pipe has these big slits at the bottom and holes above, meant to reduce heat. It can be heated with a flame and steams the herbs inside, no burning, ever!

But you need propane or some other clean gas, candles and butane have nasty particulates and tar inside (the bottom literally gets black) that you dont want to inhale ;)

Carved from cedar wood (the same as the mermaid)

Was a lot of fun. My favourites are absolutely the brutal axe and the katana.

For size comparison, the big bat is 11cm, the tiny katana 5cm long.

Close up pics:

(Btw I sanded, filled and oiled that table by now, it looks amazing)

Some time ago on vacation we had this awesome cedar tree with cut off branches, so I could just cut off a little more and have perfect thick wood pieces.

I obsessed quite a lot over it (no shit I think sailors made them because they were lonely) but then figured out the wood was too dry and the arm is too short.

I could probably carve the rest with a dremel or so.

The hardest part was carving out a tilted face, surrounded by hair, wearing a hat, with an arm underneath. Holy shit, that was soo hard and I have aphantasia so my brain wasn't really able to process that, but the result is quite fine!

The process

1. Saw out the tail and rough shape

2. Carve the rough shape

3. Hips and more details

4. Belly and chest

5. Details of belly and chest

6. Shoulders, collarbones, head, the messed up hair part

7. Sailor hat, lying arm, giving up lol

(Crazy that I never shared this anywhere)

I finally made the holes big enough to actually fit my pens! Turns out, Eddings and other pens are quite huge!

It also features some custom things like a USB-Stick-holder and a headphone-jack-holder.

In the past I used it for a weird headset adapter for my Thinkpad (weird generation where mic and ground was swapped), nowadays it carries a USB-C-DAC (adapter for phones and other stupid devices)

These are the improvised tools I used!

I used "quick helix drills" to softly carve out the big holes. This worked extremely well and had no danger of cracking the wood! Can recommend.

This is the top view:

Whatsapp is privacy invasive, and we likely know that even when using E2EE, this is possible due to metadata tracking.

An easy way to avoid one creepy thing, contact scanning and the creation of "who knows whom" social nets, is to not grant apps permission to your contacts!

But this is not easy, as apps often enforce this, just as they do with

• embedded cameras instead of using the system camera
• embedded galleries instead of the 2 available portals (but Google will soon forbid that)
• asking for unneeded permissions

Only GrapheneOS also allows blocking these permissions

• sensors
• internet
• loading code from memory i.e. from the internet (why would they do that? Is there something they want to hide?)
• debugging their own code to spy on the system behavior

But this app can help everyone on any Android to at least fix this :)

Whatsapp is privacy invasive, and we likely know that even when using E2EE, this is possible due to metadata tracking.

An easy way to avoid one creepy thing, contact scanning and the creation of "who knows whom" social nets, is to not grant apps permission to your contacts!

But this is not easy, as apps often enforce this, just as they do with

• embedded cameras instead of using the system camera
• embedded galleries instead of the 2 available portals (but Google will soon forbid that)
• asking for unneeded permissions

Only GrapheneOS also allows blocking these permissions

• sensors
• internet
• loading code from memory i.e. from the internet (why would they do that? Is there something they want to hide?)
• debugging their own code to spy on the system behavior

But this app can help everyone on any Android to at least fix this :)

Whatsapp is privacy invasive, and we likely know that even when using E2EE, this is possible due to metadata tracking.

An easy way to avoid one creepy thing, contact scanning and the creation of "who knows whom" social nets, is to not grant apps permission to your contacts!

But this is not easy, as apps often enforce this, just as they do with

• embedded cameras instead of using the system camera
• embedded galleries instead of the 2 available portals (but Google will soon forbid that)
• asking for unneeded permissions

Only GrapheneOS also allows blocking these permissions

• sensors
• internet
• loading code from memory i.e. from the internet (why would they do that? Is there something they want to hide?)
• debugging their own code to spy on the system behavior

But this app can help everyone on any Android to at least fix this :)

Hey there! I want to get some Monero in exchange for cash via post.

I used Localmonero in the past, and I have my wallet.

But now I want to use Haveno and get XMR from there.

Interestingly there is still no Flatpak, so I compiled the app from source and ran the haveno-desktop app.

I think I understood that the Haveno application and devs dont bundle a network. Instead they say "use a 3rd party installer" (for a network? P2P I guess).

So the network is not just a list of connections and Haveno is a peer, but it needs an additional application?

What networks do you know that are good? Looking for something in Europe.

I also read that Haveno is now "mainnet ready". What does this mean?

I love those guys, their way too long podcast-type videos are always fun to watch