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It’s actually only “Helvetica” if it comes from the Helvetia region of Europe. Otherwise you have to call it “sparkling Arial”

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/24

Check out [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “It’s actually only “Helvetica” if it comes from the Helvetia region of Europe. Otherwise you have to call it “sparkling Arial””

Too much font goodness:

[WayBack] Steve on Twitter: “I import my Helvetica. Get it delivered via Courier.”
[WayBack] Dr Rachel Franks on: “I wanted to laugh at this Tweet but unfortunately I’m Comic Sans at the moment …”
[WayBack] Neil Yamit on Twitter: “Does this apply to Georgia, too? If it’s not from Georgia (the country), we refer to it as “thicc Times””
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov no Twitter: “I believe the preferred term is Fortified Times.”
- [WayBack] Darrell W. Royter on Twitter: “Is New Roman the best of times or worst of times? Discuss.”
[WayBack] Intactive on Twitter: “My goldfish is suffocating. It’s Gill Sans.”
[WayBack] 🎄🎁🎅🏿 Charlie Galvin 🗽🌊 on Twitter: “People who make jokes like this may find a (MS) Trebuchet aimed at them. If they aren’t imprisoned for a Century.”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “How gothic of you to suggest this grotesk punishment.”
- [WayBack] Jesin00 on Twitter: “Calibri.”
[WayBack] Simon Gerathy on Twitter: “The New Roman worshipped serifs. The Helveticans didn’t buy into that projection and ordered the New Roman lashed: “10 Times New Roman””
- [WayBack] Tim Hicks on Twitter: “But by medieval times they were using serfs.”
[WayBack] Victor Martinez on Twitter：”I developed a grunged one called Hellvetica… the Helvetica that came from hell”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “That just sounds like Arial again.”
- [WayBack] Darrell W. Royter on Twitter: “Thank goodness Twitter can bring people together to share typeface jokes. Imagine if you had to wait for them by courier.”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “I agree. If you had to wait, they wouldn’t have nearly the same impact.”
- [WayBack] Daryl Sng on Twitter: “Are you saying the humour is so bad that the thread is sans comic?”
[WayBack] isral Duke on Twitter: “The baseline of this joke is a slab of hot metal.”
- [WayBack] Bob Campbell on Twitter: “COPPERPLATE?”
[WayBack] Mark Astle on Twitter: “If only there were other Swiss typefaces in the Univers…”
- [WayBack] Dr. Unkenoaf on Twitter: “There’s plenty in the raclette, ready to go.”
[WayBack] Douglas King on Twitter: “As a former sommelier and current technologist, I can say the D.O.C.G. for fonts is very protective.”
[WayBack] Doug Lindsay on Twitter: “Plus, it’s actually spelled “Helutica” it’s just that the “u’s” were carved to look like “v’s” 🥛🍪😧😌🎄”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter：”That’s uery interesting!”
[WayBack] Gary Hudson on Twitter：”What Univers are you living in?”
[WayBack] schrepfler on Twitter: “It’s only Arial if it come from “under the sea” 🧜‍♀️”
[WayBack] James Tiberius Shirtless Kirk 🚀 on Twitter: “I prefer using Omar Serif to bridge the gap.”
[WayBack] Rob on Twitter: “Sheesh… as many Arial jokes as stars in the Univers. In the Futura, read the other posts to avoid the Myriad of repeats, and we can have a Slate if fresh puns. 😉”
[WayBack] Jared Spool on Twitter: “In authentic Helvetica, you can taste the European soil. And a hint of socks.”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “The marketing push to rename “a hint of socks” to “umami” is still in progress.”
[WayBack] Andrew on Twitter: “Papyrus is the worst fruit sparkling juice drink from Egypt.”
[WayBack] Carol Sabik-Jaffe on Twitter: “Oh come on. I shot the serif.”
- [WayBack] Alex Heighton on Twitter: “🎶 but I didn’t shoot the 🎶 “
  - [WayBack] Deputy Serif ~ Serif Fonts ~ Creative Market
[WayBack] Patrick John Gillam on Twitter: “The originating tweet is brilliant, but the replies, including this one, are a font of strained dad jokes.”
[WayBack] Rob on Twitter: “As Bart Simpson would say, “Ay Caranda!””
[WayBack] Sarah Clark on Twitter：”Microsoft’s self driving car won’t start moving until you Segoe”
[WayBack] Sara S. on Twitter: “Uh, technically it’s “Arial’s monster””
[WayBack] Anna on Twitter: “Methode Helvetique is also allowable.”
[WayBack] cumberickman on Twitter: “This is an Optima(l) tweet.”
[WayBack] Scott Delinger Twitterissä: “Kern it off. You are a Font of Trouble.”
[WayBack] The Dadbodbarian on Twitter: “Got it, Helvetica is from eastern Switzerland.”
[WayBack] Maxim Raginsky 👓☕️🥃 on Twitter: “I was laughing so hard I fell and had a Fraktur.”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “Bold of you to underscore your attempt.”
- [WayBack] Maxim Raginsky 👓☕️🥃 on Twitter: “It felt justified.… “
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter：”Next time, start with a more oblique hint and track the reaction of your readers.”
- [WayBack] Maxim Raginsky 👓☕️🥃 on Twitter：”But that would interfere with my original indent!”
[WayBack] Kim Brill on Twitter: “The typeface jokes made my holiday.
Seriously.
Signed,
Graphic Designer who Worships Herb Lubalin, an Avant Garde Typographer.”
[WayBack] Stephen Mitchell: “Sans Comic”
[WayBack] Emile van Raaij on Twitter: “Sounds like a line from a Quentin Palatino movie.… “
[WayBack] Akash Sahu on Twitter: “If the handwriting is unclear Please adjust the Arial”
[WayBack] Jay Zalowitz on Twitter：”This is a really narrow view of Arial”
[WayBack] Heelontheshovel on Twitter: “What a character.”
[WayBack] Disoptimist Twitterissä: ”
“Avant Guard you make me hard but like
Helvetica you’ve been played.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh
I’ll mock it up, show you what I got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh
I’ll mock it up, show you what I got””
[WayBack] Jessica Burns on Twitter: “@lilolov3 Imagine if this was the topic of the next font documentary 😂”
[WayBack] Jamie Summers ( aka Sister Chava Kiki) on Twitter: “But Alte Haas Grotesk!”
[WayBack] Rolf Pendall Twitter वर: “True typophiliac? Take a look at this book:”
- [WayBack] as in queen by Leda Black | Blurb Books (image below)
[WayBack] just Phil on Twitter: “No more font jokes = sans Comic.”
[WayBack] Thorin Jacobs Twitter: “This is why it’s absolutely critical to keep Calcium out of Europe.”
[WayBack] Ralph M. Prescott on Twitter: “Stop! I kern only take so many…”
[WayBack] Ahmed Shalaby on Twitter: “Fontastic tweet!”
[WayBack] Smockey the Bear on Twitter: “Wingding clan is for the children”
[WayBack] Paul Whitelam on Twitter: “A myriad of reasons to like this🤓👍”
[WayBack] Chizzy Ndukwe N on Twitter: “Well, I prefer a visiting virtual web locations that give me the sense of breathing Oxygen. The serifs kept me from non-web places like Helvetica”
[WayBack] Emily Hiestand on Twitter: “Ha! Helvetica is an elegant and enduring font, but is it really the Futura?”
[WayBack] J on Twitter: “Best teeet in the Univers”

–jeroen

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How to Setup Chroot SFTP in Linux (Allow Only SFTP, not SSH)

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/24

If you want to setup an account on your system that will be used only to transfer files (and not to ssh to the system), you should setup SFTP Chroot Jail.

This explains how: [WayBack] How to Setup Chroot SFTP in Linux (Allow Only SFTP, not SSH)

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Communications Development, Development, Internet protocol suite, Power User, SFTP, SSH, TCP | Leave a Comment »

Dieses sudo-Gehampel unter Debian/Ubuntu nervt. Aber es gibt Abhilfe: alias…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/24

[WayBack] Dieses sudo-Gehampel unter Debian/Ubuntu nervt. Aber es gibt Abhilfe: alias iddqd=’sudo su -‘ – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Or maybe this:

iddqd='sudo -i'

–jeroen

PS: “sudo su -” vs “sudo -i”

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Reptyr – Forgot to “screen” your ssh session first, and now that long running…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/24

From a while back, but still so cool! It allows you to “recover” the terminal (stdin/stdout/stderr) of a process that was attached to a terminal or ssh session.

Reptyr – Forgot to “screen” your ssh session first, and now that long running thing is stuck?

»reptyr PID will grab the process with id PID and attach it to your current terminal.«

server:~ # zypper install reptyr
...
Retrieving: reptyr-0.3dev_git20120325-7.1.2.x86_64.rpm ...................[done]
(1/1) Installing: reptyr-0.3dev_git20120325-7.1.2 ........................[done]
server:~ # rpm -qi reptyr
...
Summary     : A tool for "re-ptying" programs
Description :
reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and
attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over
ssh, but have to leave and don't want to interrupt it? Just start a
screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head
on home.
Distribution: openSUSE 13.1

Source: [WayBack] Reptyr – Forgot to “screen” your ssh session first, and now that long running thing is stuck?… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

It works with tmux too and is supported on many Linux distributions, see for instance [WayBack] Reptyr – Move A Running Process From One Terminal To Another Without Closing It – OSTechNix.

You can even redirect a pty for gdb usage: [WayBack] reptyr(1): new terminal – Linux man page

StackExchange thread: [WayBack] How to recover a shell after a disconnection with these entries:

[WayBack] Comment1
[WayBack] Comment2
[WayBack] Answer
Blog entry:[WayBack] Made of Bugs – reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal

Originally from 2011 [WayBack] reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal – Made of Bugs it is still maintained:

GitHub repository [WayBack] nelhage/reptyr: Reparent a running program to a new terminal

–jeroen

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Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/24

I need to find a place to host “The Wiert G+ stream, formerly plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers“.

Maybe i should do something like Lars is setting up:

I am setting up camp at WordPress.com, and importing my old G+ content there, using the Friends+Me Google+ Export tool. Whether this will be my permanent home, still remains to be seen. If you use …

Source: [WayBack] Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal.

Via: [WayBack1/WayBack2] Life after Google+ WordPress.com (Primary)… – Lars Fosdal – Google+

The good news: Lars started a series of posts describing the process, so the reminder to myself: archive them in a list:

[WayBack] Moving away from Google+ – Lars Fosdal: part 1 – Capture your content before Google+ closes down. You can then deal with the importing elsewhere later.
via
[WayBack] First post in a series, on how to capture and export your Google+ content. An upcoming post will deal with how to transform and import that content onto… – Lars Fosdal – Google+
showing two choices:
- Free: Using the built-in Google Take-out: unstable, hardly documented, unsure if it is improved, no public change history
  - https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
- Paid (~USD 20, or free for 800/posts per category): Google+ Exporter, which works just fine, is actively improved and has a public change history
  - https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me/

–jeroen

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linux – Keeping the fancy sudo warning forever – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/21

Be careful what you do: blindly following Super User can make sudo unavailable: [WayBack] linux – Keeping the fancy sudo warning forever – Super User.

Following the answer archived in the WayBack machine gets you into this situation:

sudo -i >>> /etc/sudoers.d/privacy: syntax error near line 1 <<< sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers.d/privacy near line 1 sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

The cause:

I forgot to put a line terminator at the end of the line in the privacy file.

If you do that, then it works fine: add this line INCLUDING A LINE TERMINATOR to /etc/sudoers.d/privacy (any file in that directory will do):

Default lecture=always

“We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System” – Google Search
[WayBack] Terminal welcoming message – Ask Fedora: Community Knowledge Base and Support Forum
[WayBack] linux – Keeping the fancy sudo warning forever – Super User
The first time I do sudo on openSUSE I’m always warned with a someway fancy message
```
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

root's password:
```
After the first successful login I won’t be warned again.

I’d like to be always warned. I find this message someway fancy. Is there any way to be warned like that by sudo prompt?
[WayBack] linux – Changing the Sudo warning – Server Fault
Happily, however, my man sudoers admits of the string lecture_file which it says is the

[p]ath to a file containing an alternate sudo lecture that will be used in place of the standard lecture if the named file exists. By default, sudo uses a built-in lecture.

So see if your sudo supports that, and if it does, set it to a particular filename with e.g.
```
Defaults        lecture_file = /etc/sudoers.lecture
```
and put your lecture text in that file. You may find this easier to test, as I did, if you also do
```
Defaults        lecture = always
```
which will display the lecture on every invocation of sudo. Otherwise you may run out of accounts which have never sudo’ed while you get this right!

–jeroen

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URL query string for searching own GitHub Gists (via: Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/21

Is there a URL query string for searching own GitHub Gists? – Stack Overflow.

Yes, there is, and search terms search within your gists too:

https://gist.github.com/search?q=user%3Ajpluimers
which searches for user:jpluimers
https://gist.github.com/search?q=user%3Ajpluimers+tripledigits
which searches for user:jpluimers tripledigits

More search parameters are at https://github.com/random-parts/til/blob/master/github/gist-search-cheatsheet.md

–jeroen

via: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1097

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, gist, git, GitHub, Power User, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

How to Force Google Chrome to Use Google.com Instead of Country Specific Version

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/21

Steps:

visit this URL once: https://google.com/ncr (to fix google.com as search engine)
define a Google.com search shortcut in chrome://settings/searchEngines

You can use example search shortcuts from Forcing Chrome to use google.com as search engine.

If you forget the first step, then often your search still will go a localised place (except when you are in the USA).

–jeroen

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Google Now launcher replacement?

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/21

I missed this earlier this year, but while switching phones found out: Google Now is not available for most devices any more.

So I’ am looking for a replacement that has:

5×5 application/group icons on each home screen page
4 application/group icons on the bottom static row
support for Google Search
support for Google Assistant voice control

This I totally missed:

–jeroen

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Do not put IFDEF with relative paths in your .dpr as the Delphi IDE cannot match them in the .dproj

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/20

The Delphi IDE manages the .dpr and .dproj files for, trying to keep them in sync.

Some information is duplicated between the two, especially files referenced by relative paths: those files are contained in your project.

This means you cannot do something like this in your .dpr file:

  {$IFDEF DEBUG}
  Debug in '..\..\..\..\Shared\Debug.pas';
  {$ELSE}
  Debug in '..\Debug.pas'
  {$ENDIF}

There is no equivalent for this in the .dproj and it will confuse the IDE which file now actually is or is not inside your project.

Better to leave the file outside of your project, then modify the RELEASE/DEBUG search paths to have the correct one.

Even better is to have just one Debug.pas file containing the changes.

–jeroen

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It’s actually only “Helvetica” if it comes from the Helvetia region of Europe. Otherwise you have to call it “sparkling Arial”

How to Setup Chroot SFTP in Linux (Allow Only SFTP, not SSH)

Dieses sudo-Gehampel unter Debian/Ubuntu nervt. Aber es gibt Abhilfe: alias…

Reptyr – Forgot to “screen” your ssh session first, and now that long running…

Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal

linux – Keeping the fancy sudo warning forever – Super User

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