I've been using "Print to PDF" as my principle bookmarks management tool, since 1998, and I have over 90,000+ such PDF's sitting on my system, easily re-read and discovered.
So I don't quite get whats the point of kage? What does it do that print-to-PDF won't already do? The resulting .pdf's contain all the content, and also include the original URL and creation date, etc. How is kage an improvement?
Its more of a failure of OS vendors to provide tools for parents to properly raise their children in the digital age.
OS vendors, which are now more interested in selling ad space, than actually developing operating systems - and thus have a vested interest in separating my childs' eyeballs from my agency and responsibility as a parent.
If there were a way for me, in a default out of box OS install, to observe my kids screens, safely and securely in the context of a family unit - the same way I look under their beds for stray socks, and sort their bookshelf, and so on - then there would be less of an issue for "Daddy Internet" to be raising my kids for me, as either bullies or victims.
But in the Western world there is a very strong inclination to separate children from their parents, and abrogate the parents' rights and responsibilities with regards to raising their children - and this totalitarian-authoritarian action from the UK and Australian governments, which are both wholesale rights-abusing entities - is just more of the same.
OS vendors could solve the problem for social networking - give me better tools to administer my childs' computers, and return my agency as a parent that has for the last few decades been utterly deteriorated by the OS vendors' desire to sell more ads.
I would wager that anyone who thinks its a good idea for 'banning' to be the hammer for this nail, probably also thinks that the family unit also needs to be disbanded, for greater social control outside the family home ...
Even worse than a redundant/useless landing page, is a page with an invalid certificate. Nothing nopes me out harder than having to tell my IT-governed browser to ignore the site operators faulty administration of their domain ..
I have a 1netbook with the same form factor and capabilities - I absolutely love the foldable screen which turns it into a tablet device - but it is really a problem to use as a tablet device while gripping it, because naturally that grip will press buttons on the keyboard.
Does the Chuwi Minibook X have sensors that minimize this 'bug'? I've been looking for a way to disable the keys on tablet mode, but can't really seem to get it right (Ubuntu Studio) ..
We use this trick of writing to /proc/<pid>/mem in safety-critical programming to test all the fail cases required to get to 100% code-coverage, tested.
Its quite handy to be able to inject error data directly into a process-under-test and be sure that the exception code actually gets run.
Another thing we do is write to /dev/kmem (or more recently, /dev/kcore), which has to be explicitly enabled, for the purposes of crashing the kernel and ensuring that the system recovers as expected. This particular trick is so interesting to learn, if you're a systems programmer .. with the appropriate System.map, you can steer the kernel around entirely through calculated writes to /dev/kmem, in interesting ways .. find your way to the kernels' jiffies, and see what fun can be had!
Of course, this is all being supplanted by kprobes and eBPF, but back in the day it sure was fun to write tests with the dd tool .. ;)
One day I forgot about SIGSTOP in a FAANG interview when asked how to stop a forkbomb that already exhausted all PIDs but you have a shell already running.
My very dirty trick at last was to abuse the part where forkbomb's code segments should be shared mapping, find out where it is in memory, then do corewars style overwrite with piece of code that would cause the process to exit (corewars classic would be divide by zero).
Nice trick, yeah we have had to do a fair bit of that corewars classic method in the safety-critical field .. and yeah, also a fair amount of pkill too ..
But many aspects of its core design are also 21st-Century concepts, developed anew in a fresh era, and are still very much widely deployed and in active full development.
So I don't quite get whats the point of kage? What does it do that print-to-PDF won't already do? The resulting .pdf's contain all the content, and also include the original URL and creation date, etc. How is kage an improvement?
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