Unless commits are signed, you can always rewrite history. No matter the tool. Extreme example demonstrating that this is possible is the fact that I can change my machine’s time, change my user name and reply the tool’s commands to construct whatever history I want.
This is not a legitimate issue. It’s like complaining that wget
reads proxy settings from /etc/wgetrc. It’s absolutely proper for
programs to read system- or user-level configuration if the
configuration is not specified via environment variables or command
line options.
The typical setting hierarchy goes something like:
It’s trivial. Use Linux Mint or Debian, enable non-free repositories if required, and that’s pretty much it.
I’ve never had issues with Nvidia drivers. Your mileage may vary.
Admittedly, I’m probably not the best person to ask for recommendation of a noob-friendly distro, but I feel people are overthinking this. If someone produces a list which includes distros I’ve never heard of, I think they spent too much time on ‘Top 10 Noob Friendly Distros in 2025’ websites.
If you really care about my recommendation, just start with Mint.
PS. I should also add, this isn’t criticism of you or any other new user who does search online for recommendation. This is more a comment on state of the Internet where there are so many websites which seem to pad their list with obscure distros where really all such articles should give recommendation for one of the same three distributions. Which three I don’t exactly know.
Yes, I agree. But the dispute is what ‘sends EOF’ actually means. The article I respond to claims Ctrl+D doesn’t send EOF but is like Enter except that new line character is not sent. This is, in some sense true, but as I explain also misleading.
I used Claws Mail at some point in the past. Now notmuch+Emacs.
If you have an SVG image you can either embed it directly on the website, or link it using img tag. Whatever the case, there’s no need to export it to PNG.
And yes, that will likely result in a smaller website and furthermore images which can scale smoothly.
Another interesting part is that HTML5 supports embedding SVG. That is, you can put SVG code directly in your HTML5 document and it’s going to render correctly. You can also style it through your website’s CSS file and manipulate the elements via JavaScript.
Though as others pointed out, it’s technically not HTML but XML. For
example, you have to close all the elements and quote all the
attribute values. But when you embed it inside a HTML document, those
rules get relaxed to adhere with HTML. (I.e., you cannot write
<circle r=5> in SVG (it must be <circle r="5" />) but you can when
you embed it in HTML).
Sure, though I advise against it. The following C program can do that:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
if (argc < 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s <command> <args>...", argv[0]);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
printf("Executing");
for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
printf(" %s", argv[i]);
}
puts("\nPress ^C to abort.");
sleep(5);
if (setuid(0)) {
perror("setuid");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
execvp(argv[1], argv + 1);
perror(argv[1]);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
As seen in:
$ gcc -O2 -o delay-su delay-su.c
$ sudo chown root:sudo delay-su
$ sudo chmod 4750 delay-su
$ ./delay-su id
$ id -u
1000
$ ./delay-su id -u
Executing id -u
^C to abort
0
This will allow anyone in group sudo to execute any command as root.
You may change the group to something else to control who exactly can
run the program (you cannot change the user of the program).
If there’s some specific command you want to run, it’s better to
hard-code it or configure sudo to allow execution of that command
without password.
It’s not. You keep insisting that ^D doesn’t send EOF and yet:
$ stty -a | grep eof
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
$ man stty |grep -A1 eof |head -n2
eof CHAR
CHAR will send an end of file (terminate the input)
^D (which is an ASCII EOT character) signals EOF. The thing is that in C every line of a text file must be terminated by a new-line. And so, when you end a file with ^D without a return, you get funky results.
Mint is fine. Rather than changing distros, rather keep using it and configuring it the way you want it. For the most part, GNU/Linux is GNU/Linux is GNU/Linux and many popular distributions are largely the same.
VeraCrypt Volume Format Specification:
It may be possible to recover the encryption key. You might try asking on VeraCrypt forums/mailing lists or contacting a commercial data recovery service which understands VeraCrypt. Though I’m not familiar with VeraCrypt so I may be misunderstanding the cited documentation.