Okay, now I'm so lazy that I'm writing a zsh script to automatically activate a `venv` if it's in the current directory and deactivate on any parent directories.

// check code in first reply, change `TRUST_DIR` and `venv` if you prefer another name.

Alright, spent my Sunday setting up the #fish shell.

It's basically now identical to my #zsh config, except without plugins (well apart from the pure prompt and the autopair).

It feels faster, the autocompletion looks cleaner and it's def faster than zsh.

Had to wrestle with ssh a lot, but I ended up using keyring and now all my shells work with ssh the same, which is nice.

I had to write my own custom color theme as well (Poimandres).

Let's see how it goes!

Slides have been released on this wonderful piece of balancing software for your proxmox clusters proxyLB
Now you can learn even more about this piece of wonderful software

Courtesy of @gyptazy

#bash #proxyLB #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #proxmox #loadbalancer

https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

Finally tracked down a bug in Zsh which loses history entries!

https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2025/msg00114.html

Gotten tired of those massive browsers hogging GB (*1024 = MB) of ram? Want to go back to the days of text based browsing?

Links has got you covered. For decades (lynx and later) links gives us back the nostalgic feel of *sh* based browsing, just like BitchX gives it with IRC in the shell.

Look how smooth and fast it works with DuckDuckGo

If you haven't done so yet and you are playing with Open Source Operating Systems, read this article about the BSD family

it is very enlightening, and worth every minute of reading it

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD  #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #UNIX #History

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/

Due to my brain dead ISP which does not support IPv6 for clients in 2K25(!) I cant access my boxyBSD box.

boxyBSD is thus so far away from me :(

I have a client connection with fixed IPv4 IP somewhere, but it collapses when I use a free available IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel service.

Instead of sitting and twiddling my fingers on my Bass guitar(s) generating random() notes, I decided to get an image of the latest freeBSD and play with it locally, until I can get my ISP to provide all of us with a (set) of free IPv6 addresses because we pay them for a full service here in my country

>> log

$ wget -c https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
--2025-03-23 13:32:46-- https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
Resolving download.freebsd.org (download.freebsd.org)... 200.160.6.227, 2001:12ff:0:6224::15:0
Connecting to download.freebsd.org (download.freebsd.org)|200.160.6.227|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 4826406912 (4.5G), 4255655894 (4.0G) remaining [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso’

-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1 12%[++++ ] 559.57M 1.01MB/s eta 75m

<< ^Z

Yes they give a puny 1MB speed, you read that correctly

#bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX

Periodic reminder -

Looking for #ZSH themes, plugins, frameworks (#oh_my_zsh isn't the only one) or tutorials? I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins

ZSH has been the default on #macos for a while, so if you're still using the default settings, it's worth your while to take a look at what's out there.

@zsh

TIL about lsd(1)

What an awsome addition to my lolcat arsenal!

The acronym is not correctly used by me in this case, because I **know** I used LSD in the 1990's (the command in a UNIX ENV:) and LSD is just as pretty as it was psychedelic in the last century!

`man lsd `

An ls command with a lot of pretty colors and some other stuff.

@altbot

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #Networking #IPv6 #IPv4 #ProxMox #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #Programming

You won't achieve a fulfilling life if you don't:

- Set goals.

- Write them down and order them.

- Split what feels overwhelming in smaller chunks.

- Map *a single* easy and concrete action that moves you toward the first goal.

- Use a terminal output colorizer.
https://github.com/garabik/grc

function grep() {
if git rev-parse --git-dir 2> /dev/null; then
git grep "$@"
return
fi
command grep --color=auto --exclude-dir={.git,.hg,.svn} "$@"
}

could have used this couple of years earlier
#git #zsh

I need to transition from Linux to Mac as I'm getting a Mac mini for work in a couple of weeks. Is zsh compatible with bash, as in: Do bash scripts generally run on zsh? If the answer is no, I will need to install the latest version of bash (which I believe is doable via Homebrew).

#macos #bash #zsh