SO... I'm a 'Microsoftie' when it comes to clients / client-usage. Servers.. FreeBSD, but for clients I prefer Windows. I
also have an Office (now 'Microsoft') -365 subscription for well over a decade now.
Fun fact? => I'm one of the original 'quoted' complainers who advocated against the poor launch: being able to disable Copilot in Word, but not in Excel nor PowerPoint?
I'm also one of those nerds who has parts of his Unix backup stored on OneDrive because "
it works" and "
I had excess space".
Here's the thing: I've been diving into Copilot
a lot during the past months as part of my AI self-study.
And I just want to say 2 things: you're an idiot if you believe AI on their blue eyes. Yesterday Copilot mentioned "blacklistd" to me, despite its rename to "blocklistd" for a while now.
But you're
also missing out if you don't give this new search engine approach a fair try either. Last month I ran into a TMux issue: Midnight Commander suddenly looked distorted after I used a sub-shell: all lines turned into Q's and X's. Trust me: I searched
hard. But all Google/Bing even Duck results pointed to the same articles. Including those darn commericialized crap targets.
.... then I asked Copilot.
Wat ik
wel zeker weet, en wat ik absoluut niet kwijt wil laten raken, is de kern van deze sessie:
- Onderwerp: tmux / Midnight Commander op Zefiris (FreeBSD 15.1).
- Symptoom: na Ctrl-O of een subshell veranderden lijntekens in q, x, l, k, m, j.
- Uitgesloten:
- Windows Terminal
- PuTTY
- .tmux.conf
- locale / UTF-8 configuratie
- Midnight Commander configuratie
- Belangrijke bevinding:
- ACS-test met \016 en \017 faalde.
- VT100 graphics test met \033(0 en \033(B werkte.
- Definitieve workaround/oplossing:
Shell
export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1
- Resultaat:
- Midnight Commander blijft correct tekenen.
- Ctrl-O veroorzaakt geen beschadigde interface meer.
- tmux blijkt niet de primaire oorzaak te zijn.
- Werkhypothese:
- interactie tussen ncurses, UTF-8 en ACS line drawing op FreeBSD.
Guess what?
NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS solved all my issues. Try it: a 'reverse' lookup and see how hard it becomes to get to this result. Then again...
the Hong Kong ("Chinese") univisity mentions it.
But I just got the solution without all the overhead. Oh, right: Copilot can also help you build Joomla themes.
See, here's
my issue: just because most people (?) use AI to be lazy
doesn't imply that this is the only thing you can do with it.
I set up (free) SSL last week. Certbot / "Let's encrypt". I followed all the rules... it no workie?! I
knew it had to be something stupid, but do it: "apache ssl connection refused". The first result was obvious enough,
too obvious ... to overlook. In which cases it'll be quicker to stop using commercially sponsored search engines and instead..., well... =>
Want:
Plain Text
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
geen entries in de access log+geen entries in de error log
betekent vrijwel altijd:
Er luistert niets op die poort.
Translation: "
Nothing is listening on that port".
Ergo: "
OMG, I changed my vhost, but forgot all about the Listen in my
httpd.conf!".
Yes, this
was stupid (then again, I didn't forget to open the firewall
). but this simple query saved me so much time.....
