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Jeff@overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social

I run Chimera, OpenBSD & NetBSD.
Favorite retrocomputing topics: Unix History, installing NetBSD on retro computers.

Bay Area denizen, rides motorcycles, races 24 Hours of Lemons, #actuallyautistic he/him

Professionally: SRE, funemployed

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Website: https://overeducated-redneck.net/
Signal: overeducated_redneck.69
Compositor (Xuake): https://git.sr.ht/~phaedrus/Xuake
Joined: 2026-10-05 16:32:57
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Reply to @sinza@oldbytes.space
Jeff@overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social (2026-10-05 08:53:05)
@sinza @pfriedma @ed1conf @sirjofri BusyBox' ed(1) is trash too.  I don't remember which commands are broken, but my normal ed(1) workflows don't work in it.  (This is why I never got into Alpine Linux for any purpose...too much extra work to get a real userspace installed.)

Reply to @pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org
Jeff@overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social (2026-10-05 08:12:26)
@pfriedma @ed1conf @sirjofri This is why I originally learned ed(1): debugging embedded linux devices 20 years ago.  It worked over some of the worst serial line setups.

Then I started doing what the OP does to keep it under my fingers.

Then it became a lifestyle.  Particularly after I broke up a couple vi-vs-emacs debates with ED IS THE STANDARD.

Now I also find myself using it to script large numbers of small changes across a codebase (eg: moving a header file within a repo).