LWN's article on unveil() is a good explanation - the restrictions are permanently applied to the process and its children until termination: https://lwn.net/Articles/767137/

Someone gave me a book called "Danger UXB", about the teams that removed unexploded bombs across the UK during and after WWII, which was unexpectedly fascinating. Incredibly dangerous and painstaking work.

Danger UXB (1979) the miniseries was also very good at portraying the bomb disposal procedures.

loved it!

It's hopefully not too tricky - it can't be packaged as a crate using (say) debcargo, as the install path still requires CMake. The Debian experimental package changes are mostly about pulling in the right dependencies (including some internal mangling to support some policy choices).

The University Computer Club at UWA also has a door sensor!

https://door-status.ucc.asn.au/ucc

Runs off a Raspberry Pi with a bodged-up version of https://github.com/ide/pico-door-sensor/tree/main

This is at least the third iteration; some previous iterations are documented here:

https://www.ucc.asn.au/services/door.ucc

Still works better than the uwa door card readers

It's geek code in the cloud!

https://web.archive.org/web/20090220181018/http://geekcode.c...

Mostly it's because you can't copy and paste stuff from blogs or Stack Overflow.

but you can just run `bash`, paste the command, and then `exit`?

If you want to write C++03, that's true, but as a maintainer of the fish build system I was having to backport compilers in order to use C++11 features on supported systems until 2020. Modern C++ is still a moving target and newer versions contain a number of features that make it much more pleasant to work with, but it takes decades to percolate into distributions.

They're animated GIFs, which were an extension of the longstanding format and predate CSS

No, through the excellent b3ta newsletter

Now that's how you write a headline.