Wouldn’t it be cool tho? You could go up to a tree that’s super old and ask it about the world, and it would take an entire day to spell a word in a language you don’t understand. And house plants would be chit chatting and making all kinds of noise inaudible to us, kinda like WiFi, but with sound instead of light. It’s like a fantasy setting

Is that the issues your project is solving?

That’s exactly it, and also the fact that git doesn’t follow symlinks. Just a word of warning, If you are still inexperienced I suggest you run my tool manually instead of automating it with git hooks, as it is inherently less secure. In the post I linked in the description you can see some of the precautions I took to make it more secure. Still, running it manually is fine.

Feel free to give some feedback if you start using the tool 🙂

Noooooo 😭

It’s not the kind of validation I do tho 🤓😉

For my computer science internship I just dodged a drone-shaped bullet… I’m working on abstract verification of access policies instead

Yes, that was one of the tools I considered before making this. I do not remember the precise detail on why, but much like gnu stow is only good for versioning user dotfiles and not system config. Etckeeper is good for storing either your system config files or user’s dotfiles, but not both at the same time. copicat doesn’t care what you use it for because you explicitly tell it all the locations and permissions that you want.

Yeah, it’s cool, people are mostly looking for something like your usecase. I got suggested stow or stow-like tools a lot when exploring this. And when they understood what I wanted, they just suggested ansible… Which would work when starting from scratch, but wasn’t right for me. I made copicat mostly because I am actually using it, and then decided to make it public because really I didn’t find anything like it.

Say you want to store /etc/ufw/sysctl.conf which is owned by root:adm and has permission 644 in your repo, but also /etc/ntfy/server.yml which is owned by ntfy:ntfy with permissions 664. How do you keep track of this with gnu stow?

That is a good question. I have considered using gnu stow before building this. But there’s a couple of problems with that.

Git doesn’t follow symlinks, it stores them as links in the repo, so your only option is to keep the files in the repo, and symlink from the config file location to the repo. This is fine for user config files (like from your .config folder), but if you want to keep system config files (like those from /etc) then the git process needs to run as root to modify those files, because symlinked files share permissions and ownership. And even then, git will always create everything as root because it only tracks permission bits, not ownership, so you will need to constantly fix up ownership of your files.

With this tool instead you explicitly tell it the ownership and permission of files, and it takes care of that for you (it still needs root permissions of course).

How do we know what the trees looked like? I thought they got buried and crumbled into carbon or something

You can still plug a controller with AA in and use it while the batteries are in the charger

Like I said… This did not change my mind

When AA batteries go flat you swap them and the controller is already running while the old batteries charge on your separate charger, which you can’t do with pouch batteries.

Also, it’s a game of relying on a company’s good will to provide a compatible battery, or of some Chinese manufacturer to provide it. While AAs are standard.

There’s nothing that can change my mind on the subject outside of “these batteries are standard and available everywhere forever” which you can already say for AA NiMH batteries.

Until it dies

I really don’t understand why everyone is speaking like rechargeable AAs don’t exist…

Use rechargeable AA batteries

Skill issue. Feel free to pay more to compensate.

Rechargeable controllers didn’t use to have dock stations some years ago, how did you manage then?

You have probably never played on a computer without Bluetooth, then (or headphones without Bluetooth). Using headphones connected directly to the pc is a pain in the ass. Using the controller’s jack is much better.

Yeah, but NiMH AA battery replacements are sold for 5€ a pack at my local grocery store and will never go out of production.

I meant headphone jack. But what if I don’t care about quality and latency and just want audio on my device because it’s useful to have?

Also, I think the dual sense has audio haptics like a Wiimote?

Edit: also the controller has two other connections other than Bluetooth, that can easily handle audio better than Bluetooth.

You can buy a pack of 4 NiMH batteries and use the other two when the first two recharge. The problem is not connecting a charge cable, but the fact that all rechargeable batteries eventually die, but NiMH batteries can be bought at the grocery store, and be replaced by anyone.