rtxn

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I take my shitposts very seriously.

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Why exactly is it controversial? That is the exact emotion that visiting Auschwitz is meant to evoke. Not all art should be joyful.

(edit) Even if the picture is about kids being sent to '40s Auschwitz to work, suffer, and die - that is what happened to real people. Don’t look away. The gut-punch feeling is what you’re supposed to feel and remember when people bring up fascist rhetoric. Again, not all art should be joyful.

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I’ve just watched TNG for the first time, and going through DS9 now. It still kicks ass.

Sure, it looks dated, and pre-beard TNG was rough, but I can absolutely see why trekkies are so deeply obsessed with it.

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In the US, you always have to consider the benefits and risks to an elected official. Republicans would get nothing out of putting their new golden boy under a magnifier, but I’m certain that if a democrat tried it, they’d get slandered to hell and back.

The EU probably has no such concern. I don’t know how the EC’s members are picked, but partisanship is probably not as huge a factor. Eventually some EC members were bound to grow a backbone.

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That would be a nightmare. Whenever there is societal progress, conservatives always push back aggressively.

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Yesterday’s monarch is today’s dictator-for-a-few-days-at-most.

"I'll Come Back": Ninth Doctor Actor Reveals Brutal Conditions For Doctor Who Return (screenrant.com)

Ninth Doctor actor Christopher Eccleston reveals his brutal conditions for returning to Doctor Who. Eccleston was the first actor to portray the Doctor in its modern era following its revival in 2005. While he successfully brought the iconic Time Lord back to the screen, he abruptly departed the show after just one season,...

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After the Chibnall shit-show, they might as well try it his way. Davies and couldn’t undo the damage, and is looking at a battle so uphill it might as well be a wall.

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I worry for Gatwa’s career. I’m not doubting his value as an actor, but every actor is only as good as the writing. Being picked as the Doctor’s next incarnation is a massive spotlight. If Davies and the writers drop the ball and can’t deliver the show from the low point, he’ll also have to carry that stigma.

rtxn,

Not surprised about Hungary, but hoooly FUCK, what’s going on in Poland?

rtxn,

western firearms: “NO FEAR!”

mud: “xin chào”

western firearms: “One fear.”

rtxn,

It’s not like any of us were there to prove it didn’t happen…

rtxn,

You’ve just become the nemesis of the entire unix-like userbase for praising the space.

rtxn,

On the command line, space is what separates each argument. If a path contains a space, you either have to quote the entire path, or use an escape character (e.g. the `` character in most shells, the backtick in Powershell because Microsoft is weird, or the character’s hexadecimal value), otherwise the path will be passed to the command as separate arguments. For example, cat hello world.txt would try to print the files hello and world.txt.

It is a good practice to minimize the character set used by filenames, and best to only use English alphanumeric characters and certain symbols like -, _, and .. Non-printable characters (like the lower half of ASCII), weird diacritics (like ő or ű), ligatures, or any characters that could be misinterpreted by a program should be avoided.

This is why byte-safe encodings, like base64 or percent-encoding, are important. Transmitting data directly as text runs the risk of mangling the characters because some program misinterpreted them.

rtxn, 

<span style="color:#323232;">rsync -a "somedir" "somedir_backup_$(date)"
</span>

If the date command returns an RFC-3339-formatted string, the filename will contain a space. If, for example, you want to iterate over the files using for d in $(find…) and forget to set $IFS properly, it can cause issues.

rtxn,

Again, it’s not just CLI, it’s an insurance against misinterpreted characters breaking programs.

rtxn,

Yeah? I once spent an entire week debugging a plaintext database because the software expected the record identifiers to be tokenized a certain way, but the original data source had spaces in those strings.

The software was the ISC DHCP server, the industry standard for decades and only EOL’d a year ago.

rtxn,

Bro, literally re-read the comment you replied to. It has an example of what might happen.

rtxn,

For the rsync command, yes. But this:


<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">for</span><span style="color:#323232;"> d </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">in </span><span style="color:#323232;">$(find . -type d)</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">echo </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">d</span><span style="color:#183691;">"
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">done
</span>

will process the space-separated parts of each path as separate items. I had to work around this issue just two days ago, it’s an obscure thing that not everyone will keep in mind.

rtxn,

Honestly, I haven’t been the same since GLaDOS said “Oh. It’s you.” in her dommy mommy voice.

rtxn,

Do you have any idea how many fandoms have had their own The Chair incidents? Please specify.

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Don’t forget nightcore!

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No.

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Both sides ARE bad. The trick is to use critical thinking and realize that one side is “stupid and misguided” bad and the other is “literal nazi, genocide against minorities, and also very stupid” bad.

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Isn’t this advertisement just horrible? Does it make you want to claw your eyes out? Pay up $20 per month to remove HALF of them! Thank you for always trusting us to do the right thing!

(not related to star trek, I just fucking hate ads and advertisers)

rtxn,

A simple one to disable the “login with google” popup:

accounts.google.com/gsi/*

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I have two things to say.

  • When Schrödinger was present in the SGC (season 3, when they dealt with the Tollan), the standard issue service weapon was still the MP5. The P90 was only introduced around the middle of season 4.
  • I don’t think I can make fun of trekkies being obsessed with their trivia anymore.
rtxn,

Let’s be honest, civilians don’t choose the PS90 for its performance as a firearm. They buy it because it looks cool.

rtxn,

I can’t tell if that was a pun, but if it was, well done.

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Remember: no preorder. No matter how good No Man’s Sky turned out eventually, this will only be their second game of the open-world survival genre and it might need to go through the same engoodening. I just hope Sean leaves the PR to people who can do PR.

rtxn,

If you mean a belief in a supreme being, I’ve been agnostic for most of my life, leaning towards atheism. That hasn’t changed.

Organized religion is a completely different thing, and in my opinion, comparable to nationalism. I’ve seen way too much inhumane shit being done to other humans in the name of some ideology or other, and I decided not to be part of it. No gods or kings, as far as loyalty goes.

rtxn,

Get a chest freezer. It’s much more efficient for long-term storage than an upright fridge with a freezer because the cold air doesn’t spill out when you open it.

Toss your incandescent and fluorescent lights. Get LED bulbs (not smart lights, just white LEDs). Where applicable, install timer switches.

Fuck cars, get a bike. A simple, sturdy one, like an onafiets. They run on toast and determination.

Understand the difference between having enough money to buy something and being able to afford something.

Unsubscribe from music/video streaming services. Return to the seven seas.

Maybe engage in some light tax evasion.

rtxn,

The derailleur transmission design introduces a LOT of friction because the chain is forced to bend and twist between gears that are out of alignment, and it hates doing that. It also leads to increased wear.

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I consider not letting food go to waste as part of a poor person’s fiscal financial responsibility.

rtxn,

I don’t know, can you?

TIL there’s a difference, thanks

Who's winning the war in Ukraine?

The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...

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From what I’ve heard, Ukraine is very slowly taking back strategic locations. At the moment, they’re better equipped than the invaders, but that could change if Russia secures a weapons deal with China or NK. Ukraine also has a wide support (monetary, humanitarian, and military) from western nations. Ukraine has the advantage in the quality of their warfare, Russia in the quantity of meat sacks they can throw at the front.

In my opinion, even if Russia somehow occupies all of Ukraine (which I find unlikely), they will be a pariah nation for many decades. A significant part of their economy is energy export (fossil and nuclear) and the EU is already trying to separate itself from that energy dependence.

rtxn,

I like the Thunderbolt 1000T, mostly because of LOCAL 58’s Skywatching.

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I love EAS messages. The first part is actually three bursts of machine-readable data encoded as audio, and it’s completely incidental that it’s such a freaky sound.

There have been incidents of EAS-equipped devices triggering an alarm because an otherwise benign broadcast transmitted a valid EAS message without the short end-of-message bursts.

rtxn,

noiƨivɘlɘƚ nɒʜƚ nuʇ ɘɿom ɘɿɒ ƨɿoɿɿiM

Why didn't anyone remind me the dual booting exists?

I was talking to my dad yesterday and he talked about how he dual booted windows and Linux in his college days. I immediately left to download Ubuntu, I feel so dumb for forgetting it’s an option. I literally only use windows so I can play Fortnite with friends. PSA: you can have both Linux and Windows, or you can use a vm in...

rtxn,

Be aware that Windows will snitch on you if you run it in a VM. I don’t know about Forkknife in particular, but if a game’s TOS prohibits it, or the anti-cheat is having a bad day, it might get you banned. There are ways to trick Windows into thinking it’s running on metal, but it’s always a risk.

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Taskmgr will literally list that the OS is running in a VM. You don’t need a rootkit to detect it.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6086f13c-4939-40ea-a228-2add5789f706.png

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This is what I use for switching: pastebin.com/J5VT03eq
It uses pactl (should work with both Pulse and pipewire-pulse) and KDialog to list available sinks.

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“Our communication happens through references to well-documented historical events and figures, but still uses the same vocabulary and grammar as the federation and most of the galaxy’s civilizations. Maybe we should share a short summary with the captain, to assist in establishing relations.”

“No! I wanna wrassle the monster like Darmok and Jalad!”

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Take a look at the Pioneer spacecrafts’ plaques. NASA scientists have broken down our abstract expression of distance to language-agnostic universal constants. I refuse to believe that a space-faring civilization with friendly intentions wouldn’t do everything in its power to find a common language, no matter how far removed from their spoken language.

HP says I should have known its £399 laptop bargain was too good to be true (www.theguardian.com)

[…] Parcelforce texted the delivery slot. No delivery. Parcelforce and HP’s tracking systems then claimed I had refused the parcel. I scheduled a redelivery for the next day. Parcelforce then rang me and the agent acknowledged a delivery had not been attempted and that the tracking information was false. It claimed HP had...

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I’m one such sysadmin. I have to work with HP products and HP-by-another-name L3 switches. They are not exaggerating. We’ve had brand new server power supplies crap out on the first power-up. Intermittent outages are a weekly event. Sometimes HP devices refuse to talk to the network because we looked at them wrong. I’m hoping to finally move all of our services to a Dell server over the winter. Then the HPs will be sacrificed to the old gods.

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I had dual boot with Win10, which I used for almost everything, and Arch, for SSH-able stuff for work and university. One day Windows decided to nuke both the EFI partition and Arch, which made Windows itself unbootable, so I just wiped the entire disk and installed Manjaro. Now I’m a sysadmin and I don’t think I could do my job if I had to use Windows.

Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?

like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

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It’s past Thanksgiving and I don’t even celebrate it, but I’m so fucking thankful to live in a European suburb. There is a small general store just down the street, two bakeries, a butcher, a car mechanic, a tire service shop, a bike service shop, two schools, two playgrounds, and too many smaller businesses to count. All within ten minutes on foot. Also three stops for six bus lines, safe sidewalks, and safe bicycle paths, so basically /c/fuckcars’s wet dream.

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The fucking GTK file chooser. It’s like all application developers have made a pact with each other to never use a consistent UX, with the exception of having to press ctrl-L to edit the path textbox. It’s painful. And as much as I like XDP, support for it is spotty at best, and sometimes downright broken.

I mean, who the FUCK puts the filesystem root in a submenu? Or sorts files and directories together? I just want to talk and explain why they’re beyond salvation.

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The Wayland development team has been described as shell shocked X.org devs who are afraid of committing to a feature because then they’d have to support it.

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But how will people know I use arch btw?

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