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by tolciho 2y ago
I accidentally compile color support out of st, or set xterm*colorMode:false to avoid seeing the backside of a unicorn randomly rubbed all over the terminal, on account of git and other wares being bad at their inability to not spew color c
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by tolciho 2y ago
Being no one might help you escape that cyclops.
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by tolciho 3y ago
Where was that? All I got was a page with "Redirecting..." using w3m off the survey link.
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by tolciho 3y ago
On the assumption that the modern education system teaches "confusion, class position, indifference, emotional dependency, intellectual dependency, provisional self-esteem, and that one cannot hide" (John Taylor Gatto) how would i
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by tolciho 3y ago
smolnet is one such term.
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by tolciho 3y ago
> All the hoop jumping and maze-like options etc are explicitly for this purpose. So, market pressures have implemented "The Castle" by Kafka. Progress!
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by tolciho 3y ago
This is easy to solve, mkdir ~/mail/empty mkdir ~/mail/empty/{cur,new,tmp} and then start with mutt -f ~/mail/empty Operating System is the same; OpenBSD (though noisy at boot from th
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by tolciho 3y ago
Sometimes you can prefix with "< file". Sometimes, not so much. < /etc/passwd while IFS= read line || [ -n "$line" ]; do printf '%s\n' "$line"; done Meanwhile, in ZSH... Meanwhile, in
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by tolciho 3y ago
No, but browsing the web with w3m isn't much different than browsing gemini with amfora. And with xterm*colorMode:false set, of course. The web can be a lot worse than gemini, but that's the modern web for you. (Yes, I know your h
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by tolciho 3y ago
The bear... no, not that bear, the other bear--yes, I know it's a dead bear... what, you call that a corpse and not a bear? Okay, the new corpse of a former bear, the one that is right over there... When does a bear stop (or start) bei
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by tolciho 3y ago
I spent some time dinking around in Outlook once trying to find where some feature had been moved to. Ended up apologizing to the user... they were due to retire soon, and who knows where some UI twizzle had put the whatever in that manifes
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by tolciho 4y ago
Eight gigs was the least amount of memory I could buy this laptop with, and I'm using... 237M even with a few amfora and w3m running. Compiles will take more, but I stopped compiling horrible things like Firefox or Chromium years ago.
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by tolciho 4y ago
As stated by John McCarthy--"I invented [AI] because we had to do something when we were trying to get money for a summer study" (the Lighthill debate)--this article passes the AI sniff test, or "please remember us predictive
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by tolciho 4y ago
Do, said the fish, what do they do for want of water? Coast, contribute to excess deaths, live in a basement, take odd jobs that are more or less on the books, panhandle, join a monestary...
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by tolciho 4y ago
Where is the button to enable JavaScript? For reasons of simplicity, resource use, and security JavaScript should be disabled by default. But there ain't that button, it's complicated. Where is the security? Chrome last I checked
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by tolciho 4y ago
Charles Boix in "Political Order and Inequality" posits that feudalism is a particular form of "the looters are in charge, because they can be" as contrasted with the more rare republic where there is more equality among
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by tolciho 4y ago
Most music stripped down to the harmonic skeleton (or otherwise the basis, if it is whatever some algorithm yields, or some non-harmonic basis, such as a rhythmic pattern or otherwise something not in the Western harmonic tradition) is too
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by tolciho 4y ago
Beginning? There have been parallels for weeks now allowing for variations of detail and scale: a rich so-and-so with not exactly leftward tendencies and an interest in Dutch Tulips who, being a heavy user of such-and-such, buys such-and-su
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by tolciho 4y ago
Replay attacks come to mind (a credential valid for five minutes oh hey it's valid again now) but if an attacker can change the system time you probably have more important things to worry about, such as them having root or worse.
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by tolciho 4y ago
Looks fine in w3m. Granted, the modern web mostly stopped being usable years and years ago...
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by tolciho 4y ago
The feature where the cpu fans run after a webpage displays a table with about 30 items in it is pretty swell. Others might cry w.t.f. and avoid using such bad software as much as possible. The feature where Firefox repeatedly changed your
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by tolciho 4y ago
The -P is not for portability. $ grep -P foo grep: unknown option -- P
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by tolciho 4y ago
"Why we live in hierarchies: a quantitative treatise" https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01744 might be a relevant read (Dunbar's Number does come up)
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by tolciho 4y ago
CVS never managed to wedge itself and eat my files like Subversion did. I went back to CVS.
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by tolciho 4y ago
$ bash /bin/ksh: bash: not found strike one... $ pkglocate powershell | grep \^power $ strike two...
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by tolciho 4y ago
2.96 exists, at least in the RedHat world. $ rpm -qi gcc Name : gcc Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.96 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 110
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by tolciho 4y ago
RedHat modifies vim. This makes sharing a .vimrc across OS more difficult, as one must identify and undo various changes that RedHat makes (hlsearch and incsearch come to mind), or maintain your own vim. :set compared to a clean source buil
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by tolciho 4y ago
printf 'the form\n' \ | tr a-z A-Z golfs to printf 'the form\n' | tr a-z A-Z but that only saves like one or two keystrokes but is probably good to know for shell trivia questions or when imple
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by tolciho 4y ago
And here I was expecting the divergence to be something about Gondwanaland.
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by tolciho 4y ago
https://thrig.github.io/2022/08/06/control+c.html probably gets you close enough

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