Dear CLI utility writers (*cough* nmcli *cough*) that assume a terminal width larger than 80 columns,
Could you just... NOT, please?
Use two lines per entry if you have to, pad it out, abbreviate something, I don't care. Just don't put important details after the 80th column, please! π’
(I standardize on 80 columns because that's what old terminals used, and I'm doing more than one thing at a time, always. Thank you =)
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So it looks like I'm tied to Android for the time being (unless I want to go to iOS). Otherwise, I can't fully access my bank accounts.
Time to go yell at my bank.
The lispy gopher climate will be live in fifty minutes, though you could tune in now to hear @northernlights show (with a more conventional realization of 'music')! anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
#music for the lispy gopher climate will be some of @fstateaudio's Skin Contact imprint.
#lisp ~ that conversation around KMP's port of #zmacs, TRES lost to the sands of time.
This isn't the show toot I'm just making noise that I'm alive, and at least I'm listening to NL right now.
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I'm alive
Well of course we're all glad of that; thanks for the toot.
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Glad to hear you're still alive, and thanks again for the continued support!
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Without fail, every time I boost a post about discrimination on the fedi, I end up seeing a bunch of white guys trying trying to minimize it and telling the original poster why they're wrong and/or being unreasonable.
I'm getting the impression that just maybe the people complaining about this aren't making it up or something.
Weird, right?
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Friends, I have a strange ask. Search engines are useless now so I'm hoping someone will know what I'm talking about.
When I was in undergrad, we read a study about drug use in rats. The researchers found that rats can get addicted to drugs, and when you stick a rat in a cage with no community, they almost always get addicted. But when you give them a little rat society with friends and fun stuff to do, some use recreationally but almost none become dependent.
What study was this??
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(14:34 if the timestamp fails)
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Ooh, I can become an "AWS Certified AI Practitioner", because maybe if we throw enough meaningless words together people won't realize it's all bullshit.
I mean, why not? It works for the AI models themselves, right?
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Been trying to stock up on healthy snacks because my blood sugar situation is slowly degrading.
I forgot how much I love hummus.
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Hi, I was forced to quit my job about a month ago now due to being forced to move by my partners anti-lgbt parents.
We moved to a much more rural area out of necessity unfortunyately job prospects are not looking so great out here.
They effectively kicked us out because they did not approve of what their church teaches them about "homosexual relationships" like the one i have with my transfem partner....
Both my partner and myself have cut down on a lot of our expenses and we desperately need assistance to help pay for a 3+ hour trip to the specialty clinic my partner goes to for her medical needs. Gas is expensive and I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide even if it's only boosting this post.
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Much of that going round these days.
I run with uBlock origin and privacy badger.
And I have no intention of stop running them.
Me in 1991, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation:
"Oh boy, I can't wait until the 21st century. Touchscreens EVERYWHERE!!!!"
Me in 2024:
"Oh dear heavens, not another stupid touchscreen!!! AAAAAAAAAH!"
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@jerkface
My first thought: that photo looks familiar.
Then I read the caption.
Then I noticed the Oracle building.
Advantages of right to repair. You can take your device apart to check what has been added along the supply chain.
Right to repair is now a security issue.
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This is an excellent point,
though I doubt that anyone has ever derived much happiness from suing the Mossad.
What I meant was:
Technically speaking, you can always take apart and inspect a device in your possession. But e.g. sharing information about it publicly might get you sued by the OEM.
This is something that private individuals and companies worry about, but not intelligence agencies.
"For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience." ;)
#ThanksEU #GDPR #AIAct #DMA #TormentNexus
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A while ago on a whim, I did a somewhat deep dive into the abacus. I thought it would be interesting to learn about a device that is sometimes credited as an ancestor of the modern computer.
I've come to be of the opinion that it's not really a fair comparison though. An abacus is not a computer... at least not a full-fledged computer. It doesn't compute anything. Your brain does that. I think it is fair however to compare it to memory, though.
An abacus is essentially an array of memory cells. Instead of storing bytes, it stores digits, but that's a trivial distinction. You even have to allocate those memory cells to accommodate the structure of the data you are operating on, just like you would with the memory in a computer.
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I hate that modern ICs aren't hand-solderable. I mean, I get why that is, but I still hate it.
Edit: typo
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That Mozilla thing makes me think of an effect I keep seeing that I tend to call inversion of expertise. I'm sure there's a better name that's already established, but that thing where a priority is set that's manifestly absurd, such that only people *without* the expertise to realize the absurdity get promoted into decision-making positions.
That then further erodes institutional capabilities, and makes it even harder to incorporate expertise.
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@BoydStephenSmithJr @ShadSterling Kind of... that's the idea that someone is promoted because they are competent, but fail to be promoted once they reach the ceiling of their competence, ensuring that they eventually end up in a job for which they are definitionally unsuited.
What I'm pointing out differs in two ways: the promotions in this case are *because* they're incompetent, and I'm looking for the systemic consequences of that selection rather than the individual consequences.
My mother-in-law overestimates my command of the Spanish language (though knowing French is admittedly helpful).
She claims that I understand 80% of what I hear. It's closer to 30%, but I can piece a lot together through context.
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I have a friend who is being harassed and threatened semi-anonymously via Facebook. She knows *who* it is, but Facebook and Police are characteristically being uselss.
I am kinda useless at this side of deanonymization, but does anyone have advice or resources for deanonymizing enough to get cops to move?
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if you can host a file on a site where you can look at the access logs and then post a link to that file, you might be able to bait them into downloading the file which could give you their IP address in the access logs. A whois search for the IP address.could get you their ISP and geolocation information on the IP could get you the general area.
That's a lot of "ifs" and "coulds", though.
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How To Bait and Catch The Anonymous Person Harassing You On The Internet
Leo Traynor, an Internet user in Ireland, had a problem. More specifically, he had a troll, a very nasty troll.Kashmir Hill (Forbes)
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from there, of the police still won't do something, it turns to filing court orders to get information from the IP holders about who had the IP at the time of access and harassment.
Good luck.
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Just got a push notification on my phone:
To receive nearby offers and coupons, you need to agree to the location service's Terms and Conditions.
Um... no, thank you?
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@Mark Connolly π» π΄πΌββοΈ (he, him, his) I'm sure you will...
In fact, I think I've seen this notification once before.
No, this is no a new CAPTCHA, this is a new malware vector which tricks users to open #Windows command line and paste a command to download some harmful stuff.
Just reported by Mohamed Aruham on Twitter.
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in reply to R. L. Dane • • •James Britt
in reply to R. L. Dane • • •π
even if you have the width it just gets hard to read.
D. Moonfire
in reply to R. L. Dane • • •$COLUMNSor 78 if I can't find it.R. L. Dane
in reply to D. Moonfire • • •@dmoonfire
I use $(tput cols) in my scripts because $COLUMNS is only populated if running directly on a tty (i.e. not piped)
D. Moonfire
in reply to R. L. Dane • • •R. L. Dane
in reply to D. Moonfire • • •@dmoonfire
tput is very useful for resetting the terminal, querying terminal settings, and setting terminal colors.
Unfortunately, the manpage is *awful*
You can also get terminal status from stty, which is a bit more common than tput
Amin Hollon π³
in reply to R. L. Dane • • •hollywoodpackage/binary you can get on Debian? It makes a hollywood-style hacker screen by running tons of utilities tiled, but on a laptop screen most of them just say "please make your terminal screen wider". πa mercurial mess of random thoughts
in reply to Amin Hollon π³ • • •R. L. Dane
in reply to a mercurial mess of random thoughts • • •@writeblankspace @amin
Of course! π
IIRC, cmatrix also has a "nomoresecrets" mode Γ la Sneakers (1992)
(If you haven't seen that film, you *must* go watch it. Its basically Hackers (1995), but less of an underworld vibe. But its got Robert Redford!)
And if either of you haven't seen Hackers (1995), WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!???
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in reply to Amin Hollon π³ • • •It had a crazy all-star cast:
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1992 film directed by Phil Alden Robinson
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in reply to R. L. Dane • • •I actually don't think the commands should care about or respect your terminal width any more than it does your terminal height. `less` and similar can provide horizontal scrolling if necessary. And, it quite annoys me when I tool builds in a pager rather than using $PAGER from my environment.
That said, for reasons completely unrelated to terminal width, line/field lengths do need to be controlled. Otherwise human eye tracking stops working well.