I'm an idiot.
I was trying to install #Haskell on a machine and thought the installer was taking a really long time. In my defense, the last line of text was:
Installation may take a while.
It sat at this stage for over an hour while I did other stuff, because I hadn't bothered to read the previous line:
Press ENTER to proceed or ctrl-c to abort.
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hlint
is a great tool for pointing out where your code can be improved, but sometimes its suggestions are... interesting. Case in point, it just recommended changingmap (\(a, b) -> {- ...stuff... -}) $ zip as bs
to
zipWith (curry (\(a, b) -> {- ...stuff... -})) as bs
instead of
zipWith (\a b -> {- ...stuff... -}) as bs
*sitting at my desk*
Why is there no music in my headset?
Oh.
*restarts the aNONradio stream that I stopped when I stepped out for a moment, and goes back to doing other stuff*
*~60 seconds pass*
Wait, there's still no music.
*Selects the correct audio output device.*
Isn't ADHD fun?
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I hope, for the sake of the poor soul at the other end of the finger, folks take this opportunity to learn from aviation regulators and use the "Swiss cheese model", possibly even with the no-blame or just-culture add-ons. E.g. skybrary.aero/articles/just-cu… skybrary.aero/articles/acciden…
Since it's more than one bad patch, it's a systems failure on many levels, right?
Just Culture
Description One key to the successful implementation of safety regulation is to attain a “just culture” reporting environment within aviation organisations, regulators and investigation authorities.skybrary.aero
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I love that when nefarious government actors make a backdoor to software the code looks like it was an accident.
I wonder if this wasn't some way to obfuscate a horrible cyber something being committed in the world.
Then I think about Hanlon's Razor: don't attribute something to malice when stupidity is the easier answer.
thank you!
Just to be clear, I dabble in writing for media in Poland, so this might end up in a piece (with attribution). Hope that's also okay!
"This is antivirus malware and cyber threat software"
"How does it protect computer systems from these vulnerabilities and exploits?"
"Well, that's the neat part..."
No one is getting fired over this, right?
Correct. HR systems are down too.
😬
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Just gonna annoy everyone everywhere #Mastodon
$390/$600
Raised for the Hotel
**$210 PAST DUE**
-$409 July Deficit
$516/$5135 Raised Monthly Goal
I'm fucking #hungry
and can't even make anything because I'm exhausted!!!
#Urgent #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid saves lives #PovertyKills #Poverty ia winning
Don't let this #facist system kill me and my mom and my #bunny
Buy a damn shirt they on sale
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Mormon apologists: Maybe the reason the teen suicide rate in Utah is so high is because of the altitude.
Me: That feels like bad planning on God's part when he told Brigham Young to settle there, doesn't it?
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Got an oscilloscope as a late birthday present. One of the features listed on the box is "firmware updates".
Why on earth would an oscilloscope need firmware updates? It's an oscilloscope.
Next up: learn how to use an oscilloscope. 🙃
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Edit: typo
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
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writing a guestbook entry on a pdp11 isn't something you can do every day.
Great idea 👌
@mvilain I'd never heard of this, and DuckDuckGo isn't telling me much. What markets did the DECDataSystem target?
(I used 11/70s early in my career, though. RSTS/E and 2.x BSD.)
Just beautiful. Great reminder how pure and powerful Unix once was.
Thinking about it, my first serial-line terminal login on a SysV machine was back in January 1990, eons ago. It was a big tower case server with a 68020, and even then it was considered an older machine for legacy projects and unimportant enough to let newbs like me have a go at it. Your machine is about a generation or two older, and still running strong. Great job!
Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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Have you investigated interactive fiction? The game that has stuck with me as a good introduction to the medium was Photopia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopia
There are likely many other on-ramps to text adventures, probably newer and better games, but I just thought that one had pretty colors 😉
XorCurses - github.com/jwm-art-net/XorCurs…
Greed - catb.org/~esr/greed/
CurseofWar - a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwa…
Liberal Crime Squad - lcs.wikidot.com/start
StarLanes - github.com/mmpub/StarLanes
chroma - level7.org.uk/chroma/
pokete - lxgr-linux.github.io/pokete/
There are a few different tetris, pacman and sokoban clones.
GitHub - jwm-art-net/XorCurses: A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses.
A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses. - GitHub - jwm-art-net/XorCurses: A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses.GitHub
gitlab.com/esr/vms-empire
Games of No Time To Play
So much fun can be had with a scripting language and a terminal emulator.ctrl-c.club
I believe old versions of Dwarf Fortress have an ncurses mode which runs in the terminal. Dont think its supported anymore on the steam/itch release though, sadly.
(I hope DF doesn't count as a roguelike or dungeon crawler 😀 )
GitHub - wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack: A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot 'em up. Hopefully.
A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot 'em up. Hopefully. - GitHub - wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack: A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot '...GitHub
bsdgames
, but I wanted to specifically recommend hunt
from there as a multiplayer shooter. Surprizingly fun for what it is. Only works in multiplayer though.
I think I have this in acceptable condition for someone else to try it... git.sr.ht/~rlonstein/wordwhiz-…
A rewrite of a little word tile game I first wrote in 2011 inspired by the Wordsmith game in my first Tivo.
exceptionally cursed but: I once hacked a ncurses TUI display mode into a Gameboy emulator, using half-height unicode blocks to get 2 square-ish pixels per text character. worked badly, but worked nonetheless
unfortunately I don’t think I still have a copy I can share, but if you have the time and the know how it is both possible and very funny
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21 Peerless ASCII Games - LinuxLinks
Text-based games are often forgotten and neglected. However, there are many ASCII gems out there waiting to be explored which are immensely addictive and great fun to play.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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