Pat @Pat@qoto.org

#linux #cat #cats #GNU #obvious #keyboard #cli
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Linux tip…

If you want to keep your cat from typing potentially dangerous stuff into your unattended keyboard, type the following at the CLI:

cat

(it actually works!)

@ze

What is time?

@worldsendless

I’m not an Emacs guy, but here are some ideas…

- substitute the underscore with some other character, like a dash, when you export (e.g., by piping through tr), you could do this selectively/programatically

- have the export code add markup to indicate that strings with an underscore should be treated literally by the blog (I don’t know which blog you’re using but it’s usually something like ‘<code>’ or ‘<nowiki>’ or something like that

- or do a global search/replace on the file before exporting to do one of the above

@trinsec

Did you learn anything from my Patsplaining, or did you already understand the original toot?

And the whole reason why I'm doing any of this is because here in US we almost loss our democracy because half of the Republican party were too ignorant to understand that they were being taken in by a con artist.

... and I'm doing these Patsplaining toots about them because nobody ever responds to the #TruthBeTold toots, so I assume people just don't understand them. (Maybe you folks do understand but just don't give a shit. But I'll keep explaining them anyway in case some folks don't understand.)

I do these #TruthBeTold toots to demonstrate how the phrasing of words can be literally true, but imply something that is not true. It’s important to understand how this works to help improve critical reasoning skills and to be able to spot statements that are misleading.

(I also sometimes just do them for fun 😄)

#truthbetold #patsplaining

This one is 100% true, sort of...

By saying, “No cameras were allowed in the #Pennsylvania State House...”, it implies that there was a specific prohibition of them, like “No cameras allowed”. But a literal interpretation of the phrase simply means that there was no explicit statement saying that they were allowed, which of course there wasn’t, so that statement is true. There was no such thing as a camera in 1776, so they wouldn’t even know what one was and therefore wouldn’t issue any statement about them at all.

The phrase, “...so there are no pics or videos of the event”, is also true in that there are no photographs or videos of the event. However, the word “so” implies that the reason why there are no photos/videos is because of a prohibition on cameras, but the actual reason is just because cameras hadn’t been invented yet.

@eqyo

>I'm hoping to find a word for that which is shorter than "collection of essays".

Just "essays".

(The plural construction implies that it is a collection.)

Here's a link to the image and blurb on the NASA website.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-reveals-steamy-atmosphere-of-distant-planet-in-detail

#webb #telescope #astronomy #science #exoplanet #spacealiens

The Webb Telescope has discovered water on a planet 1120 lightyears away!

WASP-96b is a gas giant exoplanet that revolves around a star that is about 1120 lightyears away in the Phoenix constellation. The planet was discovered in 2013 using transit photometry, but the precise measurements of the spectra used to verify water and clouds on the planet could only be done by Webb.

Because it’s a gas giant and it is orbiting its star very quickly (3.4 days per revolution) it probably can’t support life as we know it, but this demonstrates what Webb can do to help find habitable planets.

WASP=Wide Angle Search for Planets

(Public domain image)

@skells

>I am secretly japanese

Not anymore...

Yeah, I pissed off everyone with that one...

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#humor #joke #satire #sardonic

Various views on abortion…

Democrat:
“Genders that carry wombs have historically been oppressed and subject to indigenous reproductive genocide. No one can dictate to our collective feminality what to do with our bodies or any one else’s body until the fetus reaches the age of majority. (Also, it must be paid for by single-payer healthcare because black lives matter and LGBTQIAHS+ intersectionality woke reparations.)”

Republican:
“No abortions, no exceptions because the Bible says so. It’s says so right there in Mark 17:3. (I know it’s true because my TV preacher told me it was true while he was taking up a collection to help pay for the church’s new anti-abortionist private jet.)”

Libertarian:
“In a free-market capitalist economy, a person owns their own body (even if they are a woman). And an unwanted pregnancy is trespassing and theft of productivity, so the woman has a right to defend herself and the trespasser can be forcibly ejected at any time. (Even if it requires the use of an assault rifle to remove the fetus, tax free.)”

#nasa #webb #universe #time
#gravity #lens

The gravitational lensing that appears in the Webb Telescope image released today is due to the collective gravity of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. It bends the light from objects behind it.

This is similar to the gravitational lensing of a black hole, but it's curved less. Think of it as a lens with a long focal length. In this case the focal length is billions of lightyears!

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet

@worldsendless

It's a mailto URI extension. I don't know if it has a specific name or a standard attached to it.

A SMTP server can do whatever it wants with the mail that is delivered to it. When you send mail to anystring@domain.tld, it is delivered to the SMTP and then the server can process that anyway it wants. For example, some servers treat that string as case senative, while to others they are the same.

I don't know if a hash (#) is allowed in that string under the mailto scheme. You can look it up in the RFC (RFC 6068).

But otherwise, the server can do what it wants and sort and file and process that string (and the message that came with it) to its hearts content.

@worldsendless

Also, you may need to have the ISP set up reverse DNS lookup for the server's IP.

ISP=internet service provider
DNS=domain name system
IP=internet protocol (address)

@worldsendless

>they use the name of my websites

Then you can set up your own SMTP server, just like you set up your own web server. Just tell your DNS nameserver to send mail to your SMTP server. It's a bit of a learning curve to setup, but you'll know that you have control over your own mail server and you won't be at the mercy of some tech company.

Well known SMTP servers in the Unix/Linux world include Sendmail, qmail, Exim, and Postfix. And there are many others. Here's a list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers

@KodeGhinn

What implications will this have on plans for deflection of asteroids on a collision course with Earth?

@worldsendless

Do the email addresses use the domain name of your email provider, or do they use the domain name(s) of your websites?