Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

ok folks, hit me with your most ridiculous, overpowered "go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" examples

not mining this for a listicle or anything, i just want to see cool stuff ppl have done with basic tools

the kind of stuff I'm thinking of:

- bashblog, a static blog generator https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog
- "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster" https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
- bocker, "Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash" https://github.com/p8952/bocker
- suc, "a slack clone in 5 lines of bash" https://the-dam.org/docs/explanations/suc.html

(more low-powered version: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible, https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible)

#bash #sh #unix #linux #cli

social media such a mental agility exercise.

here's a tank. a lasagne. a video of a chick texting as she walks into a building painted to look like a beach scene. antarctica's gone. try this cake. your role model died. this fellow's wig looks like a hamster.

It's perversely entertaining to watch Britain belatedly discover what it's like to be ruled by Britain.

If it makes you feel any better... nobody *actually* knows how to use Git. We all just memorize a few shell commands and hope nothing implodes. 😉

Man I love all you nerds, computer nerds, sewing nerds, maker nerds, knitting nerds, book nerds, tree nerds, bird nerds, protocol nerds, distributed web nerds, food nerds, retro music nerds, retro computer nerds, old music nerds. I got more

happy 1 year anniversary to hundreds or maybe thousands of readers getting so so mad at this piece and lecturing me about how I shouldn't comment on what the world's biggest brained genius is and isn't capable of

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-elon-musks-quest-to-revive-twitter-is-likely-to-fail-11667620832?st=i0bkw1f4c5ixldf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference Day to all who celebrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Total_Landscaping_press_conference

#USPOL #idiots

This weekend, @nytimes made it clear: They're doubling down on the horse race in #2024 election #journalism. A better way than the Biden-vs.-Trump poll preferences as news (I'm declining to link) would have been to use the polls to reflect what people are concerned about and report what #Biden and #Trump have done/ would do to address issues: inform people's choices, instead of predicting. The Times' political coverage is locked in and impervious to criticism or reflection, but should be better.

So McDonald's is giving away free fries for the rest of the year...

... if you use their mobile app

... and agree to the updated terms and conditions

... which say: if you use this app you waive your right to trial in any class action lawsuits against McDonalds."

We live in the lamest dystopia.

The stuff that got edited out of Snow Crash.

@sorenhave @CONCITO btw, I think what the new paper shows is that maybe the Southern Ocean influence on Antarctica is a true example of a tipping point, where "every decimal point of a degree matters", maybe actually doesn't apply, though it does to many other climate change impacts, simple because the sub-shelf melting of ice is not really linear with temperature but depends on ocean stratification and oscillating from 1 state to another.

Why is it that we keep blaming our kids' depression and anxiety on social media and smartphones instead of the fact that we've turned the entire planet into a burning dumpster fire for them to deal with

You know, I *really* dislike ad blockers from the security perspective. They need exceptionally broad permissions that make the extension a juicy target for attacks. Pop one of the maintainers' Google or Github account and own hundreds of millions of people overnight - their email, bank accounts, social media identities, and all that.

The consequences of simple coding errors are similarly disastrous - and I bet that there are some good UXSS bugs lurking in all that JavaScript.

For these reasons, I resisted ad blockers for 20+ years, and I endured countless cookie prompts, subscription interstitials, "sponsored results", and unskippable ads. But around 2020, the anti-user patterns on the web have gotten unbearable. And I say this as a person who grew up in the era of auto-playing Flash-based pop-under ads.

I'm not a security absolutist. It's all about trade-offs: the convenience of using a modern web browser, for example, generally outweighs the risks of living its massive attack surface. But in this case, you gotta take a hit just to continue to browse in peace. It blows.

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“Every seed company is facing these problems, but they probably wouldn’t want to tell you that,” said Alan Sparks, an industry veteran who consults for Baker Creek Seeds. “‘We’ve got everything in control! Everything’s gonna be OK!’ But it’s not OK.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/16/seed-farmers-climate-change

Sure, Friday the 13th is scary…

But nothing is as haunting as Tuesday, November 8th, 2016.

The construct and the instrument seem to have converged in education; “performance on the test” is the goal, but there is no agreement that the goal is worthy or measuring what it is designed to measure. This makes “data-driven decision-making” inherently unscientific.

@SwiftOnSecurity @malwaretech I don't know if it's helpful at all, but it may be worth considering if Twitter is providing whatever it is you are looking for by using it. There are no metrics about that service that can be trusted. You cannot trust follower count. You cannot trust engagement. You cannot know that doing anything over there accomplishes anything at all. Twitter will lie about everything if that's what it takes for that service to continue.

So in addition to cluttering up low earth orbit, wrecking terrestrial astronomy, creating the potential for a Kessler Syndrome cascade which could close access to space, and creating a national security nightmare, Starlink internet access is a climate catastrophe using up to 30 times the carbon footprint per internet subscriber of land based internet.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394949-starlink-carbon-footprint-up-to-30-times-size-of-land-based-internet/

I’m shocked…