josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

Odio los artículos titulados “Ha pasado X... y eso es bueno”. Porque que pase X nunca es bueno, y este artículo no es una excepción.

Os lo resumo: “Ya no hay tanta documentación sobre Linux como antes, y eso es bueno porque significa que ya cualquiera puede usar Linux sin necesidad de leerse un manual.” ¡No! ¡Es malo! Porque significa que a nadie le interesa profundizar en el funcionamiento de su sistema operativo.

Además, ni siquiera es cierto. ¿O acaso los foros de Ubuntu no están llenos de gente que pregunta cómo pueden hacer las cosas más básicas?

@podcastlinux Hay muchos programas de terminal que pueden sustituir perfectamente a interfaces gráficas. Eso te ayudará, como mínimo, a ahorrar memoria. Ejemplos:

* [moc](https://moc.daper.net/): para escuchar música.
* soma (ya abandonado, pero aún presente en Slackware): para escuchar radio por Internet.
* [newsboat](https://newsboat.org/): Lector de RSS, incluidos podcasts.
* [tut](https://tut.anv.nu/): cliente de Mastodon (aunque supongo que servirá para otras aplicaciones compatibles).
* [tin](http://tin.org/): cliente para grupos de noticias (USENET).
* [irssi](https://irssi.org/): cliente para IRC.
* [feh](https://feh.finalrewind.org/): Visor de imágenes. Tan bueno como los demás y mucho más ligero. Su creadora está por aquí: @derf

No son los únicos, claro. También están Lynx, ffmpeg o MPlayer, entre muchísimos otros.

@animeirl You don't need to know how to carry a conversation to make friends. You can hang around with people who can, and let them do the talking. It worked for Harpo Marx. (Note: He wasn't really mute, just a very good listener.)

@dushman

@SDF I would still avoid using the M-word, if possible. There are already too many people talking about “The Mastodon Network” or “joining Mastodon”.

@louis@emacs.ch

@shawnhcorey Thanks a lot for the advice. It's not paranoia (well, maybe there's some of that, too). It's just that they're library files, they don't even have a she-bang, but some of them are executable and others, apparently equal, are not. They caught my attention because Perl files are given such strange permissions on install, and that led me into this rabbit hole of investigating how and why.

What I ended up doing was chmodding 644 all .pm and .pod files and letting ExtUtils do its thing (i.e., turning 644 into 444) during the install process. It seems to have worked fine so far.

I was just thinking that while in the bathroom earlier. No joke.

@SinclairSpeccy@bitbang.social Happy birthday, @volkerdi!

Thank you for dedicating more than half of your life to making us slackers less grumpy when using our computers.

@cyrilpedia That's definitely unfortunate. My original thought process was that both scientific data and methodology are ultimately published in peer-reviewed papers, so they are shared, albeit indirectly.

I see now that there can be instances where that is not the case. Thanks.

@cyrilpedia Why ‘unfortunately’? Unlike minerals or other physical resources, scientific data are usually shared, and results are supposed to be reproducible, so it's not like they can be taken away. What am I missing?

W. Richard Stevens' _TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1_ dedicates a grand total of four lines of text to the World Wide Web. He devoted more space to something called Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives).

That's one of the many reasons his books are true classics and works of genius.

That said, there is no mention of IRC in the whole thing, and NNTP only appears in a table without any significant detail added, which goes to show that geniuses make mistakes too.

I understand now why grandparents and grandkids get along so well. There comes a moment in life when one starts to feel out of place talking to young people or other adults. I think that's because they take themselves too seriously. On the other hand, old people and children take everything seriously but themselves, and that's why they can be silly together.

@reidrac@social.sdf.org Those who grew up with DOS don't have many fond memories of it. (After all, it was just a PC, and a very useless one.) I have much more love for my own MSX2 or my friends' Amstrads, Spectrums or C64.

@leonerd Thanks a lot! I downloaded the modules from CPAN, and some of those files come with 755 permissions. Then ExtUtils, I believe, chmods them to 555 at install time. It was making me crazy, because I couldn't find any fundamental difference between them and those who got 444 permissions.

If someone knowledgeable at Perl reads this, can you please tell me why it is that, when installing a module, some *.pm files are executable (555) and others are not (444). What makes the former special? Also, why does Perl use such weird permissions? Thank you in advance.

#perl #linux

@Moon Does the quoted person get notified in your case? We don't do that at qoto, but I always thought we should.

@coolboymew @romin

@Moon Wow. I thought you had them for years. So, only Misskey and us had them? Cool.

@coolboymew @romin

@coolboymew Welcome to the club, then.

@romin

@coolboymew You didn't have quote posts before or what?

@romin