K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@mitch ah man it's there if I zoom in or read the mouseover text.

@mitch took me a minute, but I think I got it: "no'úmah"? I was trying to make the thin lines be diacritics at first.

@AnnemarieBridy [obligatory xkcd](https://xkcd.com/984/)

@mitch here's an alias for your `.bashrc`:

`alias resudo="(export \$(compgen -v); fc -ln -- | grep -Pv '^\s*resudo(?![^\s])' | tail -n 1 | envsubst | sudo su)"`

This handles one-liners with pipes, semicolons, ampersands, etc., which the double-bang version can't. It's slightly different from your request in that it executes the whole one-liner with a single privilege escalation rather than one for each constituent command, which no doubt will prove important in some edge case.

Briefly explained, the core idea is to pipe `fc` to `su`. The `export`, `compgen`, and `envsubst` parts are there to ensure that any environment variables get expanded. The `grep` and `tail` are there to exclude itself from the definition of "last-used one-liner", in case you should want to repeatedly invoke it. The whole thing is in a subshell to insulate you from the side effects of `export`.

@aarbrk

@sabbatical that works way better than I expected. I'm impressed!

@selzero as an undecided voter in a swing state who's getting really tired of political ads, please spend less time on us too ;-)

@mitch I'd love to learn how the video driver breaks the swapfile; that sounds like a story with a twist ending.

Just learned the specs for both MBR and GPT flavours of partition table, and rolled my own in a hex editor to solve a problem that `fdisk` and `parted` weren't able to handle. It's hard to express how pumped I was when this box booted, but I think Andy Weir did a pretty good job in "The Martian":

> **LOG ENTRY: SOL 211**
> I am smiling a great smile. The smile of a man who ****ed with his car and *didn't break it*. This is considerably more rare than you might think.

@mitch I don't think that'll be their problem. The trick is that salt corrosion occurs extremely slowly at the temperatures where we need road salt, so if you have a long prairie winter with very little time spent above zero, you can ignore it until spring. Then you just wash it well come springtime, and the CT might actually be better in that regard if it's smoother and there's less salt residue hidden in nooks and crannies that escapes the washing process.

I expect the bigger issue will be the weight of the thing; it's three tonnes and they had to make the tire pressure stupid high to bear the load. So it will have a much greater shear loading on its contact patches (easier to break free on ice) and somewhat worse flotation (sinks in deeper in snow).

@mitch when I was living in Philly I got the chance to see Streetlight Manifesto perform which was a real treat.

I don't understand recipes that start off with
step 1: preheat oven
steps 2-5: make dough
step 6: chill dough overnight
and the actual baking starts around step 8 or 9.
Clearly I'm not gonna run the oven all night. Is this just to make a point about "read all directions before diving in"? A prank?

It gives the impression that nobody bothered to proofread the thing and makes it really hard for me to trust that it'll turn out well.

@sunflowerinrain is a state pension, in this context, a retirement benefit paid to former employees of the state? Certainly it's unintuitive that it should be counted as welfare if so; private sector retirement benefits are not generally thought of in that way.

@mitch I'd never heard that. Neat!

@freeschool

> - thanks for not addressing the no updates,
> - and the no freemo

So to make this abundantly clear:
- I **am** a QOTO mod
- I **am not** the QOTO sysadmin
- Removing spammers **is** a thing I do
- Upgrading QOTO's software **is not** a thing I do
- Adding things to our rules page **is not** a thing I do
- Conjuring up freemo **is not** a thing I do
Nothing you say will change any of the above, so there's no point in complaining further.

@freeschool I'm a mod. My primary contribution here is to keep our timeline free of spammers, and I've issued over three thousand bans to accounts on our server, so you don't have to see people hawking all sorts of rubbish every time you check the timeline. You're welcome. I don't have the authority to modify the QOTO terms - so I offered the help I could, which was advice on how to prevent your data from being scraped, if you want it that way.

> Did you know Google don't have to respect that option ?

Google doesn't have people going and reading the footers of websites to know whether they can scrape them. If you don't want your profile indexed, the way you communicate that to their bot is by setting the `noindex` tag, which is what the opt-out mechanism does. If you're interested in an actual effective solution, that's the way to go; if you're just interested in me making the "token gesture" on your behalf then the answer is no. Even if I had the authority, the text of your demand reads much like those email disclaimers (you know the ones: "This email is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed...") which are generally regarded as ["legally useless"](https://www.economist.com/business/2011/04/07/spare-us-the-e-mail-yada-yada). So it strikes me as pointless visual clutter and I'm not in favour of including it.

> "Well-behaved" Google spider -
are you fucking having a laugh ????

Empirically, [it appears to respect your wishes](https://www.google.com/search?q=site%253Aqoto.org%252F%2540freeschool) if you communicate them in a way it can understand. And there's no need to curse at me.
> "we need to trust them"

I didn't say that, and don't put words in my mouth. Feel free to not trust them, and use the privacy settings (which should work against even ill-behaved bots). But why would you trust them to obey your demand just because it's in the footer rather than the page metadata?

> oh look "Canada's four university football conference championships"

We don't have any rule prohibiting casual discussion among members. In fact, if anything, the fact that you had to go back eight and a half months to find a non-STEM post on my profile should be taken as evidence *against* your argument. But our status as a STEM server is somewhat beside the point - which is, there are valid reasons why someone might want their profile indexed, just as there are valid reasons why you might not. The decision to check the box or not is up to you.

@freeschool Under Settings > Preferences, you'll see an option to opt-out of indexing. That adds an attribute to your profile which well-behaved crawler bots (Google search spider etc) will respect. As a STEM instance, we have plenty of researchers who use their QOTO accounts for professional purposes and *want* their work disseminated as widely as possible.

There are also privacy settings on a per-toot basis, which can prevent even badly-behaved scrapers from seeing your content. This is much more effective than expecting them to abide by the sort of demand you're advocating we post (in all likelihood, a human with control over the bot would never even read it).

@sabbatical Understandable! I suppose it would be possible to make something that *was* both - glass fibres embedded in acrylic. But that's not common to my knowledge - plexiglass doesn't usually have embedded glass fibres, and fibreglass usually uses a different plastic in which to embed them.

@Lana Kentucky tried something similar a while back, I think? They introduced a senior elective called "Biblical literacy" which sounded really objectionable from a separation-of-church-and-state standpoint, but about which I ended up feeling fairly ambivalent.

It was neither religious instruction nor a critical literature class - the idea behind it was that our culture is chock-full of references to the Bible, so educated adults ought to be able to recognize them, even if they don't believe the Bible is the word of God. For example, one should understand that "pieces of silver" carries connotations of betrayal, the same way they know that "Et tu, <name>?" does after they study Shakespeare.

@DaveyDov I think the digital overlay thing they do to put ads on the field dynamically was causing problems.