Lord Alveric @lordalveric@qoto.org

Jetzt in Polen! 🤠 🤠 🤠

I'll probably be starting my new job before I get back from Poland. It's remote. They sent me a nice shiny Macbook Pro, but the damned thing is so locked down its insane.

They have high concerns for the security of their network, and this is typical of large corporations.

Besides, most of the work I'll be doing on my own Linux laptop, and will simply transfer it there once done.

It's been a while since I did anything with Facistbook, and you know? I don't miss it at all.

So does that make me a Facebook expat? Or a Facebook apostate? 🤠

Well, here we go again, with my attempts to "sneak" into Poland. Now I have permission, so this time it should be no problem.

Hmmmm...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext

Sorry, couldn't resist. 🤠
https://youtu.be/npJQKtV5aP4

@freemo Some of those details are available to me in tmux.

And I can actually configure that too.

@freemo Well, it is a major accomplishment, overall. I can live with the warts. Hopefully they will be addressed in the future.

@freemo anything can be exploited. But there are ways to make it more difficult to do so. Hell, you could even throw Merkle trees at it. :)

@freemo I'm sure it has to do with how it handles federation. Though, it should be able to do that behind the scenes, I would think.

@freemo You don't need to do a lot of customizing in fish, either. Just that I like to customize, and fish makes it dirt easy to do.

Here's another blog.
https://medium.com/better-programming/fish-vs-zsh-vs-bash-reasons-why-you-need-to-switch-to-fish-4e63a66687eb

@freemo and such a pain to fix typos in Mastodon. :(

@freemo True, and as I said, I was doing that in Bash. Fish just makes it cleaner. I'm using it everywhere now.

Both fish and zsh have a lot of plugins for sure. It may be a tossup for you, especially if you have spent a lot of time customising zsh to your liking (and I know you have; I know you!)

Nothing is stopping you from using them both. You may find fish better for some things and zsh for others. Just that all the blogs and videos I looked at push fish out ahead for me.

YMMV, etc. :)

@freemo I have not looked at zsh too deeply -- yet. But perhaps this may answer some of your questions.

https://fishshell.com/docs/current/faq.html

What I like about fish is that I can create new fish commands nicely in .fish files in a special subdirectory. I wrote a script to do this for me in bash, but the way fish does it is a lot cleaner.

It may be that zsh does what you want it to do. For me, going from bash to fish made a lot of sense. Going from zsh to fish??

Well, this blog might help. It convinced me to go with fish over zsh.

https://medium.com/better-programming/why-i-use-fish-shell-over-bash-and-zsh-407d23293839

@freemo Yeah, that's one of the things i checked. And that for loop was sweet to type that into fish, as it does automatic indenting as well.

Yes, do check out fish again for the first time.

@freemo fish has something similar, actually, as far as setting up your default colors. I actually used the utility and modified it aftwards to suit my tasts.

@freemo Huh? Of course you can do that in fish!

for s in **/*.rs 22:21:32
echo $s
end
src/bin/imap-filter.rs
src/command/check.rs
src/command/mod.rs
src/command/run.rs
src/dsl.rs
src/lib.rs
src/lua_to_rust_conversion.rs
target/debug/build/mlua-c62aa77988461b9e/out/glue.rs
target/debug/build/proc-macro-nested-523c9cd2489074b8/out/count.rs

@freemo I spent a couple of hours converting some of my bash scripts into fish. It's not hard to do at all, and, like I said, the syntax is much cleaner.

Good, because I was not going to let them track me anyway.

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-push-for-coronavirus-contact-tracing-suffers-setback/a-53219372

@freemo I looked briefly at zsh, then fish, and fish not only has more features; it's a lot easier to do colors in it., etc. I like the syntax.

Others have suggested zsh, and I may try it out as well at some point, and then compare and contrast.

And I don't need no stinkin' POSIX. :)