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The web’s dying. The FSF’s dying. Windows 11 is made out of people. Dont you see? It’s people. They’re making our software out of people. Next thing, they’ll be breeding us like cattle for training data. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!

CentOS 3.6

when I was but a baby sysadmin, my boss did that to a production server

kkzzt Pick up that coredump.

that error is coming from I2P, not nginx

so good news? your nginx configuration is probably fine

bad news? I know fuck all about I2P. assuming you’re intending to reach the “router console”, you could probably follow the suggested configuration change in the error message to Do That Thing

solid is a neat idea, but the implementations are … jank, to put it politely, and the overall spec is hecking complicated

i don’t think the average developer, let alone user, is going to learn RDF and its various query and other adjunct languages just to control their data

i want to see it succeed, but i simply do not have high hopes on that front

I have ever written an ssh wrapper that automagically rsynced my shell config (and other dotfiles and tools) to the target host

that job had way too many pets

Honestly, same on both counts. I’m really glad my extensive batch file days are well behind me. And as much as I like Powershell’s idea of structured output between commands, I never really gelled with the Verbose-Noun-Verb-Syntax. I’ll stick to memorizing my cryptic acronyms kthxbai.

zsh is my main

though i grew up on bash and write scripts targeting sh

cmd.exe has entered the chat

hard agree

is the fact that people can with effort and error figure out how to do something a reason not to make it easier for them to do?

I mean

you can in theory write multi-threaded bug-free C code – just read the docs and the specs and the source of your libs and never ever do something that seems to work but is subtly fatally incorrect

and yet we still have golang and rust and many other options to do things more safely and easily

if someone wants to use Linux but doesn’t want to memorize the Hundred Mandatory Commands and Thousand Flags lest they accidentally cat > /dev/sda, why shouldn’t there be a system for them?

as a professional sociotechnical problem solver I will join you on this fatal hill

like take the 4 types of documentation in diátaxis

man pages usually fulfill the reference need, and sometimes kind of that of how-to guides if you’re lucky and your local man has examples

but that leaves more than 50% of documentation needs lacking

and discoverability is atrocious – you have to already know that the command (or commands) you need exists and what it’s called

one of the most useful things I learned in a linux sysadmin course was apropos / man -k, which lets you search installed man pages by keyword. but hardly anyone else seems to know about it – I only learned of it because a teaching assistant mentioned it off hand! – and even then it only helps if you guess the right keyword for your problem

I am vexed by this situation

RÞFM

ftfy

sounds like the kind of policy an AI would make 🤔

• student brought a bb gun to class and fired it at the japanese exchange teacher
• graduating year kids decided to “prank” a pregnant teacher by covering the stairs to her office in slippery material (eggs, iirc)
• another graduation “prank” was to let horses out of their field; they got onto train tracks and, well … no more graduation pranks
• history of teachers and staff sexually abusing students
• graveyard full of dead monks

wait this was a private catholic school nvm

oh such hope

in a week IntegerThatTracksOneThingForOnePurpose will be an object tracking 30% of the game state and mutated in 15 places without ever being renamed

I’m with HE on this one. KF is absolutely against their ToS, and if the various middle providers between HE and KF aren’t going to step in, they’re within their rights to drop that traffic.

At this level the Internet is still somewhat decentralized. KF can continue to find other hosts and ISPs that condone their horror, and said providers and peers have the right to drop them for being terrible. They could register their own ASN, broadcast routes, and other providers could still refuse to peer with them. I think this is good, actually.

but what about The Slippery Slope? next conservatives will be making ISPs take down vulnerable minorities! shouldn’t legislation be handling this?

The conservative folks are already attacking LGBTQ+ and any other minorities they want via legislation. Why would you think this is a good argument?