MajorHavoc @ MajorHavoc @lemmy.world

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When I'm doing too much to maintain in bash, and not enough to merit Python, I use PowerShell.

My controversial take: if you're looking for a better scripting language and haven't tried PowerShell, you should give it a try.

It's weird that Microsoft made a real shell.

PowerShell is actually open source, and it runs everywhere, including Mac and Linux. On Windows and Ubuntu, it's already installed.

Powershell's quality JSON and CSV handling is a huge game changer for quick scripts. The webrequest module is high quality. File operations are a breeze. Unlike bash, PowerShell can be formated to be pretty readable, when you care. Environment variable handling is mildly improved. Resusable code via modules is huge for quality of life.

PowerShell is the bash rewrite with lessons learned we all have wanted, but it's not on a lot Linux folks radar because Microsoft published it.

I'm confused. Google Services normally reach my news feed when they're being abruptly discontinued. The headline doesn't read like anything is being discontinued. I'm unsure what to make of this.

I guess I might check it out, if it's still around in a few more years.

Edit: I wouldn't be posting this cranky comment if I was still posting on Google Wave. Google Wave was pretty great.

Narrator: It was even more Kevin memes.

People on the internet suck.

They really do.

We artists have been biding our time in hiding, building our numbers, preparing for the day we have the strength in numbers to overtrhow the gallery visitors and establish a fortress inside against the world. But don't tell anyone. /s

"The Varkosigan Saga" follows generations of family Varkosigan, and their friends-become-family.

Unforgettably eventually arriving at "Miles, where have you left your brother?"

Spoiler for late in the series:

I feel like the Doctor would end up rendered with an eye patch or something silly before long, because Rocket hacked him as a prank.

Based on my experience with venture capital, I'm not convinced venture capital has ever produced anything worthwhile.

Yeah. It's way more fun to leave their powers intact and send wave sheet wave of eldritch horrors bent on revenge after them.

"I've saved countless lives, both in surgery and from a relentless hostile invasion. But do they call me Bevery the Life Saver? No.

I've had an on and off fling with one of the most decorated Admirals in Star Fleet history. But do they call me Beverly the well connected? No.

(Edit) I've had two sons gain astonishing inhuman powers, but do they call me Bevery, mother of gods?

But just one time with a space ghost and they call me..."

Yes! And Dolly Parton!

Careful posting that stuff, how will you know if people love you for yourself, or for your Star Trek: Technical Manual?

I mean, if I wasn't already married...wow.

Anyway. Maybe a little too honest there for a moment, sorry.

I have the same trouble.

"How do you get started?"

Uh...get addicted to the dopamine hit when the bloody thing finally does what I wanted on the 1000th try. Is that not normal? Then I can't help.

"But how do you motivate yourself to stick with it?"

As a kid, I had a Commodore 64, and a really nice wooden stick to play with. I spent my time about 50/50. Today, I don't have that stick anymore, so I'm sticking with programming, at least until I find another stick that nice.

fubo and I might be the same person. I should keep better track of my accounts. /s

But seriously, same here. That C64... There was never anything quite like it before. I still get happy goosebumps when I see the word READY.

It's... It's so beautiful.

I adore hearing stories about the mutual fandom - of eachother - between Gary Larson and the scientific community.

Nice!

Of course, it's only her favorite because no one has made a "bust Kim back to Ensign rank" video game.

we’re wasting computers at an unprecedented scale.

Edit: I hate to see anyone calling out others on their "waste". I did that a lot when I was a younger professional, and I have since learned many good reasons for what I previously considered waste.

Reason for edit: Refocused my comment on myself, beacuse my reaction to that phrasing is really about myself.

As a book and video game enthusiast, my unpopular opinion is that the average video game is a much better entertainment value than the average book.

I've played a lot of games and read a lot of books. When measuring dollars for hours, I think video games win.

On the one hand, I've put massive numbers of hours into titles like Zelda, Metroid, Harvest Moon, and Pokemon.

On the other hand, I've only gotten two or three read-throughs out of even some of my very favorite books.

And then the video game classics really put up some big numbers: after decades, I'm still enjoying PacMan, Frogger, and Galaga and their kin.

And then there's the elephant in the room: Tetris.

If I had to pick - on a desert island - between an e-reader with every book ever printed, or one copy of Tetris on a Gameboy...it would be an agonizing choice.

it seems like some kind of data breach happens every other week.

Yep.

Nobody ever does anything about it besides issue a generic corporate non-apology that was written by their legal team.

Ironically, the lawyer hours to write the non-apology are pretty expensive, right from the start. Beyond that, IBM thinks the average breach costs the company 4.4 million dollars.

Companies tend to get serious about breach prevention after a breach.

But the same leadership who couldn't retain Cybersecurity experts on staff before the breach doesn't magically become good at hiring Cybersecurity experts after the breach.

So I suspect that most pay too much money for too little talent for their needs, and remain at high risk of another breach.

I have no doubt that several sketchy companies know more about my online activities than I’d ever want them to.

Oh yeah. Very much so.

To end this on a more positive note, the biggest single improvement a person can make right now, in my somewhat random, but informed, opinion, is to switch to the Firefox browser.

I could probably be convinced that installing uBlock origin or installing a PiHole are stronger, in a friendly argument over a round of drinks.

Of course, all three of those are compatible, for the truly paranoid.