palordrolap @ palordrolap @kbin.social

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A fellow of milkable wealth.

That probably works for any closely related language pairs. Finns thinking the same of Estonian, some English folks definitely formed that opinion of Scots the first time seeing it in print, Polish and Czech, etc. etc.

Sounds like a TempleOS advocate. Someone out of the 1980s where everything on a machine was integrated and standard across the line. If you stuck with a particular manufacturer. And didn't look too close.

Been feeling old and out of touch lately, and seeing this was comforting somehow.

I mean, I'm still old and out of touch, but it's nice to see that one particular ancient technology might still be considered the best way to do something.

On the other hand, desktop computers are getting a bit long in the tooth as a concept these days...

In some languages
a newline does not
necessarily indicate
the end of a statement.

In others, sometimes it could, but would leave things ambiguous
as to whether the statement was ended or not.

And so, punctuation is necessary.

That started out as a fictional implementation in the turn-of-the-century webcomic User Friendly (main site died a while back, unfortunately), and then someone decided that it would be fun to implement it for real.

The one in the comic was deliberately created to be evil. Not sure about the real-world implementation.

LMDE is already on pipewire as far as I can tell. I have a process running by that name, as well as one called pipewire-pulse which I assume is providing some or all of the old pulseaudio functionality for whatever might be expecting it.

No problems I'm aware of. I thought I was having problems early last month, but that turned out to be hardware failure.

That license plate is Cyrillic, but it isn't a recent, non-specialised Russian one. Both Greece and Russia use Latin homoglyphs (that is, letters of theirs that look like the Latin alphabet) on their plates so that tourists more familiar with the Latin alphabet can read license plates.

This plate has a Ц, which isn't in that list.

Which leads me to wonder where it's actually from. Specialist Russian or one of the old SSRs, maybe?

Are you sure it doesn't work on zsh? It's valid POSIX shell code, and like bash, zsh is a superset of POSIX, at least if I remember correctly.

This is not to goad you into destroying your filesystem. Replace the rm with something relatively harmless like echo "BANG! You're dead!" if you decide to test it.

NI is just another tax that goes into the total pot

It's not supposed to be that way though. It has only become that way through many tiny changes so that now it's indistinguishable from "yet another income tax".

The entire point of its existence was to fund the welfare state, including the NHS, and the government we've had most of in the last 50 years absolutely despises welfare. Unless it's for people who already have too much money and businesses "too big to fail" anyway.

Our blue powers-that-be are talking about getting rid of National Insurance as swing-voter catcher for the next election (whenever that might be). NI underpins many things, including the NHS, and is an ideal "taxation reduction" target of the sort you're talking about.

Now there's something about only a small percentage of NI going to the NHS, but who's behind that exactly? Oh. Blue people again.

And then they say "See! See how rubbish the NHS is! It cannot work! Go private! What's that? You don't have money? Get a better job! Go private! It's easy! This has nothing to do with ideology and we certainly haven't been actively making the NHS worse! Go private! We have shares in private! Oops shouldn't have said that! Vote for us!"

(And if they do get rid of NI, expect an unforeseen increase in income tax for middle earners a year or two after that happens to cover "unexpected burdens on the public purse" or some jargon like that.)

Seems to fit. The Apple apple in the logo was rainbow-striped between 1977 and 1998.

The colours were in the order 432165 though, so an argument otherwise might be possible. Is it possible to be agy or bselnai?

(And why does that read like Hungarian? I looked it up. "agy" means "brain". this is a deep conspiracy! is dragged off screaming)

I remember a story about someone who did something similar with a server that kept hanging. They rigged up a second computer to ping it over the local network and if there was no response for a certain amount of time, the computer would eject its CD-ROM tray which had been lined up neatly with the reset button on the server.

Since it couldn't eject fully, it then retracted, having rebooted the server.

I assume that was a temporary fix... and it was probably a Windows server tbh.

The closest I've done is having a job run every 12 hours checking if a process was over a certain memory usage (memory leak) and restarting it if it was. That was also Windows, but the same thing on Linux wouldn't have been difficult... not that the Linux servers ever had that problem.

Attempting to avoid politics is itself a political stance. Enjoy your paradox, fellow lemming.

Untested partial solution that you may already have tried:

1. In the window manager's keyboard settings, create keybinds for raising and lowering windows.
2. Create a script that uses dotool, a third party tool which can send keyboard events and mouse movements, to call the previously configured keybinds.
3. Missing bit: Figuring out whether the window is raised or lowered to know which keybind to send.

The author of dotool says that they wrote it because ydotool (the alleged successor to xdotool, I assume), needs root and a background daemon. That said, the linked page seems to indicate that dotool also needs some permissions.

I'm not affiliated with either.

Real "What does God need with a starship?" energy.

This works for those of us in GNOME and GNOME-derived places.

Seems like KDE doesn't have anything quite so simple. A quick web search suggests the correct command is kioclientN move filename trash:/ where N is the version number of kioclient. Very verbose. Worthy of a shell alias.

Perl:

Just another Perl hacker, (sic)

This was coined by Randall Schwartz on Usenet a very long time ago. The comma has become part of it despite it originally being necessary for the English sentence it first appeared in.

Part of being a Perl aficionado is to write a japh script, that is a Perl script that prints out the above line, comma and all. The more obfuscated it is, the better. Another part is to not write code like that in production, at least not without comments explained what the heck the symbol soup is doing.

"(Perl) Wizard" has been applied to those who are notably proficient, thought that's usually a title bestowed by others.

The self-deprecating alternative is "funny character(s)" for both the symbols that appear all over Perl code as well as those who use them (I think this one was coined by Perl creator Larry Wall himself).

Linux Mint is basically Ubuntu without snaps. Flatpak is available for that sort of thing where necessary.

If I remember right, that is almost exactly what they thought. Or rather he. I think it was one guy. The one who wrote the RFC. And no-one called him on it because at the time, that did not seem unreasonable.

4.3 billion devices that all need their own unique address? It's not like everyone on Earth will need one.

What then followed was allocations of giant swaths of IPv4 addresses to large organisations, compounded by the fact that similarly large swaths were already reserved for special uses, leaving the whole thing with a problem basically from the outset.

I believe that one guy has said that he wishes he'd made it 64 bit and even thought about it at the time. But the "save every byte" mindset of the pre-Internet era was still very much alive and well, and I think that's why he went for the smaller option.