Lmao it’s not Lemmy without Linux
noh8
Lmao it’s not Lemmy without Linux
noh8
Oh I love the “walk me through what I’m about to do” concept. Dry runs should be more common – especially in shell scripts…
The world would be a better place if every install.sh
had a --help
, some nice printf
’s saying “Moving this here” / “Overwrite? [Y/N]”, and perhaps even a shoehorned-in set -x
.
Hope your r/w wasn’t eaten up by the subfolder incident (that I presume happened) :P
It’s scientifically defined (Woods, 2023).
https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2023.2272988
I propose a definition of shitposting that embodies four distinct elements: a reliance on absurdity or “meaninglessness,” the critique or disruption of online discourses, the employment of an “internet ugly” aesthetic, and the use of meta-languaging.
Meaninglessness/absurdity - There’s no intrinsic meaning in the content, but there is in said content’s circulation. Shitposts “mock”, “denigrate”, “construct an image of authenticity”, and “accrue social capital” (he probably means upvotes or Discord reactions)
Disruption - It can be used politically, e.g. the alt-right drowning out opponents, or just plain derailment, using “ironic references… to confound commentary or analysis” (he uses a Twitter example in the article – i.e. among the “Here’s what I did today!” there’s a Jon Arbuckle of in of out, and it disrupts your train of thought)
Internet ugly aesthetic - Kinda obvious. Motion blur on a plastic bag sort of stuff. But he diagnoses an internet-queasiness I didn’t know I had: “[shitposting] provides a critique of the overly streamlined information ecosystem of the internet… an imposition of messy humanity… on smooth gradients, blemish correcting Photoshop, and AutoCorrect”
Meta-languaging - Well, memes evolve. It’s part of their meaningless-content meaningful-use interaction. Like a meme with a random Subway sandwich on it, obviously insanely edited over repeatedly.
Actually a really interesting read. The man quotes dril and talks about how he started a small movement where “corncobbing” was an insult.
The depth of a dive is always delightful! Does K8s have a solid use-case for the project or did you just sK8 for fun?
Round two, hell yeah.
The aesthetica of a stack of notes, born from a “dead end”, is secretly an odd motivator. You look back and see
Here is the breadth of what we did wrong.
and then beyond you, the effort lays itself out in a pretty trusswork.
_or_maybe_i_just_think_well-used_notebooks_are_pretty
Hah, stochastic parrots.
Makes me wonder. Every laziness I’ve had with the vector guessers, I’ve seen an exact counterweight.
matrix scrombulator | webpage (2007-2014) |
---|---|
Here’s random code. Pray it works | Free ancient code at man 3 getifaddrs . |
How does this API work? (when the API has below 10 million sample lines of code) | Incredibly concise documentation worth spending 2 minutes on or HTML text without margin lines worth spending 20 minutes on |
Maybe this is what’s causing your bug. Investigate a, b, and c. Conclusion sentence. | footnote in ArchWiki / archetypal 2009 StackOverflow duplicate |
Here’s the main idea of X… you need to take into account a combination of facets to ensure safety. | Angry blog post about X that’s oddly technical (now you see both sides) |
One, you can invoke more often (throw ChatGPT configs against the wall until it doesn’t error); the other you can invoke more deeply. So I can’t help but wonder – when we cancel out all the terms – if the timesaving sum is positive or negative. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, it’s pretty funny how distros just passed each other by like that. Back then it was Debian that was regarded as the hyper-poweruser distro:
The reason I havn’t used Debian is because I can’t install it. “This guy is totally clueless” you might think. My only response is that I’m writing this on a Gentoo box that I have installed myself.
And then now there are plenty of people reading this thread who liked Windows 7. As time passed, their grade on the ease-of-use of A passed the don’t-get-in-my-way of B, and a load of Windows 10ers jumped ship to Linus & Friends, the last place their Windows 7 selves would have expected to go. Always a reminder that the end of history isn’t now.
Bending the question a little but my second “first impression” of Arch’s “simplicity” surprised me the most.
I was running Gentoo for a while before deciding to move back, and I was surprised that somehow I had
Granted, I had jumped on Gentoo because of misconceptions (speed, ricing, the idea that I needed USE flags), but going back, I saw things more clearly:
systemctl status
and journalctl
, or managing systemd-logind
instead of using seatd
and friends).Not bashing on Gentoo or anything, but it’s when I realized why Arch was “simple.” Even me sorely missing /etc/portage/patches
was quelled by paru -S <pkg> --fm vim --savechanges
.
And Arch traveling at the speed of simplicity even quantifiably helped: Had to download aur/teams
the other day with nine-minute warning.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Successful GitHub pulls are rare; more often, patches live like this. You’re better off contacting the maintainer of the subsystem you’re editing. See the official submission guide.
Not to be dejecting!
Fun investigations (tac
and factor
), things I never bothered to check the existence of until now (install -s
), and fundamentals I glossed over ([
). Pretty fun read.
And of course,
And that’s why the ‘$cmd’ command is my favourite Linux command.
Stunningly simple, solely a shift. I love MVPs… we can possibly even remove the -P
completion func switch :P
First thing I’d ever seen on the darknet was this bad boy. (Not that it was a terribly efficient way to get an epub.)
Such a bottom-up book. Almost gave up back then, thinking I wouldn’t be able to handle assembly, but then what would the point of reading about the hacker mindset be?