I want to see the current squatters in the Whitehouse play Civilization. It would be freaking hilarious.

They’d probably play more batshit than the Ghandi AI and constantly self-own.

He’s gotta be worth quite a few points alone, at least!

In order of approachability:

Man pages.

Also Arch Wiki.

Also excellent books by NoStarch Press.

… Or did I miss a joke? Hehe

If it’s really long, I use less , because it breaks it up into navigable pages instead of filling your entire buffer. :)

Never knew about just using < though! Cool!

(clears throat in Zypper install)

:p

I might be biased because I switched to electric but…

…I hope it stays up so he gets hanged by the pump.

Edit: we can dump trump at the pump. Like Mussolini! Huh… interesting name for an electric charging station…(Scribble scribble)

Japan is still a heavily honor-based culture, yes?

So this can be the company’s shameful new tagline for a while.

The world needs more “tracker tunes” :D

I do like Mastodon as a platform, but it seems nobody really bothers to actually use it for communication. Just drop-posting updates on things with zero replies.

Maybe since it doesn’t have all the addiction patterns or algos like other apps do? I’m really not sure.

I was considering going through the hassle of setting up a Mastodon server for me and my family and friends only but… something tells me I’d run into the same problem lol.

…People just seem too busy and tired and scattered on 15 different incompatible social apps and geographic locations to bother with each other anymore. :(

Hehe yeah I guess that’s what I meant. Just making a statement on how software has become I guess, and maybe a bit about how highly permissive licenses might have unintended consequences.

The open source spirit is one of the shining jewels of the human race, but it really sucks that I don’t think any of those “You aren’t allowed to use my code to make the world a worse place” clauses would actually hold up. =\

It’d be like that rich kid who’s daddy owned the factory in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory…but with Big Macs.

Except he’d be doing it with tax dollars.

Or AOC, or Bernie LOL.

“Look, I wrote this neat highly advanced machine vision thing to help people with accessibility needs communicate with loved ones! ❤️. MIT licensed I guess! Let’s make the world better!”

Raytheon, Northropp, Boeing, Microsoft, three-letter-agencies suddenly fork it as a base for their own “projects.”

😐

Still learning git but apparently there’s some “power features”, and, aside from that, it’s the same BS network effect that keeps everyone on all the abusive platforms.

Discoverability, it’s where all the other people already stashed their code, sunk cost, etc…

Siiiigh…

And even though I don’t have have a degree or any certifications…

You must be really good! That’s quite impressive, especially given how many jobs degree-gate just to filter applications so HR doesn’t have to work too hard.

My job is solving business problems.

Sometimes I wish I got dopamine for solving business problems. I’d probably find myself in a lot more situations where people are willing to hand me money. XD

But yeah, software engineering is totally a thing. Like you said, it’s just somebody (hopefully) carefully creating tools to solve particular problems.

Would be kinda cool if we could get People Who Know What They’re Doing™ to just…rebuild stuff from the ground up, untainted by slop. Haha a guy can dream.

Yeah, that’s what bothers me so much. It doesn’t get “smarter” or imagine novel solutions. It simply has access to everything that’s already existed.

I’m scared we’re gonna have already experiencing some kind of intellectual slump because handing everything to the machine built on existing knowledge…doesn’t yield any new ideas.

I’m sure they’re still banking on human brains having new ideas, so they can simply steal them and feed those new ideas to the machine. Then they’ll tell the ideator their brain is irrelevant thanks to the industrialized intellect-theft device.

B…but it’s difficult to remove! :(

Think of the people that would need to be paid for such an effort. By a poor little bank, no less! :(

Yeah like the other guy I couldn’t find anything on this Mosquitto either. I’m curious! Haha. (I found some GitHub project with like zero information hah)