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But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I’m dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I’ll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.

It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.

I assume it’s been vibe coded, sauce for the goose being good with the gander and all that.

ETA: /s just to be clear.

Fair, that maybe came across harsher than I meant. Refusing to provide packages because you don’t use the system is fine, but please provide a tarball that I can unpack, rather than some dodgy script that has to try to work with the differences in those ststems anyway.

Better to do away with the entire concept of downloading and running a shell script like that, and use distro native packages instead. It’s not hard to create DEB or RPM packages, ebuilds aren’t too bad either, and it sounds like AUR packages are managable too.

The entire concept of blindly downloading a script, running it as root, and hoping that, in the best case, it’d install the version of the software you want is a bit crazy. If the upstream developers refuse to provide packages, please, at least, provide a tarball.

If you’re in the bathroom and it’s hitting the fan, you’re doing it wrong.

10/10 rant. I admire your passion, the internent needs more of this sort of thing.

This is excellent article on enshitification, some of the factors that can lead to it, and ways founders could think about it to hopefully avoid it. What it doesn’t seem to talk about is how Tailscale intends to avoid it, now and in the future.

The joys of distributed algorithms. You can now get more errors, more quickly than before!

I remember writing a chat system in assembler, for DOS, using, IIRC, IPX networking. When it went wrong, one or more machines would just freeze, with the string “NETWORK ABEND” in the middle of the screen.

I should fork vim and call it ‘death’, so I can shout “give me vim or give me death!” any time someone suggests a different editor.

This is painfully true. I want to say something pithy about it, but my brain is filled with cotton wool and sludge.

I presume trump thinks he can do their job with with a marker and some poster board.

“They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,”

Well, that’s a horrifying image.

Nope, absolutely no vampires here, definitely none at all, no siree. No vmpires in this house.

/blinks franticly at the camera

Can confirm, no warrent carrying vampires have gotten into my house without permission from someone inside.

Can’t argue with that logic. I always knew those feathered menaces were out to get us.

All right, fine. It’s wok fried rice… No, wait, I see where this is going.

Quite right. It’s human fried rice with shrimp.

Take your eye roll and hearty groan and get out!

Thanks for a good chuckle this morning.

I’m browsing all by top/6 hour. Bad news: they’re multiplying. I counted at least three or four users on the first page.

Considering the current obsession on Lemmy, I was all ready for this to be “The Meta-moth-osis”.