Do you ever see a line in a piece of documentation that just makes you angry

But if the rubber ducks can find the problems in the code by themselves then why do we need to pay the programmers

Trains are so great. Someone should invent trains

My Twitter account is currently locked and I don't look at it, but I'm hard deleting it this month. If you have a Twitter account you don't read, I also recommend full deletion before Nov. 15. Here's why.

Twitter has their TOS now in an unusual state https://x.com/en/tos with two copies of the TOS printed one after the other, with a notice the new TOS goes active November 15.

The major difference I see is starting Nov 15 they give themselves explicit rights to train AI models on your posts.

This meeting could have been an email. This email could have been a slack message. This slack message could have been an emoji. This emoji could have been a knowing look. This building could have been a grassy field, this job could have been a rounding error, this company could have been an abattoir. This economy could have been a rat in a cage pressing a button over and over.

A recurring thing I've seen happening to various Computer People over the last several years

Computer Person: "We don't need [new internet service]. This was unnecessarily complicating things. We have email. We can achieve this same thing using email."

*Three days pass while Computer Person migrates workflow to email*

Computer Person: "Oh wow email is completely broken now"

Oh, one last thing

"Did You Know: servo is still maintained under new leadership that exists outside mozilla"

https://feed.hella.cheap/@bob/statuses/01J77J5N92A840QW1ENSAN53RG

Also Did You Know: You have the option of giving the Servo project five dollars a month ( using GitHub or OpenCollective: https://servo.org/ )

You will surely not regret giving the Servo project five dollars a month

What if we deal with the creators of Inktober and Nanowrimo being obnoxious by writing novels in October and drawing pictures in November

One of the things I've started doing with my new tablet is jumping into a language app (Pimsleur) to learn Japanese and a problem I'm running into, trying to say words out loud, is I keep wanting to drag out my consonants, both due to southern drawl and due to if I talk slower it gives me more time to think, except in Japanese phonetics how long you draw out your vowels has semantic content so my southern drawl is actually probably destroying the comprehensibility of the words I'm saying

Poll (1 of 3):

Is fire alive?

This post sounds like a joke https://dads.cool/@hex/112961980923861421

However, it is not https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go

Summary: A man signed up for a free 1 month trial of "Disney+". That trial contained an arbitration provision. Disney is now arguing in court that arbitration provision covers, literally, the Disneyworld theme park killing his wife

Thinking about it, what we need is for every high school to have a single poorly secured server which is a honeypot, and if any student randomly happens to hack into it they get inducted into secret mandatory night classes in infosec. Like some kind of mage/samurai thing https://defcon.social/@defcon/112934497669260607

Followup to https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112775362045378963 :

Today I booted a new/fresh copy of Firefox from tarball to test something unrelated, and the first thing I saw was this screen. Absolutely dumbfounding.

And yes, when I looked in the prefs, "Ad measurement", the feature specifically designed to secretly follow you around the web and report the results to ad corps, *was* turned on in this copy. Well, I guess it's half true: Instead of the companies following you around, Firefox will do it on their behalf.

I'm nearing a year of using this Linux laptop as a 50% daily driver and I really have to say…

Linux's quality of life on an ordinary laptop is *embarrassing*.

Like, I'm able to use it. But it is embarrassing. No normal person would put up with the garbage desktop Linux puts me through. I put up with it because I'm stubborn and ideologically motivated.

Is there a way to do `mv`, in either linux or Perl, that will fail if I try to copy a file over another file?

In the mv manpage, I find a `-n` or `--no-clobber` option which does indeed refuse to replace file A with file B. But it is a silent failure. $? is 0 after I run an unsuccessful `mv -n`.

Just basically gonna have to assume for the rest of our lives that any cloud/content hosting service offered for free is at best temporary and at worst some kind of trap

The GNOME terminal has a weird feature where you can copy text as HTML, which is really annoying when you activate it by accident but when you activate it on purpose turns out to be pretty nice, e.g. https://data.runhello.com/gist/20240520.html