It says it’s a tautology because it’s a tautology.

That’s awesome. I never understood concealed carry being illegal if open carry was not.

One time back in HS I got stopped by the cops for being out past curfew and allowed them to search my bag (mistake) and they found a pocket knife I had forgotten was in there. They said they could confiscate it and give me a citation for carrying a concealed weapon and I was like “what do you want me to do, walk around holding it?” They said “leave it home” which is obviously not helpful if you actually need a knife.

docker handbrake has a web-ui, thanks to virtual frame buffer and vnc. It works just like the desktop version, because that’s what it is, but in a browser.

https://github.com/jlesage/docker-handbrake

Not powerful, but often useful, column -t aligns columns in all lines. EG

$ echo {a,bb,ccc}{5,10,9999,888} | xargs -n3
a5 a10 a9999
a888 bb5 bb10
bb9999 bb888 ccc5
ccc10 ccc9999 ccc888
$ echo {a,bb,ccc}{5,10,9999,888} | xargs -n3 | column -t
a5      a10      a9999
a888    bb5      bb10
bb9999  bb888    ccc5
ccc10   ccc9999  ccc888

I’ve switched from using dd to using pv to write disk images to removable media.

Don’t run killall on aix before reading the man page!

The huge list of sites can be found here https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/tree/master/yt_dlp/extractor

Great call out! I first used ftp about 30 years ago, and lftp has been my go to for about the last decade. I rarely need it anymore, but I still use it for quickly transferring files with my homebrew switch.

I love jq, but I wouldn’t call it “surprising simple” for anything but pretty-formatting json. It has a fairly steep learning curve for doing anything with all but the simplest operations on the simplest data structures.

Also, you can make yes return anything:

yes no

You’re moving the goal posts. You said the president lead the justice department, which is false.

FTR the president, who leads the executive branch of government, doesn’t lead the justice department, which is in the judicial branch, and until Trump 2016 that separation was almost always respected.

https://www.havefunwithhistory.com/the-3-branches-of-government/

I’m not sure if this is what you were hinting at, but that is called The Malthusian Trap, and we keep finding ways to escape it. Climate was never part of it though, but I agree with you that climate balance is suffering as a result.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-malthusian-trap.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism

Who needs grandma’s love and attention when an artificial surrogate can consume it and dump it all into an aggregated user profile of grandma instead? /s

Meanwhile, my late grandmother was the kind of woman who would notice the television distracting from a conversation, turn it off, and say “tv dominates the room.” I miss her a lot.

Plus AI can’t eat grandma’s peach cobbler a la mode.

100% agree. I was recently thinking about the Two Minutes Hate and how polarized our politics are these days.

In re-directing the members’ subconscious feelings away from the Party’s governance of Oceania and toward non-existent external enemies, the Party minimises thoughtcrime and the consequent subversive behaviours of thoughtcriminals.

Wag The Dog.

Yes. Here’s a random listing on CL.

Seriously this. Any comment about a complicated system that starts with “just” can be ignored 99% of the time.

Also, there are 4k forks of Ventoy already. Obviously forking it isn’t helping. Actual work needs to be done.

God exists and watches everything you do and loves you while threatening you with eternal damnation.