CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@1password In retrospect I'm so glad I didn't shell out for a 1Password account. The product looked solid, but clearly the company cannot be trusted with sensitive information.

@GossiTheDog Oh, fun.

Also for whatever reason, only windows 11 (+Server 2022/2025) are affect, windows 10 is not.

@neil For me, the main attractions of Github were remote git hosting and free building and testing of my code on Mac OS and Windows. When Github started pushing their Copilot nonsense, I started looking for alternatives. Forgejo doesn't give me Mac/Windows testing, but for my own projects it's easier to just drop Windows support altogether. In the past I tried to make sure my code was reasonably portable and worked on exotic platforms like Windows, but I do this in my free time and Microsoft doesn't care about developers like me, so I don't really see the point anymore.

@neil The AI stuff is why I didn't try Gitlab in the first place. And I'm glad I didn't.

@argv_minus_one @seninha I see we're choosing violence today!

tar style: fr main.c
Getopt::Long style: +file main.c +reverse

@noodlemaz @verge https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28104686/doge-chatgpt-ruling.pdf

RE: https://freethought.online/@pzmyers/116527635381280517

@angusm @pzmyers See also:

@peter_mcmahan @madargon @davidgerard Oh hey, isn't that Troy "Elon Musk is right" Hunt?

@carstenfranke @cstross More angles.

@js @tito_swineflu perhaps even chattr +i

@isotopp How do you read the contents of a directory in a race-free way?

@isotopp Yes! The file system is just a big ball of race conditions bundled together (and so are processes/PIDs).

@cstross @annehargreaves @kamstrup Oh yeah, like the good rename command and the bad rename command.

@lisyarus @jmorahan @kamstrup I'm just saying, there is a splain command and it has a man page.

@tibi2 @kevin

CLIs stink for beginners

That, too, depends. Once I understood the fundamentals (word splitting, quoting) of the shell, I knew how to run any command with any argument(s). When I didn't know a command or its options, the man page was right there. When I didn't know which command to use for a task, man -k KEYWORD gave me useful hints.

But in the GUI environment there was no simple search. I had to rummage through nested application menus to find (sometimes misleadingly named) programs and hope they did something useful. Something similar would repeat inside the application: Some functions are hidden behind toolbar buttons, some are in the menu at the top, others in a context menu, etc. Even if the buttons have tooltips, you can't easily see them unless you manually mouse over them one by one. There usually are certain conventions that most applications follow, but they're not intuitive: A beginner still has to learn them.

(Of course the issue of obscure commands and inconsistent interfaces also exists in command line tools, but the difference is that I can easily automate that one weird set of options or sequence of tool invocations with a shell script. That was true even when I was just learning how to use Linux: If you know how to do a thing manually on the command line, you can automate it by putting the some command in a script file. What could be easier? Whereas with an obscure GUI tool I have to remember what to click where and in which order every couple of weeks when I need to Do The Thing.)

In short: This (former) beginner rather liked the command line.

@catdraoichta Depends on how far you zoom out. From a Haskell POV, Python looks a lot like Perl. But then, neither Ruby nor Python are what I'd call new.

@mjg59 No, I do think you're being honest, I just think your opinion is kinda bad.

@mjg59 Fuck off with that shit. This doesn't even smell like a good faith argument.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hal_pomeranz/116408946342797460

When two men meet on the field of war,
they both ask, what are we fighting for?
And haven't we heard it all before?
Walking into battle with the Lord.

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