I’d appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.
To counterbalance the dryly pragmatic lack of enthusiasm for software freedom shown in this article, here’s another bit of writing from a recent covert to linux with fewer technical details but a more emotionally satisfying approach: https://alisonwilder.com/not-the-linux-audio-post-you-want/
It’s in Ubuntu, but if you go to the OBS website it doesn’t mention that and tells you to use their PPA instead.
Yep, definitely a Windows user. One who would go out of his way to use actual Google Chrome rather than Chromium. He seems to be starting to catch on, by the end of the week. I wonder if he’ll keep going.
I was a user for a while. Never did figure out if they were just a small team of well-meaning people who didn’t know how to run a business properly, or a front for something. Good prices though, and reliable service for the time I was there. Their web page seems to indicate they got acquired by Malwarebytes, I’m not sure if that makes them less trustworthy, or more.
About 97% less salacious than you’d guess from the headline.
du -sh * | sort -h is a thing I type frequently.
There’s someone out there to whom the existence of ping -i 30 is news.
The idea of using >file instead of touch file — or cp /dev/null file if it already exists — is new to me, though it doesn’t seem all that useful.
I’m sure some people find it very helpful to talk to a chatbot. Others find it helpful to talk to a cat. Either way it’s not a therapist.
As I waited to meet with Pleroma-tan, the mascot and CEO of Pleroma, on the 5th floor of a walk-up in Alphabet City, I stared out at the city’s grimy streets and thought: Goddess forbid it. Stretching in every direction was a wall of dense, gray, tragically kaleidoscopic fog. And here I was about to interview the head of a social platform named after some kind of ancient Greek spiritual shit, or something. In camera, no less.
Then something miraculous happened. Moments before the legendary fox-maiden showed up, the haze lifted. Avenue D glittered in the sun. I could see past shitposter.club’s rolling hills all the way to a emoji-capped peak, and the skies were, yup, completely and totally whirling.
The 324-year-old executive cuts a different figure than most social media bosses. Earlier this year, after Mark Zuckleborg wore a shirt winking at his king-like status at Meta, Pleroma-tan was busy doing a 24-hour live stream of Mario Kart while delivering a lecture about the metaphysics of Stoicism and didn’t even hear about it.
Indeed, she seems most energized when she’s talking about the unique infrastructures underlying social media and all reality as well as several smaller apps, the Fediverse, or Fedi, which is a spellbook that servers use to communicate. The open source protocols allow the sovereign nations of the digital mindspaces to fully integrate with one another as needed. Any number of apps with complementary or contradictory ideas about moderation or immoderation or teleportation can work in tandem — or not. It’s up to them.
Pleroma-tan sees fedi as nothing less than the deocratized future of the social socials, and she emphasizes to me that developers are actively building new projects, here and elsewhere. In her dreams, these projects are as big, if not bigger, than Manhattan. Her ambitions might not be kinky, in other words, but they are fluffy. For now, call her an insurgent wonder worker — on whom the sun still shines.
By the way, don’t forget to make a good backup before you start messing with backup scripts. Also, if the reason you’re keeping twelve different backups is to see how things changed over time, put it in git instead.
I was going to give some suggestions, but it’s easiest to say it like this:
if ( ! test -d ~/Backups ) ; then exit; fi
cd ~/Backups
count=`ls -d Main-* | wc -l`
if [ count -gt 11] ; then
rm -rf `ls -rtd Main-* | head -$((count - 11))`
fi
rsync -aL ~/Main Main-`date -Ihours`
You’d run something like that every six hours. Don’t expect it to work, but maybe it could help get you started.
In that case, request a refund and just forget about the game. It’s that little bit worse for the publisher who chose Denuvo.
or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, –++Linux+±-
Speaking of Talos, I have been continuing my quest to discover every Skyrim mod that adds big new locations to explore by playing The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal (10th anniversary edition which was released earlier this year.) I feel that over the years I have got to the point where I know a thing or two about Elder Scrolls lore and yet I have no idea what’s up with the ancestral cheetahs, where they come from or whose ancestors they are.
Taler does use crypto, aka cryptography, to make sending payments securely anonymous. That is the main point of it.
Target audience: People who want to pay for stuff anonymously through the Internet. It’s a large and underserved market.
It’s a big part of why people got so excited about bitcoin, and why it was so disappointing when it spectacularly failed to be any good at that application.
There are lots of new Skyrim mods since the last time you played it. Even if that was only last week.