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It never stops. They keep trying and trying and trying until they get what they want. The only time things like this stop is if whatever wouldn’t otherwise stop would inconvenience or take power from people in high places.

See: Brexit, where an advisory referendum was upheld, but we won’t ever get another one to reverse it, even though that’s a perfectly reasonable thing to want. Too many powerful people would stand to lose out.

belay your panic. even mommy cannot save you.

“testing”

don’t wake up. fourth row just dropped.

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

Missed opportunity for a “miso horny” joke.

The irony here, I think, is that many people will have actually put together the chair they use to sit in front of their computer.

archive.org suggests that What-If #31 appeared sometime around the 10th of February, 2013. That fits with one of the links in the article which first appeared (again, according to archive.org) in 2008 and ceased to be valid around 2015.

Randall has (or his team has) updated the formatting on the What-If site, but they haven’t bothered to fix the links.

ah yes. one minute past forty-two. my favourite time of day

Way back, there were some rare keyboard / motherboard combinations where the motherboard couldn’t detect there was a keyboard attached unless a key was pressed on it. That message was for those people with those combinations.

You pressed F1 and the computer would be like “my bad, there is a keyboard there, thanks for your help”, or rather it would just shut up and boot.

The message could have been different but it had to fit in a small amount of BIOS ROM, so we got stuck with the one that covered all the bases the best, and unfortunately, most people who saw it didn’t actually have a keyboard plugged in, thus, irony.

Unfortunately, school networks are often set up by people better qualified for teaching other subjects and as such they often leave things open for enterprising, morally undeveloped, children to get their metaphorical tendrils into.

This is how I ultimately ended up being banned from all computers in my school except one. It took them a while to figure out how to do that but I guess it became a priority what with all the “scary” things I was doing.

As I understand it, I was still getting the blame for things after I left.

Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex

Whoa. What distro is it that puts everything in /bin, or at least, practically nothing in /usr/bin?

I use a Debian that actually symlinks /bin to /usr/bin so that they’re one and the same (annoying some purists), but even on systems where they are (or were) used for separate purposes, I thought that each had a significant number of commands in them.

(To paraphrase man hier, /bin is for necessary tools and /usr/bin is for those that are nice to have.)

Dangit. I always forget about env. Yes, that ought to work.

I know you’re joking but:

\sl or command sl.

I’d say “check your shell documentation” but they’re both almost impossible to search for. They both work in Bash. Both skip aliases and shell functions and go straight to shell builtins or things in the $PATH.

There’s also /usr/bin/sl but you knew that.

Prediction: Dude will have a book out about how to survive it in the next 12. Or he’s aiming to receive a bonus from someone he knows who’s already writing one.

Using a Debian is like being able to stay in bed in the morning. Heck, someone might even come by and change the sheets while you’re in REM and you’ll hardly even notice.

Everyone else is up and running about like headless chickens fighting dependency wars and system vulnerabilities and cutting themselves on that bleeding edge and you’re hugging xteddy in blissful slumber.

Speaking of which, has he been ported to Wayland?

D*ck measuring contest.

The same used to be said of newspapers (and still ought to be). That is, it’s funny how accurate and informative they appear to be until the topic changes to something about which you have intimate knowledge.

The logical leap to generalise from that is impossible for far too many people and is also an easy trap for those who can make it.

welp. I guess I know that now.

Considering AI is just glorified autocomplete, this announcement is hardly a surprise.

Remember when Microsoft first bought it and not long after they decided that all code in the free repositories was fair game for autocomplete suggestions in Microsoft programs?

This is just the next logical step.

The next, next logical step will be stealing publicly accessible code from other repositories “by accident” if everyone leaves.

Believe it or not, “rite” is the, uh, right, word here.