Barbarian

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

No, this is a very old joke that uses the fact the command has "fr" in it to trick people about what the command does. Joking aside, here's what the command actually does:

rm is the command to delete files and folders

-f is the force modifier. This means it'll keep going even if it encounters problems and just delete as much as it can

-r is the recursive modifier. That means it'll go down every folder it sees in the target and delete the contents as well, and delete the contents of folders of folders, etc.

/ is the target. This is the root of the filesystem. If you're used to Windows, that's like targeting C:.

Put it all together, and this command basically deletes your whole filesystem. A safeguard was put in place a while back due to people meming about this and causing newbies to delete their whole system. Now it won't work unless you put in --no-preserve-root, which tells rm that yes, you really mean it, please delete my whole system.

/* as the target works around that safeguard, because technically deleting everything in root is not the same as deleting root itself.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is very much the Linux version of the old tricking gamers to alt+F4 gag.

My favorite was when I was teaching a friend Squad, and we were in a vehicle. I explained you hit the F keys to change seat (which is true), so F1, F2, F3, etc. Noticing that seats 1, 2 and 3 were filled, I then told him he can hold down alt to swap seats faster. He then immediately quits the game xD

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

And to avoid annoying error messages about preserving the root of the language, add a * at the end. Final command should look like this:

sudo rm -fr /*

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

The Arabs were obviously at fault here. How dare they violently shove their faces into the closed hands of the Israelis, very anti-semitic /s

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

If that was the case, you'd have mandatory voting like Australia.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We already started during this year. No sane leader trusted in a coin flip to guarantee our security. A possible Trump presidency was planned for.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

giants existed and were romanian

Wait, what? I didn't see any giants in my high school. Are they invisible giants or something?

Also, where were those giants during the 2nd Dacian war? Romans must have been superheroes or something to take on giants and win.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The optimistic alternative is EU countries scale up their military production and cover the gap. We were already seeing a ramp up, but it'll have to accelerate.

Downside for the US is later down the line, exports will go down as the EU will have more domestic manufacturing.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

American voters in general dgaf about things that don't affect them. Israel is irrelevant to your median American voter.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It really was (or at least the Democratic party's fault). If you take every single third party voter, assign them to Kamala, she still loses.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 87 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is more about ramping up domestic arms production to fill the gap that is going to come from US production no longer going to Ukraine.

 

Climate Town & Not Just Bikes collaborating on how parking minimums destroy both the environment and cities

 

This sub seems to be very western EU focused, so putting in a video about life here in the east seemed fun and interesting. Happy to answer any questions about life on this side of the continent.

 

You can subscribe to this like any Lemmy community with the following:

!cs@kbin.social

https://kbin.social/m/cs

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827

Hello friends! Friendly neighbor over at sh.itjust.works popping in to lend a hand. Here's a very useful set of instructions and tips that have been floating about, I hope you find it useful too.

You can ignore the "How to Join Lemmy" part if you're already happily set up on startrek.website, but the rest'll still be useful.

I'm happy to answer any questions people may have!

(These instructions are for using Lemmy in a browser. If you are using an app, some steps may differ.)

How to Join Lemmy

To use Lemmy, you need to be a member of one instance from the list at https://join-lemmy.org/instances. You will still be able to see content from anywhere, but the instance you choose will determine:

  • What URL you use to log in to Lemmy,
  • What content shows on the homepage when you select "Local" or "All",
  • Who moderates your instance, and
  • What rules you agree to when you sign up.

Choose an instance that matches your interests, language, and region. (If you want more information about an instance, you can tap its "Join" button, which will show you its current homepage in the main view and its description in the sidebar. You can also check the tables here and here.) Please avoid joining instances that are already crowded (1K+ users/month). If an instance gets overcrowded, it can start running slowly or experiencing downtime, so choosing an uncrowded instance will give both you and others a better Lemmy experience.

Once you have decided on an instance, tap its "Join" button to open it and then tap "Sign Up" in the upper-right corner. Fill out the form and wait for your account to be approved.

When your account is approved, log in and customize your profile and settings. If you change your language settings, select "Undetermined" in addition to any languages you speak so that you can still see posts and comments that are not tagged as being in any particular language.

How to Find and Subscribe to Communities

There are four ways to find communities through Lemmy:

  1. To browse communities that others in your instance are already subscribed to, tap the "Communities" tab at the top of the page and choose the "All" scope. Tapping on a community name will open it through your instance.

  2. To browse communities across all instances, visit https://browse.feddit.de/. Tapping on the community's name will open it, but probably not through your instance (in which case the page will say that you are not logged in). Instead, follow these steps:

    a. Copy the community's URL or remote name. You can use the copy button next to the community name, you can open the community outside your instance and copy the URL from your address bar, or you can open the community outside your instance and copy the remote name (which will look like [!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld)) from the sidebar.

    b. In your instance, tap on the "🔍 Search" button in the upper toolbar.

    c. Make sure that you have chosen "All" for each of the four filters: "Type", "Scope", "Community", and "Creator".

    d. Paste the community's URL or remote name into the search field and tap "Search".

    e. One of the results should be the community shown as an icon, a name, and a subscriber count. If you do not see it, or it is buried too deep in the search results, try changing "Scope" to "Local". If that does not work, you may need to wait a bit and try again.

    f. Tap on the community in the search results to open it in your instance.

  3. If you want an experience similar to Reddit's r/all, visit https://lemmy.directory/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/1, which aggregates from these communities as described here. As in Option 2, you can copy and search for a community's URL to open it in your instance and subscribe to it.

  4. If you don't see a community by browsing, subscribe to https://lemmy.ml/c/findacommunity and make a post about what you're looking for.

Once a community is open in your instance, subscribe to it by tapping on the "Subscribe" button at the top of the sidebar. It will then appear in the "Subscribed" section of your "Communities" tab, and its posts will show on your home feeds.

Can't find a community you're looking for? If your instance allows it, you can create the community yourself by tapping "Create Community" in the upper toolbar.

The simple version of that wall of text is if you're the first person on your instance to subscribe to a community:

  1. Get the URL (for example, https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy)

  2. Go to the Communities page

  3. Search for that URL

  4. Change all search options to "All" (even "Communities")

  5. Click the federated link it gives you (for example, https://startrek.website/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml)

  6. Click subscribe

EDIT: Also, there's a new project for finding communities across instances! lemmyverse.net is a REALLY cool and easy way to find communities that you might want to subscribe to!

 

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.scot/users/Stoat/statuses/110544618609672068

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/21515

Some surprising, but valid, python syntax examples.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/21515

Some surprising, but valid, python syntax examples.

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/12397

The crazily developed world of German Shadowrun

I hope it's ok if I cross-post this. I understood that /c/gaming@beehaw.org is also for TTRPG, and Shadowrun German lore is pretty wild

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