qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 2 months ago

I'm usually against large institutions colluding together to kill off other institutions...

...but if the major research universities and labs all agreed to stop publishing in backwards for-profit journals, well I wouldn't exactly cry about it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Right, that's what the & exit is supposed to prevent, since it's already logged out.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago

I did all of grad school with i3wm. And I spent a very, very long time in grad school...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I always ran startx & exit to prevent someone from VT switching to a logged in console if my screen was locked :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Been a while but isn't that very insecure? Gotta run startx & exit ;)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago

I'll push back on that a little. Peloton has, from the beginning, been a very closed ecosystem.

Contrast this to the smart trainer I have which is marketed to cyclists (a Wahoo KICKR). It uses standard protocols to talk, and while they have some software available, it works independent of their ecosystem on standards compliant equipment (ANT+ and BLE). You can even talk to it using the open source GoldenCheetah software.

I would say I own this device. Sure I can't necessarily hack the firmware easily, but I can't hack the firmware on my microwave easily either, but I'd say I own that, too.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago

Right, you can control that behavior in bash with the HISTCONTROL variable, and in zsh with setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago

For 2., I think it's useful to put the origin at the status quo/current conditions.

For me, this helps to clarify my voting choices: if the candidate pushes you in the correct direction


even if only a little


then that's a good thing!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Linux is just as bad though


.zsh_history records every command you run!

(/s, obviously...)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Honest question, are there any reasons why a private citizen performing this sort of thing would be legally less of a problem than the state?

From a philosphical perspective I'm all for catching mail thieves. But I would get a little twitchy hearing that the police are mailing tracking devices. And I would be more or less ok with a private citizen helping to "catch the bad guy" with their security camera, but I do not want police surveillance cameras on my street, thank you very much.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 51 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What's really neat linguistically is that "helicopter" isn't a compound of "heli" and "copter," but rather "helico" (as in helix, helical) and "pter" (as in pterodactyl).

"Rebracketing" is when this happens (i.e., the split in the word is moved in colloquial language).

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