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Untrue. There are plenty of people who don’t have the means to break pseudonymity but who would gladly torment, abuse or seek retribution for some real or imagined slight from someone they can easily identify by face and name.

And it’s always worth making the truly scary ones work for it, because they’re far more likely to go for easier marks first.

Note that the same logic applies to locking your doors at home. You don’t leave your doors unlocked, right?

Wrong question. It’s “Who would I need to hide from?”

Well, no, it wouldn’t. The bods that make these decisions still live like it’s 1950 and dream of an authoritarian future of masters and slaves.

What good is The Google or The AI when you’re sipping champagne up an ivory tower or out on the ocean being waited on hand and foot on a gleaming yacht?

So, there was this TV experiment where they served soup to a well-known scientist*, but, with his agreement, they stirred it first with an unused - and I stress unused - toilet brush.

He couldn’t bring himself to eat it.

Metaphorically speaking, our world is full of amazing things but they’re all stirred by clean toilet brushes. Sometimes, it’s worse than that and they’re used.

Do not want.

* Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, he was later cancelled for being old and out of touch on women’s issues among other things, which is kind of an example of this same trope when you think about it. His opinions and reactions on soup and food disgust aren’t linked to any of that but you might be tempted to ignore the result because of it.

But then, that puts him in the same category as Louis CK and that’s what I’m responding to. Food for thought.

qed was also a line editor but pre-dated and inspired ed, so that’s pico to nano or ed to ex again, just even further back in time.

sed and grep grew out of commands within ed (or equivalent) so I guess you could say they’re each kind of a knight’s move two to the side and once backward from the direction of ex to vi. Backwards because they’re simpler, but two to the side because they’re not interactive.

As to what would be “backward but one to the side” in that analogy, that’d be something like a tool that asked questions about every line in a file and made changes accordingly. I don’t think there’s any such standard tool, but I can think of at least a couple of ways to write one.

Fun fact: “Aluminium” is the international / official spelling. But where Brits have to take the L, or rather the F, is with “Sulphur”, because the international / official spelling of that is “Sulfur”. The others aren’t wrong, but they’re not the standard.

Anyway, I wonder if the international spelling has anything to do with it. Or maybe it just follows better from Chromium.

Comparison time!

ex is to ed as nano is to pico

That is, it’s an editor that works in almost exactly the same way as the original, but it’s by somebody else.

ex is to vi as vi is to vim, or C to C++.

That is, the latter grew out of and improved upon the former, but you can still use them like their forerunners if you really want, which is why vi has an ex mode and why you can still use pointers in C++ if you’re sufficiently warped.

If your system has vi or a clone, try vi -e, or, if the symlink is set up, ex. Technically that’s vi in ex mode, not ed per-se but it’s about as similar as you’re going to get without a lot of pointless bother.

The tale of the the one that got away.

No really. This must have been early on in schooling, and we were colouring in - with wax crayons - a hen for Easter. We might even have drawn it in pencil beforehand, but I’m not sure about that.

One of my friends was off sick that day and they asked me to colour one in for him and take it to him at home, since he lived near me.

For his, I used a different red-brown crayon colour to the plain brown I’d used for my own and, perhaps because it was a second attempt, it looked ten times better.

I wanted to keep it, but mine had my name on it and his had his. There was no way to switch them, and even at that age I knew it would have been a mean thing to do to give a sick friend the bad one. I don’t even know how much he appreciated it because it was never mentioned afterwards.

Forty-plus years later, I’m still salty about it.

Looks like DDR6 is due in 2027, so DDR5 prices will start to fall in 2-3 years when all the AI bros move over to DDR6 instead.

It might be sooner, but that would mean the AI bubble popped.

Meanwhile, here I am on a PC that’s less than two years old with DDR4 in it. Works fine for my needs.

YouTube change things on the back end so frequently that I bet there’s always at least one bleeding-edge distro that has an outdated yt-dlp in its repository.

But if you’re on a Debian / Ubuntu / Mint, yeah, you’re gonna have a bad time without the stand-alone version.

The Cinnamon desktop environment found in Linux Mint uses JavaScript on the back-end. My knowledge doesn’t extend much beyond that (other DEs, and what they do, nor the full extent of JS in Cinnamon), but I did look at it at one point.

Makes me wonder if OP was talking it about that in particular or if there’s some other project with a bundled JS interpreter they decided not to work with.

How do you feel about the doctrine, “I’m not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me”?

You may already know this, but I’ll say it anyway: It’s possible to follow hashtags on Mastodon, and so basically following topics.

It does rely on people putting relevant hashtags on their posts, but do you want to hear from someone who doesn’t do that?

Never really have. Around 8 or 9, I stopped wanting to get any older and since then I’ve always felt like I was pretending to be my age rather than being it.

I understand that a lot of other adults are also pretending, but I’ve all but ceased to be able to keep up the charade.

For example, I own a house, and even managed to look after things for a while, but that was a struggle and there’s no way current me is up to any of that.

I envy others’ strength and ability.

Duper’s delight. It’s almost like they’re surprised to find they’re revelling in getting caught too. At least maybe the first time. Afterwards they might do something wrong expecting to feel that way again, and that’s all kinds of messed up.

Another UK perspective here. When the decorations go up may depend on the weather and/or the mood of anyone in the house. Each household will have their own preferences and rules for that and everything else.

Putting the decorations up in November is considered a bit soon, but I have some family precedent regarding that, and there was also something on the radio a few days ago about how particularly dreary weather has convinced a few people to get the Christmas tree and lights out early to brighten up the place.

Some put them up at the start of December, but the sensible time is usually a couple of weekends before the big day.

The superstition about taking them down again before Twelfth Night runs fairly strong here, but mostly because it’s “right” to take them down at that time rather than any courting of misfortune. (Or is it?)

As for other traditions, that’s harder to pin down. You don’t know that what you’re doing might be unusual until you see other people’s perspectives. Everyone knows what a horse reindeer is… Right?

Guarantees: Kids up at the crack of dawn ripping wrapping paper off presents. Someone will want to watch the King’s speech and someone else won’t. Someone will put on music that someone else doesn’t want to listen to.

For the adults around me (and me), we generally wait until after a late breakfast on the day itself to exchange gifts. Then there might be some visiting out or receiving visitors. Visitors might stay for dinner which is mid-afternoon.

Then it’s kids playing with gifts, adults reading any books they might have been bought, and finding something to watch on TV (or streaming or DVD etc.) that everyone can agree on.

… and hoping beyond hope that nothing happens that isn’t going to make you dread Christmas next year.

There’s no reason that the Holy Spirit wouldn’t borrow DNA from a suitable male human. The “special” stuff is magical, spiritual or whatever you might call it, and that doesn’t have to be in the genetic code.

So basically, there’s a good chance that the test would come back as Joseph being the bio-dad, whether he laid with Mary or not.

Me, looking between a picture of Bjarne Stroustrup and OP: … are you sure about that?

This or some other cue / billiard sport. The question doesn’t specify I have to be good at it.