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And you can almost cross out “with monopolies” too because there’s a lot of tacit price-fixing in industries where there is competition.

You do not want to see an old-school greybeard dressing like this.

You might think you do when you first imagine the concept, but no, you really don’t.

Source: Am at the very least greybeard adjacent.

This. Anything that’s recognisably from a previous era, even if it’s just a hairstyle or a fashion trend, can be a re-enactment of that era if someone knowingly and willingly chooses to style themselves that way.

There’s a version of the game out there that someone made after the fact (well after; we’re talking 2020), but I couldn’t get it to accept my commands. Not even the ones it suggests in the intro screen. I’d post a link, but it might be someone’s idea of a sick joke.

If I had spare cash I’d definitely be donating to Archive.org (The Internet Archive), so instead, I try to mention them when topics like this come up.

I’d probably also donate to Linux Mint, who I assume are also non-profit, because I’ve been using their offerings for a long while at this point.

This makes me think you’re doxxing someone else by pretending to be them. All we need now is one resourceful idiot and that person’s life is going to be hell.

This was surprisingly kind to all users mentioned.

The GPL doesn’t control how guilty I’ll feel if I don’t.

Most of my stuff is badly hacked together “runs on my machine” code. If I released any of it onto a public repository, I’d then be on the hook for maintaining it and making it run on more than just my machine, or else examining, deconflicting, and merging pull requests where other people have done the work. I really don’t have what it takes for all that.

man locate

How common it is across distros I couldn’t tell you, but it’s been a staple on Mint for a good long while and ought to be available everywhere. Basically wherever I’d use find I try locate first, unless it’s for a file that’s expected to be very new and hasn’t been indexed by the daemon yet.

“What would ‘palindrome’ look like if it was a palindrome?”

Two. kbin.social and kbin.run (which was actually an Mbin by the time it vanished).

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.