Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

My home's 'Net service is randomly disconnecting again, and now Mastodon is freezing & crashing. I guess I should be thankful it isn't eating enough load to overheat my CPU like TweetDeck does.

I've been irritable all day, & I have no idea why. It wasn't just programmer news, but that didn't help. I think most of it was seeing a brand new error during a support call, on site in a hot room. It was so hot that stepping outside into the Summer sun actually cooled me down.

@softgoat Sounds like just X crashed, but I can't see how an almost-drained battery would cause that.

BRB, making illegal copies of the software sheriff. (wrt lb)

@squirrel Sounds like the state of typewriters: When the instructions become separated, locked away, or lost, collective knowledge of how to use them is forgotten.

...And it's official. GitHub sold out to Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/

Apparently, it happened: GitHub sold itself to Microsoft. We'll know for certain tomorrow, I guess. https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors

This won't shake the programming world to its very core at all, no-sir-ee! Microsoft and GitHub are talking about selling GitHub to Microsoft. http://www.businessinsider.com/2-billion-startup-github-could-be-for-sale-microsoft-2018-5

Facebook is killing the controversial 'trending' news section: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-removes-trending-news-section-from-homepage-2018-6

Good riddance to bad rubbish! :3

@squirrel Is this the symbol for trans-sisters?

@squirrel without nearly as much retro win as your night is going. That's awesome. :3

Hmmm. This is a shortcoming of Mastodon: If a profile spammer follows you from another instance, then when the other instance's admin deletes the account, no unfollow propagates. I have a spammer ghost following me.

How? Well, FreeBSD's chown(8) manpage says this about -R:

Change the user ID and/or the group ID of the file hierarchies rooted in the files, instead of just the files themselves. Beware of unintentionally matching the ``..'' hard link to the parent directory when using wildcards like ``.*''.

Guess what matched & why it took so long.

Remembering that time I discovered an upward directory traversal bug in a NextStep version of the chown command & wound up owning several dozen user accounts without ever touching a keyboard.

Somehow, my home dir wasn't owned by me anymore, so a sysadmin got root & ran `chown -R arielmt *` in my home dir, but the other user still owned dotfiles, so the sysadmin ran `chown -R arielmt .*` & took a long time to notice it was taking too long to run.

@JulieSqveakaroo @Phorm Seconding this. Persevere.
*hugs*

LB reminds me of the customers who wanted me to repair their desktop PC after they pulled straight out on the CPU heat sink with so much force that, when the CPU pins finally gave, the still-locked ZIF socket came part-way off the motherboard.