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Do not trust them personally: Hypothetically, imagine you're a Mastodon instance operator and you're contacted by some Facebook employee about a relationship between your instance and some Facebook project. Imagine this employee is nice, really Gets It, seems sincere. This employee doesn't actually hold any power! If you trust this person you'll find a couple years later the person you were talking to has either been suddenly replaced or that they cannot follow through on their promises.

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I would like to strongly offer this advice:

- Do not trust Facebook, ever -

Do not trust them as a market participant: If you look at their company history, every time Facebook is afraid their MAU dominance will be challenged by some new platform, they just buy it. Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus.

Do not trust them as a platform: What Instagram users can tell you is once they have you locked in, the features you liked about your now-bought platform will disappear in favor of monetization

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@nixCraft The nl utility skips empty lines & restarts line numbers at the end of logical pages. If the file happens to have a "\:" line in it, nl will confuse its users. A better option for most terminals:

less -N /etc/resolv.conf

There's also the more/less replacement "most", which shows the cursor's line number in the status bar.

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@dirk @admin @troubleMoney I've just made sure the answer to your question is "not." :3

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Facebook's upcoming invasion of the fediverse is not welcome at ComputerFairi.es. I have just preemptively suspended Threads.net.

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FOLLOW @nano@fedi.nano.lgbt

new linux fox recently dropped e621.net/posts/4147654

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

FUCK WEBP

QUIT GOOGLE

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

i've completed the experience

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In better news, I found a reasonably portable way for a shellscript to read a single (one-byte) character without waiting for the Enter key:

readkey() {
stty -icanon -echo
dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null
stty icanon echo
}
variable=$( readkey )

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Mike

@SecurityWriter it was either this or sleep.

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For the curious:
Framework: x11-toolkits/xforms
OS: FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p8
cc: clang version 13.0.0

All I want is something a tiny bit more flexible than Xdialog.

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/XmagVj
Credit: skybo_x

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There's nothing like finding a really lightweight, straightforward, and easy C GUI toolkit, and the example hello-world program straight up fails to compile because the linker says every single function is an undefined symbol.

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Amy Dentata

Saying that ChatGPT "can't yet provide reliably correct answers to questions" is like saying your cat can't yet provide reliable services as a paralegal

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

added an nginx useragent directive to make my website render correctly on google chrome

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A coder's job shouldn't be to move fast and break things.

A coder's job should be to move purposefully and fix things.

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Radical Graffiti

LGBTQIACAB spotted in Bratislava, Slovakia

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ayo

“Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights.”

Ah things I learn on the Fediverse

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Jenni Leder ( ͡♥️ ͜ʖ ͡♥️)

New touch lamp extension #cat

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/usr/people/flexion

Periodic reminder to descale your SiliconGraphics IRIS Indigo.
Don't wait for the L1 cache to clog up! #espressigo

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