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So I had x11/bitmap, `magick file.xbm +level-colors "[foreground]","[background]" -strip file.png` in my notes, and a stupid thought clawing its way out. To be fair, it's false yet almost true again in the worst way: Just substitute Canonical for AT&T.

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So Dell's SVR4 apparently had XPG3-conformant m4, awk, make, and sh included.

The answer is no, but only so far. My m4 script is descending so far into recursive expansions that I'm smashing its quoted string limit.

If I refactor a bit, I can probably make it run in SVR4 m4, Heirloom Project m4, FreeBSD m4 (my main target), and gm4, while remaining POSIX conformant.

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Spouse just asked me add toothpicks to the shopping list and that reminded me of a quick tip that could help you out of a jam one day

If you've got a wood screw that's stripped out its hole and won't tighten up anymore, you can put some wood glue on a toothpick, jam that in and trim off the end and you'll have a reinvigorated hole that the screw can bite into again

This is an old pinball repair trick that carries over into non-pinball life. One time I had a couple mates over and we were gonna watch a spooky movie, we put the kiddo to bed and as I was closing her bedroom door it just, fell off the top hinge in my hands haha

Stood there holding the door on one hinge all 🦝 honey can you go grab me a couple things lol

Didn't let it hold up our plans, just pulled the door, stuffed the holes full of toothpicks and wood glue, screwed it all back up and went on with the evening, took maybe five minutes and years later it's still holding just fine

"the end of the world" is not a thing that happens once, it happens continually, and part of being a responsible caretaker of the planet and of your community is making plans for what comes after, imo

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i think one of the problems with modern apocalyptic thinking is that it's very informed by the christian concept, which is a hard end, rather than something where after the world ends life goes on afterwards. i feel like i had a major shift in how i felt about various world events once i remembered that no matter what happens, you have to keep going

Text editor evolution milestones:

Fold:
Collapse text sections to get outline views.

Spindle:
Commit and track text file changes over time.

Mutilate:
Let the "AI" du jour's monkeys bang out Shakespeare for you.

I’m always excited to see people moving to vehicles that are (1) smaller and (2) more electric/human-powered. However, I probably agree with @jwildeboer on this one.

Questions for this and any such “Should it use bike infrastructure?” situation:

1. Does it have emissions while in operation?
2. Does it regularly •stop• in the bike line (in practice, not just in theory)?
3. Does it block the full width of a narrow-ish urban bike lane, and thus prevent passing where a cargo bike would allow it?
4. What’s the magnitude of its momentum (weight times speed) while in operation? social.wildeboer.net/@jwildebo

Let's be clear. This is a car. Not an electric bike, as the manufacturer claims it is. This is a small car that occupies and blocks the bike lane. This shouldn't exist. Us cyclists already have to deal with bad infrastructure. I see this as a provocation, not as the positive change it pretends to be.

(Gift link, needs email) wapo.st/4nCgi10

I've been told this is only on the BSDs and the like. Are Linux terminals missing this feature and/or set up differently?

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Once upon a time, it was customary to put sections like this early in manuals.

No, wait ... I meant to say: Once upon a time, it was customary to include manuals with software.

#retrocomputing

I've been using a unixlike system with either a terminal or terminal emulator every day for 24 years, and I only just now learned that pressing Ctrl-T in xterm sends the SIGINFO signal, allowing me to check the progress of a long-running dd command.

🐭wow what a coincidence I just thought of an eco-friendly tip right now, microsoft do you wanna hear it (make sure your ai doesn't hear)

MOUSE01C.ICO - System, Devices

....Joysticks, Keyboards, Monitors, Meeces, Trackballs

gentle reminder to linux tryhards that the term "ricing" has racist origins and you don't need to use it to say "changing the colours of my terminal"

Using Python for mathematics is actually part of a long tradition.

It began with Adder.

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