Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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

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.

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.

I'm still tinkering with with my desktop icon theme.

I decided I don't need a tall xload because I'd only need to know if the load average gets above 4.0 or 5.0, not necessarily how much above.

I also decided that a wider xcal would help me reread date info a lot quicker. (I just realized I'll have to widen it more for "September.")

Combine those together, & that let me move xclock closer to the corner, too.

(Wallpaper is the left part of "Chakats at the Onsen")

Swiped from https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/999616307241906176 on birdsite:

NPR has the best creative solution. (You can shortcut it by replacing "www" with "text" in the URL.) https://computerfairi.es/media/_7qtaotMWoqCRAl_vqU https://computerfairi.es/media/pgoIMpkj0wtCx3WaMEg

Double whoops on me, I forgot to add context with a non-LA Times story link: https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-la-times-isnt-letting-europeans-read-its-site-thanks-to-the-eus-new-internet-rules.html

Happy GDPR day, Europe! I read that it won't actually fix anything, but like shining a light under the kitchen cabinets & sending the roaches scurrying for cover, it'll reveal just how bad data mishandling has gotten.

The LA Times website is now unavailable in the EU because it isn't GDPR compliant. If I had to guess why, it would involve the unscrupulous state of web ads. Creepy personalization is my second guess. Whoopsie.

I've been so busy with work and so not sleeping well that I haven't had a chance to meaningfully do anything personal.

Specifically, who parses unescaped angle-brackets enclosing a URL as part of that while /NOT/ parsing freaking COMMAS up against that URL as part of the same URL?

Who parses unescaped angle-brackets enclosing a URL as part of the URL being enclosed?

"- also, 5 programs running in windows that look like icons"

LOL I can't count. I have 8 programs running: xcal, xload, xman, xclock, & xbiff 4 times.

On the fairyfloss tangent, I added the following X resources to my ~/.Xdefaults file to make my xterm match:

XTerm*background: #5a5475
XTerm*foreground: #f8f8f2
XTerm*cursorColor: #c2ffdf
XTerm*scrollbar.foreground: #ffb8d1
XTerm*scrollbar.background: #716799

(On some systems, the user's X resources file is ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xres instead. See manpages X(7) and xrdb(1).)

(Also also, there's a vim port, which is why I made xterm match: https://github.com/tssm/fairyfloss.vim )