My grandparent’s desktop computer. I didn’t break the hardware, but i set the default font size in windows 98 to some ludicrously high value. That made it so large the OS became unusable and the dialog to change it back was also unusable. Probably a quick terminal command would have fixed it within a couple seconds but I wasn’t old enough to understand that and my parents weren’t very tech-savvy.

I think 5 or 6. I’d get to experience living in different cultures without having to abandon friends and family in my current location.

I laughed a lot reading that series. Lots of profanity, but really fun.

Some suggestions

• Saturn Returns by Sean Williams
• the Uplift universe by David Brin (Sundiver, Uplift war, Uplift trilogy etc)
• Existence by David Brin
• Helix and Helix Wars by Eric Brown
• the Shoal Sequence by Gary Gibson

1506 partners. Insane.

And the rest of the world will say the same with respect to American spyware.

This is damn great.

Insanely vile.

Backlash. \ls would get you regular ls. Note that ls already is aliased on some popular distros with some common flags.

Something I did to someone who needed to know the effects of not locking ones screen when away: alias ls to echo 'Error: file not found'. Took them a good hour to figure out what was wrong with their machine 😅

Dd is known as disk destroyer for a good reason. Very easy to fuck yourself over.

It’s to embed Javascript into embedded markup in Javascript

The differences between California and Alabama are still an order of magnitude or more smaller than between e.g. Portugal and Latvia.

For decades I pronounced albeit like “al-bayt”, instead of “all-be-it”. I only ever saw it in writing, and never hears anyone say it. Meaning made also so much more sense when I finally heard it being said out loud. Eye opener.

For men: formal handshake. For women: anything goes. Between men and women: awkward figuring out what to do.

Location: Netherlands.

I’d suggest to have the occasional look at the “most popular repos” ranking. It’s about 50% Chinese.

Super-interesting sometimes as it shows completely different tech trends.

Oil lamps are not very complicated to make. And could be useful.

I’m a backend dev. I needed basically a single js function for my personal website that called out to some NPM package. I thought: I’ll do this the proper modern way, typescript and everything. Result: under 10 lines of code, but 12 config files (and 1.5h of fiddling with ES Modules vs CommonJS).

Snap is still alive? I haven’t heard name in quite a while.

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