Badabinski

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

I love rust and projects rewritten in Rust, but I've felt pretty mixed about this particular project. The strong copyleft on GNU coreutils is part of what keeps many Linux distros truly free. There's stuff like BusyBox or BSD coreutils if you need something you can make non-free, but GNU coreutils are just so nice. I wish this reimplementation in rust had been licensed with GPL or a similar copyleft license. At least there's no CLA with copyright transfer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

If you want to make things even more spicy, try doing in pure bash with no external process calls. Things like cat are trivial to replace. I saw some uses of sort that might be more difficult, but it wouldn't surprise me if newer Bash versions had a way to sort arrays nicely.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

To be fair, it is relatively new. Cron will be 50 this year which blows my fucking mind.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nah, I love cursing. I love a good, rancid obscenity. I'm perfectly capable of expressing myself without swearing, but I think it makes life so much more fun.

I do try to be aware of my audience. I live in Utah where the Mormons continuously find new and exciting ways to swear without angering sky-daddy. "Oh my heck" is a great example, because "gosh" is potentially a nono outer-darkness word.

I don't live to offend—I'm not an edge lord. I want to be inclusive of the people around me, so if I know that the person I'm speaking to doesn't appreciate swearing then I'll avoid it. Swears may slip out if the conversation is sufficiently casual, but I'll just apologize and we'll move on like adults.

It's not a binary. You can swear in some contexts and not in others, provided you're able to maintain some degree of mindfulness. That may not be possible if being around your family is like being captured in the Trauma Nexus.

Now that I've gone all this time without swearing, let me share my favorite obscenity. My partner once described a really horrible person (someone who committed physical and sexual abuse) as a shit-filled cunt, and god damn if that isn't just breathtaking. Truly a beauty to behold, she's such an artist with words.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

I had no idea what this game was, so here's the blurb off of Steam.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If SpaceX could do this shit in a way that's more respectful to the environment and other humans then I think it'd make a lot of sense.

A lot of the early US space program used what is basically iteratively design. The military wanted big nukey rocket quick like what for to exploderate the Ruskis, and even NASA was honestly pretty cavalier until the Apollo 1 tragedy.

This doesn't excuse SpaceX for their shit at all. Find a way to do this shit safely or don't do iterative design.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I can definitely respect your desire to build something that can support you and I wish you luck. It's a cool concept and I really like the idea for it. I'm definitely not your target audience as I'm not interested in closed platforms after experiencing enough rug pulls, nor am I interested in privacy-focused applications that aren't completely open source under a strong copyleft license with reproducible builds. I suspect that many in the privacy community feel the same way. However, if your tool makes it easy for Alice to send Bob (neither of whom have ever used your service) a 300 GB file and do video calling/screen sharing without hassle then I imagine you'll have some users.

EDIT: I see in that reddit thread that you haven't found being open source to be much of a draw. That makes sense to me. At this point, I don't view being open source as a positive, I view it as basic table stakes. Being open source with a strong copyleft license and a DCO instead of a CLA to prevent relicensing approaches being featureful to me. It's unfortunate how many projects use a CLA with copyright transfer. Signal fails in this regard, for example. It may be possible for Whisper to relicense future releases to something that is not truly free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thou? I smell a machinist.

Hi!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Certainly looks like the Wasatch or maybe Oquirrh mountains. Kinda seems like it's somewhere near Park City, which is just such a beautiful area my god.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My dryer broke like 6 years ago, and I just never cared enough to fix it. You can definitely still get permanent stains on line-dried clothes, but I'll grant that it's much harder without all the heat. I have one white cotton T-shirt that I've been going Ahab on for fucking months. It wasn't even expensive, I just want to see if I can get the trifecta of mustard/ketchup/fucked up molybdenum disulfide grease stains out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I have a machine shop that I use for making things out of metal that are normally not made of metal (like a yarn winder).

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