I’ve found that when I have trouble sleeping or wake up in the middle of night / very early morning I really just need a wank.

Dude, bash is a whole language.

I’ve been using shells for over twenty years and I still pick up new tricks.

But come on, everyone has to do mail merge on a daily basis! /s

I took a single-semester Linux course and had the terminal down pat.

And this is where I stop reading.

EDIT: Seriously guys, this statement reminds me of when the little girl in the original Jurassic Park is like “this is unix, I know this” and then starts flying around the park virtually using “Unix” 3D style.

Last year, I was trying (and failing) to explain the basics of a file system to a designer that was designing a web app version of a fucking file system.

The country as an entity can also get fucked, it’s too big and built on death and greed.

I mean if the country “gets fucked” you’d get fucked with it…which is most of the point.

People love to pretend to be little sovereign citizens here, but like it or not you’re part of a larger thing.

Eh, people that live in Senegal aren’t your compatriots unless you live in Senegal.

I understand the desire to dissociate. It’s the easiest option. But we as a country are still fucked regardless.

Totally agree with all of this.

Look man suit yourself, but I’m an American living in America so I’m in the we here.

The problem of dividing up the states into red and blue America and disassociating with everyone that falls into the other camp is that regionality doesn’t save you from anything. Rhetoric doesn’t save you from anything.

There are pro-vaccination people in red states and there are anti-vax morons in blue states. Trump is president of all of them and RFK, Jr. runs the department overseeing disease control federally, not just for South Carolina.

I live in California and there are many Californians that were instrumental in pushing the nonsense that landed us here. Orange county is a hotbed of anti-vax morons. I am a citizen of this country, and this country is full of stupid idiots. We are stupid idiots. Collectively.

Woke SAMs

Finally a real crap out

I’m American so yes.

Saw him live delivering his “fuck Tiger Woods” and “fuck Lance Armstrong” set a long time ago. It should be noted how prescient this was because neither of those celebrities had their fall from grace yet. He was ranting against the very idea of celebrity worship and being told who to admire.

Some people in the audience left after that and he responded by saying it was going to get a lot fucking worse so it’s good that you’re leaving.

Dude was a fucking legend, and I’m still happy that I saw him before he died. He ruled that room, and I’ve been to other comedy shows, but none in my experience captivated the crowd and spoke as much truth as he did.

It’s a big fucking club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the club.

Lol

Yet another example of the hastily built, ill-conceived “future” being foisted upon us by corporations that want to brand you as an “AI vegan” (so you’re perceived as an extremist) if you’re not fully into it.

I dont really know what the solution is.

One I can think of is that we need to start penalizing people legally, societally, or both for spreading lies and misinformation again.

There’s no downside and lots of upside to just firehosing everyone with bullshit nowadays.

We are stupid as shit.

The way Bennie pronounced the name Donald Trump was a source of endless amusement to me watching the January 6th hearings.

I’m really enjoying the headlines some journalists are finally starting to write. I don’t think we’ve fully moved on from access based, deferential journalism, but there are at least a lot of news sources finally starting to publish things with headlines and content that aren’t from the PR department of the covered news item.

MCP servers are fucking bizarre too. I expected them to be like a normal API server, not realizing how little LLM developers wanted to do anything but make more chatbot. The default implementation is to read from stdin and write to stdout and have it launch a process. There’s “streaming http” as well. It’s all so that it can have a fucking “chat” with the server involved. 🤢

Do not hand these things unsupervised system access, they will do bizarre bullshit and ruin your system.