You wouldn’t download a new car each time you want to download a new car.

People became oversaturated with alien stuff. It became unfashionable to believe in aliens and the millionth “aliens invade” movie isn’t interesting.

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Oopsie woopsie. It wooks wike your uwu dwiwu was in a wiwwy bad caw cwash. Would you wike to caw an ambuwance?

The VPN software he had to use to talk to Mossad was only available for Windows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZoHb2ZdlVw

Base successor(successor(successor(successor(zero))))

The Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, my beloved

The part of the tech stack that handles all these command editing and navigation shortcuts is the readline library. Check out man readline. There’s an entire section on searching. readline is used for lots of other interpreters, too.

KDE’s Plasma Desktop has a web search plugin that I use all the time. Typing the Win (Super) key followed by wp:Sistine Chapel and then the Enter key brings me straight to the Wikipedia entry on the Sistine Chapel. imdb:Jurassic Park brings me to the IMDb page for Jurassic Park. yt: will search YouTube, and so on. There are around 200 keywords pre-programmed into it, including for searching programming language documentation. Unlike the Windows feature displayed here, it doesn’t use the network unless you specify a prefix and it accesses only the service you specify by the keyword. Whoever added this feature had to do so very little work compared to the payoff. It just takes the part after the colon and inserts it into a search URL for the corresponding service and opens that URL in the browser. It’s very convenient. None of this web search stuff comes up when you’re just searching for apps and there are no surprises.

Pure rent seeking. It’s not the only example. So many products have artificial defects deliberately added by the manufacturer so that they can then charge you to disable the defect.

Borrow the book of it’s available and then pirate a digital copy. The physical book is available for someone else to use when you’re done with it, but you can still refer back to the book whenever you want or just sit around staring at it in adoration.

https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/

Off by one error

Debian Science

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This post foreshadowed today’s AWS outage.

It’s got some code duplication. Who can code gulf golf this?