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Joined December 14, 2018

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· 5mo ago

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@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe Fun story: In like 1995 I was on a telnet-based chat "bbs" custom-coded by a college student on another continent. It was mainly irc-like, but just for fun he made a "mud" mode, where users could create a room and write a descriprion for it, and then invite other users into it. My room was basically almost exactly one of these options.

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· 6mo ago

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@s0 Sounds Jameson Nathan Jones adjacent, though I don't know if he has anything that's exactly that. His whole thing is that he's an organist who also crosses over into ambient synth. I don't think he specifically does like black-midi on organ or overdubs the instrument dry. He does sample it, and he uses organ techniques in multilayer non-organ music, and he does have some straight compositions for organ and for piano. So maybe? https://www.jamesonnathanjones.com/ https://youtu.be/zEADIF5dQRg?t=1m17s

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· 7mo ago

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@celesteh brb gonna convince some people to become women just so they can technically break religious rules.

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· 5mo ago

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@naga Yeah I pretty much pause shows to ask my wife "Should I know this person?" any time a character comes in with a new outfit. Also sometimes when they're exactly the same as they were in the previous scene but the vibe is different, or there are too many blond characters. She giggles at me, but we've gotten used to it.

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· 5mo ago

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@TeamMidwest This has got to.be somewhat awkward for cats named Henry or Pocket.

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· 23mo ago

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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca Here's a copy of ESR's book TAoCP on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ost-computer-science-the_art_of_unix_programming-1

Internet Archive

The Art of Unix Programming : Eric Steven Raymond : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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· 23mo ago

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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I first heard a lot of it formalized in the book The Art of UNIX Programming, edited by Eric S Raymond: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/ There's also some good high level discussion of it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Neither of those is about the terminal per se, but before the explosive growth of the web, the terminal was the major way of interacting with a unix system. A lot of terminal design issues are pretty intertwined with system design and program design because that's what we used.

catb.org

The Art of Unix Programming

My fourth book.

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· 13mo ago

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@Owlor@meow.social Gojira would have to be pretty high in the ranking. Death. I think someone already mentioned Anthrax. Perhaps Explosions in the Sky, depending on how high in the sky they were. If it's raining at the moment then Mogwai could be disastrous. The Damned. Armageddon Dildoes. Napalm Death. Massive Attack. Siouxsie and the Banshees. Einstürzende Neubauten. T-Rex. Killing Joke. ... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead. Franz Ferdinand could be pretty awkward.

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· 13mo ago

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@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org But above and beyond there's one gender left over, And that is the gender you never will guess; The gender no cishet research can discover— But THE CAT QIRSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.

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· 23mo ago

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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I absolutely think TAoUP is still great context for why we do some of the things we do in Unix systems. In some parts it's probably out of date with current practice, but I think its Table of Contents and sections make it easy to skip around, and I find a lot of the old patterns still work.

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· 23mo ago

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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca Are you familiar with POSIX? It's an absolute behemoth of a standard, but it's basically the grandmother of unix standardization. It's wide ranging and goes into things like c system calls and threads, but it also has sections on what a shell ought to do and how tar ought to work. Modern distros don't always follow it to the letter, but it's definitely still a common starting point that system devs usually try to stay at least somewhat rooted in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

en.wikipedia.org

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· 23mo ago

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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca The manpage for environ on many systems describes several common ones, including EDITOR, VISUAL, and PAGER. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?environ(7) https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/environ.7.html / @alilly@solarpunk.moe

man.freebsd.org

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· 48mo ago

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(Mostly I'm just making apologies and excuses for how little I've been posting lately. Don't wanna lose you just cuz I'm in a lull!)

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· 23mo ago

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@OmegaPolice@hachyderm.io Where to put system files is a great one! Linux has largely come together around its Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html The FHS doesn't really talk about files in your home directory. It cites what I've unfortunately seen as well: several competing ideas of how to do that. I assume the BSDs have a similar one of their own, but I'm less familiar. / @b0rk@social.jvns.ca

refspecs.linuxfoundation.org

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

This standard consists of a set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems. The guidelines are intended to support interoperability of applications, system administration tools, development tools, and scripts as well as greater uniformity of documentation for these systems.

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· 10mo ago

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@ink@merveilles.town Oof, I'm sorry. That's incredibly rough.

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· 33mo ago

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@lolennui@mstdn.social In fact preliminary reports underestimate the problem. Upon re-examination of the data, it appears no one alive today has ever successfully hunted a poptart. The skill became extinct when Mr Kellogg died this year without passing on his techniques to his daughter Ms Keller-Nova. Earlier statistics were collected before Mr Joost "Georg" Kellogg's death. He was reported to hunt and slay millions of live pop tarts himself daily for sport. He was an outlier should not have been counted.