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penryu

@penryu@hachyderm.io

Rust aficionado. Functional programming advocate. Final Fantasy collector. Oxford comma proponent. Armchair etymologist and reluctant descriptivist. No shilling.

I will like your cat photos. My opinions are my own.

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penryu, to random
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Let's be honest:

This isn't about being responsible.

OpenAI wants their cut of a massive market without getting their creepy-looking GenAI fingers dirty.

https://press.coop/@WIRED/112407065690709512

Roach, to random
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I dunno yโ€™all, fingers are pretty inportant in porn and AI is still real weird about fingers ๐Ÿ˜ฌ https://press.coop/@WIRED/112407065690709512

penryu,
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@Roach Porn's pretty flexible about the number of... uh, "fingers."

penryu,
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@Roach

Let's be honest:

This isn't OpenAI trying to be "responsible."

They want to make sure they get their cut of a massive market without getting their creepy-looking fingers dirty.

potatomeow, to webdev
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i wanna join a webring but can't seem find a fun one to join... any recommendations?

penryu,
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@potatomeow This is an amazing time capsule from 25 years ago! The proto-S4S!

penryu,
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@potatomeow Wow, according to that, even MORE than 25 years ago.

OMG it even has a guestbook! This is precious!

evan, to random
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If you hear something from a protest that you don't agree with, keep listening. You're the person whose mind they're trying to change.

penryu,
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@evan Now I have to listen to the next group of Fox News fans protesting Biden's presidency. Thanks a lot.

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

penryu,
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@mcc I can't wait till big tech gets together and convinces the power companies to restructure billing so they can pass the extra cost onto the people.

kstatz12, to random
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i feel a certain kinship with Gandalf when he is trying everything he can think of to guess the password to the doors of moria. But for me its trying to get xzf in the right order with tar

penryu,
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@kstatz12 I THINK the important thing is that f is last, followed by the file. But even if that's wrong, I stick to "${compression}${action}${source}"... a mnemonic I picked up in the bz2 days when the compression flag was j.

penryu,
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@kstatz12 Yeah, I confess that my preferred order of (z|j)xf is learned and by now cargo-culted.

I can't speak for every tar impl out there. But IME (mostly BSD and Linux), z/j/x/c are generally position-independent. f just needs to come last in any flag-sequence because it's argument is the name of the archive. Otherwise you get weird errors like "x is not a valid archive" or similar.

penryu,
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@kstatz12 This is, of course, exacerbated by bsdtar and gnutar only supporting the dash-less flags for backwards compat reasons.

And the new flag syntax they both use exhibits the same "so similar you might think they're the same across platforms until you're proven wrong at a really inconvenient time" behavior of cross-platform tooling we've come to know and love.

penryu, to random
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Three guys walk into a bar

  1. One wants to kill an hour or two.
  2. One wants to knock back a drink or two.
  3. One wants to take advantage of bar skills he can't get at home.
  4. One wants to flex his knowledge of spirits to anyone who'll listen.

Oops. I wish I'd stopped at three.

penryu, to random
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My favorite thing to do with the time I majored in Spanish?

Not tell a goddamn soul and listen to what people say about the dorky white guy when they think I don't understand.

penryu,
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(It's usually not offensive, but it's often more casual than one would expect.)

jakehamilton, to random
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Nix forks are so hot right now

penryu,
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@jakehamilton

Peace Out Reaction GIF

kstatz12, to random
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Ah LinkedIn

penryu,
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@kstatz12 And they say romance is dead.

wreimers, to random
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When I find a new video game franchise that interests me, I have a very strong compulsion to play through it starting with the very first game.

This often stops me from playing any of the games, at all, because it doesnโ€™t โ€œfeel correctโ€ to start on a later game. And I donโ€™t really want to play very old, unfamiliar games.

Anyone have any strategies to overcome this compulsion? I really want to play the latest โ€œYakuzaโ€ game (Like a Dragon).

penryu,
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@wreimers This recently affected me with Half-Life, insisting I play from the beginning despite how dated the original game is.

For years I waited until I finished a game I never felt like playing before starting any other games in the franchise.

It was a friend saying that HL2 (not the original) was an excellent game.

penryu,
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@wreimers

I think, "I'll just try HL2 briefly, see if the gameplay got better..."

A few minutes later, I peel my cramping hands off the controller, rest my bloodshot eyes, and realize it's been 3 hours.

penryu,
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@wreimers

It's a little easier with the Final Fantasy franchise, because most games are entirely unrelated to each other. So that helps some.

penryu,
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@wreimers

So no real strategy, except to confirm that it's often worth it to play out of order, or even skip.

penryu,
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@wreimers

Besides, even the best movie franchises often have prequels!

penryu, to random
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Okay, I'm done, promise. Now it's up to the filters.

penryu, to random
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Happy Star Trek Day everyone

penryu,
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@shafik Indeed!

penryu, to random
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Thank you all for helping me celebrate the greatest sci-fi franchise of all time

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joeyh, to random
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just made a hard link to a symlink and... I'm never gonna find the bottom of unix am I?

lrwxrwxrwx 2 joey joey 12 May 3 11:18 y -> foo

penryu,
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@joeyh

tl;dr - FreeBSD's default behavior (resolve the symlink and hard link the destination) is POSIX.

"The POSIX specification requires that if path1 is a symbolic link, a new link for the target of the symbolic link is created. Many systems by default or as an alternative provide a mechanism to avoid the implicit symbolic link lookup and create a new link for the symbolic link itself."

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/functions/link.html

This was just for my own rabbit-hole edification. Thanks for the tip!

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