Don’t ask AI things if you don’t understand them and their limitations.

📺 AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway

Usually whatever the default serif typeface is. What I care more about is flush left (“ragged right”) alignment, ideally with automatic hyphenation. I find justified alignment very distracting.

Problems with justification » Typographic anomalies

Ambiguous title is ambiguous ಠ_ಠ

I must have been asleep the day IBM bought Red Hat six years ago, because I had no idea.

This post is a decade old, so take it with a grain of salt: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/save-power-on-battery-with-udev/2696

The licensing: Free and open source vs. paid, proprietary, and closed source. That really is the core difference, the licensing, and all the differences that come as consequences of that difference.

What separates the Linux kernel from the (Free)BSD kernels is copyleft/reciprocal licensing vs. permissive licensing.

Let me Google ChatGPT that for you.

We don’t come to social media for AI copypasta. People who want spicy autocomplete answers can prompt LLMs themselves.

1. Governments have controlled money for millennia, and governments’ central banks have for over a century. There’s nothing new going on there.
2. You’re conflating digital currency and cryptocurrency. All cryptocurrencies are digital, but not all digital currencies are crypto.

You say that as if the majority of currency transactions worldwide weren’t already digital.

but what abt my 386SX tho

⌘C and ⌘V work in the native MacOS terminal app as well.

CTRL+M is like pressing ENTER. Kernigan & Pike, 1984: UNIX Programming Enviornment

RETURN is an example of a control character — an invisible character that controls some aspect of input and output on the terminal. On any reasonable terminal, RETURN has a key of its own, but most control characters do not. Instead, they must be typed by holding down the CONTROL key, sometimes called CTL or CNTL or CTRL, then pressing another key, usually a letter. For example, RETURN may be typed by pressing the RETURN key or, equivalently, holding down the CONTROL key and typing an ‘m’. RETURN might therefore be called a control-m, which we will write as ctl-m.

Best practice is not to use raw credentials on the command line because it exposes them in process listings and shell history files.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials

Footgun protection: Automated hourly/daily/whatever incremental backups and trash-cli.

We don’t consider it to be neutral, and we remove posts that use the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner

Sorry sweaty, it’s 2025 and we’re anti-woke now 💅 /s

A bit of a tangent, but I almost never use xargs in the shell anymore, and instead use “while read line ; do *SOMETHING* $line ; done”, because xargs doesn’t have access to the shell’s local variables, aliases, or functions.

For instance, a change to a network interface config on Windows usually takes effect when you hit the “OK” button. Linux requires toggling the interface for that change to take effect.

That’s not a Linux thing so much as a your particular Linux distribution thing. Different Linuxes can have vastly different user interfaces for various things. Some distributions even go out of their way to be more similar to Windows.