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  @clayfoot@mastodon.social Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley - 113 BPM

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  @awb things i make sure people are familiar with when they're doing shell scripting: Showing how shellcheck can highlight errors as well as common/subtle mistakes and can encourage defensive coding would be a good addition - shellcheck can find potential problems before you run your script Starting (bash?) scripts with set -euo pipefail can help catch unexpected problems at runtime before they cascade into weird/unexpected behaviors Clarifying what return codes are (whether for functions or...

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  @crankylinuxuser when one of your pid loops gets to the point where it... (etc etc, refer to the above)

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  @crankylinuxuser When spellcheck gets to the point where it uses an unfathomable and unsustainable amount of resources and spreads dangerous misinformation to millions of people in the blink of an eye while it makes a few antisocial techbros obscenely rich off other peoples' work, you can expect to see a very similar post from me about how the world would be better off without it.

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  @nazokiyoubinbou mounting with the sync option can have a pretty big impact on performance though, and probably won't achieve much that unmounting (which will wait for the filesystem to sync) doesn't already do, just something to keep in mind if it's behaving abnormally slow. The other thing to consider here is that the disk itself may have an unwritten cache. I've done something like this previously and had to use the sg_sync command before powering the disk off, i was seeing d...

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  @jee you should be able to do this by adding the "tries=N" option to its entry in /etc/crypttab (crypttab also has a manpage if you want more details). You'll also need to regenerate the initrd with dracut (the command I keep in muscle memory is dracut --regenerate-all -fv) to get the new crypttab into the early-boot environment. Just an additional note to be careful with these things since it can be challenging to recover - try to avoid typos etc :)

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  The world would be better off without AI. That's really the only point that matters to me. I don't really care if you think it 10x's your productivity. I have yet to see any argument or combination of arguments that remotely comes close to negating that statement. The world would simply be better off without AI. #ai #noai

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  whoever designed the new apple tv logo has never experienced the horror of a magnet swiping too close to a crt monitor #ui #design #apple #retrocomputing

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  "Social cohesion" does not, should not, and must not ever mean collective indifference #auspol

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  I'm mesmerised by the word-play of "united indifference" vs "united in difference", and wish i had the art skills to make something of it. Something where the former shows what happens when evil is ignored and allowed to fester, whereas the latter shows the beauty strength and solidarity of celebrating peoples differences across all the spectrums. I think i'd be willing to commission something along those lines if i could find someone with a matching style but I&#39...

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  It certainly seems that Australia has plenty of social cohesion - and it's Minns and NSW police who are falling short. Unless they backtrack hard and fast, I can't see this ending well for them. #auspol

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  does angus taylor have the numbers to crush the liberal party once and for all #auspol