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I laughed at this. I'm all for people crafting their own tools, but it really feels like everyone's reinventing the same handful of wheels for agentic development.

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In terms of where I invest my time, I'm trying to find ways to zig while everyone's myopically zagging.

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I’ve had quite the successful day cooking today: make a Dutch baby for breakfast with blueberries, a bean stew for lunch using up all the week’s odds and ends, make a coffee and walnut cake, and barbecued/slightly smoked a whole spatchcocked chicken for the first time!

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The machine I use textlog on didn't have a functioning display due to the xlibre drama. It's over and I'm back now!

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Was not aware that there had been any xlibre drama. What's the story there?

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Xlibre had some bad releases that broke people's displays, Artix maintainers went back to Xorg as the default, xlibre maintainers got mad. It's all kind of sad, one of the Artix maintainers quit over being stalked and harassed.

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Drama indeed. It's all X.org here as there's no reason not to for me. Anyway, glad you have your display back.

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small doodle of today! ibb.co/sJ6NNMtq

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I love the idea. I do miss the early twitter vibes.

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Hi, teying to get started with linux and basic networking/cybersec here. What are some essential linux commands ant tools, or pentesting philosophies i should learn before i dip my toes in the water? Thanks :)

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Essential commands are: ip for network interface and routing config host/dig/nslookup for DNS querying tc for traffic control nft for firewalling mii-tool for interface tweaking nmap for LAN discovery tcpdump to view traffic ping/ping6/traceroute/traceroute6/mtr for debugging connection issues

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thanks so much. i will look into those

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there's also ufw (and its gufw) as an alternative to firewalld. apparmor, if you care.

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thanks, :)

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You’ll learn Linux commands as you go not as the goal itself.

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I'm trapped into a procastination loop.

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Sounds like something you should work on tomorrow

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hello world!

hello tim!

Came from . I like the design.

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I got jumpscared by the moon rising because it’s visible from where I’m sitting and it’s huge.

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I love full moon. It does something to me.

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How do they get you e-mail address?

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From my HN profile, or the page I post has a contact, or my github. It’s not that hard.

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The e-mail is only public if you put it in the about box. Maybe the solution is to remove it from there. But maybe you want to be contacted. In that case, spam would be the price to pay for reachability.

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Power and money somehow emit the whackadoodle in all of us.

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I actually disagree. This guy has been very good at performing The Good Guy for a very long time, but there have been signs all along.

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Well said. My post was glib. More correctly, they are multipliers. Same goes for Musk. "Musk’s ex-wife Justine, whom he married in 2000 and divorced in 2008, says the man the world began to see in 2020 was the one she’d always known." -slate.com

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I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing 130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later.

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I was talking about this with some alumni students, specifically their experience learning python with us a few years earlier (these are college students who are not really using python any more). What it seems to boil down to is that with python you have the feeling that there is this huge forest of solutions to any problem you are having -- but you will never know the whole forest. BASIC feels like you "know" it after a day or two of playing around, evidently.

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I HEARD A GREAT HORNED OWL. one of my birding goals is to see any owl outside a zoo. I just moved here and the lack of birds near our home has made me sad. but hearing this owl was such a fun surprise tonight.

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That’s awesome. There’s an owl (don’t know type) that hangs out at the playground in our neighborhood at night. First time I saw it, I stood frozen in place, amazed that it would be out in the open. Then as I walked away, I kept looking behind me, realizing I’d never hear it coming if it decided to engage 🦉

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Merlin Bird ID is magical. Put it in your pocket for the next encounter. If anything, you'll have your phone out ready to throw like a stone in the event you have to roll a die to evade and attack.

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Thanks for the tip! you'll have your phone out ready to throw like a stone😂

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Hello loggers

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