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In addition to corsicanguppy’s comment, some — often important — programs actually expect the system to be secured in a particular way and will refuse to function if things don’t look right.

Now, you’d be right to expect that closing down permissions too tightly could break a system, but people have actually broken their systems by setting permissions too openly on the wrong things as well.

That said, for general, everyday use, those commands don’t need to be used much, and there might even be a way to do what they do from your chosen GUI. Even so, it nice to know they’re there and what they do for those rare occasions when they might be needed.

Ehh. Old 8-bit machines had no trouble with the veritable Gordian knots written by kids in their bedrooms back in the day, so any chip’s gonna be fine.

That’s not to say this chip wouldn’t run it better…

Then you need concrete. And lots of it.

“Mooom, he’s on my side of the car! He’s touching me! Make him stop!”

“I’m not touching you! You’re on my side of the car! You’re touching me! Mom, it’s all his fault.”

Try preceding the hash with a backslash. Not all of the Fediverse supports all of the same parts of Markdown when viewing posts between instances, but that one ought to be reasonably standard.

# If you see this line preceded by a hash, that’s because it actually starts with \#.

Paired with the recent change that Oscar award judges are no longer allowed to skip parts of the media they’re reviewing (because apparently that was a thing), the number of AI slop movies is going to be absolutely gruelling for them to wade through.

One possible outcome is that this means AI kills the Oscars… but it’s more likely to get that watch-all rule rolled back.

And either way, it would probably mean that we’ll never see another 2001: A Space Odyssey again because a bunch of that movie looks like AI slop.

… I just realised this means that AI-generated movies could well end up being trained - accidentally or on purpose - to determine what would generate the most Oscars by exploiting underlying psychology that exists only in the sort of people who are employed as Oscar judges, but which somehow manages to mostly exclude everyone else.

That said, many people disagree with the Oscar nominations and awards anyway, so whether that makes any real difference is probably moot.

Yeaaah, you’re gonna need to re-evaluate that cis-het label, friend. I like and respect the guy too, but if some miracle turn of events ended with he and I in the same time and place and he asked me for that, I’d politely but firmly decline. And then maybe enquire if his wife knew about this.

I’d probably be more comfortable if she put him up to it, but it’d still be a no.

Henrietta Lacks hasn’t managed it yet. Look her up. It’s at least as bad as this if not more so.

“Yet” being the operative word here. There’s a disease in dogs that started in some very similar circumstances (although happening in nature rather than from a science accident). One slip-up from an immunocompromised tech with just the right genetic make-up and it begins.

“So… what is your name?”

“Sigh. Richard. Richard Kiel.”

“Isn’t that the name of the actor…”

“Yes. Yes it is. My parents were hilarious.”

“…”

“…”

“Wait. Were hilarious?”

“I ate them.”

“Ah.”

There was a post on a similar subject not too long ago, and it seems the landscape shifted about 10 years ago. A whole load of alt-lifestyle folks got into Linux and sysadmin, and maybe a few previously straight-laced sysadmins came out as alt too.

Vive les différences

True. I think of it more as a semantic shift. In the old days, processes would actually quit and some other process would resurrect it as necessary, but then someone had the idea of having some processes catch the HUP and do all that itself without actually bothering any other processes.

And the implementation might actually involve an exec of the process’ own executable, meaning that it actually does self-terminate, but it leaves a child in its place.

So I reread it and it says “P follows Q”, which I (mis)read/(mis?)interpreted as “P follows from Q”.

I don’t remember if “follows” was ever used for forward implication in this way when I actually did a logic course, but it was a few decades ago now. Maybe it was.

There’s also that the usual joke in this category is that in basic logic, false implies true, which seems to be the punchline of the joke in the comic, just with the arrow backwards.

In order of decreasing politeness: 1, 2, 15, 9 = HUP, INT, TERM, KILL = “Please stop”, “Quit it”, “I’m warning you” and “BANG”

Isn’t that implication arrow backwards?

“P follows from Q” is P ⇐ Q

Maybe that’s the joke, though.

EDIT: The text says “P follows Q”, which my brain apparently corrected to “P follows from Q”. These are not the same, and I’d argue that “P follows Q” is problematic as a phrase as a result. Grumble grumble.

If you approach people and tell them you’re normal, they won’t believe you. Something similar applies to saying you’re human on the Internet.

Hello, yes, I am a human.

Suspicious, isn’t it?

The cynic in me wants to know: Once purchased, will it, and any media it might contain at any time, be under the sole control of the purchaser?

If not, it’s definitely not worth buying.

To steal an idea I had on something similar once, perhaps on an entirely different site, there’s also where the wings come from in the first place, literally and figuratively.

The equivalent structure to a bird’s wing in humans is the arm and hand. Does this new wing take the place of the forelimb as it does in birds or does the wisher necessarily become a six-limbed creature?

Only enemies of Israel conflate anti-Israeli sentiment with anti-Jewish sentiment. (If you have a “but what about…” to that, read it again.)

From the naive perspective it’s looping infinitely and it ought to be infinitely old because there’s no “first loop”. Depending on the laws of physics, proton decay could make the pizza slice literally impossible.

Given that it clearly exists and has no rot let alone deep-time decay, I posit that it spontaneously appears/renews in panel three, away from the boundary break, as some kind of near-infinitely improbable entropy break.

He thinks he’s discovered panel time travel, but it’s far weirder than he thinks.

Can only speak for myself, but I think backspace is probably one of my most used keys, the number of typos I make. Generally, I don’t miss these*, but when proofreading or rewriting parts of comments I occasionally leave a word in from a previous iteration or take one out that I meant to leave in, throwing a wrench into the flow.

I can easily imagine that for some people that goes to another level and they might be too tired or stressed to be able to even notice, let alone fix the mistakes they make. There’s also some level of short attention span going on and people may not be bothered to fix it because they have to be off to the next piece of content or contributing elsewhere.

* The spell-checking red squiggly underline admittedly being something of a crutch. I’ve noticed an increase in the number of longer or more obscure words that I’m sure I was getting right before but now not so much. And about once a day, on average, I reckon, I reach for right-click to figure out precisely what I’m getting wrong because I can’t figure it out.

Most of the time, I’ve missed a letter or am woefully wrong, but very occasionally it’s not in the built-in dictionary and online dictionaries basically say it’s fine. And the-e-en I rewrite to avoid the word anyway. Not everyone’s going to do that.