[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago

beware fish shell syntax works drastically differently from other POSIX shells

Come on, that's scaremongering :)

On interactive, day-to-day use, fish syntax is basically the same as bash or any other shell: you type your commands, hit enter and the command is run. Only when it comes to scripting (or writing complex one-liners, or copy-pasting stuff from the web) are there appreciable differences. In those cases, until one is accustomed to fish, running the command/script in bash is still an option.

Let me be 100% clear: yes, fish will complain if a wildcard doesn't expand to anything, and there are other minor things that may impact typical interactive use. I'm just saying there is basically zero learning curve if you want to try fish and that you can just fire up bash if you hit a wall in a moment when you can't afford to investigate because you need stuff done.

If I had to say, the most hassle with fish is that people assume you are running POSIX shell and so you have to know how to adapt instructions to your shell. For example, someone may say "add expor SOME_VAR=some_value to your .bashrc" and you need to be able to translate that to fish. Also, there is very specific software (in my system, it's just sdkman, an utility that manages which java development tools are installed/available in a shell session) that only works in POSIX shells and needs some adapter for fish.

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago

There's AsteroidOS but I couldn't find any of the supported watches (all quite old IIRC) at a reasonable price.

Gadgetbridge with some proprietary watch is fine privacy-wise (I had an Amazfit GTR3 pro, I needed to register an account with the Zapp app and use it once, but then uninstalled it once I got the required password and used Gadgetbridge exclusively).

Bangle and the Pine Watch are low-res and IMHO quite ugly compared to alternatives from big brands.

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Those are outside Signal's scope and depend entirely on your OS and your (or your sysadmin's) security practices (eg. I'm almost sure in linux you need extra privileges for those things on top of just read access to the user's home directory).

The point is, why didn't the Signal devs code it the proper way and obtain the credentials every time (interactively from the user or automatically via the OS password manager) instead of just storing them in plain text?

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago

It may not be a scam per se, but it certainly is a misnomer at this point... it's one of those words (like "enterprise" or "pro") that have been appropriated by marketing and devoided of any meaning. AI as a word will gradually die while people gradually realize it doesn't mean anything. Marketing consumes words (and people too).

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To put an even finer point on it, Musk’s tweet today announcing that “all core systems are now on X.com” featured the logo of the company he founded 25 years ago.

That's the news... is it newsworthy?

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

That sounds a lot like "doesn't matter what words actually mean. I am right nonetheless".

...but I'm sure you'll have some personal definition of "semantics" that will allow you to say you are still right, just like you could say "beggars can't be choosers" in a context where no one is a beggar and there are in fact lots of viable choices.

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

If you actually read OP post, they are not asking for the moon and... definitely non "demanding" anything.

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For the non-US people: 21,000 acres are around 84km² (a bit more than a 9 by 9km square).

I have zero idea how big the reef was to begin with (and God must have forbidden journalists from publishing data that would allow readers to make sense of the numbers they put in the headlines), but still it seems like decent amount was destroyed.

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 20 points 7 months ago

US only (typical)

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

I'm curious what the ofgicial definition of "social media" is. Is lemmy social media? What about github or stackoverflow?

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months ago

your pro-consumer laws

Don't those actually come from the EU?

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