capotej @capotej@mytoot.net

"The command line options we deserve" https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/02/20/the-command-line-options-we-deserve/ - Why curl has so many options, why we can't change them and there will be more in the future. Should we add a (G)UI?

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I have SO many questions and I don't want answers

A new utility in #Mastodon 3.1.0 is `tootctl media remove-orphans`. Orphaned files are files that the database believes have been removed, but actually aren't. If your server has been around for a long time, it's likely that you have at least some of those due to various previous bugs and object storage glitches.

For mastodon.social, it was able to remove 619 GB worth of files.

Please mind that API requests necessary for this command can incur extra charges with your object storage provider.

Was just randomly reminded of this story about what some Bell Labs lawyers found when studied why certain folks were more productive than others:

> They discerned only one common thread: Workers with the most patents often shared lunch or breakfast with a Bell Labs electrical engineer named Harry Nyquist. It wasn’t the case that Nyquist gave them specific ideas. Rather, as one scientist recalled, “he drew people out, got them thinking.” More than anything, Nyquist asked good questions.

Thanks everyone! My car is so hungry and I was worried I might not make it home tonight--but thanks to your shrimp, I'll be able to drive for miles and miles!

By insisting on "the kind of lovin' that can be so smooth" and "make it real", Santana restricts his domain to piecewise-differentiable real-valued functions. In the present work, we generalize Santana's non-forgetful functors to the complex plane, with the help of the muñequita conjectur

@aphyr what are the four other months

Yesterday I remembered the Olivetti TCV250. What a beautifully designed machine from ‘66! Italians know how to it :)

@cynicalsecurity pointed me to this article (in Italian) on Tchou and Olivetti:

https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_gennaio_11/mistero-tchou-suo-computer-italiano-spavento-l-america-dba3ec76-34b1-11ea-b847-bfc302fe3f26_amp.html

Now I wish I knew more about the history of computers in Europe and why the industry here got swept away...

Birdsite references:

https://twitter.com/kensan42/status/1216852012836540416?s=21

https://twitter.com/cynicalsecurity/status/1217007926671544322?s=21

figured out how to get all the Untitled Goose Game enthusiasts to say hello @ #agdq2020

peak hackers aesthetic https://liliputing.com/2020/01/moar-screens-expanscape-unveils-7-screen-laptop-and-dual-screen-handheld-prototypes.html

What is the Travelodge sleepy bear up to???? What’s his game?????

2020 is the year of Linux on the Desktop because only GNU/Linux users run desktop machines anymore