Alias is your friend.
alias install=“sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y”
install git
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Cargo-culture is alive and well in the era of LLMs
4·4 days agoFair point, it would’ve been a defenestration
The thing about Russia is we’ll likely never know if this was FSB, UHR, partisan forces, or a local mafioso.
21·6 days agoUgh I hate how video interviews, camera on, are required for remote work now.
213·6 days agoJust remember to take your shoes off at the door.
Lemmy.ml has it’s issues to be fair, but we keep bumping into each other and you’re constantly stirring the same shitpot.
Fuck the Catholic church and the predatory nature of the diocese, but this, if true, is a heart breaking story of humanity and loss.
Hahahaha I forgot the poster symlinked vi to ed.
Look at my post history. There’s plenty for them to do.
Ummmm, meme is in the name of the comm.
https://lemmy.world/c/linuxmemes
Might I direct you to
You can block comms in a bunch of different ways, I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Honestly, I’m still worried about getting pilloried for this. Systemd-boot on BTRFS with snapshotting is awesome. Bonus points if your system is entirely in initrd.
https://github.com/uszie/systemd-boot-snapshots
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/initrd.html
Absolutely. Bash was such a game changer with history too, and ctrl+r
You mean I can search recent history and get a recently used command?!?!?!?!?!
Your point isn’t supported by either graph
Lol! I thought vi was genuinely a new layer of the OS, like an embedded console. Ended up creating 10 files containing exit, or quit, or ^c, until I hit the escape key and the cursor changed…then I rebooted from frustration and actually read the man page. The controls are all from this dumb terminal keyboard that had useful decals on them. That’s where navigation with kjhl came from and :q to quit.
https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor
Rage quitting vi/vim really is a right of passage.
Remember ed?
'94 but I was on Usenet (actually probably not usenet but definitely one of the “readers”) when I heard about it first. That would’ve been around '93. Me and a buddy were pretty nerdy and his dad worked at Bell Labs and they got a couple floppies. That was my start. It was just the kernel and Gnu Utilities. Literally Linux+Gnu. Shortly after that I grabbed SLS Linux, that became Slack. Then Debian, I was in the listserve when Ian would still answer questions and fix bugs. I hope he’s found the peace now he was searching for in life.
I’ve contributed to quite a few open source projects over the years, nothing foundational. I didn’t really know anybody from the old old days. Just a geeky kid lucky enough to have a computer and a modem at the time. I am very privileged to have grown up when I did and where I did.
I don’t envy the kids coming up now. Completely abstracted away from their systems to the point where they actually think it’s magic. I had a very junior engineer ask me how to print a pdf the other week at work. I can’t imagine how modern education and tech have failed them. I hope I’m wrong but it feels like LLMs are talking away curiosity and hacking. I’m sure that’s just me being a crusty old bastard though.
Speaking of I’ve been having fun playing around with this as of late.
You’d need to have access to the prompt tooling, or worse yet the RAG, otherwise you’re just hoping that a user feeds your email into an LLM. The hidden ascii though, old tricks are new again.
I was there when the dark magic was written. In the time before git. The shell had not yet been born again.
The great wizard Stahlman still held sway in the high court, his Gknights of Gnu were just building their kernel. Lo gaze upon their mighty works and see they lie in ruin.
Torvalds was the true vanguard, he lead us to build the mighty kernel, to reverse engineer the binary blobs, coax the meaning from machine code, a thin line from serial to stdout.
No heirarchy but those inherited from the libraries. User space was our land, ~ was our home, #! was our flag. No gods, no masters, only code.
Oh sorry.
install is already a part of make/cmake as well, so it’d break any of those workflows also.
The joke I thought I was making was “I’m too lazy to type out what I want, let’s just break the system instead.”