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As someone who very reluctantly fits that description, yes but no. I don't love FreeBSD any less or want to use it any less than anytime in the last 20 years, nor do I like Linux a…

If they can get what they want from this, they will not stop after they get it. Even if the authors of the law want it to stop here, their successors will not, and will build upon …

I have never used Oh My Zsh, but I use Atuin to do this and it works excellently at that. You can even make it filter by what folder you're in and whether you want to search only t…

BSD was mired in the uncertainty of a lawsuit over some of their code at the time that Linux was getting started, and the FUD around that gave Linux a head start that BSD had up un…

Before the AI craze, all the GPUs were being bought up by cryptocurrency miners, and I'm not sure that's better. Even as an AI skeptic I think AI is a better use of all this hardwa…

I wasn't sold on face ID until winter, and then the appeal become viscerally obvious.

Don’t worry, it wouldn’t replace your human boss, you’d just have both bosses.

I think the meaning was not "You can import used cars without tariffs", but "If you buy used cars already in the country, you don't pay the new tariff, so just don't buy new cars."…

It seems shaky trying to apply labels like "low level" or "high level" to Rust, it covers a very broad range of these "levels", just short of C and Zig on the low level end (at lea…

Because you're looking at a thread about Mozilla, the outrage is in the threads about Apple removing ADP for iCloud users in the UK.

They had two paths to comply with the law. Silently backdoor the worldwide cloud serving every Apple device, or loudly tell people in the UK they don't get to have security because…

Thank you! Now that I know what the feature is even called it's much easier to learn about, definitely adding this to my config file.

As unhelpful as the other commenter suggesting atuin was, this is actually a thing that atuin does well, if you're using a shell it supports, it commits to history immediately.

I'm an atuin user and if this feature exists, I have not seen it and would love to have it. Could you expand on how to get per-directory history as something separate from global s…

No, Rust gives you a lot to wrap your head around very quickly, and it took me three or four epiphanies to get it, and I tried to learn and stopped twice before I was able to get f…

I love exercises like this because it sometimes forces me to reformulate ideas I've had abstractly until I'm happy with them. 1. Don't assign to categories that which can be descri…

This has been happening to me for the last few months. What gets me is that my email address is not even in the recipients list most of the time. Much of it was sent to my email us…

Not being falsifiable and not having evidence aren't the same thing. Conspiracy theories are usually centrally dependent upon something that is both outlandish and impossible to di…

Bitlocker actually has multiple keys. There's one key to encrypt your data. There's a volume master key that encrypts the data encryption key. And then there are zero or more key p…

It's only useful if you know the voltage of the battery, so that you can calculate watt-hours, or if you at least know that two batteries you're comparing are the same voltage so y…

GPL uses copyright and its viral aspects strongly to try to undermine copyright's goals. That's precisely why it is viral, because it is copyright, and doesn't make it any less vir…