Are you including the spaces in your filenames?

The guy on shift before you got the Case of the Missing Variable. What will you get when your finger reaches that shift? Who knows… It will remain… A_Mystery!

I usually like to call my functions cool-Filename and my variables moronic_typeClass. Shell executable aliases look like ‘if\ then\ else’ and C constants are ‘IFTHANELSE’

Let the Elites keep their privacy, and the Peasants their pitchforks.

– some revolutionary leader? I dunno

With threads using activitypub, it is becoming fetarated.

I think its best for us to be thinking both

1. how to live in this world of eroded privacy. Privacy has always been a mixed bag, right from when your neighbour might peek in your cave and tell your aunt what he saw on the wall; part of life is learning how to live best in society as it is. “Give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.” And,
2. how to work to improve things. “And the courage to change the things I can.” Spreading privacy ideas on Lemmy is one part, as is choosing to use private and ethical options, but so is bringing society-benefiting ideals to your workplace, doing advocacy, supporting and developing software for privacy, and so on.

Well, that’s my vacuous philosophical thought for the week. I hope you enjoyed it, and find some wisdom of practical substance somewhere else ;-)

Once upon a time, there was a pipe dream that rolling out encryption to everything would fix the security of the internet.

…Come to think of it, I suppose there was once a dream that putting walls around every city and village would solve banditry, and maybe war.

FORTRAN?

What if we didn’t want more sea, just spikier? C#

I look out acroth the thea, and thee what I can thee. I can’t pronounth that thtupid language; I’ll write in lithp.

Ocean + traversing a desert => Ocaml?

I improved the C! It is greater! More potent! But what is this? I look at at my poor boat, upon which I traverse the waves of the C++ 7; now it is degraded. Now its beautiful metal hull has oxidised. Oh, the dangers of the C. …Wait, that gives me an idea…

Leaky keyboards are more than a possibility. Sogou, the biggest one for Chinese typing, got found out a year or so ago for having terrible client-server encryption. They fixed it in an update, but many people didn’t get the update - not to mention it’s still sending every keystroke to Tencent (are the owners I think?) so they could also be saving and analysing private typing anyway.

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That makes sense.

I’m not American; never been to America. So I grew up with different culture. The dark skinned ethnicities near me were mainly Pakistani, and I don’t remember if they were happy to be called black or not. I think we basically grew up feeling like you have to ignore skin colour, the same way you ignore the size of someone’s nose. We weren’t supposed to see it as any more different than someone else is from Wales, and someone else is very tall, and someone else lives in this or that neighborhood - but to comment on ‘black’ skin or big nose might give offence.

I agree ‘African-American’ is an awkward term also, as you say.

I suppose part of the difference is the black community in America, as I understand it, has a very strong cultural identity, whereas when I grew up the idea was basically that your ethnicity was another part of your background, but not your community identity. A British Indian is a Brit who happens to have Indian heritage, that they may like to hold close or may like to distance from: but we’re all British. And someone from South Kensington might talk all posh an’ all; and a Scouser’s gonna Scouse: but we’re all British. That sort of thing. (And if you’re not British we still welcome you just as fondly; and to do otherwise would also be racist.)

It looks like some GRUB versions are fixed, e.g. possibly in Ubuntu from 22.10. Dunno if Fedora has the fixed version. I’m facing the same with my Mint/Windows dual boot; considering not booting windows till I’m ready to upgrade Mint to 22.

If you do get problems, it also looks like you can get around it by turning off secure boot until things are sorted.

If you’re not an experienced Linux meddler I wouldn’t recommend changing your bootloader from the default given by your distribution, but I guess if this is widespread most distros will upgrade their bootlodladers soon to deal with it.

How would you use that for debugging?

(Sry I’m too cheap to go and buy the book)

Sally forth!

Ah really?! I can smell it from here!

Quite so!

I’ve discovered on Lineage that even denying an app internet permission, the app can apparently know when the device is online. That also shouldn’t be possible, I think.

What class were you teaching that in? Drugs Ed? Astrology? Economics?

Could the slowdown be down to HDDs that cache on a section of - I think it’s single layer? - and slowly rewrite that cache onto the denser (compound layer?) storage?

But basic internet permission is given to all apps without asking. Network permission allows things like talking on lan on other ports.

To send data home only the general internet permission that every app has is needed. E.g. you ‘download’ an ‘image’ from https://stupidcompany.com/userbob/8008137_210x_in_24h/alsoclearlynot1337