Basic habit to get into:

If you’re contemplating doing something destructive, do a dry-run first.

In this case, remove the -delete flag, run the command and see what you get.

A good approach is to build a command step by step and test your assumptions each iteration.

Things might take a few moments longer, but one day it’s going to save your bacon.

As for unexpected globbing, learn the difference between quoted and unquoted, and single versus double quotes.

Source: Linux user for 25+ years

Firefox Focus with AdGuard DNS

At the rate Microsoft is going, by the time we set up a community on Mars, everyone will have migrated to Linux 😁

You don’t need to go to Mars to deal with timezones … plenty of people right here who have absolutely no idea that half the planet is dark at any one time and still schedule global events in their colloquial timezone rather than UTC.

Billionaire tax

Microsoft … the poster child for Linux migration

If you think that you’re making a joke, that’s exactly what facial recognition systems are doing right now, and it’s prosecuting innocent people.

I think that unless you have some way to enforce accuracy, it’s meaningless and AFAIK automatic detection tools are no better than chance and to my knowledge, getting worse.

An AI bot operator isn’t going to tag their material as [AI], more likely than not they’d attempt to use [NOT AI].

I’d also point out that while lemmy doesn’t (yet) support hashtags, any “tagging” would probably benefit from using the existing method using a #tag.

Ultimately, you need to ask yourself, is undeclared AI that goes undetected by the community a problem, or the new “normal”?

I’ll note that I’m not a proponent of Assumed Intelligence and think that when the bubble bursts we’re going to be in a world of hurt, but with a little luck the billionaires will have lost their shirts in the process.

There’s nothing to host.

Create an iCal file and import it into your calendar application on your phone.

When you watch a movie in public with native audio and subtitles and you speak or understand the audio language, you’ll often hear scattered laughter before the main audience laughs because often the subtitles have a delay for the punchline of a joke, which means that those who already heard the joke laughed at the moment it happened, not a second or more later when the subtitles arrive.

Most of the time the subtitles match the audio, sometimes they change a cultural reference, or infrequently completely get the translation wrong for no apparent reason which can become a new accedental joke all on its own. Then there’s weird ones where numbers like someone’s age or the time are wrong.

Source: I speak multiple human languages to various degree … and way too many technology ones. I’m also going deaf, so I have closed captioning on most of the time.

Both have been prioritising “engagement” over “results” because it allows them to advertise to you more.

In case you didn’t realise, if the product is free, you’re the product and both have been doing an amazing job out of extracting value from your eyeballs.

Unsurprisingly, they’re both owned by the same company.

Algorithms where?

There’s not one algorithm to rule them all … yet, but the platform and your interactions with it amplify over time, mainly in an attempt at creating “engagement”, ie. more opportunities to sell you shit, achieved by creating outrage and clicks.

You’re most welcome. Have fun!

Inspired by your question about how to start in the hobby of amateur radio, I’ve started a new project to answer your question.

Brickbats and Bouquets welcome.

https://github.com/vk6flab/getting-started-in-amateur-radio/blob/main/README.md

In addition to my earlier comments, here is a link to a discussion that goes through some of the considerations associated with becoming an amateur, and, yes u/vk6flab is also me.

https://old.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/noydho/tips_for_starting_out/

Perhaps it’s time for me to collate some of this information.

Good luck and feel free to ask questions, I’ll answer if I can.

Welcome to the community :)

As for how to start, much depends on which country you’re in. So let’s start there.

From an overview perspective, essentially you can start playing with (free online) receivers immediately, lots of online resources. To transmit you’ll need to do some studies and pass a test to get an amateur radio licence because all radio spectrum is regulated, since radio waves don’t stop at borders. No Morse Code required in most countries, and in many cases there’s an introductory licence class which you can often do in a weekend.

You talk nicely to their boss, get appointed, then tell your old boss your thoughts on the matter.

Depends entirely on whether you still want them to be your boss afterwards.

This is GOLD!

Source: Debian user for 25 years.

While reproducible builds are a good thing, for a bunch of reasons the whole stack is built on top of someone else’s microcode running on someone’s CPU, running someone’s BIOS, etc.

During an Linux Conf in Australia I attended a talk discussing the chain of trust and the point was made that when you buy something from a manufacturer, it is assumed that it comes to you unaltered, but the question is, how would you know?

In other words, you need to trust something somewhere and build on that.

If you’d like to see a working example of a backdoored compiler, because to compile something, you need to also trust your compiler, here’s a good discussion and show and tell:

https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM