[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago

A pedantic thing to say, surely, but the title really should've been: "Linux Directory Structure" -- 'Linux filesystems' (the title in the graphic) refers to a different topic entirely; the title of this post mitigates the confusion a bit, though still, 'directory structure' is the better term.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago

That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.

'Oxford Scholarship Online' would license different sets of books to different departments; so someone from the philosophy department couldn't get access to books classified under sociology or history.

Imagine doing something similar at the checkout table in a 'physical' library.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 51 points 5 months ago

what message? This was a real product released by Sony.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 92 points 5 months ago

But they're already back! The Steam Deck is the resurrected Steam Machine.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 months ago

The bot says it 'saved 0%'; so at least it's honest.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 63 points 8 months ago

I was intrigued for a moment; installed the package; then got greeted with this -- I don't think I'll proceed any further:

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Skimmed over the whole article -- I wish this had been available back when I was trying to piece together the basics from the documentation. There really needs to be a 2nd part, though, with some discussion of the GVariant signatures, which the author says were 'beyond the scope of' this article -- which is true; nevertheless, understanding that syntax (and how to use it e.g. with gdbus) is an absolute requirement for using dbus properly; and as a silly amateur, I lost so much time over them.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 33 points 11 months ago

Thanks indeed; but I think I'd be more impressed if it were actually true.

(but yeah, the first draft of Star Wars was called 'journal of the whills'.)

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 57 points 11 months ago

Little known fact: A Stanford mainframe kept logs of the activities of the 'wheels' in a journal -- the 'journal of the wheels'. Young George Lucas, who briefly attended the university, found that journal, and became fascinated with the 'Wheel Wars'. He later drafted a document that he called 'Journal of the Whills', based largely on what he read on those logs; this is the draft that later became 'Whill Wars', and ultimately, of course, 'Star Wars'.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

OK, but are they taking into account the energy expenditure of the programmer's brain while writing the program? The amount of calories his/her brain has to burn in order to produce & debug the code?

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 year ago

I mean, this is cringe AF.

Kotlin 'built by communism'? Because the founders of JB are Russian? Is that it?

Swift is 'greed' how? It's open source since 2015 or so; & available on Linux. Apple's graphical toolkits are 'closed down'; & obviously restrict users' freedoms; though not sure how that implies 'monopoly'. 'Monopoly' would be trying to dominate all toolkits, not have one's own.

Vague word associations are cool, I guess.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

007 is a pretty ideal permission scheme for a spy, though: Deny access to owner & group; let some 3rd party do whatever he likes.

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