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Huh. tar tf and unzip -l. I’m not sure I’d even bother to write a shell function to combine them, much less install software.

Zips just exploding to files is so common, if you just mkdir unzpd ; unzip -d unzpd file.zip it’s going to be right nearly all of the time. Same with tarballs always containing a directory; it’s just so common it’s barely worth checking.

You write the tools you need, don’t get me wrong. This seems like, at most, a 10-line bash function, and even that seems excessive.

function pear() {
case $1 in
  *.zip)
    unzip -l "$1"
    ;;
  *.tar.*)
    tar tf "$1"
    ;;
esac
}

No, not on porpoise.

I have no idea! It seems to be the human material. Have you ever heard of a solution? I can be aware of it and resist it, but what I hate is that instinctive, negative impulse, and I don’t think wishing it away is going to help.

I’m lucky. I live in a place where stonecrop is native, and it grows like a weed. Except it doesn’t spread (quickly), and I love the look.

We had some landscaping done and they moved some stonecrop and forgot to move one back. it wasn’t even planted; it just grew right there where they’d left it!

Great plants.

Also, biological monsters would overheat very fast.

That’s why they tend to breath fire n stuff.

Old Godzilla movies got it right. He did look like he was walking on the moon. Not bouncing, but he probably had atrophied muscles from being in the water all the time.

Poor guy. Overheated and tired, no wonder he was grumpy!

That’s brilliant. The thumbnail spoils it… at least, it shows me the punchline.

I don’t know why; it just popped into my head. Maybe because the float would just make snacking easier for the sharks?

Edit: because my home server insists on rewriting all image URLs to proxy requests through that server, and it often breaks things. I gotta re-home.

https://files.catbox.moe/6awpqm.gif

Ok, so preface: this isn’t about you. Your comment just coalesced something I’ve been ruminating about recently.

I wish we, as humans, didn’t have this knee-jerk tenancy to make everything a zero-sum competition. Vi vs EMACS. x86 vs ARM. Windows vs Mac vs Linux vs FreeBSD. C vs Go vs Rust vs Clojure vs JavaScript. Arch vs the world.

It really is a zero-sum game, with real consequences. If your favorite distro becomes unpopular enough, it might die, and then you have to give up something you love. Windows winning the OS market for decades meant countless people had to suffer using Windows because the company they worked for mandated it. If I crusade for V(lang) enough, it might become popular enough for jobs to open for it.

The downside is that we’re constantly fighting against diversity, and that’s bad.

I suffer from this as much as anyone, and I hate that my first impulse is to either tear down “the opposition”, which at some point is nearly everyone, or schadenfreude.

“It is not enough that I succeed, but that others should fail.” It can’t be healthy.

I miss the days when every package came with a man page.

Every respectable package; don’t come at me, pendants.

groan

I want my own all knowing god.

I don’t want to be all knowing; Watchmen demonstrated how much that would suck. But having an omniscient floating ball that I can ask questions and get straightforward answers; I could abuse that capability endlessly.

I think my wife and I are both wise enough to avoid using it for spousal discovery: if she wants to tell me her body count, she will. So It’d quickly escalate from the trivial to the existential, and then we’d make a lot of money and maybe solve some world problems on the side.

i definitely want a personal, floating, omniscient, question-answering god.

Salem’s Lot.

It was forbidden, but on TV, so I’d flip channels to watch it in 30 second clips. It was far more terrifying that way, as I found out later in life; watched all the way through, it was a fairly mediocre film.

You’re just creating more monopolies, with no oversight and less control. At least with government, you can vote.

Maybe that’s the risk. That we design it to be benevolent, but it destroys us through sheer stupidity.

It’s one way to get monkey paw wishes. “AI, solve climate change!” “Ok! Eliminating all humans now!”

It would have be clearer written “volo in dumum redire”.

I always imagine it’s more likely she’s making other people cry. Conservatives have turned out to be the most snowflake of snowflakes.

There is negligible server overhead for a tarpit. It can be merely a script that listens on a socket and never replies, or it can reply with markov-generated html with a few characters a second, taking minutes to load a full page. This has almost no overhead. Implementation is adding a link to your page headers and running the script. It’s not exactly rocket science.

Which part of that is overhead, or difficult?

From the Anubis project:

The idea is that genuine people sending emails will have to do a small math problem that is expensive to compute,

“Expensive” in computing means “energy intensive,” but if you still challenge that, the same document later says

This is also how Bitcoin’s consensus algorithm works.

Which is exactly what I said in my first comment.

The design document states

Anubis uses a proof-of-work challenge to ensure that clients are using a modern browser and are able to calculate SHA-256 checksums.

This is the energy-wasting part of the algorithm. Furthermore,

the server can independently prove the token is valid.

The only purpose of the expensive calculation is so the server can verify that the client burned energy; the work done is useless outside of proving the client performed a certain amount of energy consuming work, and in particular there are other, more efficient ways of generating verifiable hashes which are not used because the whole point is to make the client incur a cost, in the form of electricity use, to generate the token.

At this point I can’t tell if you honestly don’t understand how proof of work functions, are defensive of the project because you have some special interest, or are just trolling.

Regardless, anyone considering using Anubis should be aware that the project has the same PoW design as Bitcoin, and if you believe cryptocurrencies are bad for the environment, then you want you start away from Anubis and sites that use it.

Also note that the project is a revenue generator for the authors (check the bottom of the github page), so you might see some astro turfing.

So, you’re basically running the KDE infrastructure, just not using the KDE WM? Have you done a ps and counted the number of KDE services that are running, just to run KDE Connect?

Here are the (KDE) dependencies on the Arch KDE Connect package:

kcmutils 
kconfig
kcoreaddons 
kcrash
kdbusaddons
kdeclarative
kguiaddons
ki18n
kiconthemes
kio
kirigami
kirigami-addons                               kitemmodels
kjobwidgets
knotifications
kpeople
kservice
kstatusnotifieritem                           kwidgetsaddons
kwindowsystem
pulseaudio-qt
qqc2-desktop-style
qt6-base
qt6-connectivity
qt6-declarative
qt6-multimedia
qt6-wayland

When you run KDE Connect, you’re running most of the KDE Desktop and Qt; you’re just not using it.

Have you ever tried running it headless? I have; it doesn’t work.