Notices by Dan McDonald (danmcd@hostux.social)

I'm seeing a lot of good names for the DOGE fuckers. Two that pop up in my brain now (which I've seen posted, NEITHER are my invention):

- Traitor Tots
- Incel Clown Posse

Feel free to add on!

@TreeVor @0xabad1dea

Maybe younger, but Gen X just got a LOT more polarized: right-leaning leaned further right, left-leaning leaned further left, and those in the middle jumped one way or the other depending on $ISSUE/$BELIEF/$ETC.

Lotsa GenX right-leaners drank too much it-was-all-Jimmy-Carter's-fault kool-aid when they were in their formative years. Lotsa GenX left-leaners saw how badly AIDS was handled, and that the Cold War ending didn't make right-leaners just take the fucking win.

@tsaiberia

Where's that meme again? Ah yes.

@mekkaokereke

It was a Black Trans Woman who started Stonewall. People who don't know that, well... 🤷♂️

@quinn @cstross

How much of right now is the 1850s instead of the 1930s?

@paw @mekkaokereke @rogerparkinson

Following up to remind folks that White Supremacy and Patriarchy are helluva good drugs, and that combined they are, indeed, America's Speedball.

@paw @mekkaokereke @rogerparkinson

I saw "not all" mentioned and every time I see "not all" I need to remind folks that "enough" is often a lot less than "all" but is still enough to Be A Big Problem. I don't believe "all men" but strongly believe "enough men". I don't believe ACAB but I do believe ECAB. Not all Americans but certainly enough Americans!

@quinn @cford

This is where I recommend "The Bright Ages" by Gabriele and Perry

I hear this in Groucho's voice...

@encthenet

I used to use two space a long time ago; because I learned two-space Pascal first, and because emacs defaulted to two space in C-mode.

@encthenet

Oh I agree with you... working at Sun got me on the tab train.

I'm just trying to provide some background on why folks might do it.

@quinn

If anyone has this, it's @alecm , who introduced me to that phrase.

@jmc

So pwait(1), my personal favorite, was there the whole time... thanks for the glimpse of the past.

@jmc

pgrep & pkill got brought up during Solaris 2.6, as part of a "get shit booting faster" effort. Lots of `ps -ef | grep....` pipelines in those < 2.6 init scripts.

I remember being pleased learning about it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/cia-ica-report-author-trump-russia-1235067814/

@randahl
@briankrebs

I believe people are already doing Just That (TM). Here's an evidentiary picture:

Hey @dangillmor Did you see this?

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/first-presidential-debate-joe-biden-donald-trump-withdraw-20240629.html

Today is a good day for me to have my NAT/router in an #illumos zone, where a reboot takes (checks stopwatch) mere single-digit seconds.

TFW you were born just barely pre-epoch... I'll be 68-and-change when the Y2038 event happens.
https://fosstodon.org/@alanc/112606707274513969

@mwl

He was the first "elder statesman" I had actual interactions & discussions with. I found some corner-case bugs while bringing up the NRL IPv6 & IPsec code while he was at BSDI.