Notices by nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)

How many Linux ls aliases are enough? Apparently, past me thought the answer was "more." Present me only uses ls and the rest are just digital hoarding. I don't even remember what the others do. Who else is being haunted by shell aliases they created years ago?

Nothing is truly terrifying until it asks for administrative privileges 🤣

If you're using AI to build components of commercial software like OS and Office apps, why aren't you reducing prices now, given claims that AI would lower costs while you lay off developers? Someone is lying to me. It is like biggest scam ever where you fire people and still keep all profits. I hate everything about this.

If your IDE isn't a tmux running Vim over SSH into a Linux prod box with a 9000 day uptime are you even programming?

3. Awk / Sed / Bash - The final frontier and the holy trinity of Unix users and developers. A single, immortal Linux terminal lifestyle. If you can’t pipe it through a one liner, it isn't worth doing. Trust me.

Everything else is just bloat. Java is enterprise busywork, yeah, Rust is C with a cult following, and JavaScript is a browser accident that ruined the backend for everyone.

Master the Holy 4 and delete the hype. Keep it simple stupid.

The modern tech stack is a lie. To me only 4 languages exists. Listen to me:

0. C - For pure speed, total control and the constant thrill of a random Segmentation Fault.

1. Perl - For solving impossible data problems with a string of regex that looks like a cat walked across your keyboard.

2. Python - For automating your job in 10 lines of code by wrapping C libraries in clean indentation. It can’t get better than this and it does web programming and math stuff too. What else do you need?

Google now support account recovery with AI and your face. What could possibly go wrong? Google having my face is not just bad enough but chances are high that selfie video may not work in edge cases or network down etc.

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/

#privacy #security #DoNotwant

`curl | bash -` we went from "verify every permission bit before trusting a binary" to "sure, I'll run a stranger's script as root, seems fine"

1980s sysadmin: I know exactly what every process on this box is doing.

2026 developer: I have 48 background npm processes & I’ve made peace with never finding out why 😒

I don’t care anymore about anything and This t shirt speaks my daily mood 🤣 tagging @catsalad

Just using sed to make indexes for books. This art of writing awk or sed from scratch is now vanishing. Sharing just in case if you love reading such stuff about #Unix and #Linux CLI/scripting

https://www.pement.org/sed/make_indexes.txt

we are doomed, aren't we?

People are called luddites on social media simply because they don't want their water polluted by data centers or the industrial hum generated by AI servers. Imagine asking for the basic human right to drink clean water and be able to sleep at night, only to have that called nonsense or standing against progress.

A Nikkei investigation showed that Tech giants Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, & Oracle hide $1.65 trillion in off balance sheet debt from GPU contracts, data center leases, & joint ventures. That’s even more than their $1.35 trillion in official debt! Because accounting rules don't count these obligations until facilities go live, investors are getting a skewed picture: hidden debt that inflates current profit figure & yes it is all legal 🤣 https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding ( https://archive.ph/lOlv5 )

How many of you know the difference between these bash config files?

~/.bash_profile

~/.bash_login

~/.bashrc

~/.bash_aliases

~/.bash_logout

~/.profile

Why don’t iptables and pf ever get invited to LAN parties? They always block the guest list 😒

If LLMs are good at coding, why don't we see any killer games or apps written in them largely? Where are all those vibe coded apps and their solo developers making millions? 😂

Flathub announces migration away from GitHub to its own Forgejo instance at GUADEC 2026 https://www.reddit.com/r/flatpak/comments/1v00rs0/flathub_announces_migration_away_from_github_to/

Talk https://www.youtube.com/live/Q4O7dhreLDU?t=3203s

I didn't know I needed to read this but here we are now. lmao.

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

Spotify just deleted 75 million AI songs off its platform https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/spotify-deletes-75-million-songs-in-huge-move/news-story/aec6f4188190cb23426bf3504f326ab6

Why? I thought AI music and art was future. It is like people don't like gutter level music and art made by slop machines. Still not gonna use Spotify. Fuck em and their shity AI.