Notices by Andrew Wigglesworth (ecadre@mastodon.social)

@jxself Squirrels are nutters.

@amszmidt That *is* the USA (and UK, Turkey, rest of NATO).

@amszmidt If you're keen on head-chopping salafists and religious sectarians armed by the Empire ... go ahead.

@teledyn Well, would that mean that after the evolution of Homo Sapiens, GNU #Emacs was inevitable?

@_elena Here's another one.

Supposing you've just downloaded a file, got an output from a programme or summat.

ls -ltr

There "l" does what you already know.
The "t" orders the list in time (created or last modified), and the "r" puts the list in reverse order so the last saved file is there at the foot of he list, conveniently just above your prompt.

I use this a lot, it's so "baked in" to my fingers over so many years that I type it without thinking about it.

#gnulinux #cli

@tuban_muzuru Yep, just like the Nazis liberated the Warsaw ghetto from "Jewish terrorism" ...

Do you ever listen to yourself?

@tuban_muzuru

I've always remembered the "townhall" interview Nelson Mandela did on his visit to the USA in 1990.

When a US journalist attempted (to his own embarrassment)to upbraid Mandela on his personal contacts (and those of the ANC) with Cuba (Fidel Castro) and the PLO (Yasser Arafat), he reminded him that:

"one of the mistakes, which some political analysts make, is to think that their enemies should be our enemies"

#freepalestine