A quick grep | wc of the Wikipedia list of Toy Story characters suggests that they’ll run out somewhere around the year 2120 if no new Toy Story movies are made. Perhaps Debian should start getting its movie studio department working on a new one before then, just in case.

Its meaning is clear. What’s often unclear is whether its use was appropriate.

What if my pet lizard is plotting to take over the world, and is just playing dumb and biding his time?

Browsing around nethack.org I found this link if anyone’s in need of an introduction to nethack: https://web.archive.org/web/20210212161326/http://www.linuxvoice.com/nethack/

The comments are full of people sharing their yasd stories.

Early 90s the pirate BBS scene was still going strong. You could dial in and tie up your phone line for days at a time. My guess is it was about as common then as it is today, relative to the size of the game industry.

Inflation is built in to our current monetary system. It’s fundamental, and the system would not work without it. The exact degree of shitness inherent in that system is a matter for debate, but you can’t get rid of inflation without remaking the whole concept of money.

Higher prices due to scarcity is quite different, and is often confused with inflation — especially this week.

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Rust-coreutils may eventually become a suitable replacement for coreutils but it hasn’t yet existed for long enough to iron out all the bugs and there’s no real advantage to using it right now.

The idea is that Rust will make everything easier to maintain and improve in the long run, or something like that. It’s somewhat plausible, but it’s not totally obvious whether that will prove correct. So it’s easy to suspect that there must be some other unstated motivations behind it, although to me there don’t appear to be any in view.

The total amount of money that’s spent on roads and driving in car-oriented cultures is absolutely fucking astounding when you add it all up. Counting only “highways” is just the tip of the iceberg.

Strange how Denuvo being cracked doesn’t change how I feel about it at all.

1. Links to news stories from…
2. …credible sources, with…
3. …their original headlines, that…
4. …would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Given what passes for “news” some of the time I suppose you might find some better-conceived piece about poo-flinging in e.g. The Guardian, but personally I think rule 2 is where we run into real problems here.

There’s some small chance that this is not machine-generated slop, but it’s still not Not The Onion material.

He’s probably including the mass of the land.

I’m not much of a fan of the NSA or anything, but that comparison seems unfair to the NSA. I imagine Palantir is more like a souped-up bullshit-ridden profit-driven Stasi.

If disk space is a problem, why don’t more instances delete old stuff? 99% of what’s posted doesn’t need to be archived forever.

If you routinely find that nonsensical thoughts about pedophilia are intruding while you’re in the shower, seek professional help. But there’s no need to inflict them on lemmy.

Okay great, but steam engines from the mid 19th century could probably outrun humans too.

Not that I’m in any position to speak for an entire generation but I feel like a lot of Gen Z also can’t understand why Gen Z can’t put their phones down and watch TV like a normal person.

For a completely random example of things one might choose to learn about today, there is the distinction between “less” and “fewer.”

I was using mullvad a couple years ago. Configs didn’t change often, I updated it once or twice a year or whenever the old one stopped working.

They did have a “killswitch” type option available, I think. But it didn’t seem really useful since normally when wireguard fails (on linux at least) it does not “disconnect” — it just stops any traffic getting through until it’s working again.