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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, we could end capitalism, and demand that AI be applied to the betterment of humanity, rather than to increasing profits, enter a post-scarcity future, and then do whatever we want with our lives, rather than selling our time by the hour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Even when Emacs had two GUI versions, the default keys were pretty much the same between them, as far as I recall, excepting features missing from one or the other. For a very long time now, it's all been reconciled as GNU Emacs, anyhow, whether CLI or XWin GUI, or even on a Mac or (shudder) MS Windows. I just use my local running Emacs, with my preferred configuration, to edit files anywhere, such as inside a running container on a remote server in AWS, so it's pretty consistent for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

At the same time capitalism has built almost everything we have.

Almost everything I can see and touch has been delivered by a for-profit business operating in a capitalist society

There's a couple ways to interpret these statements.

Are you talking about innovation, progress, invention? Realistically, no. Occasionally capitalists put enough resources in the right hands that somebody working under capitalists manages to invent something good, but most real innovation doesn't happen without government funding. Capitalists are very hesitant to risk their capital on the kind of critical R&D that is necessary to make progress. Even when it happens under capitalism, there's no reason to think that capitalist control of the market caused it to happen - any system that gives creative people the time and resources to work on things will have as good results, at least, and it's easy to construct a system that gives that time and resources to more creative people, with fewer bosses interfering and squashing anything that's not seen as profitable. Capitalism is, though, very good at capturing and controlling innovation, sometimes even just killing existing innovations outright - see "embrace, extend extinguish".

Are you talking about manufacture and delivery of final products? Sure, under capitalist systems, of course it's all done by capitalism, as other options aren't available, or at least, aren't given any room. If somebody builds a fence around the lake that everyone fishes in, and takes over the fish and sells them to people who used to catch their own, do you praise that person for providing fish? Do you think landlords are providing housing?

Capitalism isn't just commerce. Capitalism is an antidemocratic economic trait, where the production and distribution of goods, services, and information is controlled by unelected, private owners of capital. Does it "destroy everything we build" as the person you were replying to said? No, not everything, but it does destroy a lot, and control and pervert most of what's left.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good idea, but it would be much faster if you do the double-check on true instead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Can I use AwesomeWM, XMonad, or StumpWM on Wayland?

Can I run a GUI program over ssh?

Does it support the X selection and clipboard protocols?

(These are not rhetorical questions, I'm really asking.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think I misunderstood you, when you said "manually", to mean as a human intervention in the process. What you're showing here is an extra processing step, but I wouldn't call that manual. Just want to clear that up, but I'm still down to play.

Instead of three greps, you could use one sed or awk. I don't think there's anything particularly wizardly about awk, and it would be a lot less cryptic, to me, than this chain of greps.

But a much better idea would be to use sensors -j to get json output, intended for machine reading, and pass that to jq. Since I don't have the same sensors output as you, I'm not sure exactly what that would be, but I am guessing probably something like:

sensors -j | jq '."nvme-pci-0200".Composite.composite_input'

I look forward to seeing how you would do this in PS. As I said previously, I don't know it at all, so I'm not sure what you're comparing this to.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

first grepping some output to get the line you want and then removing the leading and trailing garbage on that line manually

That's not what we do, though. Give me a more concrete example, and I'll let you know how I would expect to do it in a nix environment. I'd be curious to compare. Since I have zero experience with powershell, I am not really sure what to expect. The couple times I've glanced at a powershell script it looked awful, but I could be falling into Paul Graham's blub paradox there. OK, I don't think so, but maybe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wait did GitHub retroactively change existing master branches to main, or was your stuff insanely fragile?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The only reason you think "master" makes sense is because you're used to it. It's actually quite a weird connection to make, if you aren't used to it. "Main" is much more straight forward. And nobody is really demanding people stop using "master", so far as I am aware, it's just that people are making that choice themselves.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

And it has a whole set of options based on common ls options. Classic and brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

What shell is that? Bash and sh use Emacs bindings, C-y. Or if you meant terminal, urxvt and I'm pretty sure xterm use C-M-v. Maybe that's the gnome terminal?

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