Ephera

@ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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2h ago

Gesucht: Der Sinn im leben
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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2h ago
Für mich taugt es, explizit keinen höheren Sinn zu erwarten.Also ja, irgendwo alles nicht so krass bedeutungsvoll, aber das Gleiche gilt eben auch für die eigenen Sorgen. Gibt keinen krassen Grund zu leben, aber auch keinen krassen Grund es nicht zu tun.
Dadurch versteift man sich auch nicht so darauf diesen Sinn zu suchen, sondern macht eben was man in kleinen Sinne für sinnvoll erachtet. Dann macht man vielleicht mit der Zeit auch noch mehrere solcher sinnvoller Dinge und irgendwann fragt man sich gar nicht mehr, was jetzt der große Sinn ist, weil man so viele kleine Sinne hat.

3h ago

Why do people go out of their way to dodge manhole covers while driving?

I would try to avoid driving over them when safely possible, because they make an annoying noise, which I wanted to spare folks living nearby from. ¯(ツ)_/¯

3h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3h ago

Well, Wikipedia does say:

The [TOML] project standardizes the implementation of the ubiquitous INI file format (which it has largely supplanted[citation needed]), removing ambiguity from its interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOML

3h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3h ago

Counterpoints:

TOML is intended for configuration, not for data serialization, so you shouldn't be sending it over the wire in all too crazy ways anyways.
Most protocols will have a built-in way of knowing when the whole content has been transferred, typically by putting a content length into the header.
Having to wait until the closing } or ] can also be a disadvantage of JSON, since you cannot stream it, i.e. start processing the fields/elements before the whole thing has arrived. (You probably still don't want to use TOML for that, though. JSONL, CSV or such are a better idea.)

3h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3h ago

Well, TOML is essentially just an extension of the INI format (which helped its adoption quite a bit, since you could just fork INI parsers for all kinds of programming languages).

And then, yeah, flattening everything is kind of baked into INI, where it arguably made more sense.Although, I do also feel like non-techies fare better with flat files, since they don't have to understand where into the structure they have to insert the value. They just need find the right "heading" to put the line under, which is something they're familiar with.

4h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 4h ago

They serve largely different use-cases. JSON is good for serializing data. TOML is good for configuration.

4h ago

Theo Müller unterliegt vor Gericht gegen Campact

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 4h ago

Find's wertvoll, dass das öffentlich ausgetragen wird. Viele Kapitalisten sind maximal opportunistisch unterwegs und behalten sich vor mit Nazis zu kooperieren, sobald es finanziell vorteilhaft wird.

Mag sein, dass die Klage dafür gedacht war, Campact mundtot zu machen, aber schon die Klage selbst hat erfordert, dass sich Theo Müller dazu hinreißen lässt, explizit zu sagen, dass er nicht die AfD unterstützt.

Egal wie dicke er mit Alice Weidel ist, so eine Aussage kommt bei der Basis der AfD erstmal wie sie gesagt wurde an.Und naja, mal schauen, vielleicht bricht es ja auch das ewige Schweigen der Kapitalisten.

4h ago

Different Grips

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 4h ago

(too hard for me)

22h ago

Feels more polite for sure.

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 22h ago

It's kind of bad for scripts, where it can be either annoying or genuinely problematic, when your script hangs on a password prompt. You typically do want it to just fail right away, because if you have monitoring, then you'll be able to spot it failing.

These days, it is (largely reliably) possible to detect whether a command is being run interactively or as part of an unattended script, so you do see some commands that trigger a sudo password prompt only for interactive use, for example systemctl does this. But this adds quite a bit of complexity to each individual program, so it isn't really something that's going to be implemented universally.

I also have to say that systemctl kind of gets on my tits when it does that, because it throws up a GUI dialog for grabbing the password, which is quite jarring.

23h ago

Liste Möglicher Amazon Alternativen

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 23h ago

Habe mehrere Minuten damit zugebracht, einen Produktbegriff zu finden, wo es keinen "...24.de"-Shop dazu gibt, weil ich weder Werbung für einen Betrüger-Shop machen will, noch einen legitimen Shop durch den Kakao ziehen will. 😅

1d ago

Liste Möglicher Amazon Alternativen

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Finde ich cool, gerade auch weil's so ein bisschen schon kuratiert ist, einfach nur weil die Leute nicht jeden Schrottladen eintragen.

Wenn man halt in eine Suchmaschine "knalltüte online-shop" eintippt, dann kommen teilweise die üblichen Verdächtigen, teilweise dann aber auch knalltüten24.de, wo man sich einfach nur denkt, Leute, ihr könnt mir nicht erzählen, dass ihr nur Knalltüten verkauft und sich das rechnet.

Die mittelgroßen/regionalen Online-Shops findet man leider oft nur mit Glück, oder indem man bei den üblichen Verdächtigen schaut, wer deren Vertriebspartner ist.

1d ago

ich🧉iel

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Der nude Ossi

2d ago

What are some examples where the more you know about the world, the better it seems?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Yeah, I was gonna specifically pick out biology. Feels like the more you know about it, the cooler it gets to just head outside and look at critters. Kind of like Pokémon, but real.

2d ago

Would it be possible to hack a smoke detector to make it play a little jingle?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

I would guess that the units used in smoke alarms and microwaves generally have integrated drivers that only operate at a single frequency.

Yeah, you could more easily create a rhythm than a full melody. If you get a few devices, which beep at different frequencies each, you could do a lot more by having them beep in succession and in intervals.

Of course, this requires that they're roughly in tune, which may not be the case at all. 🥴

2d ago

A sneaky demonstration of the dangers of curl bash

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

I mean, I typically see it used for installing applications, and so long as TLS is used for the download, I'm still not aware of a good reason why you should check the Bash script in particular in that case, since the application itself could just as well be malware.

Of course, it's better to check the Bash script than to not check it, but at that point we should also advise to download the source code for the application, review it and then compile it yourself.At some point, you just have to bite the bullet and I have not yet seen a good argument why the Bash script deserves special treatment here...

Having said that, for cases where you're not installing an application, yeah, reviewing the script allows you to use it, without having to trust the source to the same degree as you do for installing an application.

2d ago

Beauty trends among American conservatives

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Man, I do love when Wikipedia is Just Stating Facts™ and yet reads like the sassiest gossip, because reality is just so dumb[^1].

Ivanka Trump [Trump's daughter with his first wife] has been described as the inspiration of Mar-a-Lago face.

Kristi Noem, Melania Trump [Trump's third wife], and Kimberly Guilfoyle have been described as having Mar-a-Lago face.

He does like to talk about wanting sex with Ivanka, so I guess, that tracks.

Melissa Rein Lively, a MAGA political worker, was reported [...] to reject "any idea of submission or constraint" associated with Mar-a-Lago face, and that "no one forces me to do two hours of sport a day, to go to the hairdresser every three and a half weeks, to get my nails and eyebrows done, to get Botox."

Blink twice, if you're being forced to say this...? Seriously, why would you list a bunch of unpleasant aspects, if you're trying to make the point that you don't mind it?

[^1]: By the way, we do have a great word for this in German: Realsatire – when reality is so ridiculous that merely recounting it sounds like satire.

2d ago

made my first bash file to make yt-dlp easier

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

One thing that will become important pretty quick if you continue making these scripts is that it’s almost always better to wrap your variables in quotes - so it becomes yt-dlp -x “$a”.

Oh man, this reminds me of the joke that any program that's more complex than Hello World has bugs – and folks still don't even agree how to spell "Hello, World!".

Of course, Bash is a particular minefield in this regard...

2d ago

“Red-haired goddess” figurine from the Neolithic Starčevo culture of Serbia, which thrived from 6200 BC to 4500 BC

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Hmm, the link I posted is just the "1,567 × 1,974 pixels" preview from your link. The original TIFF file wouldn't display in my browser, so I linked the preview. 🥴