@cks Seems a bit strange, POSIX-wise mkdir -p should exit successfully on EEXIST, while without it seems undefined (see exit status section of mkdir(1)).
While without the -p option, mkdir(1) is stuck to being racy anyway and typically exits unsuccessfully when anything already exists.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

homeless guy sleeping by a corporate memphis protect trans youth mural, andersonvile, chicago, 2026

a mathematically perfect meal for the gods

Chicago is a stranger. It's fog-hidden buildings and streets are strangers and its crowds criss-crossing everywhere are worse than strangers. But now she has Des Moines under her arm. Des Moines is a companion that will make the fog seem less lonely. Later she will sit down in a hotel room and read of what has happened in Des Moines buildings and Des Moines streets. These will seem like real happenings, whereas the happenings Chicago papers print seem like unrealities.

Saw a heron that thought it was a kingfisher.
Or it might have been having a rest.
#birds #heron

@mcc I think "commit" is closer to Linux "mlock" than "mprotect". What it's doing is making a page deterministically accessible. In Linux, a page may fault non-deterministically on first access, even if you allocated backing store (anonymous or otherwise). You can either trigger allocation by striding through the range, and taking access faults (annoying to handle), or by locking the range (enforces pages present).

@lowqualityfacts

That kinda looks like crap.

Ozempic means I can't handle large meals. So, I tend to snack, and most snacks are loaded with sugar. I'm actually gaining weight, and starting to think I may have misunderstood something.

@jalefkowit -=runs to office on top floor, locks door behind him=-

@bekopharm Yeah, I bet I can find a local printer too, so that's a good option. Also, nice keyboard!

please find attached a demo of the VIC EDITYPE text editor.

originally distributed as a type in BASIC program.

Compute! Magazine, April 1983, page 50.

permacomputer.solarpunk.au/?p=93

https://vidakovich.itch.io/vic-editype

#basic #minimalist #minimalism #permacomputing

@futzle it has created a huge boom here, to the annoyance of some energy companies. In combination with batteries and a smart meter, it has cut our electricity bill (which wasn't big for a two-person household) in less than half.

@brennen @rose_alibi Well, first we have to put it off for five months.

@lain Really bad set of examples to highlight. Don't know about the last one, but:

Lowest performing schools means low IQ students. We've known for decades and decades pouring more money into them does nothing (although returning to old fashioned discipline and phonics would; once upon a time the "talented tenth" of negroes were able to teach enough of their own children useful levels of stuff, and for that matter my own school system did half a century ago, we just insisted on "white behavior" from them and rewarded or punished based on that).

These things are purely performative besides being gifts to teachers unions, like how Head Start started in 1965 can't be touched, despite all gains to students being lost in a few years.

I seem to recall a regime change in Afghanistan that changed prospects for women in general, and again in general this was fighting some of a society's basic principles. See also @CaptainComfy theory the money could have been skimmed by the usual suspects.

"One Laptop Per Child" was massively botched when it came to execution of the software, plus the exclusive focus on the Third World was a marketing and sales killer, "Thus stuff isn't good enough for your own children??." It might have been a good idea, but anyone familiar with Negroponte wasn't surprised. Some great visions, but management, not so much.

@fesshole If you two invent something called strictly cum-dancing, we don't want to hear about it.

@hacks4pancakes that at least means companies are hiring again, right? *anakin meme*

@futzle

Who among us has never broken a rule?
But… I’m a cautious person by nature, and as I understand absolutely nothing about electricity or the real risks, would not compromise my fire insurance by doing something illegal.
Also, when I do break rules, I try to avoid being conspicuous about it.