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Cake day: January 5th, 2024

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  • Took me a while to understand what you’re warning against. Allow me to rephrase, and tell me if I got it wrong.

    The || will execute what’s after it in two cases:

    1. The preceding command (in this case the rm) never ran because of an earlier &&
    2. The preceding command ran and returned nonzero

    OP’s code relies on the 1 case, but wrongly assumed that the 2 case will never happen. That’s the footgun.


  • Illuminating read. Thanks.

    It doesn’t answer the obvious question though. The host (Bluesky/Eurosky, which apparently is called a PDS) is still effectively an instance, isn’t it? You can host your own, but you’d probably use one that’s already set up. It doesn’t seem that different from Mastodon in that sense.

    The other big question is, how does the migration work? I’ve heard that Mastodon’s migration is less than perfect. But this blogger says they’ve moved from bsky to Eurosky, and I just want to know how that works – if I have a client subscribed to that account back when it was on bsky, how will my client know where to look now?

    Edit: okay, I did a little searching, then after getting no useful results gave up and asked the big data machine that’s making everyone’s lives worse. I kinda get it now, but not enough to explain here. But it sounds like a good system.













  • That awesome… and/or horrifying. I’m so glad I’m comfortable with the default configuration my body came with, and don’t often have to think about stuff like this. But I’m also really glad you seem happy with the results of your, uhhh, renovations!

    Although… What exactly is a male socket? I’ve always thought of it as an outlet, nothing goes into it, stuff only flows out.


  • I love this. Certain surgeries absolutely involve some amount of “plumbing”, e.g. connecting the blood vessels in a pig heart transplant (I think they even refer to it as plumbing, perhaps informally). And I think it’s very accurate to say that plumbers, electricians etc. are to houses as surgeons are to living creatures.