I look forward to the next "new" article on how to use "find".
Next, an article on how you can put butter on toast.
On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:39:53 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:
Decompressors will implement decompression of empty strings by
outputting one of the versions of his articles, possibly randomizing the
location of the several parts and possibly also their presence or
absence.
Isn't that what Claude and friends do? They aren't 'hallucinating'; they were trained on bullshit and spew bullshit. The trend as the AI companies try to monetize the products makes it expensive bullshit.
On 2026-06-02, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
Jack Wallen makes some good points in this list of basic Linux
concepts worth mastering >><https://www.zdnet.com/article/things-you-need-to-master-to-become-a-linux-pro/>.
Yes, you can do a lot of things through the point-and-click GUI. But
that is mostly just a bunch of front-ends on command-line/scripting
tools that do all the actual work. Also, GUIs vary a lot from one
distro to another, or even one distro installation to another, whereas
the core command-line functionality tends to be much more homogeneous.
I get these people need to make a living, but it annoys me to no end to
see article after article after article after article which just
rehashes the same stuff over and over and over again. Slop.
I look forward to the next "new" article on how to use "find".
Next, an article on how you can put butter on toast.
On 03/06/2026 02:04, Farley Flud wrote:
Unfortunate aside: Of course, this will be of no concern to the
GNU/Linux distro slaves who will blindly and blithely accept whatever
is thrown to them.
What is the one True Intel or AMD processor that is 'certified', plz?
in order to keep it from finding Windows' brain-dead grep
equivalent.
On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:00:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
in order to keep it from finding Windows' brain-dead grep
equivalent.
How many hundreds, thousands of hours of your life do you end up
spending on fighting against a computer system that doesn?t want to
work with you, but against you?
On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:00:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
in order to keep it from finding Windows' brain-dead grep
equivalent.
How many hundreds, thousands of hours of your life do you end up
spending on fighting against a computer system that doesn?t want
to work with you, but against you?
On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 11:07:49 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
On 2026-06-02, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:linux-pro/>.
Jack Wallen makes some good points in this list of basic Linux concepts
worth mastering >>><https://www.zdnet.com/article/things-you-need-to-master-to-become-a-
Yes, you can do a lot of things through the point-and-click GUI. But
that is mostly just a bunch of front-ends on command-line/scripting
tools that do all the actual work. Also, GUIs vary a lot from one
distro to another, or even one distro installation to another, whereas
the core command-line functionality tends to be much more homogeneous.
I get these people need to make a living, but it annoys me to no end to
see article after article after article after article which just
rehashes the same stuff over and over and over again. Slop.
I look forward to the next "new" article on how to use "find".
Next, an article on how you can put butter on toast.
The gun magazines got a couple of decades of copy debating which is
better, 9 mm or .45 ACP. I've noticed another pattern in print magazines, regardless of the technology. They start with articles appealing to n00bs. As time goes on the articles become more focused on intermediates, and eventually advanced users. They hit a wall where there is little left to say, so they cycle back to n00bs,
I don't care that there is stuff for noobs.
Its that all this stuff is already written and up there. The issue is
people are rewriting the same thing over and over with all the old stuff still there, but buried under the "newer" slop.
On 2026-06-03, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 11:07:49 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
On 2026-06-02, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:linux-pro/>.
Jack Wallen makes some good points in this list of basic Linux concepts >>>> worth mastering
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/things-you-need-to-master-to-become-a-
Yes, you can do a lot of things through the point-and-click GUI. But
that is mostly just a bunch of front-ends on command-line/scripting
tools that do all the actual work. Also, GUIs vary a lot from one
distro to another, or even one distro installation to another, whereas >>>> the core command-line functionality tends to be much more homogeneous.
I get these people need to make a living, but it annoys me to no end to
see article after article after article after article which just
rehashes the same stuff over and over and over again. Slop.
I look forward to the next "new" article on how to use "find".
Next, an article on how you can put butter on toast.
The gun magazines got a couple of decades of copy debating which is
better, 9 mm or .45 ACP. I've noticed another pattern in print magazines,
regardless of the technology. They start with articles appealing to n00bs. >> As time goes on the articles become more focused on intermediates, and
eventually advanced users. They hit a wall where there is little left to
say, so they cycle back to n00bs,
I don't care that there is stuff for noobs.
Its that all this stuff is already written and up there. The issue is
people are rewriting the same thing over and over with all the old stuff still there, but buried under the "newer" slop.
On Sun, 7 Jun 2026 23:11:15 -0400, c186282 wrote:
Good Old Days ... there was BYTE magazine - lots of GOOD and oft
DETAILED stuff. Ciarcia branched off with his own hardware-oriented
mag. Dr. Dobb's Journal ... liked that.
Fair selection for any level of interest and skill.
I did resubscribe to Circuit Cellar.
It's about the same as it always was
with newer technology of course. I used to look forward to Dr. Dobbs but eventually unsubscribed when each month focused on a particular theme and
I was only interested in a couple issues per year.
There were a couple of 'professional' magazines I liked but they slowly
faded out. The subscriptions were free so the income was from advertisers
who may have found they weren't getting the bang for the buck.
Motorcycle Consumer News was ad free which gave the the ability to review products freely. It was terminated abruptly, surprising both the employees and subscribers. It was published by BowTie, which I assumed referred to
the Chevy logo but most of the magazines were about pets, like 'Ferrets Magazine'.
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