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  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Unpopular opinion: people like UIs.

    OK, that one is only unpopular on specific, Linux-heavy parts of the internet. (Like... right here.) And even then, there aren't that many people who disagree with me. But there are definitely a few people who have this idea that we'd all be using super fast, powerful command line applications for all of our tasks, were it not for big tech pushing the graphical interface on us.

    I get it; I'm a command-line person myself. And big tech has pushed a lot of anti-user changes. But the truth is that most users want to use a mouse, they want to have a GUI, and the shift from keyboard to mouse wasn't simply because Microsoft wanted to limit the users' capability.

  • What's your favorite OLD Youtube video?

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  • YouTube is my life, a song from 2007: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p21nZmtq56M

    Still gets stuck in my head sometimes. Also, some of the lyrics show just how different Youtube (and internet videos in general) were back then.

  • For those of you that made new friendships this year

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  • I went to a bar to get a beer after work, and ended up talking for a little bit with the guy sitting next to me. Then we ran into each other again at a coffee shop. So now we get a drink after work on purpose every once in a while. It's great.

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    This happens almost every day now. That "Agentic OS" plan is going juuust fine.

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  • We need a six-fingered version of this image. I'm guessing it'll get a lot of use next year.

  • delicious wrap

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  • Baconator Aero was the best design trend.

  • How do you healthcheck your containers?

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  • Same here. I'm the only user of my services, so if I try visiting the website and it's down, that's how I know it's down.

    I prefer phrasing it differently, though. "With my current uptime monitoring strategy, all endpoints serve as an on-demand healthcheck endpoint."

    One legitimate thing I do, though, is have a systemd service that starts each docker compose file. If a container crashes, systemd will notice (I think it keeps an eye on the PIDs automatically) and restart them.

  • I just got a couple of pamphlets off the local Jehovah's Witness, who was sitting outside of the Court. Which one should we mock first?

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  • Wait, it's from pre-covid and they have masks on? HOW DID THEY KNOW?!?!

  • Perpetual Trib(Rule)lations

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  • Thank you, how have I not seen this one before? That last panel is perfect. (And infuriating.)

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    That right there is why Abraham wanted to kill Isaac

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  • I think about this kind of thing often. Not specifically about schizophrenia, but about people and their self-awareness in general.

    I live in Utah, and Mormonism puts a heavy emphasis on something they call "personal revelation." Basically, it's the idea that God gives you feelings about things. A gut feeling, a hunch, an intuition, is actually God sending you a message. And I suspect that makes people just go with their gut feeling instead of taking the time for some introspective.

    Whenever I get a feeling about something, I can think to myself, "Why am I feeling this way? What is it about my personality or my life experiences that is making me have this opinion?" But if it's a personal revelation, it's not actually you who is feeling that way, it's a third party that is making you feel that way, and that third party is God, so you're supposed to go with it.

    It's like an excuse to not take ownership of your own gut feelings.

  • WEATHER IS HAPPENING | BOSTON'S #1 SOURCE 4 NO NONSENSE WEATHER

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  • I'm going to try to legitimately use it instead of the usual weather site that I check. Just for a week or so.

  • WEATHER IS HAPPENING | BOSTON'S #1 SOURCE 4 NO NONSENSE WEATHER

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  • Weather lords have unique aesthetic preferences.

  • [bash][git] Can I make a git hook exit before the command exits?

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  • Thanks, this is a great explanation. I'll try doing &> /dev/null & tomorrow. I'd like to find the simplest version of this for recommending to other people.

  • [bash][git] Can I make a git hook exit before the command exits?

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  • Thanks for the suggestion; I tried both of these things and they do hide the output, but it doesn't make the post-receive script actually exit early. So git push still takes a while to finish.

  • [bash][git] Can I make a git hook exit before the command exits?

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  • I think this might have worked, except the ssh key I'm using for git has a password on it. So it does return to the terminal right away, but the git push command in the background is stuck waiting for me to type my password.

  • Aomori, Japan

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  • I love this. It took me a while to figure out what I was looking at.

  • Do you cheat in video games?

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  • Finding cheat codes for Sega Genesis games was my introduction to the internet. It was so fun getting to tell other kids at school about cheat codes that you knew about for their games.

    These days I don't, mainly because they don't seem to have them anymore, and also because if I'm not enjoying the game with its base mechanics I have plenty of other games in my backlog that I can check out instead.

  • Circuits #768 2025-11-21

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  • Fatekeeper - Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer

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  • I was just thinking "Hey, this kind of looks like Dark Messiah." And then he kicked an enemy off of a ledge and I thought "Oh it's 100% a sequel to Dark Messiah."

  • What is your favorite Metroidvania?

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  • I've always thought it was both. I'm definitely no expert on Metroidvanias, since I've only played the one (if Dead Cells counts as one). I actually thought the term "Metroidvania" was about the movement and combat -- today I just learned that it's about the exploration and finding things. You do at least have to do that in the bank level, if I remember right. And the castle level.