<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I mean I know about NVIDIA doing this with the GeForce 8400 GS because corpo purchasing departments approved &quot;GeForce 8400 GS&quot; and didn&#39;t much care what was in the box, but at least the different versions had different PCI IDs and such. Still annoying if you were buying one because you wouldn&#39;t know which level of video decoding support you would have until you opened the box and saw which exact version it was.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I suspect that it was in /etc because it was normally run automatically by the shell when the shell detected the need for expanding glob patterns[1], with people not expected to run it by hand. Early Research Unix put a bunch of similar programs into /etc.</p><p>1: eg the V5 sh.c, <a href="https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/source/s2/sh.c" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file</span><span class="invisible">=V5/usr/source/s2/sh.c</span></a> in tglob() and later in execute(), which is where it runs /etc/glob.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> &quot;give me all the files starting with this prefix&quot; feels very close to &quot;et cetera&quot;</p>

<p>&quot;Gen Z needs office etiquette skills, hiring managers say&quot; [1]</p><p>Let me rephrase that for you: hiring managers who don&#39;t understand what their job is need to quit.</p><p>Your job as a hiring manager is to hire from the available people willing to work. Not to complain about them, not to try to &quot;educate&quot; them to be more to your liking.</p><p>[1]: <a href="https://www.salon.com/2025/01/06/gen-z-needs-office-etiquette-skills-hiring-managers-say/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">salon.com/2025/01/06/gen-z-nee</span><span class="invisible">ds-office-etiquette-skills-hiring-managers-say/</span></a></p>

<p>Q: what property do the Linux system administrator and the organic chemist share?<br />A: they make tar</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Copper good. Reps like</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fed.qaz.red/@elithebearded" class="u-url mention">@<span>elithebearded</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toad.social/@grumpybozo" class="u-url mention">@<span>grumpybozo</span></a></span> in B, apparently</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toad.social/@grumpybozo" class="u-url mention">@<span>grumpybozo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>Wasn&#39;t glob the first system utility written in C instead of assembly?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> yep I remember you talking about their “unique” part numbering a while ago around the time you were looking at their dev board schematics and found the one with the external clock that relied on USB being plugged in</p>