Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@attie" class="u-url mention">@<span>attie</span></a></span> oh yeah it's legitimate it's not a fishing scam but it's still wild. A company is actively making the phones worth worse with two days notice. On a device that we supposedly own?! They are breaking them from afar in many cases. Again two days notice and no details. It's so slimy.</p>
<p>Alright, I may be fairly slow realizing it, but the headline starting with "Why everyone's obsessed with …" is just an ad for the thing. It's okay that you haven't heard about it before, they're just trying to FOMO you.</p>
<p>I right clicked on "self" and clicked "show definition" and Sublime freaked out, it presented me with a list of like 60 options for different things that might have been the definition of self and it couldn't tell which is the real one, and I was like is this a metaphor</p>
<p>"Legacy code" is often code that you want to replace because you don't understand it. The problem is, before you can replace it, you need to understand it, and, once you understand it, replacing it is rarely the cheapest option any more.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SoftwareEngineering</span></a></p>
<p>It's only I2C if it comes from the semiconductor region of Philips, else it's just two wire interface</p>
<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 "GeForce 8400 GS" and didn'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'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> "give me all the files starting with this prefix" feels very close to "et cetera"</p>
<p>"Gen Z needs office etiquette skills, hiring managers say" [1]</p><p>Let me rephrase that for you: hiring managers who don'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 "educate" 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>