Notices by jornucopia (jordan@sometimes.social)

@foone Some terminals provide functionality like this via Zmodem - you drag a file into the window and it types something like “rz file name” into the session and then pipes it in. I think at least iTerm2 on the Mac does this.

@foone oh, bother

Lots of user interfaces optimize for mass accretion but very few optimize for mass deletion :/

If your app manages multiple things, and it is possible to delete those things, please please please let me select a bunch of those things at once and then delete them at a single go

This reads like a GNN report from Master of Orion that one of the empires is close to failing: https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/boston-market-store-closures-illinois/

@foone I know you got the ambassadors already but maybe we can get this guy on Death Generator?

tfw they unintentionally ask about one of your special interests and they are not prepared

@foone full-size expansion card on a centerfold

@SuperSelena64 Is this Pretendo? @limes is On Here, doncha know

@damianogerli Mein leben!

@damianogerli

@foone @Gammitin Is the ICQ of today the same network as the ICQ of yore? I thought at some point mail.ru killed the original network and rolled out completely different software under the ICQ brand.

@foone @jenniferplusplus @eniko

@foone What's up with the machines that have a port that's both colors? What's up with the machines that use Y cables for keyboard and mouse? I never understood how they seemed to be interchangable (and could even one port with both wired into it?) in some contexts but not others.

@fgaz At a job long in the past, I had a coworker who was very enamored of a particular do-everything Python library which I will not name at this time. This library included some built-in logging facilities, but he didn't actually need the log for the thing he was making, so he set it to log to `/dev/null`.

It turns out that this library had automatic log rotation built in. The way it worked was that it kept track of the number of bytes written to a log, and when it crossed a certain threshold, it would rename the file it was logging to, and open a new log file.

Unfortunately, the thing my coworker built ran as `root`. It started up and ran fine for a while, merrily logging to `/dev/null` as instructed. After a while, though, it noticed "oh hey I've written more than a megabyte of logs, time to rotate the log file" - it then renamed `/dev/null` to `/dev/null.YYYY-mm-dd.HH:MM:SS` and created a new `/dev/null` that was just a regular text file. From that point onward, anything that got written to `/dev/null` actually got written to disk. Chaos ensued.

That one took a whole day to figure out...