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Jellyfin on FreeBSD - a new great article by @jhx for the BSD Cafe Journal!

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  • @oblomov oh 100% - more moisture in the atmosphere; more evaporation from the Great Lakes; more erratic polar front leading to vortexes - it's all climate change.

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  • Okay, a bunch of you referenced writing essays yesterday, so now I'm curious:

    How often have you wrote an essay since you've left school?

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  • @GaiaFinn @vladh

    the chonkiest borb in the sky.

    Or on the ground at least.

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  • An unexpectedly confusing typo:

    I tried to run a program under gdb, but found it had no debugging symbols. Recalled the compile command, added '-g -O0' to the end, hit Return, tried again. _Still_ no debugging symbols. What went wrong?

    Turned out I hadn't hit Return after all. I had hit Alt+#. Presumably, # because it's right next to Return, and Alt because I hadn't quite let go of it from some previous readline keystroke.

    Alt+# invokes a bash readline command that _comments out_ the entire line of shell input, by inserting # at the start and then behaving as if you'd pressed Return to enter the line. So instead of entering a compile command, I'd entered a comment, and so the executable file had not been rewritten.

    And of course I had been _expecting_ no output from the compile command, and also expecting it to complete more or less instantly (because it was a tiny test program), so the only clue I could have spotted was the # appearing at the front of the command when I entered it, and until I noticed that, I was completely baffled!

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  • @francina1909 **Marilyn Monroe, **quello famoso dove passa sopra un tombino e le svolazza la gonna. Quando mi misi con la mia futura moglie, me lo fece togliere...

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  • @tess (also I know you most likely know that, I'm just venting)

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  • @tess and you probably wouldn't be that far from the truth. Sadly, this is something that a lot of people don't / won't / won't want to understand, that global warning also means more unstable weather and more unstable weather can also mean more frequently exceptional snow.

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