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Re:Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @11:11AM (#47426776)
Given that Rob Pike seems to think having a shell script that uses tar is better than having a `-r` flag for cp [1], I wouldn't give much weight to his philosophy of programming :P.

[1]: https://wiki.c2.com/?WhatIsNotInPlanNine

Oh, I consider flamebaiting trolling. But flamebaiting isn't cyberbullying or harassment or whatever these people think trolling means.
Re:You can't download this image on Sunday November 28, 2021 @12:51AM (#29366532)

  $ wget https://youcantdownloadthisimage.online/lisa.jpg
wait for like 5 seconds for it to finish downloading and then hit ctrl-c
Isn't Facebook already censored and guarded strictly? And you won't have wild free parts for grownups if you let the government legislate against "trolls" and "bigots" on the internet. Today they'll just force Facebook into removing "harmful" content but you are incredibly naive if you think they'll stop there.
>trolls

I hate their usage of 'troll' too. To me, 'troll' means a guy who argues about 0.9 bar not equaling 1 in a math forum. I have no idea what the hell these people mean when they say 'troll'.

Re:IRCv3 Spec round-up on Thursday November 18, 2021 @07:49AM (#29264817)
All those points apply to XMPP too, and it's way easier to set up Prosody on a server. Are there any specific reasons why you think Matrix is the next IRC and not XMPP?