#soylent | Logs for 2021-11-29
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[00:30:56] <Subsentient> I'm really enjoying fish shell. You can do almost all of your text processing from within the shell process without calling out to external tools. Just wrote an strstr which will be useful, e.g.
[00:30:58] <Subsentient> ben@Blackbird [/home/ben] $ string sub -s (strstr 'derp' 'wibblederp') 'wibblederp'
[00:30:58] <Subsentient> derp
[00:31:32] <Subsentient> My strstr is:
[00:31:34] <Subsentient> # Defined interactively
[00:31:34] <Subsentient> function strstr
[00:31:34] <Subsentient> echo (string match --index -r $argv[1] $argv[2] | string split ' ')[1]
[00:31:34] <Subsentient> end
[00:32:35] <Subsentient> It's basically a Lua shell. It's awesome
[00:33:17] * Subsentient does a little chef's kiss of approval gesture
[01:58:29] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Pandemic Skyrockets in Europe; COVID is the No. 1 Cause of Death - https://sylnt.us
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[04:44:38] <Runaway1956> The wife crashed, for some reason, a Nighthawk system with three stations
[04:45:04] <Runaway1956> s /wife/wifi/
[04:45:10] <Runaway1956> nuts
[04:45:27] <Runaway1956> anyway, we rebooted, and the kid still couldn't connect.
[04:45:45] <Runaway1956> So, I shut everything down, rebooted the router first
[04:46:00] <Runaway1956> rebooted the master unit and waited for it to stop flashing
[04:46:01] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Physicists Detect Signs of Neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider - https://sylnt.us - found-at-last
[04:46:07] <Runaway1956> then rebooted both satellites
[04:46:28] <Runaway1956> Kid still couldn't connect, so he wanted to "sync" everything
[04:46:40] <Runaway1956> told me it probably wasn't synced to the modem
[04:46:59] <Runaway1956> all I could do was roll my eyes at him - how do you "sync" ethernet?
[04:48:07] <Runaway1956> I'm sure that the whole problem from start to finish was on his phone, network worked fine for me
[05:39:01] <chromas> could be some netgear bs
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[07:38:15] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - India Tells Starlink to Stop Offering Satellite Internet Without a License - https://sylnt.us - where's-OUR-cut?
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[10:17:27] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - The Self-Driving Trolley Problem: How Will AI Systems Make the Most Ethical Choices for All of Us? - https://sylnt.us - how-well-do-people-make-these-decisions?
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[13:01:22] <FatPhil> travel websites make me seasick
[13:07:32] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - EU Companies Issue Formal Complaint Against Microsoft OneDrive Windows Integration - https://sylnt.us - Halloween-documents-again?
[14:34:44] <Bytram> Don't know if anyone else noticed, but the site just reached a major milestone; our 1.2 millionth comment! ( https://soylentnews.org )
[14:34:44] <systemd> ^ 03SoylentNews Comments | Which LISP? ( https://soylentnews.org )
[14:40:37] <janrinok> I hadn't noticed - but it is the sort of milestone that I will enjoy pointing out to Ari when next he is criticising the site!
[14:44:13] <Bytram> soylentnews++
[14:44:14] <Bender> karma - soylentnews: 10
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[15:45:59] <FatPhil> anyone know about shitty laptop touchpads' mechanical properties? my idiotic lenovo is now getting ghost events from its touchpad, which makes it practically unusable.
[15:54:28] <boru> No nipple?
[15:54:41] <boru> Or is this not a pretend thinkpad?
[15:57:01] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - The Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer's Clever Exponential Circuit, Reverse-Engineered - https://sylnt.us - freq-out
[15:59:53] <Bytram> FatPhil: A thought? With it powered off, try giving the pad a thorough cleaning (if you feel daring, and if a simple cleaning with a lint-free cloth does not do the trick, try again using rubbing alcohol)
[16:04:14] <inz> My fondlepad usually gets back to working order by a simple rmmod psmouse; modprobe psmouse
[18:17:02] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Why We Can't Teach Cybersecurity - https://sylnt.us - security-theatre-guild
[19:09:10] <Bytram> FatPhil: Any luck cleaning your pad?
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[20:06:43] <FatPhil> cleaning was the first thing I did, but it's totally mental - it's registering touches when nothing's touching it or near it. it's a bleedin' liability.
[20:19:26] <Bytram> FatPhil: blarg. I imagine the warrant has expired? Maybe you can connect an external wired/wireless mouse or external track pad... which I'll grant you is "less than ideal"
[20:21:27] <Bytram> My primary system is a laptop, but I've run it with eternal keyboard and wireless mouse for years. =)
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[20:51:49] <FatPhil> I've always hated trackpads ever since I first saw a mac with one in the 90s.
[20:52:42] <FatPhil> annoyingly, on this x240, there are no hard buttons, so if I disable the trackpad, I can't use the nipple, as I have no buttons :/
[20:53:12] <FatPhil> lenovo had a particularly retarded period, which peaked when I was in need of a new laptop.
[20:54:15] <FatPhil> G/f's home and work lappies are x250 and x270, and they've got real buttons rather than soft buttons as part of the pad. So clearly they realised that they'd made a mistake.
[20:56:49] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - ESA’s Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Has Skimmed Earth For A Risky Gravity Assist - https://sylnt.us - wheeeee!
[22:25:40] <Runaway1956> So, I got curious about a set of headphones for the MacBook
[22:25:55] <Runaway1956> Do a search, and the first thing pops up is Beats Dr Dre
[22:26:25] <Runaway1956> A couple searches reveal that there are several Beats headphones - as well as earbuds and similar crap
[22:26:45] <Runaway1956> Search for sources to buy them, and they are all highly priced
[22:27:05] <Runaway1956> Do yet another search or four, and you learn that NONE OF THEM are very good.
[22:27:39] <Runaway1956> Audiophiles have a number of recommendations for headphones for Apple gear, none of them produced by Apple
[22:28:10] <Runaway1956> Strangely enough, some of those recommendations are what you would have to call "budget" priced
[22:28:37] <Runaway1956> while others are as expensive as Beats, and even more expensive
[23:00:14] <FatPhil> They are the shittest quality you can imagine. I wouldn't by Beats by Dre any more than I'd buy Whiskey by Dre. It's a pure branding/marketting bullshitfest.
[23:07:12] <Runaway1956> So what do you use FatPhil?
[23:07:52] <Runaway1956> Linus Tech Tips just turned me off of Soundcore - bass heavy, which I don't need
[23:10:10] <Runaway1956> This guy almost has me sold on Sony - https://www.youtube.com
[23:10:12] <systemd> ^ 03Sony WH-1000XM4 Review: The Final Form!
[23:12:27] <progo> I'll never forgive sony for the audio cd rootkit debacle
[23:12:44] <progo> I wasn't hit by it; it's just unforgiveable
[23:12:57] <Runaway1956> Mmmm, that slipped my mind progo
[23:13:43] <progo> also around that time I had a sony pre-netbook-era netbook with a wifi card without a firmware upgrade, because the card was rebranded as Sony and no one would take ownership of rebranding the available firmware upgrade
[23:13:54] <progo> couldn't connect to the wifi router I had
[23:14:18] <progo> today, with that tech and no DRM I probably could fix it now. but I didn't know how to then; I just knew the rebranding was the issue
[23:15:03] <progo> of course now it's standard to abandon devices that need software updates, after 6 months on the market
[23:15:15] <progo> *end of rant. sony bad.
[23:15:16] <Runaway1956> Reminds me of early days of 64 bit - wireless drivers sometimes needed to be "decorated"
[23:31:14] <FatPhil> Runaway1956: I have some old Sennheisers from the 90s, but I never use headphones nowadays.
[23:31:49] <FatPhil> correction - 80s.
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[23:52:19] <Runaway1956> I had a Sennheiser - until the dog ate it. Since then, I've only had cheapos.