I rewrote a one-line shell script of mine as a Rust program. This is silly, of course. The shell script is part of a bunch of small scripts of mine that I've packaged as a deb package. I want to get rid of that.
OTOH, with Rust, clap, and serde, it was easy to add optional JSON output. So there's that. I also don't like shell.
The script wasn't even one line, there was some scaffolding around
find "$dir" -printf x | wc -c
https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/radicle.liw.fi/rad%3AzFTqZ3gCdUBCYwjsQ4vAeUNCNMTM
Is the problem that teens use social media or that they use social media that's highly optimized to enrage and addict?
I'm not a parent and haven't followed research on this. But all the news stories I've seen equate social media with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and X. I don't know snapchat, but F and I are run by people who help genocide happen and the last one by an actual nazi. Those can't be good for anyone, never mind children.
Has anyone studied how the fediverse affects its users?
Ruritania might be worth a visit in the near future.
Like SMTP before it, S3 lies about being simple.
#snark
I am starting to think that maybe, possibly, there is a hint of a chance that I may, perhaps, not be entirely an evening person anymore. It's before 06:00 where I am and I've just woken up and I'm sipping tea and writing code.
I did some LAN troubleshooting at home. It seems one of the inter-connection cables is wonky or was badly in its RJ-45. Things work now.
I saved Christmas again.
I wanted to add an option to run a command repeatedly until a time limit is reached to my repeatcmd program. The internal logic got so convoluted that I rewrote it all to use a command interpreter pattern. This let me fix several other problems too.
And that's how I saved Christmas at 05:00 today You're welcome.
I am often deeply disappointed in the computing field and my younger self. For almost everyone in the field, the goal is quickly growing businesses and revenues as big as possible, by any means possible, even if they are harmful.
I was into startups once, hoping to get rich. I'm not happy about that.
I am now convinced that every business must have the short and long term well-being of their staff, customers, and humanity at large as their primary priority.
I'm not yet happy with myself.
I hereby declare that the term "smart" in combination with a device such as a TV or phone is short for "surveillance machines are really tedious". Now you know.
My latest startup venture develops self-propelled goalposts for debates and all kinds of football (soccer, rugby, armpit-egg). It uses large language models (what pundits who don't know what they're talking about call "AI") to detect when movement is necessary and in what direction to allow you go win an online argument or make a goal.
My email is open for investment proposals. Serious proposals only! I don't have time for jokes or investors without billions to give me.
Lars Wirzenius