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    10 months ago

    I prefer the extremely intuitive:

    [C-R]=system("grep -P "PPid:\t(\d+)" /proc/$$/status | cut -f2 | xargs kill -9")

    or

    i:!grep -P "PPid:\t(\d+)" /proc/$$/status | cut -f2 | xargs kill -9[esc]Y:@"[cr]

    It just rolls off the fingers, doesn’t it?

    Edit: damn it lemmy didn’t like my meme because it assumes that characters between angle brackets are html tags :( you ruined it lemmy

    EDIT 2: rewrote it, just assume that square brackets are buttons not characters


  • in this case the instruction set is extremely small (and includes open source verilog, so you could even fab it yourself)

    quote from the website:

    The CPU of the TKey is a modified version of PicoRV32, 32-bit RISC-V running at 18 MHz. Modifications includes a fast 32x32 multiplier implemented using the multiplier blocks in the iCE40 DSPs as well as a HW trap function.

    The supported instruction set supported by the CPU is a subset of RV32I. Specifically it includes compressed instructions, but excludes instructions for:

    • Counters
    • System
    • Synch
    • CSR access
    • Change level
    • Trap redirect
    • Interrupt
    • MMU

    The instruction set implemented by the CPU also includes multiplication instructions from the RV32IC_Zmmul (-march=rv32iczmmul) extension. Division is not supported.

    Any illegal, unsupported instruction will halt the CPU. The halted CPU is detected by the hardware, which will blink the RGB LED with red to indicate the error state. There is no way for the CPU to exit the trap state besides a power cycle of the device.

    Note that the CPU has no support for interrupts. No instructions, ports or logic.






    • In Australia, a kilogram of apples weighs two kilograms
    • In Australia, gravity is an opinion
    • In Australia, if you have three kangaroos and two koalas you have 9 wombats
    • In Australia, if you pay $15 for a $20 dollar meal the restaurant owes you $400
    • In Australia, right angles are 69 degrees
    • In Australia, 1 is more than 2 except when you write it on its side
    • In Australia, a minute is 2 seconds long, which is 24 hours out of the 6 hours in a day
    • In Australia, the square root of any number is “a dingo’s breakfast”
    • In Australia, dividing by two doubles the number, as sharing is caring.
    • In Australia, if you travel north you’ll end up south
    • In Australia, the shortest distance between two points is the scenic route
    • In Australia, a watch moves counter clockwise, to remind you not to live in the past.
    • In Australia, counter clockwise always means the following order: 1, 26, 55, 0, 0, 0, 9999, kangaroo, spider, mate
    • In Australia, your left hand is always your right, because we don’t like to leave any hand behind.
    • In Australia, the speed of light is adjustable depending on how bright the sun is shining.
    • In Australia, when you whisper, the sound travels faster than when you shout

  • I don’t want to believe this, my brain is refusing to process that statement, I have stared at that article in a state of disbelief for a minute. Surely someone can’t be that stupid, right?

    I have heard plenty of brain dead arguments by anti-encryption people, but this is by far the stupidest. There is no way, there is just no way that he’s so… I want to say brain dead, but that would imply that there is even a brain there for it to be dead.

    Regardless of political affiliation, or even the individual’s stance on encryption, surely there can’t be a single person that heard that statement and didn’t laugh at it, right?

    Perhaps the Australian stereotype of being upside down holds some truth, considering his… utterance; he must walk on his hands and constantly get bit by snakes and attacked by drop bears on his daily commute, that’s the only explanation for how someone can make such a statement





  • Reminder that Google is supposedly a real tech company, yet they’ve failed at:

    • Podcasts
    • Whiteboards
    • Domains
    • AB testing tools
    • Phone services
    • Phone contracts
    • Physical albums
    • Copying other companies
    • Copying other companies
    • Chatbots
    • A different chatbot
    • Social media
    • Social media
    • Social media
    • Social media
    • Gaming
    • Video calls
    • Video calls
    • Video calls
    • Music
    • Music
    • Selling routers
    • Making TV Shows
    • Selling TV Shows
    • Streaming TV Shows
    • Surveys
    • Video hosting
    • File storage
    • Website building
    • Bookmark managers
    • Shopping
    • VR
    • VR
    • Home assistants

    (No, I don’t have any repetitions, yes I missed a few)


  • Bonus tip:

    ci" means change inside “” ca" means change around “”

    the " can be replaced with any of: ({[wspbt

    For changing inside or around parentheses, curky brackets, square brackets, words, sentences, paragraphs, code blocks and HTML tags respectively.

    So for example if you want to replace all parameters in a function call you just do ci(

    But that’s not all, the c is one of the possible operators, but not the only one.

    di{ deletes the content of a block ya[ copies the content of something inside square brackets g~iw swaps the case of a word guis makes a sentence lower case gUip makes a paragraph upper case

    And the most useless one: g?at replaces the content of an HTML tag with its rot13






  • I will tell you something that most people won’t: you don’t have to use those websites.

    It doesn’t matter how important you think they are, you can take a stand by not using them if they don’t respect you.

    Do you know the reasoning behind the common saying “the united states doesn’t engage with terrorists”? Politics aside, it’s because engaging with your enemy legitimizes or empowers them. By refusing to negotiate or engage with terrorists, the policy aims to avoid granting them recognition or validation for their methods.

    You can take the same stance; when a website stops working with non-chromium browsers you stop using it. You IMMEDIATELY stop using it, even better if you pay them money, you should IMMEDIATELY cancel citing that they’re stealing your intellectual freedom. If the US government does the same and you’re required to use a chromium browser to fill out your taxes for example, do it on paper, give them a message that you’d rather not use technology than have guns pointed at you



  • I have thought about this for a long time, basically since the release of ChatGPT, and the problem in my opinion is that certain people have been fooled into believing that LLMs are actual intelligence.

    The average person severely underestimates how complex human cognition, intelligence and consciousness are. They equate the ability of LLMs to generate coherent and contextually appropriate responses with true intelligence or understanding, when it’s anything but.

    In a hypothetical world where you had a dice with billions of sides, or a wheel with billions of slots, each shifting their weight with grains of sand, depending on the previous roll or spin, the outcome would closely resemble the output of an LLM. In essence LLMs operate by rapidly sifting through a vast array of pre-learned patterns and associations, much like the shifting sands in the analogy, to generate responses that seem intelligent and coherent.