pmk @ pmk @lemmy.sdf.org

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I've had this idea a few times over the years, but I always get stuck at figuring out: what is it actually I want to happen? If I remove a local file, should it be removed from the backup too? If I edit a file, should the newer version replace the old in the backup, or be saved separately, or just the delta between the files? I could never decide what I wanted.

An hour to find a notepad? Most desktop environments come with some simple text editor. And if you're running something minimal, there's always nano or vim.
If some software is not found by apt search, I usually start to wonder, is it not free software? In that case I'd rather find an alternative. Some times I have to go to the softwares web site, where they have install instructions, but that's the exception.

Is it known which distro they are using?

Some good advice about surveillance self-defense while attending a protest:
https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

Check the 6 month graph:
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy

Oh! I misunderstood.

Hans Island could become the biggest trading hub in the north.

That looks really nice!
(Meanwhile, the old UNIX legends etc: https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/ )

Canada is nice, I want to be friends with Canada.

Recently I decided to try ed for real and used it exclusively for a coding project. There is a certain joy in the simplicity, but ultimately I found myself printing lines and searching files more than I liked. And rewriting long lines instead of getting the substitutions wrong again.

Is edlin still around?

The thing about Moomin books is that they are also dark, one character is pretty much depression personified. I hope they won't make this into a "disney version" of Moomin.

Maybe it can be translated into something else, like, "Documentation is like toilet paper, when it's good it's good, when it's bad it's better than nothing"? Or, "Documentation is like clothes, even if they are bad it's better than nothing", or "Documentation is like having something you need, it's better to have the thing you need even if is not good, than to not have the thing you need at all"?

Aha, as I thought then, thanks :) (As a young kid I was afraid of a fictional character called Banarne, so I think I can relate to this feeling.)

Maybe this isn't the right place to ask, but what's the story behind your user name? Not sure why, but for some reason I have always wondered. It's ok if it's secret.

I love his art :)

It seems interesting! But like, it's $43 to get the URL to watch it on my computer?

ed is the standard entertainer.

Is there something for lemmy what snac is to mastodon? Like, something with a small footprint that is easy to set up on a cheap vps?

Didn't they have a fundraiser a few months ago where they got 130000 CAD? Not saying it's wrong to have more fundraisers, but what happened with that?
Edit: it was pixelfed, not peertube