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Written by Lynnesbian :bune_ylw: on 2024-08-10 at 00:26

we need british tabloids for technology

"I WAS IN TEARS" - liverpool mum SHOCKED by APALLING UI CHANGES in POPULAR EMAIL CLIENT - are YOU affected?

NOT SO ZEN: critics SLAM new ryzen chips in TELL-ALL BENCHMARKS - nutty AMD engineers go for "energy efficiency"! PLUS: VEXING AVX-512!

CRONTAB CATASTROPHE - how one simple command could WIPE your CRONTAB

YOU DOT EXE? COPING WITH COPILOT - it can WRITE YOUR EMAILS, ATTEND YOUR MEETINGS... is meddling microsoft planning to replace brits with AI VERSIONS of THEMSELVES?

"I COULD HAVE LOST IT ALL": how a BALMY BTRFS CONFIG nearly RUINED BARRY'S LIFE

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Written by Scott marsroverdriver Maxwell on 2024-08-10 at 01:24

@lynnesbian Incidentally, one of my crontab entries does basically "crontab -l >~/.crontab" -- backing up my crontab to a local file -- nightly ever since I realized how easy it would be to silently remove it. Have I ever actually needed it? Look, today might be the day; you never know.

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Written by Lynnesbian :bune_ylw: on 2024-08-11 at 01:58

@marsroverdriver sure, you could keep regular backups to protect yourself against the case where you type crontab -r instead of crontab -e...

or, you could take the much simpler approach of switching to an entirely new keyboard layout like dvorak, where the R and E keys are far enough apart that it'll never be a problem!

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Written by Scott marsroverdriver Maxwell on 2024-08-21 at 22:31

@lynnesbian I am always a fan of solving a problem by reducing it to a more complex one. :-P ;-)

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