While I welcome anything that improves shell scripting and this certainly does a nice job of it, reading the documentation just reminds me why I do all my automation in Python these days.

You’re not going to believe this, but I’ve got an even better suggestion! Easy to remember too: it’s just one word, and it happens to be the same the previous advice started with.

“…And conclusively proves that there are no pedophiles in the GOP. Also that the Democratic Party is run by reptillian aliens from Alpha Centauri, which I really think we ought to focus on instead. Why are you laughing? This is serious, people!”

The US Supreme Court and “light” versions of anything edible.

Everything tends towards the absurd if taken too far. That is doubly true for bureaucracy.

“Anything to declare?”

“Yeah, I hereby declare that I just survived going to the moon and back strapped to the tip of a humongous explosive tube and that I need a shower, my wife and a fluffy bed in that order. As you’re none of those things, you can piss right off.”

That’s great news! Strengthening ties to other nations more interested in creation than destruction and stimulating R&D across borders are both very worthy aims.

Ah, common issue. When that happens, you just start using your toes.

This being the Internet, that’s definitely also a valid option.

It was nice knowing you guys.

Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we’re programmers! That’s what code generation is for.

That’s a good point, even though I’m not a fan of how you chose to deliver it.

Kindergarten-level divide and conquer. I know that, you know that. Everybody knows that. Question is: Does Trump know that?

At least he finally let go of the fake trophy that replaced the one he stole, so I guess it could have been worse.

Tell that too Google. And Microsoft. And OpenAI. And X. And…

Um. If you use the file encrypted with a weak keyphrase a the key for a second round, how would you decrypt the result unless you keep the first-stage encrypted file around, thus defeating the purpose?

There’s a lot of decent models out there, these days. The following are all solid options:

• F5-TTS (https://github.com/SWivid/F5-TTS.git)
• Sesame CSM (git@github.com:SesameAILabs/csm.git)
• SparkTTS (https://github.com/SparkAudio/Spark-TTS)
• Kokoro (https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro)

I didn’t really need additional evidence that business is increasingly divorcing itself from actual consumer needs, but here it is anyway.

It really doesn’t. I highly doubt there isn’t office politics going on inside Microsoft, Apple and Google, but unlike them, Linux development is all public. If anything, that’s likely to curtail a lot of bad behavior rather than encourage it.

Eh. It’s not like we’d be getting anywhere at sub-light speeds regardless and a working Alcubierre drive isn’t exactly right around the corner.

On the other hand, it might make it harder for anybody with working FTL to get to us, which is probably a good thing. If they saw how we’re conducting ourselves at the moment, orbital bombardment would be the best we could hope for.