Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
You say this, but then you discover $HISTTIMEFORMAT which helps records when you last ran a command as a comment in the history file and Ctrl+R won’t tell you that information.
The hard part with adopting that, though, is editing in plausible looking dates for commands that were issued before it was set up (or choosing not to and dealing with the confusion until those commands disappear off the top of the history).
Reminds me of the game that I believe was intended as a thought-provoking artwork. Every enemy that was killed deleted a file off the computer it was installed on. For real. No take backs. Zap that monster and the file’s gone.
Just looked it up and it’s called lose/lose and is for macOS circa 2009, but I could have sworn something similar existed in the Win95 era. (Although it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve thought something was from an earlier decade.)
Oof. I see where I’ve gone wrong. I’ve jumped to erasing people who already exist and not just those who might never exist. Those aren’t the same thing. (Not being sarcastic here, I’m acknowledging that fact.)
Edit: I’ve jumped too far to reach to a conclusion here. Left for posterity.
So, what you’re saying is that everyone who was alive in Germany at the end of WWII should have been murdered?
Look at yourself.
It depends, and it’s not necessarily the same answer every time even if it’s the same player(s) playing the same scenario in the same game over and over.
We should be wary of making blanket statements like that. That way fascism lies. The only thing that’s horribly wrong with Russian “culture” at the moment is the desire to subjugate Ukraine, and by extension, any desire to do the same to other countries once that’s done.
Everyone in Russia who doesn’t share that particular world view is keeping their head down - or, as this article implies, refusing to breed with those of that world view. Or else, for reasons related to the fact that those of that world view exist.
Should they rise up and topple the oligarchy? Easier said than done. It takes courage the average person (Russian or otherwise) doesn’t have. And Putin is skilled at making people and their families suffer if they step out of line.
All the other problems Russia has exist at least in part in other countries not allied with them. Should those countries also pack up and die?
This isn’t Russia apology. I firmly believe they need to quit this needless war, bring their troops home and stay the heck out of Ukraine until trust can be regained. That might take centuries but the first step is an easy one.
This is going to be incredibly confusing for the people who spring into existence as a result of the change but have memories consistent with them never having existed. I mean, what would their memories even be?! And it would be even more confusing for their living ancestors who may find that as well as now having (grand)children they have no memory of, the ones they do have memories of suddenly no longer exist.
There are dozens of us. Dozens!