Matthew Graybosch @starbreaker@octodon.social

I succeeded in #writing almost 600 words tonight using nothing but ed(1), the same line editor Ken Thompson used to write the original Unix.

One sentence per line.
A blank line in between paragraphs.
No going back to edit previous lines.

We call ed(1) the standard Unix editor, but it might be better to call it the standard text composer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)

Cue the crocodile tears for the demise of Toys R Us, a shitty retail chain that has finally succumbed to incompetent management and an inability to compete.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-toys-r-us-nostalgia-20180626-story.html

I look forward to the death of all corporate brick and mortar retailers.

Maybe I don't have /etc/doas.conf set up correctly, but using doas to install pandoc 2.2.1 on OpenBSD using the instructions on https://deftly.net/posts/2017-10-12-using-cabal-on-openbsd.html by @qbit didn't work for me. I kept getting out of memory issues no matter what I did with /etc/login.conf and ulimit.

I don't recall having this trouble with Pandoc 1.x, but no matter. Running "cabal install pandoc" as root and adding symlinks from /usr/local/cabal/bin/ to /usr/local/bin/ was what worked for me.

Here's a challenge for #writers using osx, linux, or bsd: try #writing a passage using ed(1), the classic line-oriented editor.

1. Write each sentence on a separate line.
2. Add a blank line between paragraphs.
3. Don't try to go back and edit previous lines.

Let's see how far you can go. :)

@mwlucas

I've been reading #EdMastery and decided to spring for the paperback so I can refer to it while writing.

Dammit, Anthony Kennedy. Not that he was ever a reliably liberal or progressive judge, but he couldn't have waited another year on the off-chance that Democrats would GET THEIR FUCKING SHIT TOGETHER and take over the Senate?

Asshole.

I had all my hair shaved off (No. 1 buzz cut) because my wife lost her hair to chemotherapy, and now I've got people who never noticed me before coming out of the fucking woodwork to interrupt me when I'm working to "offer their sympathy".

I was just a name on the payroll for the last five years to you, until now. I don't want your fucking sympathy. I want my wife to have both her tits, her hair, and not have fucking cancer. Just leave me alone and let me work, dammit.

57% of tech workers are burned out. I bet half of the rest are lying to themselves.

And yet we still don't have an effective trade union.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/57-percent-of-tech-workers-are-suffering-from-job-burnout/

If we're going to have concentration camps in the US, the inmate population should consist exclusively of Trump voters.

They wanted fascism, so let's give it to them good and hard, and rub their fucking noses in the consequences. How else are they to learn?

These eyes ungoverned are tearing us apart
Their ears forsaken have given up on art
Now why believe in anything they praise
When one hand holds them the victor
While the other holds the shovel to their grave

I stood by everything I loved
While you never understood me much
Cause there's only one of me
And too many of you fighting over nothing
Oh there's never enough cool for everyone
And before you know it, you're selling out to be in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5iA4V4Mlds