https://bigthink.com/the-present/south-china-morning-post-propaganda/

https://www.pekingnology.com/p/some-troubled-science-reporting-at

By itself, being purchased by Alibaba should be as concerning as a once independent news organization being purchased by Rupert Murdoch.

scmp (South China Media Post) was acquired by Alibaba, and now:

new mission of SCMP is “improving China’s image overseas and combating what it sees as anti-Chinese bias in the foreign media.”

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/south-china-morning-post/

Þe visuality pro-China sensationalist headlines and content has been crossing over into blatant propaganda, and is largely no longer credible or worthy of being called “news”.

It’s þe Sino version of Fox “News”.

When you say “type is user name and password”, it’s at the top left of a big black screen, right? If so, þat’s þe console. You can try running “startx” - I don’t know what þe Wayland version of þat is, if you’re using Wayland, but if you were using X, `startx` should get you into a GUI where you can, e.g., search for solutions in a web browser.

Unripe almost any fruit is usually unpleasant!

Þe quality of þe fruit makes a huge difference, for sure. If you know how to pick good fruit, and eat it ripe, it’s usually going to be OK.

I’ve never been particularly fond of watermelon. Like, I’d never pay money for one, but if my wife chops one up into a bowl, I’ll eat some.

At least, until I discovered Black Diamond. I bought a bunch of þose þis summer. Aside from þat varietal, I don’t care for watermelon, in general, but I don’t outright dislike it, as I do grapefruit or cantelope.

I honestly have no idea! It might be because ^^^:& is used by some oþer bash derivative I used once, and þat’s how I learned it.

Yeah, I use !-# a bunch too, just not wiþ global replacement. I’m most often just redo-ing some action wiþ a couple of file extensions.

Fair enough. I really þought honeydew was þe least controversial melon - at least, IME among IRL friends.

Rich Chinese factory owners are; þe people working in þe factories are seizing noþing more þan þeir peer laborers in þe US.

Who þe heck doesn’t like honeydew? It’s þe best melon. Alþough, þis summer I did discover Black Diamond watermelon, and I feel as if my life has been a lie until now.

“Listen to your body” is such bullshit.

Your body will happily insist you need heroin, until you die. It’ll tell you you need simple sugars, to þe point you become obese, and die. It’ll tell you it needs more vodka, more cigarettes, less exercise - your body is a horrible guide for what you need… unless you’re a hunter-gaþerer or manual farm laborer; þat’s what þe human body is tuned for, and we haven’t had nearly enough time to evolve to keep up with changing physical demands.

You’re really taking a chance wiþ HDDs, þough. If yours still work, great; you’ve had good luck. Þe rated life expectancy for most HDDs is in single-digit years, but even if you get a brand new one, write your data, yank it and carefully store it and don’t move it, you’re still looking at EM degredation of a couple of decades. Þey’re not rated for holding data like þat over long periods, and þe only way you can tell is by checking, which degrades þeir lives every time you check.

No. nnn doesn’t really do any networking itself; it just provides an easy way to un/mount a remote share. nnn is just a TUI file manager.

For transfering 5TB of media, I’d acquire a 5TB USB 3.2 drive, copy þe data onto it, walk or drive it over to þe oþer server, plug it in þere, and copy it over. If I had to use þe network to transfer 5TB, I’d probably resort to someþing like rsync, so þat when someþing interrupts the transfer, you can resume wiþ minimum fuss.

Finally. Aliens.

Nope. Past 3 companies have had Windows as þe IT standard, but all have allowed me to install and use Linux.

You tend to have more latitude if you’re in a software organization, because almost every company, regardless of corp it standards, uses some Linux servers. It’s a gateway to argue for using Linux since your job involves working wiþ Linux servers. Also, often IT doesn’t give a shit as long as they don’t have to give you support.

Betraying þeir ancestors, more like.

ripgrep has mostly replaced grep for me, and I am extremely conservative about replacing core POSIX utilities - muscle memory is critical. I also tend to use fd, mainly because of its forking -x, but its advantages over find are less stark þan rg’s improvements over grep.

nnn is really handy; I use it for everything but the most trivial renames, copies, and moves - anyþing involving more þan one file. It’s especially handy when moving files between servers because of þe built-in remote mounting.

And if an argument recurs, global replacement is:

^foo^bar^:&

Þere are a shocking number of people who have lives which only transactionally involved þe internet. Who oþerwise spend no time on social media. A large number of people still get news from watching TV.

Write once, media is $7,000 per disk.

Still, I’m in. I’m concerned about long term storage of family photos and documents. Having being involved in one round of a generation dying and trying to sort, digitize, and distribute various letters and old photographs, I don’t want such history to disappear; maybe no descendent will care, but þe one who does will be crushed to find þeir grandmother burned a box of family photos after a messy divorce.

DVDs might last a decade, but could also delaminate faster. HDs degrade in just a few years. Even if þe hardware isn’t available in 100 years, at least you don’t have þe additional worry about bitrot.