You can do some wild shit with pipes:

• head -10 /var/log/syslog - Look at the first ten lines of one of your log files, with timestamps on the front
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 - Splits the lines by a space delimiter (the -d' ' part), and grabs the first “field” (the one with the timestamp, using -f1)
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 - Splits the timestamp at the “T”, and leaves only the date
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - Gives you a count of each date
• grep systemd /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - For only the lines with ‘systemd’ on it, gives you a count of each date

The standard GNU toolkit has a ton of utilities like that for doing stuff with text files.

He already knows this, but of course, like everything else out of his mouth, he can’t help but lie. There is no “saying the quiet part out loud”, because 100% of what he says is a lie.

I’ve been using DDG for a bit, and honestly, it’s kinda garbage. They are just borrowing data from Bing, and it shows.

Nothing is “an apocalypse” for anything.

JFC, people, stop pushing these extreme opinions on AI. It is not simultaneously the solution to everything and the end of the world. It’s just a goddamn tool.

It’s almost as bad as the opposition’s comparison of it to Skynet. People are never going to understand technology without applying some fucking nuance.

Stop hyping new technology… in either direction.

Only the Sith believe in absolutes.

We’re talking about software engineers, not plumbers.

Then don’t live there.

I’m sorry, but I can’t sympathize with normal people with normal salaries that choose to live in the most expensive cities in the world, and then discover that they can’t afford shit, especially when they find themselves out of a job.

Move out, find towns that are affordable, go work for employers that embrace remote work, get a normal salary, and enjoy a low cost-of-living.

It is 2025. The job market is global and remote work is now. If you’re relying on salary to be magically tied to where you live, then you obviously don’t know how capitalism works.

Shitty media’s greatest trick is cherry-picking and anecdotal “evidence”.

You personally? You’re going to take it by force?

So, when democracy is dismantled in the next year or two, and it’s no longer possible to “take it by legislation” or “re-write the tax code”, you personally are going to take it by force?

With what? Do you have a gun? What you are going to take it with? A shovel?

That would cost them money. Changing their name costs them almost nothing.

Also remember, some of this is engineered by both parties to distract us from the everyday realities we are facing.

Funny how one party seems to push this sort of shit way way more than another party.

Don’t take your eye off the prize. We want a centrally planned economy, we want universal healthcare, we want federally funded infrastructure projects,

I just want a functioning democracy, one with less fascists and corruption in it.

and we’re gonna take that money from the wealthy.

And how are you going to do that? Are you willing to take it by force? Because that’s the only way it’s going to happen. You have to take it by force.

Here’s your damn nuance: “In Germany, we’ve removed all Nazi symbols and references. Unlike films and other works of art, video games in Germany are forbidden to use such symbols and references as they are classified in Germany as toys and not media art.”

Toys? Sorry, I’m not going to call The New Order a toy, nor most of the other story-centric video games I play.

Oh, geesh, where have I heard this pattern before with technology? Is it self-driving cars? Remember when the sky was falling because everybody said car transportation was going to change overnight because a bunch of fucking college students figured out how to win a self-driving car race. Where the hell is my fully-autonomous Level 5 self-driving car that was going to replace all of the truck driving jobs? Oh, what’s that? Are all of the jobs still here?

Technology moves the needle. It does not jam it all the way to the other side. Stop spending trillions of dollars on pipe dreams, only to have to force expectations back to reality ten years later.

Those assholes don’t give a shit about “freedom of art” when video games like Wolfenstien can’t get released in Germany.

Sooo, American Gods?

you see in Yeezus that he’s kinda bringing the experiments of groups like CLPPNG and Death Grips to the mainstream.

You mean this Yeezus merch? This was the same timeframe. (Sorry, different concert. This was later.) He wanted people to buy this shit as a bundle with a concert ticket.

Also, Death Grips was already mainstream. They didn’t need some insane motherfucker to sample their work to get popular.

Only off by a few orders of 10^x.

Typical shit journalism can’t be bothered to look at the units on their calculator.

Yeah, no need to resort to linking to Reason.com articles.

Funny, and I just noticed in my YouTube feed: “Satire Isn’t Dead, It’s Ineffective”

I wonder why.