Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the “na na na nah nah nah na” parts of the Three’s Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • Yeah. On the surface it seems like it would be a positive. But in practice, it shields people from criticism of their behavior.

    Yeah, yeah, “use your words” and all that, but some comments are just so brain-dead or trollish that they’re not worth a response, and even a downvote is expending far more effort than the comment is worth. So the person who made it sees 3 upvotes but not the 50 downvotes, so their takeaway is that “wow, 3 people liked my braindead comment” rather than everyone except 3 people hated it.

    I get the appeal of disabling downvotes, but if I say something stupid, I wanna know.


















  • The thing about these deprecated tools is that the replacements either suck, are too convoluted, don’t give you the same info, or are overly verbose/obtuse.

    ifconfig gave you the most relevant information for the network interfaces almost like a dashboard: IP, MAC address, link status, TX/RX packet counts and errors, etc. You can get that with ip but you’ve got to add a bunch of arguments, make multiple calls with different arguments, and it’s still not quite what ifconfig was.

    Similarly, iwconfig gave you that same “dashboard” like information for your wireless adapters. I use iw to configure but iwconfig was my go-to for viewing useful information about it. Don’t get me started on how much I hate iw’s syntax and verbosity.

    They can pry scp out of my cold dead hands.

    At least nftables is syntax-compatible.