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imax @suboptimal.technology · 25/02/2026

Ah, `$(history -a)` runs in a subshell, so that value is never reset in the main shell process. The way to go is ```sh declare -a PROMPT_COMMAND PROMPT_COMMAND+=("history -a") ``` Unlike PS0, it would write history only after the command has finished, but I can live with that.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 24/02/2026

bash question: how to get it to append to history file immediately, w/o automatically making those commands propagated to all running shell instances? `PS0='$(history -a)'` kinda does it, but it doesn't move "already appended" pointer, so every time it writes all commands from the current session.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 25/02/2026

Weird, looking at the source code - `history -a` should work without duplicating entries:

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 24/02/2026

`PS0='$(history -a; history -c; history -r)'` (or other variations that include `history -r`) would avoid duplicating commands, but would also add to history commands from other shell instances.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 24/02/2026

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Today's date in Ukraine @time-and-date.in.ua · 30/01/2026

Today is: the 1460th of February, 2022

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 29/01/2026

How do I turn this crap off? Short of forking the frontend

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 16/01/2026

I think A/B testing is the red herring here, and I get annoyed every time some web UI changes for any reason outside my control 🥲 With desktop software I can usually get some comfort of "oh fuck, rolling it back!", to at least get a bit of time to mentally prepare for the inevitable.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 15/01/2026

(I also have started the work to employ Redmine as the moderator-facing side github.com/bsky-watch/m..., but have lost interest a while ago)

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Moderation stack for Bluesky. Contribute to bsky-watch/modkit development by creating an account on GitHub.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 11/01/2026

People who use Forgejo: is there some special dance required for Actions to push docker images to the built-in container registry? I'm authenticating with `${FORGEJO_TOKEN}`, but still get `unauthorized: reqPackageAccess`

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 04/01/2026

One issue I take with them though is that the heatsink absolutely sucks. Just a piece of aluminium, no heat-pipes, and heat transfer rate is very bad. It kinda works with the default 15W power limit, but at 35W it can't cool down the CPU below 80-90°C even with less than 1 core worth of CPU load.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 04/01/2026

And I want, at some point, to take them out of their cases, design and 3D-print required parts, and shove all 4 of them into a single 1U enclosure.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 04/01/2026

Update: account restored, reason for suspension was automated sending of moderation reports that was running for almost 2 years (I even forgot that it was there, LOL).

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 03/01/2026

Yup, and nobody is going to do anything about it. We've already seen this w.r.t. russia since 2014.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 03/01/2026

Thanks, I did send an appeal shortly before posting, but haven't got any reply yet. I'll keep waiting, since there's no other options available to me.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 03/01/2026

I still don't see a point in doing so 🙃 In practical terms there's very little difference between an account being taken down at a PDS level, AppView, or the relay.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 02/01/2026

Hey, @bnewbold.net , may I bother you to check what's going on?

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Bossett @bossett.social · 02/01/2026

one of the weirder things AI has given us is aggressively commented and rigourously formatted malware payloads

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 02/01/2026

At my current stage of life, exceptions to "mostly" are much more painful to deal with on Windows than on Linux 😅 But that's due to me being comfortable using various diagnostic tools and not being shy to read the source code (including kernel) when I don't understand from docs how it should work.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 01/01/2026

Not doing any of that, to the best of my knowledge. I've paid quite a bit of attention to properly handle rate limiting in particular.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 01/01/2026

I mean, I do have a couple of automations running, but they obey rate limits and don't do anything fishy.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 23/12/2025

Yeah, and communism is alluring in that way, presenting itself as giving power to the people. But it's never that simple, and there's never a precise and universal criteria for whom exactly the power needs to be taken from.

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Today's date in Ukraine @time-and-date.in.ua · 23/12/2025

Today is: the 1422nd of February, 2022

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 23/12/2025

Pro-tip: in your torrent client you can add other open trackers (e.g., from here github.com/ngosang/trac...), so that taking down bt[12].archive.org would not have much of an effect.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 23/12/2025

Over 1000 seeds already :) Magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:734abc77f48d11c78543c52004b6f57db71d6d92&dn=60minutes-cecotsegment&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 23/12/2025

Very sad to see people falling for communism again :(

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 23/12/2025

It's never "dictatorship of the proletariat". People with desire for power and skills to get it will still climb to the top. In some ways communism even makes it easier for them.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 23/12/2025

Trust me, communism is not gonna be fun either bsky.app/profile/subo...

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 22/12/2025

If there is a torrent, pls post it, I'll add it to my torrent client

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2025

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 22/12/2025

I think it's not even that useful to discuss "generating an index for a printed book" in the context of LLMs, and it's a disservice to that whitepaper to share it w/o explicitly noting that it's talking about a very specific kind of "indexing"

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 22/12/2025

Ok, it's a much more specific meaning of "indexing" that I thought initially. I agree, it *is* useful in a printed book. However, in an e-book Ctrl+F (i.e., simple word search) is good enough and often faster.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 22/12/2025

> human indexers Umm, I can't confidently say that that job doesn't exist anymore, but I can say that it's very much obsolete and we've been using computers for indexing for a while now.

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a man with long hair and a beard is asking what year is it

ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is asking what year is it

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 22/12/2025

About 50 installed operators later, I almost have a monitoring stack running on my home kubernetes cluster.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 22/12/2025

Especially since there's an easy solution: buy wherever and then pirate. I'm doing pretty much exactly that: buy books, strip DRM, and reupload them to the very same eReader I got DRM'd copies from.

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imax @suboptimal.technology · 20/12/2025

I'm not sure rust would be a good fit, but I'll take a decent replacement regardless

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