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12:01 PM
@berserk cc ^ that video is pretty useful
to understanding *nix basics
 
ok thanks, gonna check :)
currently working on compiling that program
 
Also, Keringhan is awesome. He's so energetic in that video and even now, when he's older !
 
my net is slow :( been so many time, still downloading qt sdk
btw I noticed something
I am not sure, but it seems like my wi-fi range got low in ubuntu
I experienced both with office and home wifi
I disconnect a lot at office now
and the connectivity is not that strong as was in windows
I guess my laptop has issues.
 
@berserk could be a driver issue. That's a common problem. What I have on both Toshiba laptops is the realtek cards, those are good.
Also could be power management for wifi
 
I have realtek.
 
12:05 PM
you'd need to disable that
 
oh okay, let me check
 
I clicked and it is loading @Serg. The thumbnail looks familiar.
 
I wanna have terminal just like in the video, those blue cathode ray screens, mmmm
 
I have some fresh homemade donuts and some coffee.
 
yay!
happy dance
 
12:07 PM
What'd you get working?
 
installing qt sdk :p
was yaying for donuts :d
 
Ah... Donuts are the food of the gods!
 
:o
 
Or police officers.
 
@ByteCommander I dont think OP understands why he needs to avoid open() . . . .people in the comments of the last question seemed to tell him to use it or something . . .i dunno . . .
 
12:10 PM
@Serg But if there's no reason to avoid open() - well, then there's just no reason to avoid open()!
 
I never get to eat proper filled donuts.
Just a little bit cream filled.
I want full creamy ones :3
 
Diabetic or something?
 
no lol
 
@ByteCommander I don't know python . . .and i don't know what OP wants . . . but i suspect he is trying to get at something after that other question
 
Just never get such donuts here
 
12:12 PM
Oh! That's horrible!
I'm pretty sure that's against at least several UN regulations, specifically torture and other abuses.
Cruel and unusual.
 
lol
 
I think my translator girl didn't expect me to translate as far as i got and as soon as i got .. . .
 
Nice.
 
Typical me: wait until the last minute, freak out, do 70% of stuff . . .go insane . . . get 3 hours of sleep . . . repeat
 
It's Dennis Ritchie! LOL
 
12:18 PM
YAS !!!!
The father of C
im not worthy
 
Me either. :(
At around 16 minutes you can hear the computer running in the background. It was loud. :D
 
OK, i have send back the 3/4 of the translation to my translator lady
I'm gonna go off to bed
 
Sleep well!
 
Did a mayor cleanup on a 3 years old Q/A. Looks slightly better.
 
Good night :)
 
12:25 PM
G'night @Serg.
I too should crash soon. It will be a while, however.
 
@ByteCommander @KGIII thanks folks, adios !
 
Buenos noches.
 
@KGIII You don't really master foreign languages, do you? ;-) It's "Buenas noches"
 
Dude, I can barely speak English. :D
 
Because "la noche" is female.
Is that ironically or isn't English your first language?
 
12:28 PM
You should hear me butcher it vocally! :P
English is, sadly, my first language.
 
Actually, I speak Spanish fairly well but I have no idea how it is spelled. I've had no formal study. I can communicate in Mexico and most of South America well enough but that is just from having been there often and having spent enough time in Latino communities.
Unless you want to count a year of Spanish in high school some number of years ago.
 
Oli
@AvinashRaj Re my SO-Python question, they're not Strings, that's just a repl of real objects to show what's happening.
 
I'd guess that would have been around 1973. ;-) I don't remember a bit of it.
 
@KGIII That explains it. My last Spanish classes were just about 2.5 years ago...
 
12:35 PM
Also, the Spanish we learned had absolutely nothing to do with the Spanish spoken south of the US border. :/
Hmm... Mi estudia Espanole en escuala... LOL Yeah, it was a long, long time ago. My brain has been filled up a few times since and that stuff has just leaked out. But I can survive well enough when I travel in that area. I usually have to ask people to slow down for the first week or so but then I pick up the speed.
It being high school, well, I'd not really consider it very formal. I managed to score well enough to pass but I don't recall it being an exceptional score - I dare say it was likely somewhere near average.
 
That's at least enough to survive if somebody drops you in Mexico or Spain! :D
 
Hmm... Mi necito una cervasa por favor. Gracias!
 
LOL, this question is about how to open a file in Python without "open()", and 2/3 answers just tell the OP to use "open()" (one of them is mine). And both of them have higher scores (one is even accepted) thatn the one that actually answers the question! >:D
 
Whilst I no longer drink, that line has come in handy many times.
 
Es una cerveza!
 
12:41 PM
Gracias!
 
¡De nada!
 
No clue how to spell any of it. If I had to spell it, I'd... Well, I'd use an online translator and show them the results on my phone or tablet.
 
Hoping to have a mobile connection...
I still prefer the dead-tree version of a dictionary for real-life.
 
I have patience and will make due until then unless some strange alien creature comes down, scoops me up for a good anal probing (not sure why aliens would come all the way here to probe our butts), and then drops me back off in the wrong country because he messed up the coordinates.
But hey, I'll be able to order a beer. :D
 
kos
I just nuked /etc/skel. :(
 
12:50 PM
@KGIII You're also from that alien-with-tentacles-affine generation like @Fabby? o.O
I'll never understand that...
 
No, no... That's not really my thing.
 
@kos I think you can "apt-get install --reinstall base-files"
but maybe check the package first, I'm not 100% sure what's in there
 
$ ll /etc/skel
total 40
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Okt 21 18:01 ./
drwxr-xr-x 152 root root 12288 Nov 23 09:57 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   220 Sep  1 01:27 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3771 Sep  1 01:27 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  8980 Okt  4  2013 examples.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   675 Sep  1 01:27 .profile
Actually there are only those 4 files in /etc/skel
 
@ByteCommander that looks normal
sorry, I thought you had asked about it :P
 
Mine does not have an examples.desktop in it.
 
12:56 PM
apparently though the files are put there by the bash package
 
$ ll /etc/skel
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 11:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x 162 root root 12288 Nov 23 05:52 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220 Aug 31 19:27 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3771 Aug 31 19:27 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 675 Aug 31 19:27 .profile
 
@StefanoPalazzo Hi Stefano - how are you ? Did you have a nice weekend ? :)
 
hi :)
yeah not too bad
first snow
 
here as well
but not much
 
Hmm... Are you folks in New England area?
 
12:58 PM
no from Germany
 
Berlin (:
 
Heh. They got snow in Maine, USA (and in my current location - Buffalo, NY) last night too.
 
me deepest SW
 
kos
@StefanoPalazzo Thanks! That's it. The weirdness is I reinstalled it as you suggested but no file was copied to /etc/skel. No idea why, I'll just copy them from the source package.
 
I've a camera that points out across the lawn so I can see the fresh snow. It wasn't much, maybe 2-4 cm it looks like.
 
1:00 PM
@ByteCommander I am a tentacled alien
 
Every time I see tentacled alien, I think of Japan's cartoons. :/
 
cool
I bet winter in new england is much nicer than the grey sludge we get
 
@StefanoPalazzo It is absolutely beautiful. Last year we got somewhere around 2.5 meters of snow where I live. Probably closer to 3 meters.
This is down in the village. There's no snow there yet. I live up on a mountain, north west of here: rangeleymaine.com/webcams
I am not home and probably won't get home much before spring at the rate I'm going.
Once you get up into the mountains there's snow, however. :D So, there's that. There is actually more snow here in Buffalo but that's lake effect snow. Buffalo is on the Great Lakes.
 
looks beautiful
 
My house is about 24 miles NW of that location. :D It's wonderful. You should see it in autumn. It's vibrant.
The foliage season is something to behold. It's one of the big draws, people come from all over the world to see it. It's one of the many reasons that I chose to retire there.
Anyhow, I need to get a couple of hours of sleep. It's 0810 and I need to be awake at 1100 to be at an appointment for 1300. So, I shall return before I take off or not long after I get back. If all goes well, I'm able to be on the road again tomorrow morning or Friday morning.
G'night @all.
 
1:12 PM
@cl-netbox thank you.
 
Anonymous
@Mateo thank you for the link. Did I get an old version of git because 14 is lts right now?
 
Oli
@HunterStevens Yes. LTS users are on 1.9.1 while the latest upstream version is 2.6.3.
There are stable update versions made available though: launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
 
Anonymous
@Oli Thank you
 
Anonymous
Are there any stability issues with the latest 15.10? (W I think?)
 
Oli
@HunterStevens Impossible to say without actually testing it on real hardware. If it's a production system, I'd still recommend the LTS if only because you get 5 years without having to upgrade (rather than 9 months)
I have both 14.04 and 15.10 systems. They're both fine on my hardware.
 
Anonymous
1:28 PM
@Oli I am using xubuntu in a VM on my personal computer
 
1:47 PM
in Shadow's Den on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 3 mins ago, by UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE
Tell them from me thanks for the AU answer
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lol I was about to post
 
I am faster
 
ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
 
People here are silent
 
Not really. I spoke in stars a couple of times since you've been here.
 
1:59 PM
@Serg something for you? askubuntu.com/q/701515/367165
 
@ShadowWizard Midday to afternoon EDT is the best time to find people chatting here. Or late night EDT... like 2-3 AM. I think there's an India presence, and their afternoon/evening is probably that time, so it lines up nicely.
 
@Serg and after that, this Q: askubuntu.com/q/701500/367165 =)
 
@xiaodongjie you're welcome :)
 
@A.B. Don't forward questions with typos in the title please. If it's important enough to call in someone, then it's important enough to fix the typo.
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@hbdgaf cool, will keep that in mind!
 
2:04 PM
when I came here, there were many people talking, and very helpful :)
 
@UNI you can get pings while suspended?
 
in Shadow's Den on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 59 secs ago, by UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE
@Sha yes I can
 
@berserk Most of the people here try to be helpful.
 
@ShadowWizard I WIN THIZ TIMEZ! ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
 
2:06 PM
So you got node upgraded?
 
lol yeah on it
Actually I am certain I downloaded latest
 
wondering if people here are cruel enough to ping attack @UNI while he can't retaliate ;)
 
sudo apt-get install nodejs
that's what I used I guess
I am not cruel! I won't ping @Uni for no reason
 
@ShadowWizard If that's what you're after, take it to the bridge. They'll happily play that game.
 
@Sha please don't ping @Uni unnecessarily.
lol
 
2:08 PM
Well played, @ber, well played
 
lol
 
throwing node on @ber and getting back to Den
 
kicks @Sha to den
:p
wget -qO- deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo bash -
 
this place feels more like IRC every day...
4
 
I ran this command, guess it is updating it
I am noob at ubuntu :3
lol
 
2:11 PM
glowers at all the people who can't seem to control their behavior on the not-irc channel ;-)
 
D:
My node updating finally!
 
2:35 PM
@hbdgaf What are you talking about?
 
@hbdgaf This two questions are good questions for @Serg to learn something about package problems. Where is your problem?
 
2:58 PM
@A.B. He just asked you to take the time and fix the question since you've found it.
 
@terdon Don't understand, as I said, this two questions are good questions for @Serg to learn something about package problems. Not more no less. I'm confused.
 
How is my answer here? I'd love some comments/reviews (and votes ;D) because I'm not 100% sure if the part about file systems (last paragraph) is correct.
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A: Is closing a file after having opened it with `open()` required in Python?

Byte CommanderWhen do files get closed? As we can learn from Is explicitly closing files important? (StackOverflow), the Python interpreter closes the file in the following cases: you manually invoke the close() method of a file object explicitly or implicitly by leaving a with open(...): block. This works ...

Oh, did our mod jrg change his username?
James ♦, Cleveland, OH
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@A.B. Yes, he's just saying that there was a typo in the title and asked you to edit it. He is assuming (and may be wrong, of course) that you noticed the typo and didn't fix it.
 
dunno what's more scarier - the name change or the picture...
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That was really evil! >:D
 
3:04 PM
@terdon you are a peace maker =)
 
kos
@ByteCommander Very thorough answer, love it!
BTW do you or @terdon happen to know if that's the same for Perl? If yes mind to quickly share? I've always wondered.
 
I never touched a single line of Perl yet... :-/
 
@kos If what's the same for perl?
 
kos
@terdon Right, sorry, I'm talking about this: askubuntu.com/questions/701491/…, but in Perl. Do you actually need to close files once opened?
 
@kos Ah, no, you don't but it's good practice.
 
user139252
3:10 PM
@Fabby I thought you had a cat... One who enjoyed waffles.
 
And we should close that question, by the way. It's not about scripting on Ubuntu, it's asking a general question about the language. Even I would call that off topic here.
 
user139252
Also, guys, my really lame game site is better now!
 
kos
@terdon Thanks. Yes, I usually do in fact, but didn't really know if that was actually needed.
@terdon Indeed. Voting to close.
 
@kos It isn't needed, strictly speaking. There are some esoteric reasons why it's always a good idea but, as I recall, Perl will also close it automatically once it goes out of scope. Hang on, let me see if I can find a reference.
 
@HeatherBrown Tetris =)
 
3:13 PM
@HeatherBrown Hey, you've got a wise cow there! LOL :D
 
> The filehandle will be closed when its reference count reaches zero. If it is a lexically scoped variable declared with my, that usually means the end of the enclosing scope. However, this automatic close does not check for errors, so it is better to explicitly close filehandles, especially those used for writing:
 
Welcome! Please choose a game! 7
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< Snow Day -- stay home. >
 ------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
It's indeed snowy.
 
user139252
It's a psychic cow.
 
user139252
@ByteCommander It's an IRC, gotta use a '/' to leave :P
 
Aha. I'm not familiar with that. managed to leave with CTRL+C.
 
kos
3:20 PM
@terdon Thanks. I hate help-vampiring but do you also have a very quick explanation for what exactly reference count means? Is it just the number of references past the last one? Otherwise don't worry, I'll dig the documentation myself
 
@kos That's not help vampirism! To be an HV, you'd have to ask many questions while not showing any inclination that you are able or willing to make any effort yourself.
 
If anyone knows AppArmor, I offer a +50 bounty on my question here: askubuntu.com/q/699539/367990
 
kos
@terdon Yeah, well, technically I could just dig the documentation (I partially did that here but it doesn't seem too helpful. So I was wondering if anyone had it in the hat).
 
I'm so fixed up.
No one can explain
find . type -f -iname '*.exe'
what does 'type' do really?
I know type explains the command but what magic does it do above.
 
@Saladin Give a syntax error. -type f (and not type -f) searches for regular files only.
       -type c
              File is of type c:

              b      block (buffered) special

              c      character (unbuffered) special

              d      directory

              p      named pipe (FIFO)

              f      regular file

              l      symbolic link; this is never true if the -L option or the
                     -follow option is in effect, unless the symbolic link  is
                     broken.  If you want to search for symbolic links when -L
                     is in effect, use -xtype.
 
3:35 PM
@terdon I can do find / -name '*.exe' or i cannot what is '-type' for
why is 'type is necessary'
 
@Saladin It isn't necessary, it's completely optional. Without it, that search will also return symlinks, directories, dev files and whatever else ends in .exe. With it, it will only show regular files.
It depends on what you want to do. It is often used to exclude directories from a search, for example.
 
@terdon consider this ' find . -type -f iname '*.exe' -exec grep -e '\d' {} \;
here it cannot be done without 'type'? right
 
Yes? If you fix the syntax error, that will find only files whose names end in .exe.
@Saladin Of course it can, why not?
 
@terdon using xargs? or can you please show alternate usage
 
@Saladin I don't understand. Just run the same command without the -type it will work. It'll just give errors if your search also returns directories but that's because grep will compalin, not find.
 
3:41 PM
understood @terdon :)
How was your day?
 
Fine, thanks.
 
You had food?
 
@A.B. You have an idea why the package version from the PPA is not recognized here: askubuntu.com/q/701547/367990
 
Does Ubuntu use https for package management?
 
it uses http
https is also used.
 
3:50 PM
I think I am being hacked. Some package names have {a} like python{a} and I'm getting GPG errors
 
no hacked.
apt-get update and then
try again.
sometimes GPG error is occurred.
it's not error.
 
Is there a distro that uses https excluvisely for package managent?
 
I think that the repository is in updating at that time.
No, I think that there is no.
 
Oli
@Wally Uses in what respect?
 
For downloading packages
 
3:57 PM
@ByteCommander reading :)
 
Oh, and if you did not notice yet, I placed a 50 bounty on my AppArmor problem.
28 mins ago, by Byte Commander
If anyone knows AppArmor, I offer a +50 bounty on my question here: http://askubuntu.com/q/699539/367990
 
Oli
@Wally Ubuntu can if you replace the mirrors with ones that are using HTTPS, or use a proxy that uses HTTPS. It's just not required because all the packages (and lists) are signed. It's [near-]impossible for somebody to tamper with a package mid-network.
 
@ByteCommander I think, the OP has installed a PHP version without the package manager. Check with command -v php
 
kos
I can't see a way to list previously protected question in the profile, I'm assuming there's none?
 
@ByteCommander sorry, no. I'm wrong
 
4:05 PM
@A.B. Is there a help page for command anywhere? It doesn't work with man or info and does not react on --help. And googling for a command called "command" is rather tricky...
 
@ByteCommander Builtins are documented in help:
$ help command
command: command [-pVv] command [arg ...]
    Execute a simple command or display information about commands.

    Runs COMMAND with ARGS suppressing  shell function lookup, or display
    information about the specified COMMANDs.  Can be used to invoke commands
    on disk when a function with the same name exists.

    Options:
      -p	use a default value for PATH that is guaranteed to find all of
    	the standard utilities
      -v	print a description of COMMAND similar to the `type' builtin
 
@ByteCommander if apt-get update was successfully, the package should be available
 
Basically, if type foo returns "shell builtin", you need to run help foo.
 
@terdon Ah, thanks! Learned something for the future. :-)
 
user139252
Skeleton crew at work this week
 
user139252
4:15 PM
Monopoly party!
 
4:35 PM
:D Grab all the browns and light blues.
That's how I win.
 
What if they replace the GPG keys and force me to remove the GPG keys and dowload them again
 
user136984
5:17 PM
@Mateo: Yes, of course I meant a computer fan! :D
 
user136984
Hovercats! :D
 
user136984
 
Is this "low-quality"? askubuntu.com/a/701588/367165
 
Please remember me to never set a block size of 2G for dd again!
 
@A.B. no. That'd be an other flag.
 
user136984
5:22 PM
@muru: Yes, 200 kb per second.
 
@Seth "Not an aswer"?
 
@A.B. Very low quality is for garbage that other flags don't fit.
@A.B. does it attempt to answer the question? Yes. So not NAA.
 
@Seth ok
 
"Other" -> "already covered by the accepted answer posted x years ago" would do.
 
@Seth Ok, I understand
 
5:24 PM
:)
 
@Seth the answer ... deleted =)
 
@Seth And why does "plain wrong" not fit "low quality" then?
 
> This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.
VLQ == absolute garbage that doesn't attempt to answer the asked question.
you can occasionally get away with "attempts to answer a different question" as well.
 
"This answer has severe [...] content problems." contains "plain wrong" for me...
 
@ByteCommander well you have to define plain wrong first so..
 
5:28 PM
@Seth Not "plain wrong", but an answer on which I had put a flag that came back: askubuntu.com/a/700416/367990
And as what should we flag link-only answers?
NAA or LQ?
 
@ByteCommander Plain wrong should be downvoted, not flagged.
 
@ByteCommander NAA.
@ByteCommander reading..
@terdon basically this.
 
@Seth can I borrow your moderator smacking hammer for a few minutes?
 
what's up Thomas?
 
There's even a canned flag response stating that flags shouldn't be used for outright wrong answers.
 
5:30 PM
@terdon Usually I agree, but in some cases I really feel the need of having something removed. And the description of the LQ vote should probably be edited to reflect this.
 
either my irritability because no money for coffee, or this person fancies themselves a moderator who can tell people what to do.
 
@ByteCommander anything that falls under "some cases" should use an "other" flag. Explain your reasoning.
 
(and if that second one is valid, then that user has just earned a place on my list of people I dislike for eternity.)
 
@ByteCommander That's what voting is for. Once it has enough downvotes, regular users can vote to delete. It really isn't something that should be dealt with by mods. Especially since, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, we're just humans. You can't assume the mod will always know that an answer is wrong.
 
@Seth Okay, will go annoy some mods then... ;-)
 
5:32 PM
@terdon though moderators DO know when to break up arguments, which i think is the more important action :P
 
@ByteCommander good "other" flags tend to annoy us less because we don't have to guess what you are thinking if it isn't obvious ;)
 
Okay.
 
@ThomasW. ya whut
 
@Seth either i'm irritable beyond comparison, or that user is trying to say "Stop flagging and commenting" when my comments are valid.
 
sending that terdon's way I think.
 
5:33 PM
(and if they're trying to control other users' commenting capacity, they can take this here stick, and... [Content removed for public-viewing-rating concerns])
 
I don't think they're trying to be controlling per se.
 
then i'm overly irritable, but the original point applies.
i should really get coffee
that's why i'm so irritable - no coffee :/
 
@Seth Great. More Kali :(. But yeah, do. It is on topic on U&L and, wonder of wonders, it's not a bad question despite its being about Kali!
 
@terdon why do you keep deleting your good comments :P
 
@Seth Because you just deleted the others so they were rendered irrelevant :)
 
5:35 PM
lol
 
@terdon You U&L'ers do hate Kali. More then we do even!
 
@Seth Nah, it's just that Kali attracts clueless aspiring script kiddies like honey does flies. 90% of the Kali questions we get are crap.
 
@Seth But why?
 
@terdon Stupid question, was there ever a post regarding Kali and repairing one of the tools on Kali 2 to work again?
because there's a huge headache with one of those tools :P
 
@ThomasW. I don't remember any, no. I don't look into the Kali tag much though. It's too painful.
 
5:39 PM
heheh
pretty sure there wasn't such a q, i was searching 3 weeks ago
(finally solved it)
 
@A.B. because lots of ignorant people (try to) install Kali because they think it will make them some elite haxor or something.
 
(and yes I have a kali machine)
 
Really it just makes them look like fools..
hate for the stupid questions those people ask kinda spills over to hate for kali itself
 
kos
 
@kos heheh
 
kos
5:41 PM
XD
 
I had Kali a while and played a bit e.g. with aircrack, but then dropped it again as, uhm... well, it did not turn me into "some elite haxor" :D
 
:P
 
user139252
@ByteCommander Did you get into using metasploit on it?
 
i'm taking pentesting classes, so Kali is kind of a req for those courses, if only because its got the tools
 
user139252
That's where the fun is.
 
5:44 PM
@HeatherBrown I had it open 2 or 3 times, but did not really have a chance to play with it. Lack of potential target, knowledge of the commands, etc...
 
kos
@ByteCommander I cracked my friend's WEP [un]protected wifi network using BackTrack once :D
 
broke a WPA2 network recently, though that was in a controlled lab environment i owned lol
took 3 days to break the passcode xD
 
kos
Shouldn't this be closed by the way? -> askubuntu.com/questions/701477/…
@ThomasW. For sure better than the 10 minutes it takes to break an average WEP network. :D
 
@kos Well i had to JTR the password, so... :P
but that's offtopic here :)
throws /dev/urandom into the chat as he disappears
 
whoa
new changes to clicking "more comments". It now highlights the new ones!
@kos yeah probably..
 
kos
5:52 PM
@Seth Nice, I didn't notice
What am I missing here? That's bizarre: askubuntu.com/q/701616/380067
Apparently there's no way to print -n using echo
 

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