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Congrats @terdon on your quarter-million points!

then I get a rental with a manual shift and no automatic doodads

:shrug:

Belated congratulations to telcoM on their 100k! Keep up the great answers!

Congratulations to Stéphane Chazelas for finding a gold mine in October and becoming the third person to earn a Gold badge in the terminal tag as well as becoming the FIRST person to earn a Gold badge in the pipe tag!

Congratulations to Kusalananda for becoming this community's FIRST person to earn a Gold badge in the json tag!

@jesse_b Go rouge. Have two.

Congratulations to GAD3R for becoming only the third person to earn a Gold badge in the Ubuntu tag!

Belated congratulations, @jesse_b, on earning this community's lucky 13th shell-script Gold badge!

for people using bash in inappropriate circumstances

although out of curiosity I decided to google myself and on the first page of results it's me talking about throwing used car batteries in the ocean so I'm sure that isn't good

... and congratulations to Stéphane on 500k!

unix.stackexchange.com/help/ai-policy

Oh, FFS!

I know there are fans of xkcd and What If? here: youtube.com/@xkcd_whatif

actually this is a bit niche, but interesting for some people: I’ve rescued the Make package in Debian, so we’ll get Make 4.4.1 soon (it’s in experimental already)

the fun thing to do once you have installer images available over PXE is to scare visitors (if you know the PXE hotkey for their laptop) ;-)

That reminds me of a hot tip: have an installation/recovery image of your favourite disto available using PXE on your network, it simplifies many scenarios.

I... just saw a KB article from $vendor explaining how thing X doesn't always work properly because they (try to) parse the output of ls -l using cut -d' ', and it breaks if^H^H when the timestamp has extra spaces. I know people post slightly questionable ls-parsing on the site every once in a while, but seeing it live is different. And this isn't even some newlines-in-filenames corner-case. I need a drink.

@jesse_b Everything is okay.

(That link goes to a video of a group of people enjoying a “raclette” in the Paris métro.)

I think I've said this in a previous conversation on this topic before but you're already legendary to us

Congratulations to Tim, who has just topped 100k reputation points on U&L!

Congratulations to roaima, who just crested 100k on U&L!

A second edition of The AWK Programming Language is coming out soon: awk.dev

Congratulations to @Kusalananda for reaching an amazing 300,000 reputation points!

snort :P

RIP Steve Wilhite, inventor of the GIF

who let another emacs user in here?!?

@jesse_b Out of all my stalkers, you're my favourite.

Oh, hey, nice find @jesse_b and happy birthday @Kusalananda!

@StephenKitt sounds like a missed opportunity for SE to add a note on Answers with awarded bounties, saying "Praise be!"

I think my rule of thumb would be that the internal workings of the project (e.g. "how do I report bugs") are off topic, but using the result of the project is not. That question about submitting patches to the kernel is annoying though cause it's kind of in the middle and screws up my nice and simple taxonomy of topics :/

@FaheemMitha I assume you're doing your usual thing of not actually checking what it is, right?

> PHP can also be seen as the Justin Bieber of programming tools. Both prove conclusively that you don't have to be good to be popular.

"insecure" is not a meaningful term without a threat model

The "S" in IoT stands for "security".

By the way, @NikeDattani, I notice you've been doing this sort of thing a lot. Please stop. "Question dumping", the practice of entering random chat rooms and dumping a link to a question with no context or explanation isn't welcome.