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[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Utah: Monticello (Italian, but locally pronounced “monta sell-oh”)

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

You're telling me there is no Walla Walla, England?

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago

Or authors could preëmptively declare their works to be in the public domain upon their death.

I wish Creative Commons had a license like that. Something like CC PDD (Public-Domain-on-Death) which would activate upon the creator's death, allowing them and publishers to freely monetize their work while they're alive, but which would release the work into the public domain immediately after.

It might even incentivize music and book publishers to get their artists health insurance. 😃

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 41 points 3 weeks ago

“Create a python script to count the number of r characters are present in the string strawberry.”

The number of 'r' characters in 'strawberry' is: 2

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago

“That all life beyond this planet never existed, no matter how irrationally improbable that may be.”

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 94 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Based on my cheatsheet, GNU Coreutils, sed, awk, ImageMagick, exiftool, jdupes, rsync, jq, par2, parallel, tar and xz utils are examples of commands that I frequently use but whose developers I don't believe receive any significant cashflow despite the huge benefit they provide to software developers. The last one was basically taken over in by a nation-state hacking team until the subtle backdoor for OpenSSH was found in 2024-03 by some Microsoft guy not doing his assigned job.

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago

Can't wait for the day when Uncle Sam to turns brown.

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Imagine if a lost Spanish armada finally arrived at Florida, centuries late, musket-wielding conquistadors raiding a coastal naval academy while a prominent political VIP was giving a speech, taking them hostage like Hernán Cortés did with Moctezuma II (Aztec Empire) or Francisco Pizarro with Atahualpa (Inca Empire).

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it involved a planet called …

spoiler… Sky's Edge, if I recall correctly. Except the “new tech” was not FTL (not a thing in Revelation Space canon) but the practice of ejecting a significant fraction of hibernating colonists and their supplies to buff their deceleration ability in order to hold higher interstellar velocity for longer so as to get a few years “edge” in lead time over other generation ships. All to enable the traitorous ship of the generation ship fleet to raid planetary resources sooner to build up military forces to raid the slower latecomers.

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