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Nooooo! My numberinos!

21.11.2025 23:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Welcome to another edition of "Adventures in Man Pages!"
Today's excerpt is from plutil(1):

STANDARDS
The plutil command obeys no one's rules but its own.

12.11.2025 22:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not much has changed tbh.

"There is no documentation yet; anyone crazy enough to volunteer? I may get around to it eventually."

-- Robert W. Scheifler describing his work on the X Window System in 1984

Source: www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml

24.10.2025 20:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YES THANK YOU

08.09.2025 18:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As it should. Now is the time we lean in.

06.09.2025 21:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looks exciting!

16.08.2025 20:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A person sitting in front of a wall of books.  The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."

A person sitting in front of a wall of books. The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."

30.06.2025 21:46 👍 21776 🔁 5279 💬 294 📌 228
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Rare audio. Celia Black, 1974 - 114 years old, remembering the slave fields. Her voice isn't ancient history — it's a reminder we're only a generation removed from this.

Think you know American history? You don't.

🧠ERASED reveals what they buried.
📖Read it. Share it: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

06.06.2025 13:37 👍 2780 🔁 925 💬 76 📌 36
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And no Lesbians & Bisexual women don’t commit a higher rate of domestic violence here are the facts:

06.06.2025 22:27 👍 26 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 1

Source: web.archive.org/web/20250515...

Snapshot used due to the Trump administration pressuring the CDC to alter its website through EOs.

07.06.2025 14:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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And who they didn't approve of

06.06.2025 10:19 👍 21918 🔁 3924 💬 541 📌 165
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07.06.2025 12:49 👍 22983 🔁 6649 💬 405 📌 218

Context is really important. If your tech friends don't think so just ask them to explain this excerpt from an extremely common utility's manual:

"Phoniness is not inherited: the prerequisites of a phony target are not themselves phony, unless explicitly declared to be so."

13.05.2025 19:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it's giving NGE

26.04.2025 15:21 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OMG this was beautiful 😭

26.04.2025 15:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People keep prattling on about this ChatGPT model that has "PhD level intelligence."

As someone who's spent 20 years cleaning up "PhD level" code for production I can tell you that your his is not the flex you think it is.

17.04.2025 20:40 👍 118 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1