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@aescling @wallhackio read The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 8, Volume 3: Shell & Utilities

@aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ shakeskeare

@coriander @aescling just wait until a decade from now when the kids who were too young to remember the scandal grow up

@coriander @wallhackio the question is whether the ingredient you cannot locally source is as rare and particular as Cortas Eau de Rose ماء الورد – كل كلاب

@coriander @wallhackio that said i’m pretty sure our Cortas Eau de Rose ماء الورد – كل كلاب was probably purchased on amazon, albeit not by us

@coriander @wallhackio i have bought food i can’t find in my local grocery store on target

@aescling nothing on linux is standardized in the formal sense it is all just convention

@coriander Snoop Dogg reminds us of Starsky & Hutch, which reminds us of a time when Hey Ya! was still getting radio play, and we all wish Hey Ya! was still getting radio play because that song still bops

@wallhackio @aescling @vaporeon_ girls don’t want switch between ruby versions at any time girls want multi ruby release channel drifting thru shell PATH hacks

@aschmitz @aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ it was a medium deal during the ruby 2 to 3 upgrade when many older repositories were not yet ruby 3 compatible. i mostly haven't had compatibility issues since then and 3 to 4 seems like less of a jump, so unless you are on bullseye for some reason system ruby might be ok

@aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ i recommend using rbenv rather than installing ruby from a package manager because needing to switch ruby versions is common and a pain

rbenv says to install from git rather than use apt install because the latter is out of date

@freya @aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ libyaml is an old, probably fine but also amateur implementation of YAML 1.1 (the current version of YAML is 1.2.2)

YAML 1.1 is the reason why YAML has such a bad reputation and YAML 1.2 fixed a lot of the issues and is much better, but unfortunately the Ruby community (and especially the Rails community) has probably built too much infrastructure around YAML 1.1’s weird and quirky behaviour to ever make the switch

@aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ not a stable release, not updated in five years, not conforming to the current spec, and a major load‐bearing component of the Ruby ecosystem?

@coriander i was thinking this earlier but i think it also pertains to this so i will say it now:

it’s just the spaces that are getting worse

the schools are worse, the hangout spots are worse, the workplaces are worse, the internet is worse

i think we have pretty good evidence for all of these things

but are the people worse? idk, the people might be the same, could even be better, it’s hard to say when you only ever encounter them in a shitty environment

likewise, the art isn’t worse. there will never be art which responds better to the present moment than art being made now. but the publishing companies, radio stations, tv networks, movie studios, etc etc? yeah those have all gotten pretty bad

@aescling what horrible things have you been watching with unlikable bimbos