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gnomon

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Robertson screwdriver owner, believer in the value of personal-scale computing and skeptic of the value of computing scales any larger than that

(previously https://twitter.com/gnomon ; account de-funked)

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loren , to random
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Shrimp

gnomon ,
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@loren shraaaaaaamp

kuba , (edited ) to random
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Ok so here's a linux question that's been bugging me for years.

I sometimes less to display/paginate a streaming stdout from another program. When I press END key on the keyboard, it brings me to the bottom of the stream, the latest data it has.

Then it says "Waiting for data... (^X or interrupt to abort)"

I want it to stop waiting for data and let me scroll up as it usually does when it's not waiting for data.

EDIT: Solved in

https://mastodon.social/@gnomon/112565743587893108

and

https://social.tchncs.de/@thomasmey/112565649508431258 🙏

gnomon ,
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@kuba you're doing the right thing! Or at least you're doing what should produce the result you want according to the default configuration of less(1).

However you say you're invoking less "indirectly" with journalctl; do you mean you're running journalctl ... | less, or just running journalctl and letting it invoke less(1) itself as the default pager? If the latter, it's useful to know that systemd invokes less with some quite non-default options!

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/shared/pager.c

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gnomon ,
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@kuba If you consult the systemd documentation and the entries for $SYSTEMD_PAGER and $SYSTEMD_LESS¹ you'll find mention of some mysterious less(1) options but not what they mean or why they matter; but if you peek at the doc source code² you'll find that the behaviour you're describing is controlled by the presence of "K" in the default $SYSTEMD_LESS var, and you can override that out with, e.g.:

SYSTEMD_LESS='FRXM' journalctl

¹: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.html#$SYSTEMD_PAGER

²: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/60a20eff8007105c4a09ab34ebe318d5970e629a/man/common-variables.xml#L112-L155

gnomon ,
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@kuba fantastic!! You're welcome! Thanks for giving me an opportunity to learn about this particular little stumbling block. I'll remember it for next time!!

loren , to random
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i think this is the first godzilla movie i've watched. i have a vague memory of one being on when i was kid but really just a flash of godzilla on the screen never like a full movie lmao

gnomon ,
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@loren omg omg omg you have such a treat ahead of you

...when you watch the original one I mean, this one tonight is going to be disaster, I'm so happy you're here with us for this

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I have read over the article about Christian dominionist terminology, but although it presented me with some interesting and scary assertions that I'm sure make for an excellent click-through-then-share rate it left me with a lot of questions about information provenance and etymology.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/26/cracking-the-christian-nationalist-code-a-glossary-for-the-confused/

Does anyone have additional reading about this topic to offer? I recognize enough foreign thinking in this article that I don't want to rely on just a single source.

loren , to random
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slurpent

gnomon ,
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@loren slea slurpent?

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i heard rustling and a squeak outside. who could it be?

gnomon ,
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@loren ITS THA POSS

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Space quails

gnomon ,
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@loren quail pail

mhoye , to random
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Indignant birb.

gnomon ,
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@mhoye cc: @loren 👀↑↑ 🐦😐

loren , to random
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interview tomorrow. wish me luck or something?

gnomon ,
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@loren good luck with the interview today!!

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@loren you know what, screw it

unswallows your barn

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blagh!

gnomon ,
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@loren MOOD

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you're a smooth trunkfish

gnomon ,
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@loren I'm a smooth shark

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Omg wtf??

gnomon ,
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@loren WTF == White Tailed Fdeer?

loren , to random
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Flower squirrel

gnomon ,
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@loren that squirrel is standing still therefore that squirrel is at imminent risk of BEING DUCKED

loren , to random
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Trout

gnomon ,
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@loren ...trout, let it all out

these are the fish I can live without

salmon

I'm talking to you

salmon

loren , to random
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well my most popular post is now a bad fish joke that i didn't think anyone would like. y'all are weird

gnomon ,
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@loren oh holy schmoly that fish joke did numbers, wow

RikerGoogling Bot , to random
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can you torrent a person's transporter pattern

gnomon ,
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@RikerGoogling use a VPN, Riker

loren , to random
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stop putting hyphens in bird names! i do not remember where they go!!

gnomon ,
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@loren hopefully this convenient mnemonic will help, "hyphens before 'bird', that's the right word"! (It's "---bird", of course)

loren , to random
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pochards! the lot of ya!

gnomon ,
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@loren gasps, clutches pearls

loren , to random
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get me more gecs! that's not enough gecs damn it!

gnomon ,
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@loren hands you a gec

hands you a gec

hands you a gec

hands you a gec

hands you a gec

hands you a gecc

hands you a gec

hands you a gec

I know it's not a lot but I hope it ghelcps

akkartik , to random
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I had no idea the Lua folks have been working on a system language with the explicit goal of living beneath Lua.

https://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/Gualandi-2020-SCP.pdf

https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene

gnomon ,
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@akkartik @torbiak psst @technomancy 👀↑↑ 🌙‼️

loren , to random
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yeah you may be cute but you'll never be as cute as a puffin. sorry you have to find out this way

gnomon ,
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@loren yeah that's fair, can't be mad about you being right

Gina , to random
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Hi #fediverse friends, can I ask for another recommendation?

Meeting headsets, what are we using nowadays??

gnomon ,
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@Gina if you're open to other options in the "meeting audio gear" space, I have become very attached to my current setup: an Audio-Technica AT2035 mic on a RODE PSA-1 desk boom arm, an ancient audio interface (I use a Presonus 44VSL from 10 years ago but I would recommend a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2), and a pair of Beyerdynamic DT-880's - the only headphones I've found that fit over my glasses for hours without making my ears ache. My outbound audio quality is off-the-charts good.

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    gnomon ,
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    @vampiress for comparison, my current MP3 (well, FLAC) player - a Shanling M0 Pro - is based on an Ingenic X1000, a MIPS system-on-chip with about 32 megs of RAM and a comparable amount of horsepower to that Pentium 200. It is super useful to me in that use case. You could probably get a lot of utility from it.

    I think @nev has a different use case but similar motivation to extract maximum utility from performance-light systems?

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