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sneedenheimer··on Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)
Given that Rob Pike seems to think having a shell script that uses tar is better than having a `-r` flag for cp [1], I wouldn't give much weight to his philosophy of programming :P.

[1]: https://wiki.c2.com/?WhatIsNotInPlanNine

sneedenheimer··on Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
Oh, I consider flamebaiting trolling. But flamebaiting isn't cyberbullying or harassment or whatever these people think trolling means.
sneedenheimer··on You can't download this image

  $ wget https://youcantdownloadthisimage.online/lisa.jpg
wait for like 5 seconds for it to finish downloading and then hit ctrl-c
sneedenheimer··on Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
Isn't Facebook already censored and guarded strictly? And you won't have wild free parts for grownups if you let the government legislate against "trolls" and "bigots" on the internet. Today they'll just force Facebook into removing "harmful" content but you are incredibly naive if you think they'll stop there.
sneedenheimer··on Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
>trolls

I hate their usage of 'troll' too. To me, 'troll' means a guy who argues about 0.9 bar not equaling 1 in a math forum. I have no idea what the hell these people mean when they say 'troll'.

sneedenheimer··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
All those points apply to XMPP too, and it's way easier to set up Prosody on a server. Are there any specific reasons why you think Matrix is the next IRC and not XMPP?