David Boles<p>Here is my latest Human Meme podcast episode!</p><p><a href="https://humanmeme.com/less-than-vs-fewer-than-the-difference-explained-with-examples" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">humanmeme.com/less-than-vs-few</span><span class="invisible">er-than-the-difference-explained-with-examples</span></a></p><p><a href="https://boles.xyz/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://boles.xyz/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://boles.xyz/tags/fewer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fewer</span></a> <a href="https://boles.xyz/tags/less" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>less</span></a></p>
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Matthias Schmidt<p>Wow, after 25 years of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> experience, I learned that you can filter output in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/less" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>less</span></a>.</p><p>Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.</p><p>Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.</p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2185000/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2185000/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Why does Brussels expect less immigration and fewer jobs, but also less unemployment? <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/also" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>also</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/And" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>And</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Brussels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brussels</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/But" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>But</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/does" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>does</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomyOfEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomyOfEU</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomyOfTheEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomyOfTheEU</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EUEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EUEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/expect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expect</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/fewer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fewer</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/less" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>less</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unemployment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/why" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>why</span></a></p>
Mustafa Kulle<p>LESS WORK, MORE PAY</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/less" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>less</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/more" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>more</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pay</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lessworkmorepay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lessworkmorepay</span></a></p>
Mark T. Tomczak<p>(Possibly relevant to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>b0rk</span></a></span> 's interests)</p><p>So I hit a flag in diff, <code>--unchanged-group-format</code>. It does not show up in the manpage. It does not show up in --help. You can search both those channels for that string and you will not find it.</p><p>You know where it shows up first? If you Google it, you'll get an example in <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Line-Group-Formats.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gnu.org/software/diffutils/man</span><span class="invisible">ual/html_node/Line-Group-Formats.html</span></a>.</p><p>So why doesn't it show up in the manpage? Well, it does! If you read the entire manpage. With your eyes.</p><pre><code> -D, --ifdef=NAME output merged file with '#ifdef NAME' diffs <br> --GTYPE-group-format=GFMT format GTYPE input groups with GFMT <br> --line-format=LFMT format all input lines with LFMT <br> --LTYPE-line-format=LFMT format LTYPE input lines with LFMT <br> These format options provide fine-grained control over the output <br> of diff, generalizing -D/--ifdef. <br> LTYPE is 'old', 'new', or 'unchanged'. GTYPE is LTYPE or 'changed'. <br></code></pre><p>"What do you mean it isn't documented? Of course it's documented. You did read every line and do some template-substitution in your brain, didn't you?"</p><p>This isn't advocating for <em>not</em> reading the manpage. If you really want to understand how the tool works, you read the whole manpage. And probably the source code. 😉 </p><p>... but I <em>don't</em> want to understand how the tool works. I want to diff two files and not have the lines that are the same get emitted.</p><p>And I think a lot of application- and solution-generating computer people, most of the time, in most of their careers, are operating on that level of depth. Problems come in too fast and with too much variety. You <em>absolutely</em> go deep on some things. There is <em>no time</em> to go deep on everything.</p><p>So how do we address this (other than throw up our hands and say "Relying on Google's fuzzy search of the whole Internet and vibe-coding LLMs is the future actually")? I don't have magic bullets, but a "fuzzy search" mode in something like <code>less</code> that could take an input like <code>--unchanged-group-format</code> and twig that it if there's no exact match, it <em>might</em> be related to <code>--GTYPE-group-format</code> would be nice.</p><p>Maybe I should mock that up in emacs. Actually, I bet someone already put it in emacs. ;)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.fixermark.com/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.fixermark.com/tags/manpage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manpage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.fixermark.com/tags/less" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>less</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1999148/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1999148/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Air New Zealand expects at least $50m less in compensation for engine troubles; United Airlines says economy ‘impossible to predict’ #£50m <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/air" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>air</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Airlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Airlines</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/at" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>at</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/compensation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compensation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/engine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engine</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/expects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expects</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/for" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>for</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/from" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>from</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/gets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gets</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/impossible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impossible</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/in" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>in</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/later" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>later</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/least" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>least</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/less" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>less</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/manufacturers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manufacturers</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/new" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>new</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/predict" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>predict</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/says" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>says</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/this" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>this</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TO</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/troubles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>troubles</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/United" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>United</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/year" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>year</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/zealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zealand</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>I wonder if there are any alternative pagers out there besides less.</p><p>There are loads and loads of editors and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a> emulators, but not so many pagers.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/pager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pager</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/less" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>less</span></a></p>
Moon over Mastodon 🌙 📷<p>Just lovely warm glow of the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moon</span></a>'s orb, backlighting the silhouetted blades of a few <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/tree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tree</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/leaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>leaves</span></a>, against a <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>black</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/nightsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nightsky</span></a>. Stunning minimalist composition shows us how very much <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/less" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>less</span></a> can be. </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MoonPhoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoonPhoto</span></a> retooted from Murray GM - Paperposts (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@Paperposts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Paperposts</span></a></span>). [Is it "missed-it" or "miss-edit"?] </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://zirk.us/@Paperposts/112850424397769561" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zirk.us/@Paperposts/1128504243</span><span class="invisible">97769561</span></a> 25 Jul 2024 </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Krono" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Krono</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MoonPhotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoonPhotos</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MoonOverMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoonOverMastodon</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Elon Musk’s charity may bear his name, but it can’t seem to match his penchant for high-dollar spending. </p><p>According to a New York Times analysis of his charity’s giving in 2022, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foundation</span></a> gave out just $160 million in grants<br>—a whopping $234 million <a href="https://c.im/tags/less" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>less</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/than" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>than</span></a> the five-percent <a href="https://c.im/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/minimum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>minimum</span></a> it needed to distribute between 2021 and 2022. </p><p>It was the fourth-largest shortfall of any U.S. charity in 2022, the last year for which records are available. </p><p>The revelation was one of multiple in the Times’ report on Musk’s charitable giving, which has often benefited his own associates or those of his companies. </p><p>Musk reportedly filled some of the foundation’s coffers by donating Tesla stock, which he is allowed to claim as a tax deduction. </p><p>Not all of the charity’s donations have benefited his own interests, however: <br>The foundation donated more than $1 million to schools in Flint, Michigan, and a charity aimed at helping children there. </p><p>But where that foundation donates is still up to him and the foundation’s board—which includes just him and two other volunteers.</p><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-charity-missed-its-minimum-giving-by-over-dollar200-million-report" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-c</span><span class="invisible">harity-missed-its-minimum-giving-by-over-dollar200-million-report</span></a></p>
Dave<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/More" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>More</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Less" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Less</span></a> </p><p>Which is your favourite?</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Snow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Snow</span></a> #2021 <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Yorkshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yorkshire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Landscape</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Snowodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Snowodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Minimal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Minimal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Swan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Marcescence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marcescence</span></a></p>
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@OldAndCranky A great New Year's resolution.
#Less social media. 
@cogdog sent me here. #Google, Are You Sure No #Country in #Africa Starts With a ‘K’? The world’s favorite #searchengine is becoming #less #dependable as a result of generative #AI. https://archive.ph/7PGMJ#selection-681.0-695.92
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Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.
Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.
Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.
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Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.
Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.
Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.
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