Olap

@Olap@lemmy.world

Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru

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bash coding standards?

i didnt care about how i wrote my bash scripts, coz i know theyd ultimately be used just by myself. but for the past few day, i’ve been working on this project, mk-blog which uses some bash scripts, there are chances that others might look at them. besides in work they’re asking me maintain a server. so why not learn the...

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github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server

  • pretty much all editors support LSP these days
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Not hugely surprising given next gen consoles to all be without disc trays even

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Me too Shyfer, I buy 2nd hand a lot

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Undoubtedly the SNP are in trouble this election. Because MPs in Scotland really don’t matter. Whatever England decides, we get. Because of devolution the role of an MP is almost nothing too. Do ya think any MP can do anything about HMG foreign policy? Do you think Labour will grant Holyrood an independence referendum even if all MPs are SNP? It is an almost hopeless scenario for independence in Scotland at the moment, having been denied any democratic route. Turn out to be lowest in Scotland I’ll bet, which will appear then like a swing to Labour, but I bet it almost exactly corresponds with SNP voters not turning out this election instead

And this is a real shame, as the SNP have shown themselves to be the real opposition in the commons on many occasions. Labour and the Tories share almost all key policies.

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Beyond all Reason in a similar space

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When does systemd stop? Linux without it is increasingly looking unlikely in the future. Are we not worried about it being a single point of failure and attack vector?

This isn’t a moan about the unix philosophy btw, but a genuine curiosity about how we split responsibilities in todays linux environment.

Elite force bucks trend of Ukrainian losses on eastern front (www.theguardian.com)

Fifteen miles east of the garrison town of Lyman, a desperate fight has been taking place on Ukraine’s eastern front for months. The once verdant Serebryansky pine forest has been reduced to burnt-out stumps, reminiscent of images from the Somme, destroyed amid Russian attacks aimed at eliminating Ukrainian foxholes....

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Interesting to hear flatter leadership leading to a culture of being heard and improved morale. I’d suspect with greater autonomy and success too. This will all be enabled by greater dissemination of intelligence I’d bet, and increased training. If this is a prelude to something bigger, there are some fantastic lessons to be learnt

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Me. Outlook on my windows work box is hard to beat imo. Personal? All android’s default and web-ui

Ukraine backers blast ‘double standard’ after allies rush to Israel’s defense (www.politico.eu)

If the United States and its allies can rush to Israel’s defense in the skies, shooting down dozens of drones and missiles fired by Iran, why can’t they do the same for Ukraine — which has suffered under Russia’s missile attacks for more than two years?...

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They should have joined NATO

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Archer returns!

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This is a fantastic upscale. Laserdisc obviously a great source too. Maybe one day we’ll see some releases…

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Anonymous complaints are a terrible idea. No wlnder this has been targetted

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What is the most downvoted comment on lemmy? Would you like a sense of pride and accomplishment?

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So good to have trek back!

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Going to call nonsense on the headline: NATO is intact, and Putin wouldn’t dare invade a nato country.

Trump it’s the caveat, but even in that event France and the UK have a nuclear umbrella, and there is a shit load of troops. A war with NATO is unwinnable for Russia for certain.

Ukraine danced with the neutrality devil and lost, just as Belgium on WW1 did, and the NL of WW2. Any country now adjacent to Russia and not in NATO has a choice: risk the neutrality game or side with NATO. I know which I’d be picking.

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_Peace - here’s the hitlist if you’re Putin. I’m fully aware of Ukraine’s efforts with democracy, but you know who doesn’t care? Anyone on this list not making serious efforts to join NATO is writing their own invasion plan imo

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If we are on the brink of ww3, which I doubt, then Ukraine is the first casualty it appears. The parallels are easy to draw, but hard to back up certainly as the specifics do differ. But those not aligned will increasingly find themselves subject to pulls in either sphere of influence, which is my main point. Ultimately you could argue this all is a failure of foreign policy for a few governments with Russia being emboldened to invade. Which you could also say of both previous world wars too. To dismiss the comparison is to dismiss history, and those who fail to learn from history…

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That’s war though, intense periods, with lots of nothing inbetween. Did you really get the dominion war without Vic?

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Well it probably is space madness

Now tut and walk away

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It’s opposite MAD theorem. If neither side knows that there are countermeasures then neither side will launch a first strike, as they then run the risk of being knocked out in essence.

Ever play defcon? First to launch rarely wins there

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Shazbot!

The steepest of all FPS learning curves, wish I could see it on a console

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No troops without negotiations has to be the stance. Putin and Zelenski at a table

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The addition of more troops would undoubtedly be a large escalation resulting in further mobilisation in Russia. If you were a french soldier, would you be willing to go to the front without some much more serious negotiations occuring? Have we learned nothing since 9/11 and fighting on foreign soil?

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What games would you suggest that have LAN support these days?

While PC may be one's first thought here, I'd also be really interested in any mobile games that might leverage one's local wifi network for multiplayer.

Classics are a-okay for suggestion too, btw!

@games

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Classics FPSes included Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake 3. Both scale from 1 on 1 to 16 players well, meaning days of fun. Xonotic the open source clone, which is also very good

Worms is a hoot, can hotseat or LAN, armageddon I think the high point of the series. Hedgewars a more than worthy OS reimagining

RTSes are soo many, Warcraft 3, C&C series, or Total Annihilation all modded, all great. My choice is Balanced Annihilation or OpenRA for 2023 and OS

4X have classics like civ, but Stellaris a worthy choice too. Open source here includes unciv

Racing games are often a hoot too. You can get far too serious here if you want, but I recommend SuperTuxKart for some mariokart like action

Scorched3d another option for artillery fun. But generally Open Source all offer LAN gaming!

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Missed dune 2k integration

Not even playable /s

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Vice City was my favourite, the soundtrack alone was amazing. I have literally skipped V after IV was too big, and never finished rdr2, depsite rdr being one of my favourite ever games. Hoping for a tighter, tastier VI, not just “more”

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Doom 2017

Total Annihilation - if you put the CD on a player it played!

Red Alert

GTA 3 Vice City

Mass Effect

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You aren’t wrong with this theory. It’s why betamax and hd-dvd lost too

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