#*nix

[piratesexmachine420]

There's a joke to be made with 'cat' -- the UNIX file concatenation utility -- and 'catgirls' but I don't think I'm smart enough to properly couple those two things.

[hbbisenieks]

top 5 Unix commands?

Easy!

1. grep: fucking Find things

2. awk: it was almost a tie between this and sed but I use awk more often. Manipulating data my beloved

3. sed: even if you just use it to disemvowel things, it's great, but it does so much more

4. vim: "but hilary that's a full editor" fuck off this is my post and vim is great arguably I could have put this at position one and I would be right to do so

5. sudo: it's Simon says rules

[incohearent]

cjpegli (in Fedora 41) or cjpeg_hdr (in Fedora 40) is the coolest thing for generating downscaled photographic images ideal for webhosting

[lesmerveillelitairaire]

livre de commencement webtoon

[nixetra]

[yekokataa]

Nix Gottlieb is very much based on a real person. With the house Luiks interited there came a bunch of black and white photos. We started using these photos as blueprints for characters. All real people, all deceased by now. And one of them was a picture of a man with monk’s hair, glasses, and this strange, strange smile. This was a drinking buddy of Luiks' father. If you had to describe him in a sentence you would say ‘one horrible cunt.’ Absolute terrible fucking human being, but also a legend in this drinking circle back in the day.

This is a real story: there's a party that Luiks’ dad is at, and this guy ‘Nix’, he’s an actual doctor. Somebody at the party complains of a stomachache and Nix touches his stomach and diagnoses him with appendicitis. He literally takes him into a bedroom and operates. He cuts out his appendix and it turns out it’s close to the point where it’s going to explode, so it was very good that he intervened at the last moment. Two days later this person runs into Nix on the street and thanks him. And it turns out Nix was so drunk he has no memory of it. When he finally understands it’s not a prank, all the color drains out of his face, because what are the chances he didn’t kill the person by accident?

There was so much about this real person that was not an adaptation, we just put it into the game.

– Argo Tuulik

[piratesexmachine420]

It's crazy that Bell Labs* managed to get away with naming one of the most important operating systems of all time "eunuchs".

*Well, really just Ken Thompson -- but presumably if his superiors had qualms about it he'd have to defer to their wishes

[elpurata-victim]

thank you ellie for this idea

[fyeahnix]

Sevika is known as "Zaun's Scariest Woman," but when she's alone with you, she could give the sweetest, most innocent dog a run for its money.

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Sevika barely uttered a word when she came in that night. You thought to scold her when she didn't greet you as normal, but judging by her rigid shoulders and perpetual scowl, she'd had a particularly crappy day.

When she finally finished her longer-than-usual shower and night routine, she clambered into bed, reaching to pull you closer before burying her head in your chest. She sighed, then inhaled, then sighed again.

"Hi, baby," she finally said.

"Hey. You...feeling better?"

She nodded and tightened her grip around you. "'m sorry. Didn't mean not to speak earlier. Wasn't mad at you or anything. Just...had a day. Needed to unwind."

You brushed strands of her loose hair out of her face. Innocent strokes traced arcane marble, massaged her skin until you journeyed to train fingers through dark hair. "You know I'd help you with that if you asked."

She buried her face deeper, muffling her voice. "You're helping a lot now."

You smiled.

Having moved to lay between your legs, Sevika rested there, nuzzling her nose into the side of your breast. She breathed. Deeply.

You sat with her for an unspoken amount of time, feathering your nails across her scalp and down her neck for the occasional shiver that rolled down her spine. She wasn't sleeping—not yet, anyway, even in the dim, amber-lit bedroom you shared—but soaking in the comfort. For a person like Sevika in her line of work, high stress was a given, an expectation. Day in and day out was a fight for survival and a fight for freedom. There would always be days like this, where she'd come back to you in one piece but her mind shattered from the day's events, where she'd search for solace in your embrace to help piece herself back together. You always regretted destroying that modicum of peace with the same probing question that came to mind.

"You wanna talk about it?"

Indignation colored the breath that escaped her flared nostrils, and she slow-blinked into the distance. You'd seen that expression enough times to know what fueled it. She left the question to linger in the air. You respected it.

She reached for your free hand. Pulled it close and kissed your knuckles one by one. Then pressed her lips against the heel of your palm. Another. Then another. And on and on until she inched higher and landed in the center of your palm. Like a meditative process, the motions calmed her, relaxed her facial muscles 'til serenity returned to take control.

"Not now," she whispered and motioned closer to fit her scarred cheek between your collar and neck. "Just wanna lay with you."

And so you did.

Silence overcame once more and for a time you lay still, only interrupted by the sporadic moan that escaped Sevika as she succumbed to sleep.

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[gollancz]

Vampires vs Werewolves, ft. Joe Hill, @victoriocity, Aliette de Bodard, Ben Aaronovitch, Oraine Johnson, Garth Nix, @sarah-hawley and @jonnywaistcoat prevaricating like he knows any answer will be used against him in the future.

[mordredsheart]

the “17th century girlboss who can read gets accused of witchcraft” thing always rankles me in particular because. do you KNOW how high the literacy rates were in new england. they were HIGH. even for women!

the puritans LOVED literacy. it was kind of their whole THING that you should at least be able to read the bible for yourself rather than relying on, like, priests. (of course, if your interpretation was unorthodox and you were too loud about it, well. consequences. but that is a DIFFERENT PROBLEM.)

[mochiwei]

Getting back into traditional art with some Sabriel fan art!

My favorite fall tradition is getting cozy while listening to Tim Curry’s audiobook recording of Sabriel and drawing 🥰

[thenixkat]

Idk about anyone else but Chilchuck being accurately read as an empty nester rather than a deadbeat dad has a lot more potential. Cause generally empty nesters tend to find or end up with folks to parent or pets to fill the void of 'my kids don't need me anymore', 'the house is empty/too quiet', and such.

You could argue that the older man who started a union and is a union boss looking out for the other half-foots in the area might be subconsciously viewing folks as replacement kids.

[nixetra]

"average zaunite commits 2 war crimes per year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average zaunite commits 0.0004 war crimes per year. Warcrimes Singed, who lives in cave & commits over 2000 war crimes each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[travalicious]

Lirael by Tommy Arnold

[beardedmrbean]

Amazing