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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I hitched my horse to just what I consider the basics–zip and unzip–and that has made it easy for me. But I’ve been stuck on those.

    Extract anything:

    tar xf <archive_file>
    

    Create a tbz2 archive:

    tar cjf <archive_file.tbz2> <stuff to put in it>
    

    (And tossing in a -v is pretty universal, if that’s your thing.)

    Some day, instead of commenting on a reddit Lemmy post, I think I’ll Google how to tell it to use .xz.

    Ok, you know what? Today is finally that day. It’s just capital -J instead of lower-case -j! That’s easy enough to remember, I guess.


  • atx_aquarian@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldTikTok sues the US government over ban
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    What would give them standing? They’d have to be an entity protected by the constitution to claim that protection was harmed. Is it this (Wikipedia)?

    TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. source

    I guess I’ve never thought about what makes an entity have rights here. Buckingham Palace couldn’t just open shop here and start suing our government, right?













  • I put a Ubiquiti long-range Wifi 6 AP on my ceiling, fed with a Dream Machine Pro SE. Google Fiber just kept saying, “You know, we could ‘upgrade’ you to our mesh stuff for free!” Ha, no thanks.

    Btw, this is not an endorsement of Google Fiber. I just cancelled it. They can’t or won’t handle chronic infrastructure issues. Multiple outages a day, every day (as confirmed by their app) for weeks to months, and they still wouldn’t even acknowledge that there was a chronic problem, much less tell me any status of a permanent resolution. That service is total trash.





  • The actual headline:

    Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon / The platform says it will hold on to its accounts and retweet from time to time, but it plans to focus on Mastodon and other social platforms instead.

    My initial perception was focusing on the fact that that’s not abandoning it. That’s keeping one foot in the door, just in case.

    Thinking more about it, I think the wise thing is to announce it like this so the head brat at Xitter doesn’t revoke their account and hand it to someone else. Editing my statement above, too.