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  • sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•how to create a file and make it executable in one command?
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    4 months ago

    Here’s one I have saved in my shell aliases.

    nscript() {
    local name="${1:-nscript-$(printf '%s' $(echo "$RANDOM" | md5sum) | cut -c 1-10)}"
    echo -e "#!/usr/bin/env bash\n#set -Eeuxo pipefail\nset -e" > ./"$name".sh && chmod +x ./"$name".sh && hx ./"$name".sh
}
alias nsh='nscript'

    Admittedly much more complicated than necessary, but it’s pretty full featured. first line constructs a filename for the new script from a generated 10 character random hash and prepends “nscript” and a user provided name.

    The second line writes out the shebang and a few oft used bash flags, makes the file executable and opens in in my editor (Helix in my case).

    The third line is just a shortened alias for the function.

  • sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why aren't more people using NixPKGs?
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    7 months ago

    Even if you need something just once, just install it and then uninstall it, takes like 10 seconds.

    apt install foo && apt remove foo

    That’s essentially what nix-shell -p does. Not a special feature of nix, just nix’s way of doing the above.

    Actually using it though is pretty convenient; it disappears on its own when I exit the shell. I used it just the other day with nix-shell -p ventoy to install ventoy onto an ssd, I may not need that program again for years. Just used it with audible-cli to download my library and strip the DRM with ffmpeg. Probably won’t be needing that for a while either.

    The other thing to keep in mind is that since Nix is meant to be declarative, everything goes in a config file, which screams semi-permenant. Having to do that with ventoy and audible-cli would just be pretty inconvenient. That’s why it exists; due to how Nix is, you need a subcommand for temporary one-off operations.

  • sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.workstoRust@programming.dev•Warp: Rust-based terminal
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    1 year ago

    Top comment from HN discussion:

    Makes it a complete no-go for me

    iamdamian 9 days ago

    I check out Warp every 6 months or so, because I’d love to see more innovation with the terminal, and the screenshots look great. But the story’s the same every time: I download the app, fire it up, and am greeted by a mandatory ‘sign up’ screen and privacy policy, at which point I close and immediately delete the app.

    I will never be okay with a terminal that requires me to have a proprietary login to operate on my own local file system with local tooling.

  • sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.ml•OceanGate listed job posting for ‘submersible pilot’ during doomed Titan rescue effortsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Good to know. I did see a checkbox for “Is this a bot account” in settings but wasn’t aware you could filter them.

    I guess with that in mind, that brings different concerns into view for me. I’m wondering what proportion of this wave of bots have checked that option identifying themselves as such? If they’re good bots they will of course, but I’ve also read through posts of instance operators claiming they’ve gotten thousands of bot signups in hours, which doesn’t seem like good bot behavior to me. Are they likely to identify themselves as bots? Even if they did, would it matter? One example off the cuff, I should be able filter bots from my feed and comments as you say, but what’s stopping them from upvoting / downvoting a specific group of user’s submissions and comments to the top of my hot feed, or upvoting / downvoting by keyword? If that happens en-masse you wouldn’t really be able to say that posts and comments are being ranked or discovered organically based on merit. While this sort of thing I suspect happens often elsewhere, it can serve to control the flow of information based on a single or small group of people’s will(s).

    Considering all of that, I don’t think the sky is falling and certainly not hysterical about it yet, it’s just concerns about why these accounts were created, and what the creators are planning to do with them if anything.

    Edit: Also sorry for the wall of text, I realize you were just trying to give me a solution and I certainly appreciate it.