Not sure if this is just playing with the fact that a photon could be considered its own antiparticle in quantum field theory or if I missed the joke. Please, enlighten me.

Daily reminder that the World Wide Web was invented at CERN, so somewhere around the LHC highlighted in the picture. Who knows what the next big random innovation will be.

There’s this (true) anecdote that precision measurements at CERN/LHC need to take into account the schedule of high-speed trains in the area because they cause tiny, yet measurable disturbances in the power grid.

After some major fuckups by Manjaro, consider EndeavourOS over Manjaro. They are pretty similar otherwise.

Arch is alright if you aren’t new to Linux.

To be fair, Mint does a good job of fixing the annoyances that Ubuntu introduces. It comes with Snap disabled by default, for example.

It’s not like you can’t use Linux on a laptop with Nvidia GPU. It’s just that AMD works better (and isn’t as much of a PITA in how they treat regular Linux customers).

I’ve been roaming Linux (meme) communities for years, but never heard of this, even though it originates from the Bell Labs. Thanks for providing me with a new rabbit hole!

Easy. Every year is the Year of the Linux Desktop™.

The future as in this will dominate some day or as in this will be the best some day? Cause only one seems reasonable to me.

Though nothing can replace a proper backup

Hrm, but shouldn’t Linux Mint, being based on Ubuntu, have basically the same drivers?

There’s research ongoing on having LLMs search for vulnerabilities. So who knows, LLMs hacking LLMs (in the wild) might be just around the corner.

Bubatz 👍🏻

To be fair, using Linux is (usually) much more of an active decision.

I thought there was an emacs command?

But what about the orgies?

You just need to read physical media like stored somewhere you have physical control over, without DRM, and there hardly remains any disagreement.

Note the word averaged. Given this quote (I’m not sure if the study gets more specific), you could just wank a bit more the other months.

Force of habit? Plus, if I used Windows, I wouldn’t use Edge out of spite. Fuck their shady ways of pushing users to use it.

What OP said. But here’s a more detailed answer courtesy of GPT-4:

Adding cat /dev/random > /dev/pty23 to your .profile would result in an interesting situation whenever you start a login shell.

1. Behavior of the Command: The command cat /dev/random continuously reads random data from the /dev/random device file, which generates an endless stream of random bytes. Redirecting this to /dev/pty23 means it attempts to write this data to the pseudo-terminal device /dev/pty23.

2. Impact on Shell Startup: When you add this to your .profile, every time you start a login shell (like when you open a new terminal session), it will execute this command. Since /dev/random produces an endless stream of data, the cat command will not terminate on its own. This means your shell will be stuck executing this command, and you won’t get a prompt to enter new commands.

3. Interactive Shell Issue: The shell remains technically interactive, but because the cat command doesn’t complete, you won’t get a chance to interact with it. The shell is effectively blocked by the cat command continuously running.

4. Potential Problems: There’s a possibility that /dev/pty23 might not exist on your system, or you might not have the permission to write to it. In such cases, the command would fail, but it would still block the shell if it doesn’t exit properly.

5. Fixing the Issue: To regain control of your shell, you might need to edit your .profile from a different context where it doesn’t get executed, like using a non-login shell or booting into a recovery mode.

In summary, it’s a kind of a “prank” command that can render your login shell unusable until you remove it from your .profile. It’s an example of how powerful shell startup scripts can be, and also a reminder to be cautious about what gets added to them!