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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Well, most nights, sunlight still bounces off the moon before it hits the earth and its inhabitants. This could imply that the sunlight is only dangerous to a vampire prior to interacting with another solid object. If one is willing to assume that the lens and its various filters qualify as a solid object, that could explain the lack of death.

    Presumably the only reason they don’t employ this loophole on Earth is because an astronaut just walking around would draw unwanted attention.

    Alternatively, perhaps the vampire keeps its back towards the nearest star at all times.










  • All of these, so far as I know, either are or evolved from Unix tools.

    zsh is short for “z shell.” A shell is a way to interact with a system via text - a command line interface. There are many including sh (shell), bash (Bourne again shell), fish (no idea what it stands for if anything) and others. I pronounce “zsh” as “zee shell.”

    ssh is short for “secure shell,” a way to access systems remotely that replaced unencrypted remote access methods (hence “secure”). I pronounce this as “ess ess aitch.” The last symbol you used looks like a calculus symbol to me.

    sudo, depending on whom you ask, could stand for one of a few things; it was preceded by a command called “su” which stood for “super user” or “switch user” because it allowed you to imitate a user other than your own (super user being a user who has few or no permissions restrictions on a system). “sudo” is generally considered to be short for “su do” (whatever you consider “su” to mean) (ie, switch user and do or become super user and do)… I pronounce this one as “pseudo” but I didn’t know what it meant when I first learned it. If I had, it’s not impossible that I would pronounce it differently.

    Caveat: I’m an experienced Linux user, but not an expert. All of the above is generally accurate but I suspect there are many lemmy users who would contest the details.

    Hope this information helps!

    edit: forgot that it was “fish,” not “Phish.”