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  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Share a script/alias you use a lotEnglish
    461·
    7 days ago

    I often want to know the status code of a curl request, but I don’t want that extra information to mess with the response body that it prints to stdout.

    What to do?

    Render an image instead, of course!

    curlcat takes the same params as curl, but it uses iTerm2’s imgcat tool to draw an “HTTP Cat” of the status code.

    It even sends the image to stderr instead of stdout, so you can still pipe curlcat to jq or something.

    #!/usr/bin/env zsh

stdoutfile=$( mktemp )
curl -sw "\n%{http_code}" $@ > $stdoutfile
exitcode=$?

if [[ $exitcode == 0 ]]; then
  statuscode=$( cat $stdoutfile | tail -1 )

  if [[ ! -f $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode ]]; then
    curl -so $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode https://http.cat/$statuscode
  fi

  imgcat $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode 1>&2
fi

cat $stdoutfile | ghead -n -1

exit $exitcode

    Note: This is macOS-specific, as written, but as long as your terminal supports images, you should be able to adapt it just fine.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•InnerSource - A way to spread the Open Source way / culture in organizations?English
    3·
    1 month ago

    The process is supposed to be sustainable. That doesn’t mean you can take one activity and do it to the exclusion of all others and have that be sustainable.

    Edit:

    Also, regretably, I’m using the now-common framing where “agile” === Scrum.

    If we wanna get pure about it, the manifesto doesn’t say anything about sprints. (And also, you don’t do agile… you do a process which is agile. It’s a set of criteria to measure a process against, not a process itself.)

    And reasonable people can definitely assert that Scrum does not meet all the criteria in the agile manifesto — at least, as Scrum is usually practiced.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•InnerSource - A way to spread the Open Source way / culture in organizations?English
    5·
    1 month ago

    It’s funny (or depressing), because the original concept of agile is very well aligned with an open source/inner source philosophy.

    The whole premise of a sprint is supposed to be that you move quickly and with purpose for a short period of time, and then you stop and refactor and work on your tools or whatever other “non value-add” stuff tends to be neglected by conventional deliverable-focused processes.

    The term “sprint” is supposed to make it clear that it’s not a sustainable 100%-of-the-time every-single-day pace. It’s one mode of many.

    Buuuut that’s not how it turned out, is it?

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair useEnglish
    29·
    2 months ago
    1. Fuck AI
    2. This judge’s point is absolutely true:

    “You have companies using copyright-protected material to create a product that is capable of producing an infinite number of competing products,” Chhabria said. “You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person’s work, and you’re saying that you don’t even have to pay a license to that person.”

    1. AI apologists’ response to that will invariably be “but it’s sampling from millions of people at once, not just that one person”, which always sounds like the fractions-of-a-penny scene
    2. Fuck copyright
    3. A ruling against fair use for AI will almost certainly deal collateral damage to perfectly innocuous scraping projects like linguistic analysis. Even despite their acknowledgement of the issue:

    To prevent both harms, the Copyright Office expects that some AI training will be deemed fair use, such as training viewed as transformative, because resulting models don’t compete with creative works. Those uses threaten no market harm but rather solve a societal need, such as language models translating texts, moderating content, or correcting grammar. Or in the case of audio models, technology that helps producers clean up unwanted distortion might be fair use, where models that generate songs in the style of popular artists might not, the office opined.

    1. We really need to regulate against AI — right now — but doing it through copyright might be worse than not doing it at all
  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on LinuxEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    It’s the #1 thing that drives me crazy about Linux.

    It seems obvious. You’ve got a Windows/Apple/Super key and a Control key. So you’d think Control would be for control characters and Windows/Apple/Super would be for application things.

    I can understand Windows fucking this up, cuz the terminal experience is such a low priority. But Linux?

    There’s some projects like Kinto and Toshy which try to fix it, but neither work on NixOS quite yet.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Can you change your Linux distroEnglish
    40·
    2 months ago

    The real question is all the stuff beyond just having the distro installed. The packages, the services, the configs, the application data.

    If you leave all that stuff the way it was installed via the old package manager, it may have some bad assumptions baked in and may be incompatible with packages you install with the new package manager.

    And if you clear all of it out and reinstall it, have you really gained anything vs. just doing a clean install?

    There’s a reason you have a home dir. Just copy that forward along with whatever other config files you might’ve customized.

    Btw, if the ability to make drastic changes while still maintaining continuity is an important feature for you, maybe check out NixOS.