A face in desperate need of a moustache

When I started watching this, I wondered how it ever got out of the hopper... After watching most of it, I wondered how it ever got INTO the hopper. I mean it's an operating system, right? Five stars for almost making me want to see if I can get my old Raspberry Pi working again.

I have a RPI 400

Might be worth a shot to try out

As long as we're nerding out: I put up a simple userscript on Pastebin for how to filter out Crackersmack, and someone filed abuse reports to get it taken down. Which is kinda charming -- shows someone's nervous.

So here's SIMPLE instructions for how to set up the filter:

1. Install Tampermonkey. It's safe donationware (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampermonkey), just never install a userscript you don't trust.

Firefox here: https://tinyurl.com/cyf5crad

Chrome here: https://tinyurl.com/dj5w3pu6

2. Open the extension. There'll be a button for it in the top right of your browser window.

3. Copy the code below (starting with "// ==UserScript==") into a new script, and save it. Obviously you can tune this to your heart's content. I choose to filter out Ashtar because otherwise Crackersmack can get around the filter by echoing himself through his sock pupper, but your mileage may vary:

// ==UserScript==
// @name PoeTV Spam Filter
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.2
// @description Conveniently filter out poetv spammers
// @author You
// @match http://poetv.com/*
// @match https://poetv.com/*
// @match http://www.poetv.com/*
// @match https://www.poetv.com/*
// @match http://mail.poetv.com/*
// @match https://mail.poetv.com/*
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
'use strict';

// ADJUST THIS LIST AS YOU SEE FIT
const SPAMMER_LIST = {
"Username Here": "replacement text here",
"Crackersmack": "boring zero-credibility troll",
"ashtar.": "Crackersmack's sock puppet",
};

const commentSection = document.getElementsByClassName('cleary');
if (commentSection.length != 1) {
console.log('PoeTVSpamFilter: no comment section found on this page');
return;
}

console.log('PoeTVSpamFilter filtering:');
const spammers = Object.keys(SPAMMER_LIST);
const userNameLinks = [...commentSection[0].getElementsByClassName('video-textu')];
console.log(' - found ' + userNameLinks.length + ' posts');
for (const userNameLink of userNameLinks) {
if (userNameLink.tagName != 'A') {
continue;
}
const userName = userNameLink.innerText;
if (spammers.includes(userName)) {
const replace = SPAMMER_LIST[userName];
const paras = userNameLink.parentElement.getElementsByTagName('P');
if (paras.length == 0) {
continue;
}
paras[0].innerHTML = String.fromCharCode(60) +
'div style="font-family: Monospace; font-size: 15px; color: gray"' +
String.fromCharCode(62) +
'[filtered: ' + replace + ']' +
String.fromCharCode(60) +
'/div' + String.fromCharCode(62);
console.log(' - filtered out ' + userName + ': ' + replace);
}
}
console.log('PoeTVSpamFilter filtering complete.');
})();

This guy has been in my recommends for months while I've been working on some Pi projects. He's helpful, but mostly it's just all about how he's the lovechild of Bill Gates and the Joker.

But for real, our youtubes are real chatty with each other.

RISC OS? Pssh. I only run BeOS or AIX.

Years ago, I produced my own live CD distro, based on Slax, with packages taken from Slackware 12. It was inspired by my desire to keep using KDE3 until the bitter end. It was great fun. I learned how to customize every aspect of a slackware system, and I released a new version with each new firefox release. It was downloaded about 1000 times, all over the world. Someone reviewed it for their blog. One guy became a huge fan, and gave me my first laptop.

My Linux live CD was named KIARA, which is a recursive acronym for Kiara Is A Recurive Acronym. These days, I have a cat named Kiara.

Eventually, KIARA became obsolete when the EXT3 filesystem was replaced with EXT4. It was no longer compatable.

And now, I have forgotten everything I ever knew about Slaclware, or anything other than Ubuntu. I don't know what the fuck you guys are talking about.

BASH never dies.

I feel a CLI rant coming on. Sorry, I have to do this,occasionally, and its been a while.

The Linux community has a culture of the command line. The last time I used that expression in here, someone told me it was nonsense, but it's not. Linux has a command line, so does Windows, but Linux users use the command line a whole lot more, and all the reasons why that happens add up to a culture of the command line. What else would you like me to call it?

The command line is part of the desktop. Thirtysomething years ago, the GUI was born, and just about everyone likes the GUI. No one wants to chuck the GUI, but when you bring up the command line, that's what people hear. These days the command line is integrated into the GUI. Every file manager app will open the terminal window from any location, making navigating to files by using the path (/home/JHM/Downloads/Yet.More.Seventies.Porn.mp4) unnecessary.

I have a friend who can't shake the idea that using the command line involves rote memorization, that you have to study it like a third grader studies the multiplication tables, but you don't. You just have to look stuff up that you want to use. You'll learn the commands that you use. The ones that you don't use, you won't need.

I know nothing about programming, but I do know that any simple list of commands can be executed as a script, and that is a program. I found some commands for converting an .avi video files into an image that could be burned as a DVD. By copying and pasting those commands in a sequence, I created a script that would create DVD images 12 at a time.