Its happened to me. I just delete and repost which makes it work, which seems to mean it shouldnt take that long at all.

You should try installing vim (“Vi IMproved”) and run the vimtutor program it comes with, it walks you through the basics. Vim is addictive.

I agree that was inappropriate, but it won’t work, on newer versions you have to pass --no-preserve-root to rm if you want to delete /

Might be referring to philosopher Judith Butler’s “gender performativity.” Guessing by the similar name, I don’t know what it actually means.

Linux technology advice 😍

Its a blessing in disguise that there have been server issues. It will hopefully spread users out better over other instances.

Of those I subscribe to, a few I don’t miss reading:

• https://www.the-syllabus.com/ - A curated selection of articles and videos. Broad, it covers politics, tech, etc through careful journalism, papers and talks.
• https://www.aisnakeoil.com/ - Commentary and chapters from a forthcoming textbook. Tired of all the lazy hype so this is nice to read. By Arvind Narayanan (the PL researcher) and an AI PhD student.
• https://www.carbonbrief.org/ - Weekly summary of climate stuff, something important but Im too lazy to properly follow news.