Tmux is no just about attach/detach. It comes with a lot more functionalities: copy on select, paste buffer, hooks, scrollback buffer (rectangular selection and forward/backward search), activity monitoring, … to name a few.

/me is listening to “Karmacoma” by Massive Attack

Trying out Ubuntu 26.04 LTS server on UTM. It rocks!

The Last People Who Know How It Works. This is how I tend to envision the rise of AI bullshit: at some point, no one will know how a software was designed, and we will have yo ask our friend Claude or his collegue to explain it to us.

However, there was a dark side to this revolution. As these apps progressed, and the underlying technologies progressed, the companies and investors driving these efforts took a turn. Efforts pushed into the world of micro-transactions, psychological rewards for utilizing a platform, profits over value, and a slow descent into a disregard for the users. — The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore

75 days of Music as of today.

Simple and effective: sudo -v && mo clean.

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Cleanup complete
Tracked cleanup: 4.02GB | Items cleaned: 2019 | Categories: 32
Free space change: +59.2MB
Free space now: 577.19GB
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mo clean  44,94s user 47,47s system 83% cpu 1:50,42 total

Data Compression Explained.

It’s interesting to see that biological evolution, which creates and operates in an entirely separate domain, uses a similar sort of trick: using genetic recombination (in the form of sexual reproduction and horizontal gene transfer) to make the search process more modular and gain information more rapidly. — Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition

Now, the “Top 40” has become a real hamster-on-the-wheel project. The following plot shows my count of the number of new packages to make it to CRAN since I began publishing on R Works. — New CRAN Packages: signal or noise?