I see a bunch of folks recommending this, but I have to wonder where this game ends. Always one more new tweak to the local environment. Just one more dotfile, bro, I promise this time your environment will be perfect. Just one more little supply-chain-attack vulnerable component running with the same access as you, the user. But look, you can save 20 microseconds on your shell history search or whatever!
Is there some actual reason to use this? I got sold on `zsh` as it became the standard on the Mac and was packaged by all major distros, but honestly I'm still fine with just plain bash, though I miss the pretty prompts. What is one really getting out of nushell / ion / whatever new tweaked out shell comes out next week?
Why should the game end at all? Why shouldn't people continue developing better and better shells that people can use to interact with their computer, or maybe different ones for different use cases? Supply-chain attacks are bad and worth mitigating for any kind of software, not just your shell; but the possibility of such an attack doesn't mean it's inherently unwise to try out new pieces of software. Saving time on your shell history search is good and declaring it unimportant merely because the amount of time saved sounds small, is how we wind up after many iterations with software that is noticeably laggy to the end user. But the real value of new shells I think is the new features you didn't know you would find useful at the time.
A: ...in many ways Powershell is stil king of the shell game [but]...
B: Have you tried nushell?
Anyway... nushell is more similar to Powershell (but AFAIK there is no JIT). My default is zsh (as you have mantioned, because of mac) but I use nushell for few things - it is pretty different from bash/zsh/ion/fish. It is more like data pipeline.
> Didn't some fake AI country song just get on the top 100?
No
Edit: to be less snarky, it topped the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales Chart, which is a measure of sales of the individual song, not streaming listens. It's estimated it takes a few thousand sales to top that particular chart and it's widely believed to be commonly manipulated by coordinated purchases.
What's horrid? I have been using stock Firefox for half my lifetime and it's fine. One is already being esoteric enough using a 2% market share browser; do I have to be even more esoteric and use a 2% of the 2%?
The performance is fine and has always been fine for me, across multiple OS, since it was called Phoenix onward. No issue. Never had a very top-of-the-line machine, either.
Slower than Chrome? That's like looking over at the sports car next to you when you're driving and being jealous, IMO
100%. Web Credentials + Digital ID + age verification will all be handled with Secure Attestation backing it. Cloudflare will have a checkbox for site admins... [X] Require Age Verification... and that's it. Boom. Your site is "safe" from accidentally allowing kids in.
...of course, free speech and anonymity die with this, but why would that be a problem? You don't want to say anything the current or potential future government wouldn't like, do you?
The year is 2041. Google announces that only a negligible fraction of users acceses websites outside of the clean pool. These users are at risk, they claim, due to "all the bad stuff on the free web". They refuse to clarify if this refers to malware or to content not aligned with The Party doctrine. However, they draw the consequence that "free web" sites will no longer be supported by Chrome, to protect the users. Less than an hour later, Mozilla releases a new version of Firefox that also disables access to websites that were not whitelistet by The Party, using the same reasoning.
I love this. I've also been bandying about the idea of an open source equivalent of a B Corp sort of accreditation where a company can essentially brag about auditably donating to the open source projects that it depends upon.
I participated in creating a history book, in regard to an organization in which I’m involved.
It took eight years, and was a lot of work. The process that he mentioned is quite familiar. Many of the folks we interviewed have since passed away. Some, before the book was complete.
Threads like this are, in a sense, like a digital wake - we can all mourn Carlsen a little bit now. I remember the first time I saw a .TIF - on Rainbow Paint, a free paint program bundled with a Dexxa mouse my old man bought as an upgrade for our 286. To me, running across a random .tif somewhere was such a delight, something I could open as a surprise, maybe re-use parts of, zoom into, etc. or share on a disk with a friend. It's quaint, now...
Is there some actual reason to use this? I got sold on `zsh` as it became the standard on the Mac and was packaged by all major distros, but honestly I'm still fine with just plain bash, though I miss the pretty prompts. What is one really getting out of nushell / ion / whatever new tweaked out shell comes out next week?