Is this supposed to be a joke or have we truly gotten to the point where ... coding in a terminal via like hyprland or w/e, without relying on an what is basically an annoying tutorial character from a video game that acts as an assistant...

This is psycopathy?

Having actual competence in one's field?

Oh god we're all doomed, they'll soon be alternating between worshipping us demigods, or burning us at the stake.

EDIT:

Welp, I'm sure thats a good sign, lol.

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 21 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure it's gonna be the stake

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a joke on a tweet about a guy spending a multi-hour flight just staring straight ahead.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I've done similar things in a coffee shop before, just working on my own code, and I have actually been 'politely' asked to leave by the staff.

The staff evidently being a bunch of morons who thought I was... hacking into ... something?

They didn't know what, but they were very concerned.

I was unable to convince them I was not, because 'terminal' = 'hacking' to idiots who only know anything about computers via movies and tv shows.

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh my god that’s hilarious.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

I thought so too untill they threatened to call the police.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago

To be fair my wife is a smart lady, but she still thinks I'm invoking some arcane hacking magic when I'm messing around in the terminal.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You mean a BOSS-nian?

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Why not both? Probably worshipped at the stake.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Knowledge and skill have now been demonised

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But how do you remember the syntax???

/sarcasm

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What's that / mean?

[–] elvith@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago

I think he's searching for sarcasm, no?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Tone indicators, check internet usage section. Hope this helps!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

quite ironically, they are using syntax, specifically / , to indicate a specific kind of meaning afterward.

/sarcasm

/joking

I've seen all these used to more explicitly indicate that the previous statement was sarcastic, or a joke, due to irony being largely dead, but also to help with people may not natively read/speak/write english.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In html you end a text style with a /

So think of how you put an asterisk around words to bold / italicise them on sm. In html it would be bold or italics. The slash is an "end format" indicator

So /s or /sarcasm means "end sarcasm" and indicates by reasoning that the previous statement was sarcasm.

The diamond brackets got dropped because with them they were being interpreted as actual html commands on early forums

[–] OKRainbowKid@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This gives me "old man yelling at clouds" energy.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I quite literally yelled at the introduction of 'the cloud' as yet another stupid corpo buzzword.

...

I was working at MSFT the first time someone hsd ever asked me if I had a 'cloud' backup.

What? Do you mean a remote server, offsite?

No, no, in the cloud!

5 minutes of research later.

Oh, so yes, you do mean on a remote server somewhere.

No, no, in the cloud!

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