Benjamin Lupton balupton

Exit Status and Bash

I'm @balupton, author of dorothy which is the largest public bash codebase that I am aware of.

Dorothy is coded using set -e (errexit) to avoid || return $? statements on every single one of its thousands of lines of code, for the most part this has worked well, however I was suprised when the down command would report a failure via:

However it would also report a success within the called function:

Various key mappings for your macOS machine via Karabiner Elements.

To apply copy the configuration into the simple_modifications section of your $HOME/.config/karabiner/karabiner.json file.

Using OpenAI's ChatGPT as my Indonesian Tutor

See the various excerpts of my prompts for usage.

Networking on my Ubuntu machines is being flaking:

docker bridge interface failing
traffic not going to vpns
when vpn or docker bridge does work it knocks out all dns resolutions

Here are all the things I have tried or yet to try.

docker failures

Move2Earn, Move2Broke, Move4Free?

Video overview:

Move2Earn, Move2Broke, Move4Free: Part 1 - has video issues, audio is fine
Move2Earn, Move2Broke, Move4Free: Part 2

If you wish to retweet:

https://twitter.com/balupton/status/1536305224549560322

It's also important to fund the small independent projects and maintainers, as they are often struggling with shoestring budgets and often have to abandon their projects from lack of means, or have their projects reimplemented by maintainers who are riding the Pareto principle (where more maintenance, usage, recognition, audience, money, will beget even more maintenance, usage, recognition, audience, money, leaving behind a long tail inside a bloody ocean, where whales and sharks incidentally cannibalise the smaller fish). $10/month could double the budget of a small-time independent maintainer, which help prevents small fish maintainers abandoning their projects, which help prevents the projects getting reimplemented with their resources consolidated by a $10,000/month Pareto maintainer, backed by even bigger entities. Abandoned projects aren't just at risk of Pareto takeovers, but also of transfers to malicious contributors (where a billion installs a month project, or a specifically targeted project, has i

Never use telegram, yet somehow amassed all these groups. Mostly crypto it seems. Purged them but included their join links below when they provided one. Perhaps will be useful to someone else.

https://t.me/TornadoCashOfficial https://t.me/cosmosproject https://t.me/c/1346125173/1701207 https://t.me/getdelta https://t.me/propsproject https://t.me/iexec_rlc_official https://t.me/joinchat/HYLRa0ReCxzSceDa25ovlg https://t.me/projecthydro


	# test input/output availability, accurately but noisely
	(: </dev/stdin \|\| printf '%s\n' 'cannot read stdin') \|\| :
	(: >/dev/stdin \|\| printf '%s\n' 'cannot write stdin') \|\| :
	(: </dev/stdout \|\| printf '%s\n' 'cannot read stdout') \|\| :
	(: >/dev/stdout \|\| printf '%s\n' 'cannot write stdout') \|\| :
	(: </dev/stderr \|\| printf '%s\n' 'cannot read stderr') \|\| :
	(: >/dev/stderr \|\| printf '%s\n' 'cannot write stderr') \|\| :
	(: </dev/tty \|\| printf '%s\n' 'cannot read tty') \|\| :
	(: >/dev/tty \|\| printf '%s\n' 'cannot write tty') \|\| :

	# sudo systemctl edit plexmediaserver

	[Unit]
	AssertPathIsMountPoint=/Volumes/TankSecure

	[Service]
	User=REDACTED
	Group=REDACTED
	Environment="PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/Volumes/REDACTED"
	UMask=0007

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	source "$DOROTHY/sources/strict.bash"

	# Android Simulator
	app=$(get-app "Android Studio.app")
	if test -d "$app"; then
	"$app/sdk/tools/emulator" -avd basic
	else
	echo "Android Studio is not installed"
	fi