• New Hate List

    From Farley Flud@ff@linux.rocks to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Dec 20 12:36:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    The following is my new hate list. This is not a ranking;
    it is just a list. I hate intensely and, above all else,
    EQUALLY:

    Microslop/Apphole users.

    Pickup truck/SUV drivers.

    People who have television or entertainment centers in their
    homes.

    People who use laptops.

    People who use smartphones.

    People who consume red meat and/or fast food and/or soda
    drinks.

    People who use GNU/Linux desktop environments, especially
    with Wayland.
    --
    Gentoo: the only road to GNU/Linux freedom and perfection.
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  • From jmj@jmj@energokod.gda.pl to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Dec 20 16:23:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    W dniu 20.12.2025 o 13:36, Farley Flud pisze:
    People who use laptops.

    People who use smartphones.

    What is wrong with them?!?
    Did you try find new job without smartphone?!?
    I use laptop with USB hub and I do a lot more with it than I do with my previous PC. What I mean was: I feel a lot smarter with my laptop than
    with PC earlier. That's it! I constantly grove since I buy my laptop in
    2019y.
    --
    Jacek Marcin Jaworski, Pruszcz Gd., woj. Pomorskie, Polska🇵🇱, EU🇪🇺;
    tel.: +48-609-170-742, najlepiej w godz.: 5:15-5:55 lub 17:15-17:55; <jmj@energokod.gda.pl>, gpg: 4A541AA7A6E872318B85D7F6A651CC39244B0BFA;
    Domowa s. WWW: <https://energokod.gda.pl>;
    Mini Netykieta: <https://energokod.gda.pl/MiniNetykieta.html>;
    Mailowa Samoobrona: <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/pl>.

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  • From Farley Flud@ff@linux.rocks to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Dec 20 16:07:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:23:17 +0100, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:

    W dniu 20.12.2025 o 13:36, Farley Flud pisze:
    People who use laptops.

    People who use smartphones.

    What is wrong with them?!?


    A smartphone is different from a mobile phone. I carry a mobile
    phone so that I can receive/make calls from anywhere.

    But a smartphone is a toy for asshole-idiots. It has no justifiable
    or realistic purpose. Only asshole-idiots use smartphones.

    Regarding laptops, they are a joke. Who can compute with a severely
    limited screen display and crippled keyboard? Only an asshole-idiot.

    Sure. Laptops are portable, but if I carried one with me on a bus
    I would be attacked and robbed. They are a liability as well.

    People who use laptops, like many on this NG, are engaged only in
    frivolous and superficial computing. Laptops are the answer only
    for brain-dead housewives.
    --
    Gentoo: the only road to GNU/Linux freedom and perfection.
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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIER@sc@fiat-linux.fr to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Dec 20 16:21:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Le 20-12-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
    Sure. Laptops are portable, but if I carried one with me on a bus
    I would be attacked and robbed.

    I knew USA was a shit country to live in, thanks for making that
    obvious.
    --
    Si vous avez du temps à perdre :
    https://scarpet42.gitlab.io
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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@OFeem1987@teleworm.us to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Dec 20 11:29:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Farley Flud wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

    The following is my new hate list. This is not a ranking;
    it is just a list. I hate intensely and, above all else,
    EQUALLY:

    <snip>

    I hate you. :-D
    --
    For off-road use only.
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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@OFeem1987@teleworm.us to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Dec 20 11:33:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Farley Flud wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:23:17 +0100, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:

    W dniu 20.12.2025 o 13:36, Farley Flud pisze:
    People who use laptops.

    <snip>

    Regarding laptops, they are a joke. Who can compute with a severely
    limited screen display and crippled keyboard? Only an asshole-idiot.

    Before I replaced my "desktop laptop" with a mini-PC, I had a
    dozen devices connected by USB, a monitor connected by a mini
    Display Port, and a monitor connected by VGA or by HDMI.

    Sure. Laptops are portable, but if I carried one with me on a bus
    I would be attacked and robbed. They are a liability as well.

    If you opened your big yap like you do here, you'd be attacked and
    be beaten to guava jelly :-D
    --
    <Espy> I invoke Espy's law, which states that you all suck :P
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  • From Farley Flud@ff@linux.rocks to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Dec 20 19:11:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 20 Dec 2025 16:21:12 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:


    I knew USA was a shit country to live in, thanks for making that
    obvious.


    But the streets don't stink of human urine, unlike your golden
    capital Paris.

    One must wonder just how much YOU contribute to that stench.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
    --
    Gentoo: the only road to GNU/Linux freedom and perfection.
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Dec 20 20:22:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2025-12-20 11:21 a.m., Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
    Le 20-12-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
    Sure. Laptops are portable, but if I carried one with me on a bus
    I would be attacked and robbed.

    I knew USA was a shit country to live in, thanks for making that
    obvious.

    European countries are no better. Your idiot women insisted on opening
    the borders for the savages who would rape and murder them. Now, it will
    up to your men to fix the problem, but I doubt that any of them are even willing to do so anymore.

    Once a war is declared on your country and you are forced to conscript
    young men to fight it, the savages who follow a murderous homosexual
    pedophile false prophet are likely to leave. Until then, don't be
    surprised if your wives, sisters and daughters give birth to ugly
    children with an IQ no higher than the number of people in your household.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Dec 20 20:25:48 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 12/20/25 8:22 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2025-12-20 11:21 a.m., Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
    Le 20-12-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :

    Sure.  Laptops are portable, but if I carried one with me on a bus
    I would be attacked and robbed.

    I knew USA was a shit country to live in, thanks for making that
    obvious.

    European countries are no better. Your idiot women insisted on opening
    the borders for the savages who would rape and murder them. Now, it will
    up to your men to fix the problem, but I doubt that any of them are even willing to do so anymore.

    Once a war is declared on your country and you are forced to conscript
    young men to fight it, the savages who follow a murderous homosexual pedophile false prophet are likely to leave. Until then, don't be
    surprised if your wives, sisters and daughters give birth to ugly
    children with an IQ no higher than the number of people in your household.


    How do you not see the Satanic nature of what you're saying?
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From Billy Bob Magee@thisemailinvalid929@fij.net to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Dec 21 01:40:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote in news:69474bdf$0$23$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

    On 2025-12-20 11:21 a.m., Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
    Le 20-12-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
    Sure. Laptops are portable, but if I carried one with me on a bus
    I would be attacked and robbed.

    I knew USA was a shit country to live in, thanks for making that
    obvious.

    European countries are no better. Your idiot women insisted on opening
    the borders for the savages who would rape and murder them. Now, it
    will up to your men to fix the problem, but I doubt that any of them
    are even willing to do so anymore.

    Once a war is declared on your country and you are forced to conscript
    young men to fight it, the savages who follow a murderous homosexual pedophile false prophet are likely to leave. Until then, don't be
    surprised if your wives, sisters and daughters give birth to ugly
    children with an IQ no higher than the number of people in your
    household.

    Here is the problem with European countires and they created it
    themselves.
    Certain groups of immigrants have no desire to assimilate but want their culture, religion, beliefs, customs and lifestyle to replace the culture
    that is already present.
    And in the case of Islam you either succumb or you are killed.
    And it's especially toublesome for LBGTQ people as the Muslims believe
    that there is no saving them.
    Woman are also looked down upon and used as servants and baby makers.
    Here is the current state of Europe during the holiday season.

    And it's not racist or Islamaphobic, it's the facts which can be easily verified.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/europe-caving-diversity- islamist-influence-restricting-christmas-christianity/

    "Governments across the formerly Christian world are yielding to DEI,
    woke ideology, and pro-Islamist pressure, passing laws and ordinances
    that restrict outward displays of Christmas and Christian celebrations.

    Rather than defending historic traditions, officials increasingly frame Christian expression as a problem to be managed or suppressed.

    Europe is increasingly restricting public Christmas celebrations as
    political and cultural elites retreat from the continent’s Judeo-
    Christian identity while simultaneously caving to liberal pressure to
    embrace Islam and aggressive secularism.

    Public displays of Christmas, once understood as inclusive and unifying,
    are now treated as controversial in countries such as France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, and others.

    Across Europe, schools, municipalities, and public institutions have
    removed Christian references from holiday events under the banner of inclusivity and secularism.

    In some cases, schools have eliminated Christmas language from
    performances, while cities have rebranded Christmas markets and
    celebrations with neutral “winter” themes.

    These changes often occur despite Christianity remaining the majority
    religion in the affected communities.

    A headteacher at Wherwell Primary School in Andover, United Kingdom
    removed all references to Christmas from the school’s pantomime, Jack and
    the Beanstalk, stating the decision was made to ensure the performance
    was “inclusive” for children of all faiths.

    Parents were informed that Christmas songs and mentions would be excluded
    so that children whose families do not celebrate Christmas could attend.

    Ovenden explained that some parents normally withdraw their children from festive events on religious grounds. However, census data shows Andover’s population is approximately 62.4 percent Christian and 0.6 percent
    Muslim.

    The decision sparked backlash from some parents, who argued that
    Christmas is part of the UK’s cultural heritage and that removing it to
    avoid offense amounts to erasing tradition.

    Critics said a pantomime held during the Christmas season inevitably
    carries festive associations and should not be altered to accommodate a
    small minority.

    The pantomime company confirmed it typically includes Christmas
    references but removed them at the school’s request.

    School officials said they were disappointed by national media coverage
    and maintained that the intent was practical rather than ideological, stressing that pupils remain excited about upcoming Christmas festivities
    held elsewhere in the school calendar.

    France, once a stark Catholic country, now illustrates the same trend,
    with many cities replacing Christmas imagery with generic seasonal
    branding following jihadist attacks on Christmas markets.

    Rather than reinforcing cultural confidence, authorities have intensified secular policies, removing Christian symbols from public festivities.
    These decisions have drawn criticism even from immigrants who view the
    erasure of Christian traditions as excessive and damaging.

    In Spain, government leaders have avoided explicitly referencing
    Christmas while openly recognizing Islamic holidays, and left-wing municipalities have scaled back Christian decorations.

    At the same time, private life tells a different story, with families and workplaces continuing to celebrate Christmas traditions outside official settings.

    In Germany, a proposal in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district has been discussed
    for years that seeks to ban all public religious festivals.

    The stated rationale is to avoid noise complaints by prohibiting every religious display, including Christmas, rather than targeting a single
    faith.

    The effect, however, is the same: Christian traditions are singled out
    for removal from public life.

    Denmark has seen several institutional decisions affecting Christmas celebrations over the past decade.

    In 2017, Gribskolen school canceled a Christmas church service, citing
    laws restricting religious preaching in schools.

    The same school had hosted a “Syria Week” the previous year, during which students learned about Middle Eastern culture.

    In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez avoided using the word “Christmas”
    in a 2024 holiday greeting, instead wishing citizens a new year of health
    and prosperity.

    In contrast, he explicitly referenced Ramadan in messages addressed to
    Muslim communities. Separately, some mayors from far-left parties reduced Christmas decorations in public spaces during the same period.

    In most cases, the restrictions were imposed by local councils, schools,
    or administrative bodies citing secularism, inclusivity, or neutrality as justification.

    In multiple instances, however, institutions that curtailed Christmas references or displays continued to promote or accommodate Muslim
    holidays such as Ramadan or Eid.

    Across Europe, legal and social restrictions increasingly affect
    Christians, including prosecutions related to silent prayer near abortion facilities and cases involving speech on religious beliefs.

    The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union has
    called on the EU to appoint a coordinator to address anti-Christian
    hatred, citing the need for parity with existing coordinators for
    antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred.

    OIDAC and Church officials have also raised concerns that broadly defined hate-speech and discrimination laws are being applied in ways that
    restrict the public expression of Christian beliefs, contributing to what
    some Church leaders describe as ideological discrimination rather than
    overt persecution.

    This is how cultures collapse. Not through one dramatic event, but
    through a thousand small surrenders. Cancel the Christmas market. Hide
    the decorations. Avoid offense at all costs. Then shame anyone who
    notices and insist the problem is their intolerance.

    Europe’s cultural decline is driven less by aggression from outsiders
    than by internal renunciation.

    When leaders suppress their own traditions in the name of tolerance, they hollow out the cultural confidence needed for genuine pluralism.

    Continued retreat risks emboldening radical demands and leaving European societies unable to defend their own heritage or traditions.

    Meanwhile, Western families are told they cannot celebrate their own traditions on their own streets because officials are afraid of “security concerns.” The reality is simple. Tolerance that requires you to abandon
    your own culture is not tolerance. It is submission.

    The deeper issue is not external pressure alone, but the willingness of European leaders to abandon their own cultural foundations.

    Strict secularism is increasingly applied to Christianity while Islamic practices receive accommodation, particularly in schools. This imbalance, combined with low assimilation rates, undermines social cohesion and
    weakens shared identity.


    Dr. Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China MBA, is an economist and national
    security analyst with a focus on China and Russia. He is a graduate of American Military University.
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  • From vallor@vallor@vallor.earth to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Dec 21 02:29:54 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    At 21 Dec 2025 01:40:28 GMT, Billy Bob Magee <thisemailinvalid929@fij.net> wrote:
    Here is the problem with European countires and they created it
    themselves.

    So what the FSCK does this have to do with Linux?

    (I'll express sympathy for Christendom...but not here.)

    ObLinux:

    $ cat make-spout-hammersig.pl
    #!/usr/bin/perl

    use IPC::Open2;

    $spout = `dada ~/bin/spout.pb`;

    $spout =~ s/\n//g;

    my $pid = open2(my $fout, my $fin, 'fold -s -w65');

    select($fin);
    $|=1;
    select(STDOUT);

    (print $fin "$spout\n");
    close($fin);
    @spout=<$fout>;
    close($fout);

    $spout = '] ';

    $spout .= join("] ",@spout);


    print "-- \nDoc Hammerslack\n";

    print $spout;

    exit 0;

    - ->% cut here %<- -
    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 Mem: 258G
    OS: Linux 6.18.1 D: Mint 22.2
    NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G (580.105.08) DE: Xfce 4.18 (X11)
    ".ASM programmers drive stick shifts."
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  • From Billy Bob Magee@thisemailinvalid929@fij.net to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Dec 21 02:49:40 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote in
    news:10i7m32$2e771$1@dont-email.me:

    At 21 Dec 2025 01:40:28 GMT, Billy Bob Magee
    <thisemailinvalid929@fij.net> wrote:
    Here is the problem with European countires and they created it
    themselves.

    So what the FSCK does this have to do with Linux?

    Linux?
    I dunno. Maybe you should ask the Linux user (I think?) who started the thread.

    (I'll express sympathy for Christendom...but not here.)
    I doubt they need sympathy. What they do need is education and some
    common sense.

    ObLinux:

    What's that?

    $ cat make-spout-hammersig.pl
    #!/usr/bin/perl

    use IPC::Open2;

    $spout = `dada ~/bin/spout.pb`;

    $spout =~ s/\n//g;

    my $pid = open2(my $fout, my $fin, 'fold -s -w65');

    select($fin);
    $|=1;
    select(STDOUT);

    (print $fin "$spout\n");
    close($fin);
    @spout=<$fout>;
    close($fout);

    $spout = '] ';

    $spout .= join("] ",@spout);


    print "-- \nDoc Hammerslack\n";

    print $spout;

    exit 0;

    - ->% cut here %<- -


    Glóir don Athair, agus don Mhac, agus don Spiorad Naomh.
    Are you Egyptian or studying Egyptian Hieroglyphs?
    Is English your primary language?
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Dec 20 21:57:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2025-12-20 8:40 p.m., Billy Bob Magee wrote:
    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote in news:69474bdf$0$23$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

    On 2025-12-20 11:21 a.m., Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
    Le 20-12-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
    Sure. Laptops are portable, but if I carried one with me on a bus
    I would be attacked and robbed.

    I knew USA was a shit country to live in, thanks for making that
    obvious.

    European countries are no better. Your idiot women insisted on opening
    the borders for the savages who would rape and murder them. Now, it
    will up to your men to fix the problem, but I doubt that any of them
    are even willing to do so anymore.

    Once a war is declared on your country and you are forced to conscript
    young men to fight it, the savages who follow a murderous homosexual
    pedophile false prophet are likely to leave. Until then, don't be
    surprised if your wives, sisters and daughters give birth to ugly
    children with an IQ no higher than the number of people in your
    household.

    Here is the problem with European countires and they created it
    themselves.
    Certain groups of immigrants have no desire to assimilate but want their culture, religion, beliefs, customs and lifestyle to replace the culture
    that is already present.
    And in the case of Islam you either succumb or you are killed.
    And it's especially toublesome for LBGTQ people as the Muslims believe
    that there is no saving them.
    Woman are also looked down upon and used as servants and baby makers.
    Here is the current state of Europe during the holiday season.

    And it's not racist or Islamaphobic, it's the facts which can be easily verified.

    While I appreciate the response, I don't believe that the group needed
    such a long one. We know muhammedism is dangerous. We also know that
    muhammed (piss be upon him) was a murderous homosexual pedophile who, according to muhammedans themselves, is the only prophet without sin. Believing that alone is absolute blasphemy and makes mockery of Jesus
    Christ. How they can think that and not realize that their religion is inspired by demons is beyond me.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Dec 21 05:34:20 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 20 Dec 2025 16:21:12 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

    Le 20-12-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
    Sure. Laptops are portable, but if I carried one with me on a bus I
    would be attacked and robbed.

    I knew USA was a shit country to live in, thanks for making that
    obvious.

    Actually in this city the buses are free like beer and have free wifi to
    boot. I have been in parts of the country where if I was forced to take a
    bus I would sharpen my Recon I and make sure I had some spare mags for the .45. It's a big country.

    From what I've read I would feel woefully under provisioned with the above loadout in parts of Paris.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Dec 21 05:37:38 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:29:54 +0000, vallor wrote:

    ObLinux:

    $ cat make-spout-hammersig.pl #!/usr/bin/perl

    use IPC::Open2;

    $spout = `dada ~/bin/spout.pb`;

    $spout =~ s/\n//g;

    my $pid = open2(my $fout, my $fin, 'fold -s -w65');

    select($fin);
    $|=1;
    select(STDOUT);

    (print $fin "$spout\n");
    close($fin);
    @spout=<$fout>;
    close($fout);

    $spout = '] ';

    $spout .= join("] ",@spout);


    print "-- \nDoc Hammerslack\n";

    print $spout;

    exit 0;

    - ->% cut here %<- -

    Thank you for reminding me why I gave up Perl for Lent about 20 years
    ago.

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  • From jmj@jmj@energokod.gda.pl to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Dec 21 07:05:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    W dniu 21.12.2025 o 06:34, rbowman pisze:
    Actually in this city the buses are free like beer

    It is ridiculous when you write "free like beer". In polish we have
    similar ambiguous with the same word: free "like freedom" which mean in
    polish "wolny", but "wolny" mean also "slow". But we newer, ever make
    any mistake when somebody talk "wolny" - this problem in polish totally
    not exist. That is why your "free like free beer" or "free like freedom"
    is ridiculous to me.

    But to be honest I realize that above are language quirks, and you some
    how can overcome them, and make many advanced things impossible in
    completely backward and limited and police driven USONA colony like Poland.
    --
    Jacek Marcin Jaworski, Pruszcz Gd., woj. Pomorskie, Polska🇵🇱, EU🇪🇺;
    tel.: +48-609-170-742, najlepiej w godz.: 5:15-5:55 lub 17:15-17:55; <jmj@energokod.gda.pl>, gpg: 4A541AA7A6E872318B85D7F6A651CC39244B0BFA;
    Domowa s. WWW: <https://energokod.gda.pl>;
    Mini Netykieta: <https://energokod.gda.pl/MiniNetykieta.html>;
    Mailowa Samoobrona: <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/pl>.

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  • From Doc Hammerslack@dochammerslack@creon.earth to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Dec 21 14:13:05 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    At 21 Dec 2025 05:37:38 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:29:54 +0000, vallor wrote:

    ObLinux:

    $ cat make-spout-hammersig.pl #!/usr/bin/perl

    use IPC::Open2;

    $spout = `dada ~/bin/spout.pb`;

    $spout =~ s/\n//g;

    my $pid = open2(my $fout, my $fin, 'fold -s -w65');

    select($fin);
    $|=1;
    select(STDOUT);

    (print $fin "$spout\n");
    close($fin);
    @spout=<$fout>;
    close($fout);

    $spout = '] ';

    $spout .= join("] ",@spout);


    print "-- \nDoc Hammerslack\n";

    print $spout;

    exit 0;

    - ->% cut here %<- -

    Thank you for reminding me why I gave up Perl for Lent about 20 years
    ago.

    It creates a sig from the output of the "dada" engine,
    using open2() to run fold(1) with input and output pipes
    to the process. "spout.pb" is the grammar used by dada.

    Dada is fun. I once wrote a dada grammar to sound like an
    old-time Usenet kook, called "bray.pb". It was a "Raymond
    Karczewski simulator" (barely). Many were amused, and many
    were not, including Ray...

    https://creon.earth/dada/?bray.pb

    So that is there. I've been thinking of writing another
    grammar to simulate a Certain Someone who is a) kooky, and
    b) tends to repeat himself.

    Anyway, the output of spout.pb, massaged with the perl script,
    is the source of this sig:
    --
    Doc Hammerslack
    ] The concept of "Slack" wielded by Nhee Ghee fscks that which can
    ] be, figuratively, 'smoked in "Bob's" Pipe' until it is examined
    ] and exorcised from this so-called 'reality.'
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Dec 21 21:08:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:05:30 +0100, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:

    W dniu 21.12.2025 o 06:34, rbowman pisze:
    Actually in this city the buses are free like beer

    It is ridiculous when you write "free like beer". In polish we have
    similar ambiguous with the same word: free "like freedom" which mean in polish "wolny", but "wolny" mean also "slow". But we newer, ever make
    any mistake when somebody talk "wolny" - this problem in polish totally
    not exist. That is why your "free like free beer" or "free like freedom"
    is ridiculous to me.

    You can thank Richard Stallman for that. "Think free as in free speech,
    not free beer."
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Dec 21 20:05:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2025-12-21 1:05 a.m., 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:
    W dniu 21.12.2025 o 06:34, rbowman pisze:
    Actually in this city the buses are free like beer

    It is ridiculous when you write "free like beer". In polish we have
    similar ambiguous with the same word: free "like freedom" which mean in polish "wolny", but "wolny" mean also "slow". But we newer, ever make
    any mistake when somebody talk "wolny" - this problem in polish totally
    not exist. That is why your "free like free beer" or "free like freedom"
    is ridiculous to me.

    But to be honest I realize that above are language quirks, and you some
    how can overcome them, and make many advanced things impossible in completely backward and limited and police driven USONA colony like Poland.

    The funny part of this post is that I immediately understood the word
    "wolny" because I speak the language, but had someone asked me how to
    say "free as in freedom" in Polish, I wouldn't have known. I wish I had
    more Polish friends I could practise the language with.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
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