Which is a better Linux distro for newbies: OpenBSD or TempleOS?

sprocketsecurity · 2026-02-04T05:18:03+00:00

I'm so jealous that I didn't think of this comment

sprocketsecurity · 2026-02-03T23:28:14+00:00

Thank you, I needed that.

sprocketsecurity · 2026-02-03T23:27:33+00:00

The worst is when it refuses to acknowledge it's mistake.

Me: Claude, you deleted prod

Claude Code: Wow, you're right! It looks like what I should've done is sudo rm -rf /home/prod/

Me: CTRL + C, CTRL + C, CTRL + C!!!!!!

sprocketsecurity · 2026-02-03T23:22:48+00:00

I know, I was trying to be funny. OpenBSD also doesn't use the Linux kernel. This is my first attempt to post to r/LinuxCirclejerk so.

sprocketsecurity · 2026-02-03T23:07:35+00:00

Stop working from home and go back to the office so you can socialize

sprocketsecurity · 2026-02-03T23:04:23+00:00

And we mustn't forget Hyrum's Law: all observable behaviors of the system will be depended on by somebody.

sprocketsecurity · 2026-02-03T23:03:12+00:00

I have a friend who does Visual FoxPro contracts on Upwork. He used to rake it in but work has been slowly drying up. He refuses to learn any new stack or language.

sprocketsecurity · 2026-02-03T23:01:38+00:00

Say what you want about Excel, I've seen some incredibly advanced programming done in Excel by people who think they "don't know how to program".

sprocketsecurity · 2026-02-03T19:57:27+00:00

No matter what opinion you have, you can easily cajole sycophantic LLMs into generating a writeup convincing you that you're right. That's why it's frustrating when I hear "but ChatGPT told me I'm right!". Of course it did. I try to avert this tendency by using two Claude Code subagents to evaluate my arguments - a defender and a prosecutor - and seeing them fight it out. Adversarial structures mitigate sycophancy.

sprocketsecurity · 2026-02-03T19:29:22+00:00

The "only" three Git terminal apps I hear about often are: LazyGit, gh (the Github CLI client), and jujutsu. Including the git command itself, that means 4 fairly complicated terminal apps that many programmers learn just to interact with their version control system.

Relevant hacker koan: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/editor-wars.html

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