the new gnu parallel release name does not just have a rape joke in it, it's literally the name of a racist report by one far-right UK MP calling non-whites rapists.

[daemonspudguy@app.wafrn.net]

@davidgerard@circumstances.run

How does this thread keep getting worse‽

[froztbyte@mastodon.social]

@draeath @davidgerard That’s the one

[daemonspudguy@app.wafrn.net]

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @kawa@mas.to

It's at least as bad as you're picturing. If not worse.

[zzt@mas.to]

@ilmari @Bredroll @scy @davidgerard nice! I think this might do almost everything I use parallel for, and I feel like the rest can probably be handled by a bash wrapper around this

and it’s very cozily stable software which is appropriate, cause parallel is the kind of thing that deserves to be finished eventually

[daemonspudguy@app.wafrn.net]

@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Yes I'm an interrobang user. All the best people are interrobang users.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@sashin this thread, looks like

[zzt@mas.to]

@ilmari @Bredroll @scy @davidgerard oh shit and I can script this one without it filling my terminal with text demanding that I cite it in the research I’m not doing

vast improvement already

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

good news, instead of GNU Parallel, use the Debian replacement

https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/moreutils/parallel.1.en.html

by Tollef Fog Heen as part of Joey Hess's moreutils

also doesn't nag you to cite it in the research you're not doing

also not distributed primarily via LBRY, the video site on the blockchain run by the out and proud white supremacist

ht @ilmari

[zzt@mas.to]

@nickzoic @ilmari @Bredroll @scy @davidgerard and curly braces!

[checkmite@indieweb.social]

@davidgerard @ilmari My days of appreciating Debian are coming to a middle.

[ilmari@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard It's not just in Debian, it's part of the moreutils package, which is available in many distros/repos.

[draeath@infosec.exchange]

@froztbyte @davidgerard oh, dammit. It's so useful

Why can't we have nice things?

[felipe@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard @ilmari not a 17k line perl script either!

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@ilmari joey hess being right again

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@draeath @froztbyte get moreutils, it's got a better "parallel"

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@davidgerard oh god I searched it to find out what could be getting this much attention and it was so much worse than I could have imagined. WHY.

[griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com]

@gildilinie @davidgerard So, I read this and—I swear to you—thought to myself “I do not understand these words in this order”

But I *did* understand because it really is that and I just… I’m sad and tired.

[ilmari@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard tollef wrote it, joey just included it in his bag of tricks.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@ilmari coooorected

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ilmari @davidgerard moreutils, of sponge(1) fame? that moreutils? Wow I hardly even considered it would have other tools, which seems silly in retrospect. But really sponge is both indispensable and a scathing indictment of the whole concept of bash pipes.