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Everyone knows that James Bond has a “license to kill.” As an international spy, he must sometimes fight for his life. But he’s a trained government employee, specially selected for Her Majesty’s Service. But could you trust just anyone with a license to kill?

Let's find out in the short story Red Card in today's #EverythingIsNotOK newsletter.

https://everythingisnotok.substack.com/p/red-card

Your random Linux command from #ManMeBot:

ppmhist (1) - print a histogram of a portable pixmap

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Today's edition of the Everything Is Not OK newsletter brings you the short story "Billennium".

Despite best predictions, the overpopulation of the world did not collapse it. Nor did it cause us to move off world. We just had to move into smaller and smaller spaces.

Read it here (and if you like what you see, please consider subscribing!)

https://everythingisnotok.substack.com/p/billennium

#EverythingIsNotOK

Your random Linux command from #ManMeBot:

pdftocairo (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PNG/JPEG/TIFF/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG using cairo

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Your random Linux command from #ManMeBot:

cat (1) - concatenate files and print on the standard output

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Your random Linux command from #ManMeBot:

printf (1) - format and print data

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My beautiful baby puppy has reached insane-o mode already. I thought I had a few more weeks before she went total puppy nuts.

So now I’m basically wearing shoes around the house so she can’t maim my feet on the way by. She’ll either stop doing it or she’ll do it long enough that her puppy teeth fall out and she’ll have much duller teeth.

So...cute...?

Your random Linux command from #ManMeBot:

xinput (1) - utility to configure and test X input devices

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Your random Linux command from #ManMeBot:

gcalccmd (1) - a console calculator

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Finished “After Life” on Netflix.

Man...I loved it. It spoke to every dark part of my heart in exactly the way it wanted to be spoken to.

Ricky Gervais is my spirit animal.

#persist (this tag is for my bot)

My puppy is amazeballs at coaxing me out of small bits of paper towel. She amasses the bits into a big stash which she lies on as a bed (because apparently all the dog beds around the house aren’t suitable).

There’s a #socialengineering lesson in there.

Your random Linux command from #ManMeBot:

scandeps (1p) - Scan file prerequisites

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Bearded dude just hanging out at the store like a boss. He’s selling it. Someone will take him home.

Your random Linux command from #ManMeBot:

xxd (1) - make a hexdump or do the reverse.

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Your random Linux command from #ManMeBot:

gnome-settings-daemon (1) - Handles the GNOME session settings

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This edition of the Everything Is Not OK newsletter contains two stories for your reading…umm…pleasure, I guess. The future is a weird place and it’s also kind of dangerous this week...

This edition is public so read away. If you want additional stories and benefits, consider subscribing :)

https://everythingisnotok.substack.com/p/magic-and-millionaires

Your random Linux command from #ManMeBot:

pbmclean (1) - flip isolated pixels in portable bitmap

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I think my first gen Apple TV just got a firmware upgrade. I’m appalled and astonished simultaneously.