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Vyasa@Vyasa

June 04, 2023

BWAHAHAHAHOUHAHA-HAHA!
I honestly did not expect ChatGPT to fail so badly! (I will not paste any of its output, Lunduke!)
It's my first time to directly use ChatGPT. I just couldn't come up with anything I want to know that it could reliably tell me. Until today when I realised I keep receiving requests by some relatives to do a bash oneliner for some text files and I'd be offloaded if I could just tell them how to do it themselves in PowerShell but it'll be long before I've learnt what I need so I have the option to ask an RTFM-level-stupid question on StackOverflow or... to test out the great deceiver. So I sacrificed the confidentiality of my name, surname and friggin' phone number to have a go. I'll paste here just my input but you'll be well able to deduce how it went:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I want to remove duplicate whitespace from a text file on a Windows 10/11 PC. On Linux with bash what I would do is:
$ cat spacious.txt | tr -s [:space:] > compact.txt
What is the easiest way to do the same on Windows without WSL?
What is the simplest PowerShell script which can produce the same result?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By whitespace I meant not only " ", but also carriage returns. Does '\s' match carriage returns as well as " "? Also, when I have duplicate carriage returns in the spacious.txt, I want to have single carriage returns in the compact.txt and not ' ' as you suggested. Please provide a suggestion taking this into account.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sounds better, but now duplicate spaces and tabs, and carriage returns will be replaced with 1 carriage return AND a newline character. What I want is for duplicate [:space:] as defined by POSIX to be replaced with a single instance of the same kind of whitespace - spacebar, tab, return, enter or whatever other kind of whitespace there is. Two tabs should become one tab, two spacebars - one spacebar, two carriage returns - one carriage return and so on. I pointed you to the bash oneliner:
$ cat spacious.txt | tr -s [:space:] > compact.txt
and I know I should not expect you to understand what it does as you are uncapable of understanding anything due to being no more than a glorified pattern-matching algorithm, but please try to reproduce the exact same functionality in the PowerShell script you recommend. Just to be clear, in case you got confused, I didn't just ask you two things - I asked you the same thing in two different ways - first one case-by-case example to guide you and then one bash oneliner that fulfills exactly what I want, no more, no less.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Was the third and final suggestion I got by ChatGPT correct? It was the exact same as the first suggestion. Though of course the chatbot acted as if it had corrected itself.
And of course if my question had been answered on StackOverflow, ChatGPT's answer would have been correct. But I wouldn't have had to ask it the question as I've done my own research beforehand. Also the chatbot would get merit that does not belong to it.
If the problem is the way I asked, then I have to ask myself: Is programming more tedious, or prompt engineering?

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

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Linux Mint Says Wayland Worse Experience than X11

"We worked really hard on Wayland"... "and the experience is almost on par with X11."

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

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OpenMandriva's Attempted "Sabotage" by Former Contributor

A disgruntled former Linux distro contributor. Deleted desktop packages. Accusations of (potentially criminal) sabotage. Lunduke speaks to everyone to sort it out.

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

July 08, 2026

Microsoft's Project Aion (AI Desktop) Leaked Demo Video

This leaked video shows Microsoft's AI centric vision for a future OS. No native (legacy) Windows software. All web based, and all AI.

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

November 22, 2023

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

November 21, 2023

openSUSE says "No Lunduke allowed!"

Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.

Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣

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AI Automation Helping My Job Search

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The applying for me has been a mixed bag so far. Still, it is definitely saving me time.

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High End and Workhorse Models Appear: GPT 5.6 Sol and Grok 4.5

OpenAI released their Mythos/Fable competitor GPT 5.6 Sol. Word is that it’s not quite AS good at the most difficult tasks as Anthropic’s Fable 5, but for almost all tasks it’s just as good and 70% cheaper to run and faster. xAI released Grok 4.5 that is now in the hunt for the top. It’s not QUITE there, but it’s allegedly very good and a LOT cheaper. Cheaper per token and more efficient in getting work done using less tokens.

We are well into the “labor pyramid” of AI models. You have your expensive human solutions architect, supported by a cheaper project manager, then a set of mid level workers and some cheap newbies. Nobody staffs a project with just the highest priced most capable humans. Likewise with AI these days.

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

July 08, 2026

TRS-80 Model 100 joins The Lunduke Journal Lifetime Wall party!

Buckle up, Buttercup. Because The Lunduke Journal is about to blow your mind.

The “BeOS” Wall Lifetime Subscriber Wall is now full (see all of them on Lunduke.com)!
We’ve added a new “TRS-80 Model 100” Wall (because we can)! That’s the 19th Lifetime Subscriber Wall! 19!
The discounted Lifetime Lunduke Journal Subscriptions are still available through to the end of this month (July).

Which means there are, as of this exact moment, 4 Walls with space available (see Lunduke.com for the full list of Walls). But these fill up wicked fast.

Emacs (only a few spots left)
Desqview/X (a little less than 2/3rd’s full)
NeXTStep (still plenty of space)
TRS-80 Model 100 (just launched)

Nice, right?

Worth noting: The “TRS-80 Model 100” has very limited screen resolution (240 x 64), which means only a small number of names can fit on that wall. If you want on it, I’d let me know right away.

Grab a discounted Lifetime Subscription (if you don’t already have one), then let me know (email “bryan at lunduke.com”) which Wall you’d like to see your name on.

Huge high five to everyone who has already added their name to a Wall. At the current rate, we’ll have over 20 retro computer themed walls, filled with all of your names, by the end of the month.

And, doggone it, that’s amazing.

-Lunduke

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

July 06, 2026

Vim beats Emacs!

Well, we’ve done it.

We’ve answered the eternal question: “Which Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Wall would fill with names quicker? Emacs or Vim?”

The answer, it turns out, is “Vim”. And it takes just 8 days.

A hearty “Thank You” to everyone who supports The Lunduke Journal by getting Lifetime Subscriptions (massively discounted throughout July) and getting on these walls! You make all of this possible!

Now. How long will it take for Emacs to fill up (matching the same number of names as the Vim Wall)?

Well, right now the Emacs Wall is a hair over 2/3rds of the way full. So we’ll find out!

Welcome NeXTStep Wall!

With the closing of the “Vim” Wall (and the BeOS Wall only having the space for 1 name left), now seemed like a good time to add a new retro computer wall: The NeXTStep 1.0 Wall.

Right now, there are 4 Walls available to add your name to (*cough* massive discount *cough*).

NeXTStep (just opened)
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-Lunduke

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

July 05, 2026

Lunduke's Week in Tech : June 28 - July 4, 2026

Lunduke’s Thoughts of The Week

Yesterday was the 4th of July.

As such, time that I normally would have spent writing up some thoughts on the Tech News of the Week (tm) was, instead, spent eating hamburgers, watching fireworks, and generally goofing off with my kids.

So allow me to briefly summarize my thoughts using as little effort as possible:

Rust is weird, Sony sucks, and America is awesome.

… Yup. That just about covers it.

I hope all of my fellow Americans had a truly splendid Independence Day.

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Like Computers? Thank America. (X, Substack)

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