IanTwenty

I saw the smoke yesterday about 5pm. The 'We the Curious' fire of 3 years ago was also solar panels: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/curious-fire-everything-know-major-6931554

I killed them all once and even dunked lava on the top yet still they spawn. Do you have to remove the entire structure to 'beat' them? Thx

From

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52069-combined-authority-mayoral-elections-2025-where-does-voting-intention-stand

In the code below we wait for a background process three times. In the first paragraph we get the expected 0 return code from the wait. In the second paragraph the only change is wrapping the wait in a command substitution which instead gives a 255 return code. In the third paragraph the only change is wrapping the wait in a subshell which gives a 127 return code. Why is this?

sleep 1 &
wait $!
echo $?                     # prints "0"

sleep 1 &
a=$(wait $!)                # <---- only difference is cmd substitution
echo $?                      # prints "255"

sleep 1 &
(wait $! &>/dev/null)       # <---- only difference is subshell
echo $?                     # prints "127"

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

EDIT: updated to include the subshell final example also, which gives a clue

Some gusts of 45mph in Horfield and Fulton according to https://martynhicks.uk/weather/data.php so I think we escaped the worst in the city. A few things blew around but no damage near us.

Can anyone recommend a tool to manage photos at the cmdline? I just want to move photos into dirs based on their metadata (YYYY/DD), occasionally fix up metadata (adjust dates), rename photo filenames to match a template and/or query my photos for certain things. It doesn't need to be a gallery or image touch-up tool, I have other things for that.

I'm aware of exiftool and ImageMagick, perhaps they can do the job but they seem quite low level, really need to build scripts around them - I'd like something that operates at a slightly higher level so I don't have to do too much scripting.

A quick search turned up chee (GPLv3) which can:

• search photos using a simple query language
• manage named queries (called collections)
• copy/symlink images into a custom folder structure

...but it's not had an update in a few years (maybe it's feature complete tho!) Any other suggestions? Thanks.

Any child-friendly recommendations? I think most matches will be around midday hopefully.

(the image is an older shot from https://www.flickr.com/photos/37972999@N07/47986391577)