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[-] DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago
[-] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 month ago
[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago
[-] cathfish@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Have I thanked you for creating content?

[-] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 month ago
[-] cathfish@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Thank you for creating content!

[-] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 month ago

You're welcome!

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 27 points 1 month ago

Is this present, future, or past timeline?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 month ago

OpenSSH version:

  • 10.0 was released 2025
  • 5.0 was released 2008
  • 1.2 was released 2005 (on unix)

Extrapolating: OpenSSH 43.2 is millions of years into the future

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 28 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Upon deeper analysis, you are correct. I was a bit floored by what appeared to be a power curve near the beginning, but after actually plotting, it's a simple linear trend:

Data

Code

  curl https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html \
     | sed -nr '/^<h3><a/s/.*OpenSSH ([0-9.]+).*\(([0-9-]+)\).*/\2\t\1/p' \
     | sort \
     | sed -r 's|([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)|\1.\2\3|' \
     | column -t -N 'Date,Version' > openssh.dat
  head openssh.dat

Which yields:

Date        Version
2000-03-05  1.22
2000-03-24  1.23
...
2025-02-18  9.9
2025-04-09  10.0

Fit

Code

  gnuplot -p -e '
    set xdata time;
    set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d";
    set xlabel "Date"; set format x "%Y";
    set ylabel "Version";
    f(x) = a*x + b;
    a = 1e-10; b = -100;
    fit f(x) "openssh.dat" using 1:2 via a,b;
    set label 1 sprintf("Fit: Version = (%.3e * Date) %.3f", a ,b) at graph 0.05,0.95 left;
    plot "openssh.dat" using 1:2 with points title "Versions", f(x) with lines title "Fit"
  '

Which yields:

Predict

Use Y = (mX) + C, or Version = (9.55651e-09 * Date) -6.75132

Code

Note that Date are Epoch timestamps.

export VERSION="43.2"

date +%Y-%m-%d -d \
 @$(
    export m="9.55651e-09";
    export c="-6.75132";
    ## Use python for better scientific number handling 
    python -c "print(($VERSION - $c)/$m)"
 )

For OpenSSH version 43.2, the predicted date is:

2135-08-21

So, assuming a linear trend and no cataclysmic events that would pause development for a few thousand years, then it's only 110 years into the future

[-] stan_stanminson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

This is Awesome! How did you learn to do that? I want to learn too

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

thanks! oh well data formatting, just 15 years of messing around with awk and sed

Data fitting, gnuplot does all the heavy lifting with the modelling, and I always have to look up the syntax because I never remember it haha

Play around and have fun with the code snippets!

[-] stan_stanminson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

I will!

And I'm going to give a look at awk and sed, I didn't know you can do all that stuff with it.

Thanks for sharing :D

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

I seem to be on a gnuplot bender at the moment, but maybe you will enjoy this too!

[-] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 month ago
[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago
[-] qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 month ago

Where can I buy that bound Actron anthology?

[-] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 month ago

It's an illegal samizdat.

[-] murmurations@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago

I saw a copy of Language of The Birds on a shelf at Amazon Ho Foods.
Not sure how it got there, but my AI shopping cart drained my account just for looking at the book.

That is a good question.

Who is going to keep the torch we once carried aflame in the future? How will they live? What will their lifes look like?

[-] buttnugget@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

This is the first one of these I’ve ever seen but I absolutely love it.

[-] jawa22 5 points 1 month ago

This story arc has been great.

[-] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago
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