Open source is not your friendly neighborhood picnic—it’s more like a deserted island with the occasional message in a bottle 📜. Remember those prehistoric times when you'd pray the FTP gods sent you a tarball? 🌐😂 Ah, the good old days of "community" when your only friend was a random IRC bot. 🤖
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/ #openSourceStories #desertedIsland #techNostalgia #communityBots #messageInABottle #IRCmemories #HackerNews #ngated
Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable by email. If you were really lucky …

Makefile.feld

Accostare il dio Hermes a delle scarpe alate per camminare sulla sabbia è suggestivo.
Leggendo le caratteristiche del dio sull'AI Mistral:
messaggero degli dei, guida delle anime, protettore dei viaggiatori, Dio del commercio e dei ladri, inventore e patrono delle arti. Oltre che abile comunicatore. Nulla succede per caso, ora la borsa e il tallone di Achillea sono al sicuro.

#shoes #hermes #messageinabottle

"Message in a Bottle" is a song by British rock band #thePolice. It was released as the lead single from their second studio album, #ReggattaDeBlanc (1979). Written by the band's lead singer and bassist #Sting, the song is ostensibly about a story of a #castaway on an island who sends out a #messageInABottle to seek love. Having received no response for a year, he despairs, believing that he is destined to be alone. The next day, however.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXWrmQW-OE
The Police - Message In A Bottle (Official Music Video)

The Official Music Video for Message In A Bottle. Taken from The Police - Reggatta de Blanc.Stream more of The Police: https://thepolice.lnk.to/ListenID Subs...

YouTube

"There are empty bottles everywhere—crammed onto shelves, catching the light on a windowsill. A bar cart overflows with bottles that Buffington has yet to open, or 'solve,' as he likes to say." —Lauren Collins for The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/04/signed-sealed-delivered

#MessageInABottle

What Happens When Someone Throws a Message in a Bottle Into the Sea?

Most simply disappear. Lauren Collins writes about the M.I.B. hunter Clint Buffington and his quest to find the people who wrote the notes.

The New Yorker
Consulta la letra de la canción “Message in a Bottle” de The Police
#ThePolice #MessageInABottle
https://daletra.net/the-police/letras/message-in-a-bottle.html
Entdecken Sie den Text des Liedes “Message in a Bottle” von The Police
#ThePolice #MessageInABottle
https://daletra.top/the-police/liedtexte/message-in-a-bottle.html
Message in a bottle leads to 25-year intercontinental friendship

One night in 1997, fuelled by boredom, trainee ship bartender Erika Boyero filled some empty bottles with handwritten notes and threw them overboard in Norway. Last week, she met with the Tasmanian woman who found one of her messages.