The new #FreeBSDJournal is out! Includes my Letters column, where someone calls out my bullshit. Or tries to.

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/

@mwl TIL: I don't have to use freebsd-update; I can do it by just syncing the source and rebuilding.

Or was I supposed to take some other lesson away from that? ;)

It's a good piece.

Once I was a user. And the computer group did some upgrade. I bitched a lot, because they were just working on their resumes, the old system was fine, etc.

Then I joined that group. And we did an upgrade. And suddenly, all my bitches seemed trivial in light of the actual work and benefits of the change.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/114554566024718538

@agreeable_landfall

"all my bitches seemed trivial"

― is that from a Powell and Pressburger movie ('A Matter of Life and Death', perhaps); or from the closing soliloquy of 'The Incredible Shrinking Man'?

@mwl
Whew, shots fired!

@paulgatling imagine …

Michael L. bidding $110 in the auction to Make MWL Shut Up.

Shocking. I bet the three of thim (including the anonymous winning bidder) were speechless with shock. Almost.

@mwl

@grahamperrin @paulgatling

hey, I did not win that one!

Bob Beck did.