Interested in the #Fedora project? Wanna know what happened over the past week? Check out my This Week in Fedora page: https://abompard.fedorapeople.org/twif/ 🙂

It's still unofficial because the content is generated by a non-Free LLM (and then reviewed by a human), I plan to switch the the most Free LLM I can find (at the momen't, it's AI2's Olmo) once I figure out the financing side of it.

#TWIF

#OTD in 1975, humorist P. G. Wodehouse died.

Wodehouse "was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse

Books by Wodehouse at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/783

#books #literature

I've been elected to FESCo! 🎉 [1]

Thanks to everyone who voted for me. Feel free to reach out if you want to have a chat.

If you did not vote for me, feel free to reach out as well if you feel confortable sharing why.

Now back to the work to make Fedora and all the Atomic variants awesome!

[1] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f43-election-results/

#Fedora

The Unix V4 tape read was successful
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115747843169814700

#bitsavers

I didn't realize that Swiss trains apparently also adhere to the "schedule for 80% of capacity rule".

Apparently trains in Switzerland go around 80% of the top speed possible on the track. The 20% overhead is used to make up time in the case of delays.

The thinking is: stable and predictable operation is more important than going faster. Because the cost of passengers regularly missing layovers is much higher than the benefits of trains being 20% faster.

How I became a Fedora Contributor:

I was a Fedora user for some years, we had a local user group where we talked about Linux and so on.

And one day I went to the Linux Tag in Berlin. There were many project booths, including Fedora.

So I came to the booth and said "hi, I am a Fedora user, can I get stickers for my LUG?"

And one of the folks said - want to join us at the booth and help here?

I said "of course!" and went on the other side of the table. And this is how it all started :)

Any software engineering leader ignoring Shirky Principle risks wrecking their org.

"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."

This principle explains why organizations often resist changes that would eliminate the very problems they were created to solve.

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