Lars BrinkhoffHot take? Every editable text field should be an Emacs buffer. I don't want your semi-arsed Emacs keybindings, I want the full thing.
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Grand Praetor of Excruciations at zonk.net HQ. Musician and software developer. Reformed lisper and (graph)database guy. Allround theatre tech, but specialised in sound. Daughter + Two cat daddy.
I speak Finnish, English, Dutch, crappy Swedish and am trying to re-activate my Russian.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)It is okay to release a F/OSS project where the expected set of users is you.
It is okay to declare that a F/OSS project that you maintain is feature complete and stop.
It is okay to stop writing new code in a F/OSS project and just review patches from other people.
It is okay to stop reviewing patches once other people are familiar enough with the codebase to do so.
It is okay to admit that a F/OSS project that you created has so much technical debt that people would be better off reimplementing it than depending on it (especially if you write down the lessons that they should learn).
It is okay if your F/OSS project doesn't meet the requirements of some potential group of users, as long as no one applies pressure to force them to adopt it.
It is okay to tell a company that depends on your F/OSS project that it's unsupported and they can pay developers to contribute if they really need it.
It's okay to say 'I created this F/OSS project to meet my personal needs, but someone else made something that meets those needs better and so I'll use theirs instead'.
It's okay to say 'I made this F/OSS project as an experiment, and the result was that I learned that this approach is a bad idea'.
Jess👾I'm once again begging people to use reserved DNS names like example.com or ones their org owns in their documentation, and not ones that could and probably are owned by someone else.
Edit: And reserved IP addresses as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reserved_IP_addresses
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Follow the MoneyNederlandse overheden regelen aanbestedingen ter waarde van tientallen miljarden euro’s via software van Mercell. Dat Noorse bedrijf kwam in handen van Amerikaans private equity en heeft zijn concurrenten opgeslokt. Nu het een monopolie heeft, zoekt het de randen van de regels op. https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/miljarden-aanbestedingen-overheid-via-mercell-private-equity
Miljarden aan overheidsinkopen gaan via software die in handen is van Amerikaanse private equity
Nederlandse overheden regelen aanbestedingen ter waarde van tientallen miljarden euro’s via software van Mercell. Dat Noorse bedrijf kwam in handen van Amerikaans private equity en heeft zijn concurrenten opgeslokt. Nu het een monopolie heeft, zoekt het de randen van de regels op.
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Erik Uden 🚩Whenever some tech bro who only moves from one Silicon Valley hivemind to another adds a genius feature that requires being always online (or locks offline downloads behind a paywall), I am reminded about it daily on my commute.
I live in Germany, there is no 'internet' here. There is a crude system that hasn't been overhauled since the 90s that mimics what other nations call 'internet', but it is not real, nor is it your friend. It's an old German bureaucrat who files each packet for processing with pen and paper, and he's nice, but he refuses to leave.
David Graeber InstituteHonestly, if our economic system doesn't take care of the elderly, the disabled, and the homeless while those in care work such as nurses and cleaners live in poverty while having no free time, then what is even the point of having an economy?
Brian SlettenThe next time a company updates their privacy policy with long, thick legalese, let me give you this visual summary.
Charles JohnsonTrump Launches $88 Billion Fund For Anyone Who Has Ever Been Rejected By Woman
https://theonion.com/trump-launches-88-billion-fund-for-anyone-who-has-ever-been-rejected-by-woman/
Trump Launches $88 Billion Fund For Anyone Who Has Ever Been Rejected By Woman
WASHINGTON—Declaring the money long overdue compensation for some of the nation’s most persecuted individuals, President Donald Trump announced an $88 billion fund Tuesday specifically appropriated to any man ever rejected by a woman. “At long last, there will be justice for every man in America who was very unfairly told no,” said the president, noting […]