It's a bit contrarian, I know, but I look at the Python formatter ruff and now the uv package management tool the same people have announced, and I feel partly sad. Because they're both created by a company that appears to be VC backed, and we have seen this show play out before. Someday there will be a demand to make (a lot of) money, and how do you do that with free tools?

If we're lucky, they'll become community projects after the explosions.

I’m sick of people referring to Linux as an ‘Operating System’ that’s entirely misleading to new comers.

What we have is a rogue-like wiki/forum-crawler. In the honoured tradition of this genre the objective is to keep your system alive as long as possible before you inevitably fall due to incompatibilities.

Through successive play throughs with different distributions you discover the tactics that lead to increasingly robust builds.

Last night Organic Maps was removed from the Play Store without any warnings or additional details due to "not meeting the requirements for the Family Program". Compared to Google Maps and other maps apps rated for 3+ age, there are no ads or in-app purchases, and no user information is collected in Organic Maps. We have asked for an appeal.

As a temporary workaround you can install the upcoming Google Play update from this link: https://cdn.organicmaps.app/apk/OrganicMaps-24081605-GooglePlay.apk

This APK should work with Android Auto.

How much does cost 💲💲 CRAN?

If I am reading this right PyPi #python cost more than 1.8M a month without accountin volunteer and paid employees. Most of it is in the cloud, which #rstats equivalent would be cloud.r-project.org (which I think Posit pays?)
There are also 3 people leading and as CRAN there are other people (but CRAN manually reviews all submissions!).
I think that having mirrors distributed across universities lowers costs but just guessing.
https://dustingram.com/articles/2021/04/14/powering-the-python-package-index-in-2021/