Laurent Bercot

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Grumpy Frenchman, C/Unix addict, author of s6 and other software at skarnet.org.

Good tech (so, probably not the tech you're thinking about), energy transition and climate change, leftist politics, psychology and self-improvement, pillow philosophy, songwriting and production, mechanisms of storytelling, video games as an art medium, shitposting.

Personal websitehttps://skarnet.org
Business websitehttps://skarnet.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/laurentbercot
Githubhttps://github.com/skarnet

In light of this I'm sure that SystemD will roll back the user age patch.

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116682090914714346

My bank emailed me "AI is changing check fraud. Here's what you can do to protect yourself."

Nonono, Mr. Banky-bank. Tell me what YOU are doing to protect me against check fraud. This is a you problem, caused by a system you designed and run. How about you don't externalize that cost onto me?

I have, since the 1980s, DESPISED any excuse like "oh sorry we got a new computer system" or "we can't do X anymore because of the computer". How you do business isn't my fucking problem. Don't give me excuses for not having your shit together.

This is the same as "we are experiencing unexpectedly high call volume." Well, that's pretty fucking poor planning on your part, then, innit? Hold times aren't long because of the forces of nature, they are because you're too fucking cheap to pay sufficient staff.

@gro-tsen.bsky.social like dear friends, or people whose judgment you value, who get in a violent disagreement, and you don't have all the data so you don't know what to think.

It's a very uncomfortable and unpleasant situation.

@artemis I wasn't aware of that movie, and saw the wikipedia page... Am I wrong or is it a discreet but important (and actually transgressive) point in the book that Heathcliff is not white?
(I did not read the book. Just like with Pride and Prejudice, I noped on it when I realized it was a social horror story marketed as a love story.)

SMH at the idea that Linux should be more like Windows. As someone who started on Windows but barely used it since the mid 90s, it now seems completely insane. I just sit there saying WTF most of the time.

Why would you want to copy that? Just because people are used to shit doesn't mean you should give them more shit.

@wohali A classic of keming 😁

The "CCC" that is the carve-out for "copilot got us in legal hot water" does explicitly strike-out this obligation on the customer's part, so at least there's that

but yea, TIL that if you're a paying GitHub customer, there are some cases where you're going to be obligated to defend GitHub in court if the claim lands at their feet instead of yours

very cool

@charles merci, je déteste
@navi oof. Do you really have to deal with this? 😵‍💫
@navi what is PE in this context?