“Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.”

additionally Brodie Robertson did a video about Malibal banning countries back in October: Youtube, PeerTube

with one post, Malibal turned itself into a joke

• but corporate policy is to let IT handle updates
• but Windows doesn’t like being ignored so it bypasses group policy and auto-updates

original generation of COBOL programmers where expecting their programs to be replaced (or at least rewritten) within a decade or so – and then Y2K and we realized how much COBOL was still in the wild – and now a couple decades down the line, they’re still having problems trying to convince fintech to switch from COBOL to the new language of Java …

there’s a whole world of alternative, small, or minimalist non-Chromium non-Firefox browsers out there I would love to try out – but in today’s world, if it doesn’t support at least the full un-crippled version of uBlock Origin, it’s a complete non-starter

(considering general trends, I’m just gonna have to sit down and setup PiHole aren’t I?)

we are talking Gnome devs here after all …

tropical or sidereal or Schmidt or IAU zodiac?

(considering what’s left behind on Xitter, that’s probably a good thing)

so next we can expect a tirade from Hans Reiser now that ReiserFS was deleted from the kernel?

and converting them to modern languages: Basic Computer Games

would like to see what Cards Against Humanity could do with the supplement business …

“There are two types of people: those who back up and those who haven’t lost data … yet.”

aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”

once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:

• deciding to “learn Linux” the hard way by starting with a specialized distro (Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine)
• switching to unstable or testing branches before you’re ready ’cause you want bleeding edge or “stable is too far behind”
• playing around with third-party repositories before understanding them (PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR in Arch)
• bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh)
• changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”

TIL: “desperation” = “ambition”

Shantanu Narayen’s still not giving you a free license

Elon decided Microsoft’s Tay chatbot was a guidebook …

Elon Musk removes blocking feature so he can finally see what his kids post

more of a miracle he didn’t copy Johnny Cab …

• the cool kids use Sourcehut
• I use Codeberg