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My thoughts on Red Hat's recent move to hide its enterprise sourcecode behind a paywall:
https://robert.hawdon.net/2023/06/30/red-hats-enterprise-paywall-shift-disrupting-linuxs-open-source-path/

First post, fuck spez

Reddit is everywhere. You can't bloody escape it. Time to logout and come back in a few years, do you think this drama would have passed by then?

Any recommendations for #foss alternatives to Google Authenticator?

"Aegis Authenticator" looks solid. Might try it out. #mfa #2fa #security

I re-watch this regularly.

Being reminded that single divan bed bases are less likely to go up the stairs than a double divan base (because they split in half). Today has been stressful, the house would have ended up needing structural repairs if that bed base hadn’t gone up the stair and around the corner!

huh

A website that gives you a random post from a personal blog.

NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Coorporation (norwegian: Norsk rikskringkasting), is pretty good at the concept "slow TV". Since april they've been live streaming an eagle's nest: https://www.nrk.no/piip/

I think Kbins search function is awful. Is there a list over coming apps being developed for Kbin/Lemmy?

Talking abt him aLways

Once an hour the octopuses entered an active sleep phase, during which their brain activity closely resembled their waking brain activity

It returns, full of obscenity

Good morning. Be the reason someone smiles today, or be the reason they drink. Whatever works for you. Coffee has been added, and now this body may start. Not sure what it is going to start doing yet? I'm sure I shall find out soon.

As the sun sets on 30th of June, we're halfay through the year. What have we, here?

The heat of summer (bane of my existence) is only now beginning. The smoke from the Canadian Conflagration is affecting nearly all of us.
I have finished "returning to the office" and that's kind of ok for me.
My student loans are about to start repayment, and I can't afford to spend another penny monthly.
I cook a pretty good ad-hoc stir fry, from whatever veggies are inhabiting my fridge.
My EV needs to be charged, and an old friend is coming to visit tomorrow.
My kids haven't fought yet this weekend, that's a plus.

Well, enough about me. How are you doing?

Today I took my car on the first test drive since I rebuilt the engine. And I noticed that the thermometer didn't turn on, I thought that it was maybe broken, but it turns out that the sensor wasn't even plugged in! Took 30 minutes to finagle the connector into the thing without having to take a bunch of stuff off .-.

What dumb thing did you do today?

Watching people get mad at MDN for including ChatGPT, and I'm mostly struck by how time-sensitive PR crisis management is.

It was a clear mistake, yes. Everyone would have forgotten about if it was promptly removed after that was pointed out, or even if the promise to remove it was made.

Instead, because they've let this sit for an eternity (4 hours), we're already seeing reactions like

I am warning my team about this feature and letting them know not to trust it.

and

By implementing and deploying this "feature", MDN has convinced me to stop contributing to MDN and cease donating to the Mozilla Foundation, because I am completely unwilling to participate in perpetuating the massive disinformation which this "feature" presents to users and the dramatic confusion and waste of people's time which it will cause.

Obviously, I will also stop recommending MDN as a good source of documentation. I will also need to remove links to MDN from everything I've written which can be edited.

and

This was very disappointing as a now-former MDN contributor and subscriber. The whole point of MDN was authoritative content but until there are some fundamental improvements in LLMs I might as well be supporting W3 Schools.

These might seem like extreme reactions, but no one is defending MDN, because MDN has given them nothing to wield in MDNs defence. Instead these reactions are only receiving "upvotes" (thumbs ups) and more users piling on.

A not lightning fast response time is doing irreparable harm to MDN's reputation, and is losing them revenue.

Context: https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208

Archived as of writing this comment: https://archive.is/MNjro

Goodbye Apollo, you will be missed

My last post on reddit got me permanently banned from /r/pics. I posted somebody's huge dick, saying that /u/spez should suck it. They didn't like it. But fuck it. Sync stopped working today so I'm gonna have a lot more free time from now on. Fuck spez, fuck reddit, fuck everything.

Works okay for me.

In a frozen, treacherous world where icy landscapes dominate, and daring adventurers seek thrilling challenges, the fantasy job of "Ice Road Crab Trucking" e...

Well, there goes BaconReader.