I like not being particularly recognizable. Treat me like everyone else that you don’t know.

Ah, I thought there would be a male bird involved still, but I guess that example just explains ovulation. Still quite optimistic that everyone shares the same understanding here, though…

Yeah, I virtually only use --force for moving tags around (which one could definitely argue isn’t really a thing you should be doing regularly either)…

Yeah, we always try to automate as much as possible with generic language build tooling and scripts, so that ideally the call in the runner is just a single command, which can also be triggered locally.

Unfortunately, if you want to be able to re-run intermediate steps, then you do need to inform the runner of what you’re doing and deal with the whole complexity of up-/downloading intermediate results.

--force-with-lease* 🙃

This post made me realize, I’ve only ever heard “the birds and the bees” referenced, but never actually how it’s applied during sex ed.

But uh, turns out this does not make any sense in that context either. It’s just two separate examples to explain sexuality, so bees pollinating flowers and birds laying eggs. They’re just used as examples, because they’re visible in nature and somewhat resemble the mechanics of sex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees

My thinking was that bees are the ones that pollinate, so male.

But they certainly don’t pollinate birds, so I don’t know where that was going either. 🫠

Where I live, we have a food that’s basically flatbread with toppings. One of the popular toppings is apple slices and raisins, which looks just like an apple pie. And we do like to joke that pizza is simply the tomato variant of it, too. 🙃

Yeah, but still not in agreement with the people who live/d there…

You know how the US likes to obliterate countries for oil? Yeah, our power companies like to do that for coal.

You often just want to go with what’s popular, since hardware vendors will only provide APIs for select languages.

Well, and depending on the field, you may need to get certifications for your toolchain and such, so then you have to use what’s popular.

In my corner of the embedded world, it feels like everyone is practically jumping to integrate Rust. In the sense that vendors which haven’t had to innovate for 10+ years will suddenly publish a Rust API out of the blue. And I’m saying “out of the blue”, but I do also regularly hear from other devs, that they’ve been pestering the vendors to provide a Rust API or even started writing own wrappers for their C APIs.

And while it’s certainly a factor that Rust is good, in my experience they generally just want to get away from C. Even our management is well aware that C is a liability.

I guess, I should add that while I say “jumping”, this is the embedded world where everything moves extremely slowly, so we’re talking about a multi-year jump. In our field, you need to get certifications for your toolchain and code quality, for example, so lots of work is necessary to formalize all of that.

Yeah, particularly the broadcasting really irks me.
That is an opinion you can hold for yourself and then make compromises as you encounter reality. I do expect programmers to hold strong opinions.

But when you broadcast it, you strip yourself of the option to make compromises. You’re just saying something which is going to be wrong in one way or another in most situations. I do expect programmers to be smarter than that.

I mean, there is a reason why that is so pervasive. It makes you set up the dev environment and figure out how to run a program, which is a step that you cannot skip.

Of course, you should go for a slightly more complex project afterwards.

To be fair, you can also somewhat steer whether it will take off as a dev, by how you promote it and how much time you take to make it easily usable by others. Many devs really don’t care to have their passion projects take off, because it means you’ll likely spend less time doing your passion thing, more time doing user support.

I almost expected someone to learn that just from me posting. 😅

Basically, OpenOffice used to be organized by Sun Microsystems. Then Sun got bought by Oracle back in 2010.
Oracle does not have a good reputation at all, so the OpenOffice devs from back then figured they’d need to take things into their own hands and set up The Document Foundation to organize further development. But the OpenOffice trademark was owned by Sun/Oracle, so they had to rename and get a new homepage and everything. The name they chose is LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/

After the OpenOffice project was effectively dead, Oracle handed it and its trademark over to the Apache Foundation, where it’s seeing occasional bug fixes. But to my knowledge, they don’t even have the capacity to fix all the security problems.
All the actual feature development happens over on the LibreOffice side.

So, in practice, if you want OpenOffice, what you really want is LibreOffice.

I enjoy how the sign on the left says to not carry weapons and to follow traffic laws in all languages, except in German, where it just says that you’re entering the American sector.

Yeah, not great. You always hope that projects under a larger foundation, like GNOME, have a higher bus factor¹, but unless that foundation has dispensible income to pay someone, you’re ultimately still reliant on volunteers and not many people volunteer for maintenance.

What the foundation can do, though, which is also really important, is to hand over the keys to a new maintainer, should you disappear over night.
Like, yeah, forking is great, but some people will never learn of the fork. It happens about once a year that I find someone online who’s still using OpenOffice and that project has been practically dead since 2011.
So, I do hope we can get more open-source projects under some sort of umbrella. No idea how to actually do that, though. I also have open-source projects where I would not even know where to start to get them under some organization…

LibreOffice Draw works decently well for this.

Hmm, well no, but don’t you still risk being banned or at least being hidden away by the Algorithm™, if such scandalous thing as a nipple is to be seen?

I’m not sure now, if she actually said this is why she’s on PeerTube. Could also be that other social media platforms pissed her off and then she found a new home on the fediverse.

…just remembered, she recently posted a video, where she’s unboxing a Mastodon plush and figured, maybe she says something there, and yeah: Apparently, she got banned from Instagram a whole bunch of times, so now she’s self-hosting Masto and then evidentally also PeerTube.

https://peertube.doesstuff.social/w/qskCWUnsmJZLZ9ZP4KCiph