shit got all fucked up because you added a third party repository

Dependency hell is always, always, self-inflicted.

apt is only SLSA1 or 2 anyway, so there’s a lot more wiggle room.

What motivated your change?

My laptop finally died on me. […] I’ve got Ubuntu on my desktop

No. What motivated the change? Your laptop dying was correlative and not causative.

Linux’s license not count as about Linux?

Philosophically, no.

In set theory, also no.

Legally, still no.

Does it contain similar letters? Like Laughter and Slaughter do, yes.

No. Things are not as I naively wished. Things never are.

But they can be their own kind of awesome, and that’s okay.

minimal acceptable set of politics.

I like how you said “minimal”, like it’s a floor and not a flavour.

No-no, it’s perfect like that. Don’t dare change it.

Those of us around for the days when off-shoring was some kind of magic pill will remember how it wasn’t. Outsourcing to some guy in Delhi, Ohio, doesn’t seem so different; apart from time zone, maybe.

Ai isn’t the cause for this but it certainly was the enabler.

Supply chain attacks are what scare me.

As a former OS security pro, this is the right answer. Not because of the exploit itself, but because young (unmentored) coders readily trust some really bad patterns of pulling in random junk from the web and running it. THIS is how the LPE becomes essentially an RCE-level problem.

I’m totally okay with them receiving money from bad companies. It’s like vandals ordered to pick up highway trash - yo momma - as punishment.

Receiving Merge Requests from sloppers, though? That’s not cool.

…but only to mod the repo config to install emacs-nox. After that having seen the resource usage is the same as vi just use what’s most versatile.

Aliens.

shutdown off

In English, that’s “shut down”.

I rented a scooter in iceland and - long story - dropped my phone just while renting it. Thus, renting a scooter was $400 that day.

The Compress attribute has been in even ext3 since day 1. I’ve never tried it, though.

Microsoft has already contributed a shitton to the Linux kernel. So long as they don’t evict, only augment, it’s a good thing.

Extend comes after Embrace; sure. Historically, guess what comes next.

Man, I wish! One of my contracts is with a gov-like org, and they’re all-in on the slop.

Reminding them about PII and sovereignty is telling, and you know they’re beyond help as soon as they say “yes, but”.

This. 100 times this.

a lot of people are terrible writers, and as such, the idea that another user can actually write is offensive to them.

I worry you’re right, here; but only in brief episodes. I mostly want to assume otherwise.

I LOVE great writing: proper punctuation, good delineation, awareness of mass nouns, etc. I love when I see great writing and wish I could be as good.

I feel for people who don’t.

It could be regional or arbitrary. I say ‘coding’ a lot because it’s shorter. I could say one is about the keyboard work and one is about the architecture and design, but it’s really the fact that one’s shorter.

But in my environment, they’re interchangeable as much as anything can be. And I’ve grown up using both; even in college in the '90s, coding C and m68k.

YMMV?

Cheapest what?

Butbutbut the name has ‘open’ in it. How can this be?

(I worked on OpenUnix and OpenLinux, so I get it)