rlamacraft @rlamacraft@social.cleverlibre.org

@trysdyn What's the difference between '+?' and '*'?

I was taking with some people from outside the industry over the weekend, and it actually makes me angry that the only “tech” news that reaches normal folk is the corporate talking points; the headlines aimed to boost stock prices and parroted by journalists. They think that the innovative stuff happening in the industry is stuff like NFTs and whatever it is that the metaverse is meant to be (I’m actually yet to find an actual engineer who cares).

I'm not one to share (or even read) such things, but this is just such a beautiful sentiment and an acceptance of the end that is truly inspirational.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/10/ask-philippa-i-am-dying-will-it-help-my-beloved-husband-cope-if-i-leave-notes

When it comes to “git push” why is the dangerous option (“-f”) so convenient and the safer option (“—force-with-lease”) so much more inconvenient?

Surely a better design would be for force to acquire the lease by default and to push without one should require “—force-without-lease”

Battersea Power Station Station. What a dumb name for a station. What’s wrong with just Battersea Station?

Random thought of the day: amongst a group of iPhone users, lightening cables in a good condition are a fungible commodity

@swiley @Parienve why couldn’t they have been distributed just like the old ones? Apple could own iphone.apple and mac.apple, and WSU could own cosmiccrisp.apple. Since when does Apple have a trademark on the word “apple”?

@Parienve sure sounds like it

@freemo it’s not, I was just looking at Apple’s IP webpage and saw that they own the .apple TLD, and became reminded how much power big tech has. Like, this goes way beyond traditional trademark law…

Nobody can make a website with the address grannysmith.apple — why? Because a company that makes computers says so. Simply absurd.

I’d love to apply for Drew DeVault’s vacancy to work on FOSS, just got to get myself in a financially stable position first. Totally get the financial constraints, I just think it’s brilliant that he’s willing and able to support such work! https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-08-23-work-at-sourcehut/