4chan and Jira too. It does seem like a lot of things have had outages lately.

I really can’t overstate how much respect I have for Kuhn and the SFC. If RMS and the FSF are the Free Software movement’s past, Kuhn and the SFC are it’s future, and I can’t imagine anyone better to carry that particular torch.

Why wasn’t I told that was an option sooner?

Whoever created YAML apparently thought Excel was a masterpiece of software design.

Damn. You’re tempting me to make a novelty language.

Someone woke up this morning and chose violence.

I’m not sure I’ve ever tried to do any write operations. I’m honestly not even sure the service behind that login page offers any write operations. I might have to check sometime. I’m curious.

Where I work, the infra folks are way overworked. Getting them to do things is impossible given their existing todo list. And when you do get them to do something (by throwing managers at them) they half-ass it.

(I’m not blaming them. I blame the managers. It is frustrating though. Anyway.)

And as a result, there’s one system that I use frequently that they set up, but cut corners and never hooked it up to our single sign-on solution. And so in order to get into this system, everyone has to use a shared username/password. “readonly:readonly”. And every time I log in, my browser nags me about the known weak password.

I’ll take FOSS over the proprietary software we can be sure will do malicious things to us.

Hell?

Original prose is a marvelous spectacle.

But AI? I dunno. I remain skeptical.

(The above is not written by an AI. I promise. ;) )

It’s like appeasement again only worse, because at least the motivation for appeasement was ostensibly to avoid conflict.

It’s almost as if the “aRtIfiCiAl iNtElLiGenCe” is as big a cult as blockchain is, isn’t it?

It’s not too late. He can still turn from his sin and accept Satan into his heart. Or more importantly, his lungs.

Imagine this conversation in the IT department at a large bank:

IT Manager: It’s what?!

Security Engineer: Gone. It’s all gone. Every red cent this bank held in every account has been transferred by malicious actors to anonymous Swiss accounts.

IT Manager: How could we have let this happen?

Security Engineer: The hackers got approval to install PuTTY. There was nothing we could do.

Not always. Just usually.

Are you thinking of AlternativeTo?

Not quite. No presidential candidate got a majority of the popular vote. Trump got more of the popular vote than Kamala did. 49.80% and 48.33% respectively.

Yes, I’m being pedantic. Does it really matter? No, probably not.

Is this about DEI hires or workers whose jobs are to ensure their hiring practices promote diversity, equality, and inclucivity? I took it to mean that if Susie in HR has a job description that includes anything about diversity in hiring, federal workers are supposed to rat on Susie or face consequences. Not on the folks who maybe arguably were hired because their presence increase diversity, equality, and/or inclucivity.

I doubt they can hear much of anything with their heads lodged that far up Trump’s ascending colon.