As an end-user (that is, the IT staff that will be deploying/managing things), I prefer less-frequent releases. I’d love to see 1 or 2 releases a year for all software

The hard floor for release frequency must always be “as security issues are fixed”, and those will rarely be infrequent in our current environment of ever-shifting dependencies.

If your environment is struggling to keep up with patching, you need to analyze that process and find out why it’s so arduous.

As an example, I took a shop from a completely manual patch slog 10 years ago to a 97% never-touch automated process. It was hard with approvals and routines, but the numbers backed me up. When I left 2 years ago, the humans had little to do beyond validation.

The sad news is, the great loss of mentors after Y2K will be seen again after RTO, and we’re not going to fix the fundamental problems that enable longer release cycles in a safe way; and so shorter update cadence will be our reality if we want to stay safe …

… and stay bleeding-edge. Shifting from feature-driven releases to only bugfix-driven releases means no churn for features, but that’s a different kind of rebasing. It’s the third leg of the shine-safe-slack pyramid; choose 2.

The idea that money-per-human is the chosen metric for success, says a lot already.

It’s not evil. It’s merely

• the wrong tool
• built wrong
• on wrong principles
• by a bad team
• who has poor coding and interaction

and now RedHat’s wunderkinder has moved onto Microsoft where he’s a better fit. Ideally, we can go back to Linux again.

Simple.

As someone who ran security for an enterprise OS company, I can’t see why there’s any debate on this. Are we used to choosing comfy things despite the safety concerns, now, or just when Lennart shits them out?

A lot of troopies in the Commonwealth swore an oath on enlisting that then transfered to Charles. Charles has the biggest gang ever but Musk just wants to troll aus and canada more.

Keep up.

freedom of speech

… never means Freedom from Repercussions . When you’re on the clock, you gotta follow the rules.

Wow.

1. aggression
2. ‘people that’ (not who? objectification)
3. ‘cuck’
4. people who disagree with you are coincidentally war criminal facilitators.

Is this reddit?

We lost a guy who received verbal agreement on running Folding@Home, but didn’t have it on paper. It was a large private cloud (data center).

regulatory environments

Regulations are written in the blood of the victims.

completely abandon you

You write “attack you for water/oil” weird. Or did I write the quiet-part worst case out loud?

Do we count ‘nametag’ jobs of the late '80s? If so, then I’m in!

here, how to speak then

You missed a closing delimiter on the subclause. Is that still acceptable speech for you?

someone who picked their team and now hates all the other team

False. All the other teams are varying degrees of well-built. Systemd is badly-built by bad people and pushed via market dominance. It’s the Internet Explorer of inits.

1. Everything built via best practice
2. PCLinuxOS

hold up the Canadian system as a shining example

Are we grading the system or its current status? Right now, it’s sick. After so much defunding and bullying from the all-hat crowd, we’ve got a professional deficit that’s gonna take another decade to fix. So the distinction is important – and will sway the coming vote.

I returned to Canada because of the healthcare issue in America.

You may be surprised to learn that people looking for an elective surgery and want to spend to skip the line will go to Tijuana. It’s apparently really great for all kinds of complex but not-medically-critical procedures.

Since 9 Sep especially, it’s been a rough scene to watch. It hits so, so much harder now.

I still need my Suspension of Belief, here, or I’ll hate people even more. I came out of the cinema enraged and ashamed and so- well, just prickly I guess.

Aw jeez not this again.

If 80% of activity is on one server, then that server effectively controls the fediverse,

Is that still true with easy export? It sounds like that server effectively controls the fediverse until it doesn’t.

Arab and Persian Islamofascists attack Israel with every means at their disposal

Wow, is this ever an old, weak and woefully incomplete take. There’s so many ways this statement could be more accurate and complete in a logical fashion.