Notices by kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org), page 3

@sroracle that's pin to uuid

@Erika GitHub issues in and of itself is actually a pretty decent issue tracker if you subscribe to certain philosophical decisions they made

By the way, you can pin to specific package UUIDs too (this happens automatically when you do apk add foo.apk)

The apk-tools 2.10 pin command will automate this with already installed packages.

@xj9 @mangeurdenuage @ayy @maiyannah

except they do that too, all of the marketing copy clearly explains the benefits of software freedom (without calling it that).

It is always funny to see people try to do the same nonsense with apk-tools that they would with other package managers and then eventually discover that the obvious way of doing what they wanted was the way to do it all along.

them: "I can't pin packages!"
me: "Sure you can. `apk add $package=version`"
them: "I thought it would be that but that seemed too easy."

#alpinelinux

I have a solution to the US debt crisis: we just get Uncle Sam an American Express Platinum Card with no spending limit, then we charge the national debt to that

oh for fucks sake.
https://mastodon.dereferenced.org/media/Tgsxc_NEUA8jxIzDoMo

@chosafine no

@jond @david_ross his sentence needs to be measured in decades

@starbreaker yeah he's probably gonna be living in a federal prison cottage instead :/

@starbreaker

well, true, but it looks like the judge is about to give him a decade or two ;)

looks like pharma bro is about to get his: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-asks-leniency-20180228-story.html

@Erin

RUN HOUSE, RUN!!!!!!!

@vahnj

it's always luck, nothing other than luck

@frank87

it's not; that's part of my point.

@vertigo @oreolek

from what Googlers have told me, if another project explicitly wants you, they can request your transfer.

this is what i am talking about. you have to actively sell yourself to the teams you actually want to be on, and then eventually you'll be released to them.

but if that's wrong, that's a shitty deal

many elements of Michael's blog post are still shitty too though

@oreolek @vertigo

i mean, i have done work *for* Google, but it was as a subcontractor, and frankly the people I had the pleasure of interacting with there were all shitty

honestly Microsoft was/is the least unpleasant of that bunch. IBM is also pretty okay.

(but this is from the perspective of subcontracting, perhaps it is shitty at those firms too)