Notices by Daniel Taylor (randomdamage@mastodon.technology), page 7

@Miredly that's a pretty solid piece of work.

@codesections I've seen several developers abandon Emacs in general use for language specific IDEs.

Or, for those who prefer not to bounce via /.

https://blog.smartdec.net/you-do-not-need-blockchain-eight-popular-use-cases-and-why-they-do-not-work-f2ecc6cc2129?gi=2e0cc83e812c

@Tau_Leonis @noelle I realize that these threads are frequently throwaway, And that this is politically, ahem, difficult.

But if you do ever getting around to running the numbers your way, tag me on the post.

@Miredly I usually get the Nazi BS after watching military or weapon videos.

The Extra Credits history subchannel seems to be the only safe haven for me in that area so far.

@emsenn I can see that completely.

He's a big noise and very fixated on his own ideas.

We've got too many like that.

@AskChip no, but many people note it.

@Wolf480pl seems that way, could just be memory smoothing though.

@Wolf480pl oh, we get that also. The weather has been all over the place this year.

@Wolf480pl Minnesota.

And the cat does not get to go out today.

@Wolf480pl mail delivery is cancelled for today because of the cold. Windchills are hitting the -50+ range

Fair

-29°F

-34°C

@mdszy merely -7F in my neighborhood, before accounting for wind.

Glad I finished off my shoveling yesterday.

@Wolf480pl @stjohn @jonw systemd does some things better, but in the last year I have had instances where name service or time sync were broken on a system and I tracked them back to systemd.

Not to mention the lax security culture.

Rule 1 for new Linux users:
Don't try too hard.

If something looks more difficult than you think it should be, take 5 minutes and look at the documentation again.

A hardcopy of a current Linux guide is probably a good investment, but even the forums for your distribution of choice will help a lot.

@Shamar @Aerdan @a_breakin_glass @z428 @jankoekepan we need good editors for software, and we need standards for what is good code (or at least what is _bad_ code).

Not least, we need to train a bunch of people on proper programming grammar.

Most people get training in how to use their native language effectively for 10 or more years before they are let loose into the world.

If we could get that degree of training into programming, *then* we could probably trust the crowd more.

@Aerdan @a_breakin_glass @z428 @Shamar @jankoekepan you have to be certified as a lawyer to practice law *on behalf of someone else*. Same with medicine.

We shouldn't trust software in critical applications that isn't vetted by certified professionals, but there is a lot of ground between your typical open source project and those critical applications that ought to be littered with those certified professionals.

@gudenau even console logins broken?

If you want to try to fix it instead of just reinstalling the OS fresh, I know a few tricks (like 'echo' is a bash builtin).

@gudenau could be worse. You might need install media to recover it.