@ariadne

Exactly

I'm not doing very well with this whole "Well let's not criticize these people. They're just different from you."

Nuts to that

They're not "just different"

@ariadne pretense, yeah...

@ariadne oh, at some point I even made a helper tool for it. https://github.com/jkmcnk/mansplain

@ariadne ahhhhhh 💀

@ariadne man, the kiss version of info.

incidentally, fuck x86

@ariadne I saw @darius speak at Eyeo in 2019 and can vouch for how inspiring he can be. I immediately left his talk and followed his template for getting a Mastodon instance up and running.

@ariadne @darius @kissane CC: @pamela @phessler

@ariadne it's so simple and they dont get it.

@ariadne Dingdingding, we have a winner. This 💯

@ariadne does it count if I’m the owner

@ariadne Clearly the solution is to become the owner, so you can become the person to ruin your own day instead! :3

@ariadne I do! It’s me, I’m the owner! And if I ever wanted to, I could just straight up wreck my own shit. 🙃

@ariadne oh no, I did that back in 1993, I'm not falling for that one again.

@ariadne 👀

@ariadne bunnywitch is a good name for a browser, potentially

@ariadne I do appreciate that C just does it.. C++ always makes you ask nicely to shoot yourself in the foot.

@ariadne It won't so much ask as just assume you want it to and do so unless you tell it not to.

@ariadne conveniently, you can just leave the next appendage right there on the stack!

(the correct answer to "what is the plural of kubernetes" is "clinical depression", by the way)

"big tech" implies a nebulous conspiracy organized by tech workers and executives. it is like the "deep state."

the monopolistic behaviors of google, amazon, microsoft, etc are real, but we must identify these behaviors specifically in order to have any hope of actually addressing them.

@ariadne I don't know if this is solvable, because in addition to the conference ticket, there is travel and hosting. Local conferences do better on these metrics but I feel like we're hitting a contradiction in terms, i.e. gathering contributors from all over the globe to a central place so they can collaborate in person - that's not a local event 😅

On top of all that, personally I think global conferences the way we do them today are an unsustainable practice. Idk if they can be fixed :/

@ariadne Attended KubeCon EU a few years back, but it felt more like a BigCorp sales event for other BigCorps, but with the occasional food truck and swag.

Not really targeted for an OSS mindset or for maintainers to exchange.

@ariadne I've always considered FOSDEM the hobbyist free software summit (and even then it's increasingly more inhabited by corporate folks)

@ariadne @postmarketOS @alpinelinux Is there a blog post or something about this new init system plan?

@ariadne @postmarketOS @alpinelinux

If everyone is going to get on the systemd bandwagon, then it is important to focus many thousands of eyes on the source code.

I would look for race conditions.

They will not be obvious. While studying the code, you have to think outside the box, and ask yourself:

How can this be attacked?

@ariadne Adélie would have switched a few years ago if journald wasn't still joined at the hip with it. If there was an effort to make a systemd without journald I'd be all-in. So tired of dealing with OpenRC bull.

See also my thought piece on it: https://catfox.life/2024/01/05/systemd-through-the-eyes-of-a-musl-distribution-maintainer/

(while i do not personally find crypto to be a good investment, i do think that this person might have a good case for suing canonical!)

this is bad, really bad. it is bad because an attacker can exploit qemu, and then break into a user account which has direct access to other customers' data.

@ariadne oh yea I cant imagine anything goingwrong

@ariadne [Insert "can piracy itself be the right course" quote from Pirates of the Caribbean here]

incidentally, this is why i prefer physical media or, at the very least, DRM-free media which i can preserve for my use forever

@ariadne if renting a car does not convey permanent rights to use that car, then stealing that car isn’t theft.