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   Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:21 JST Matthew Garrett

   We shipped a Fedora release called Beefy Miracle I do not understand the Uwubernetes complaints at all

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:27 JST Matthew Garrett

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     We did a release called Schrödinger's Cat and that was probably what killed release names because it turns out the problem wasn't the umlaut it was the apostrophe and the sheer number of things that didn't handle single quotes properly

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:28 JST Matthew Garrett

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     We also went to extreme lengths to get Fedora 10 codenamed Cambridge purely because that was what the Red Hat 10 codename was going to be before the Fedora/RHEL fork meant there was no Red Hat 10

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     Owen Nelson (onelson@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:32 JST Owen Nelson

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     @mjg59 beefy miracle is the only fedora release I could name off the top of my head.

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     Resuna (resuna@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:37 JST Resuna

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     @mjg59 Ask me about having punctuation in my name.

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     penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:41 JST penguin42

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     @mjg59 I remember Ted Ts'o mentioning in a talk the problems he managed to find due to his single apostrophe.

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     Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:46 JST Raven667

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     @mjg59 I worked for an org which had standardized usernames in AD as "Firstname Lastname" and when joined with winbind (or on Mac) I was surprised by how many things _didn't_ break on "/home/Firstname Lastname/"

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:51 JST Matthew Garrett

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     • Nile

     @hairyears they only have one?

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     Nile (hairyears@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:52 JST Nile

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     @mjg59

     Don't get me started on Microsoft's misimplementation of CSV files.

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     Nile (hairyears@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:36:56 JST Nile

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     @mjg59

     Some days, it seems that they have as many differing and fascinating ways of screwing-up CSV as there are open sessions of Microsoft Excel...

     Then I remember that Microsoft have other applications, too.

     Being prepared to work with this, and becoming a ridiculous sort of expert in it, has become a lucrative source of income.

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     John K. (soupisgood@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:37:10 JST John K.

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     @mjg59 Moreover the distro was released and not released. It was in a superposition of states.

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