Notices by Dan McDonald (danmcd@hostux.social)

Holy shit, Live Aid was 40 years ago this weekend!!!

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/09/arts/live-aid-1985-anniversary/?p1=HP_Feed_ContentQuery

@tante

Mandatory dogfooding ONLY works if the development/QA/product teams listen, FIX THINGS, and also dogfood themselves.

I say this having seen the jumps betwen Solaris (outsider-only)2.0, 2.3, 2.4, (joined-Solaris-team-here) 2.6.

But at least even as an outsider I could answer, "What problem is $NEW_THING trying to solve?"

I do NOT see *any* hard-core GenAI proponents answering that question honestly. There *are* honest answers, but none that justify the hype some want to generate.

@tante

Solaris 2.x => OpenSolaris => Oracle Solaris (closed) and #illumos (Open) development learned about the Quality Death Spiral and wrote about it:

https://illumos.org/docs/contributing/qds/

@lilithsaintcrow

You are 100% correct to do so. I always point people at this well-written article from someone who grew up around it:

https://www.politicalorphans.com/the-article-removed-from-forbes-why-white-evangelicalism-is-so-cruel/

Per earlier...

https://hostux.social/@danmcd/114683512407012850

@matthew @stratacast @subnetspider

#OpenIndiana is desktop focussed.

#OmniOS is single-server-or-VM-guest focussed.

#SmartOS is hypervisor-focussed.

All are #illumos distributions. I know SmartOS has paid-support options (though usually we support #Triton Data Center deployments).

Also #illumos distros include dedicated appliance/device user like @oxidecomputer 's Helios or RackTop's BrickStore.

That help?

@mekkaokereke

<sigh>

Only way it isn't a complete atrocity is if it was stolen then painted . 🙃

@karlauerbach

Trump's been saying what he wants for a long time, nobody listened. Thanks hostux or whomever for the text-from-picture code, which is now in the picture's alt-text.

@susankayequinn @pascaline @Remittancegirl

Wikipedia is keeping a list; let's hope there's more getting recovered out there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-DEI_deletions_by_the_U.S._Department_of_Defense

@pascaline @susankayequinn @Remittancegirl

There was an acronym from my days at Sun from some project: LOCKSS:

Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe

I'm seeing a lot of good names for the DOGE fuckers. Two that pop up in my brain now (which I've seen posted, NEITHER are my invention):

- Traitor Tots
- Incel Clown Posse

Feel free to add on!

@TreeVor @0xabad1dea

Maybe younger, but Gen X just got a LOT more polarized: right-leaning leaned further right, left-leaning leaned further left, and those in the middle jumped one way or the other depending on $ISSUE/$BELIEF/$ETC.

Lotsa GenX right-leaners drank too much it-was-all-Jimmy-Carter's-fault kool-aid when they were in their formative years. Lotsa GenX left-leaners saw how badly AIDS was handled, and that the Cold War ending didn't make right-leaners just take the fucking win.

@tsaiberia

Where's that meme again? Ah yes.

@mekkaokereke

It was a Black Trans Woman who started Stonewall. People who don't know that, well... 🤷♂️

@quinn @cstross

How much of right now is the 1850s instead of the 1930s?

@paw @mekkaokereke @rogerparkinson

Following up to remind folks that White Supremacy and Patriarchy are helluva good drugs, and that combined they are, indeed, America's Speedball.

@paw @mekkaokereke @rogerparkinson

I saw "not all" mentioned and every time I see "not all" I need to remind folks that "enough" is often a lot less than "all" but is still enough to Be A Big Problem. I don't believe "all men" but strongly believe "enough men". I don't believe ACAB but I do believe ECAB. Not all Americans but certainly enough Americans!

@quinn @cford

This is where I recommend "The Bright Ages" by Gabriele and Perry

I hear this in Groucho's voice...

@encthenet

I used to use two space a long time ago; because I learned two-space Pascal first, and because emacs defaulted to two space in C-mode.