Notices by Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: (conan_kudo@fosstodon.org)

@kev For what it's worth @kev, you and @mike have been excellent stewards of fosstodon.org the entire time I've been here. I have greatly appreciated your approach to maintaining this instance (otherwise I wouldn't be a Fosstodon supporter!).

I am sorry you are leaving fosstodon, and I would not be surprised if @mike does the same. But I am sad that you feel that it's all been bad for the past several years.

And I am sad that fosstodon will shut down. 😦

The worst part about people basically driving @kev and @mike to consider shutting down fosstodon is that since Mastodon's account migration facilities are garbage, I will actually *lose* my historical presence on the fediverse if they shut down.

The fediverse seems to be a meaner place than what it replaced. And that's a shame.

@egeexyz That's basically it. The guy quit already.

@bkuhn @wolftune @iank Signed: https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025/pulls/26

@bookwar I count it a win. 😃

@marceloexc @a1ba @kagihq Using Qt would give them that. But the underlying reason they're using GTK and libadwaita is because their browser is using WebKitGTK. To use Qt with that, they'd need to write a wrapper for WebKitGTK for Qt. (QtWebKitGTK?)

I certainly would prefer to see that as a KDE Plasma user, and I think most users on most desktops would prefer that too, since Qt adapts better to the variety of Linux desktops.

@BrodieOnLinux When you were reading Phoronix comments, did you mean to not have the comments up on the video? Because it was weird for you to read while being a talking head...

@richardfontana @benny It's incredibly annoying. When I observe it, I have to bite my tongue really hard. It's amazing (in a bad way) how much that's said.

It really sucks because it also makes the "value of subscription" conversation so awkward and difficult.

A few years ago, I put a comment on Reddit where I described the value proposition of RHEL. I think it still mostly holds true today: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/s8cyfi/rhel_workstation_best_option_for_me/htwmb79/

@BrodieOnLinux @cassidy @mattdm I think there's a difference between Fedora's stale bug closure and what people do on GitHub. We auto-close bugs in RHBZ that target Fedora releases that are EOL. We automatically comment on those bugs informing them of why and tell them how to reopen it.

That's a lot kinder than the GitHub stale bots which aggressively close them in 60/90 days and tell you nothing.

@xarvos @purpleidea @lanodan I have friends that work on Azure. I respect them plenty.

The Azure product...? 🤐

@purpleidea Hilariously, pretty much none of the real cloud providers use the phrase at all. Because it's stupid.

🌶️ take: the phrase "cloud native" needs to just die in a fire. It's so meaningless and it's used as a gatekeeping device these days.

I work on tools that make things that people consider "cloud native" or "container native" but apparently that's not enough to be considered either. 💢

And because of that, things are more difficult than they need to be.

Funniest notification on my GNOME laptop...

I wish OpenID Connect (#OIDC) didn't have the OpenID name in it. It doesn't function like #OpenID at all. 😦

@frumble @BrodieOnLinux Most mailing list systems do this, just Linux's never did. And the lore archiver doesn't either. Fedora's mailing lists flat out don't show email addresses anymore for this reason.

@jwildeboer Even more important:

NO, nobody can tell you whether you are doing enough or not. Only YOU decide that.

(Yes, this happened to me a few times... 😦)

@ebassi @carl Fedora Infrastructure has been regularly down for weeks because AI scrapers. I'm so frustrated. 😦

@ariadne It'd be great if you could give a talk at #FlockToFedora or #DevConf_CZ or #DevConf_US at some point as @fedora and @centos were one of the first distributions to adopt it. 😃

@BrodieOnLinux There have been some experiments for a while now. @fedora also has `uutils-coreutils` to allow people to try it as an alternative. I don't see the wiring for making the package fully swappable yet as an equivalent provider of coreutils alongside `coreutils` and `coreutils-single`, though. I'm not sure if anyone has thought of it yet.

Uhh, did #HPE buy #ElReg (The Register) recently? I'm seeing the customary merged dual-logo thing on their website now...