Notices by Owen (spoopy aspect) (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)

@aphyr I am legitimately not sure where I am more annoyed by "here is our helm chart, good luck" or "here is a single static binary for you to run (assuming your system uses the same libc as ours) (assuming you trust blobs)" (looking at you here hashicorp).

@dalias Given the existence of services like nss and pam, I'm not sure statically linking libc is universally a good idea either. Discovering that one program disagrees with the rest of my system about how user IDs map to user names, or about how hostnames map to addresses, is intensely frustrating.

The classic changelog serves, among other purposes, to persuade users of the importance of installing an update. The vestigial changelog - "Bug fixes and feature improvements" - is a frank admission that we no longer feel like there's any point in doing the suasion when users don't get to say no in the first place.

I dunno, but I have a feeling that the normalization of automatic updates has relieved developers and their clients of having to consider a user's needs to a large degree. Software change is now something you do to your users, not something you persuade your users to accept.

And you may tell yourself, "This is not my rough beast."
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my hour, come at last."

@saddestrobots Speaking as someone who regularly considers black-holing m.social and _doesn't_ see a lot of value in the list in question, hard agree.

@saddestrobots I only just now realized jorts dot horse is on that list, el em aye oh fuckin nerds

@saddestrobots yeah if you're gonna block jorts horsing then have the courage of your bad posts and don't make it about someone else's

You ever think about how Google de-spined - destroyed - literal tonnes of books donated by university libraries, with the intention of scanning them into a digital free library, and how none of that ever materialized?

Those books are just gone now, instead.

The project was buried in litigation because Google and the publishers involved couldn't come to terms on allowing online distribution.

Of library books.

Something to keep in mind when hearing about hydrogen as a renewable or green fuel is that nearly half of hydrogen production, worldwide, comes from natural gas. Another 45% or so come from coal and oil sources. Renewable hydrogen - electrolysis, generally - is basically a blip.

Hydrogen is, in many cases, an attempt _by the fossil fuels industry_ to carry on business as usual in the face of carbon-reduction initiatives by putting the carbonaceous parts out of sight.