Notices by James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)

@drewdevault Not defending anyone's behaviour here, but if you don't think there is horrible behaviour inside these megacorp companies, you are uninformed. The only difference is the open source community is transparent about more of it. Meanwhile, megacorp does lots of evil political stuff which benefits only them.

@drewdevault I hear you. Fund the same number of individuals, the same average amounts that megacorps are paying, and I think we'll see how much more we appreciate the individuals.

I get your point, but I think most of the "non-constructive/bad behaviour" on the megacorp side is hidden from view.

@cks Many tech's don't care so they might have broken something trying to wire up a new customer. I've even seen tech's break an existing customers connection to get a usable pair for new customer so they can close the job and go home, even though some other person has a broken line now. (That's someone else's problem.)

@joeyh @zacchiro might be a knowledgeable person to discuss with.

The address of the event is 4455 West Broadway, just north of Sherbrooke street. It is held in a church, but it is not a religious event, and any religious, atheist, agnostic, etc are all welcome.

If you know someone that would benefit please pass on the information. More details available here:

http://www.ndg.ca/en/component/icagenda/75-ndg-community-christmas-dinner?Itemid=101

On the 25th of December, there will be a free meal served from 1pm to 7pm in #Montreal, Canada in NDG. It is intended for anyone who is poor, homeless, lonely, low income, or otherwise in need. We've been running this dinner since around 1988. We typically serve over 1000 meals.

The meal consists of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cooked vegetables, gravy, and cranberry sauce. Dessert, coffee, and juice is also available. A few other dishes can occasionally be found too.

@jmorris Are you the chap who did this talk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSePCve0yZI

If so, I enjoyed it thanks. Would be curious to hear which tool you used.

I'm working on a new approach in this space called https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

No polling, so no wasted CPU when nothing is happening.

@mairin I'd love to hear about the biggest limitations in open source tooling. Ideally as a list with explanations on why those features or bugs are important and even better if it is linked to open issues. Eg GIMP CMYK support if that even would count for your list. You have the tools expertise to know what should be prioritized. Blog it :)

Looks like I was pretty prescient ~5 years ago about the Hashicorp CLA being added:

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1075478252876062720