Notices by Berkubernetus (fuzzychef@m6n.io), page 3

I know this is a losing battle, but:

Business Source License is BUSL, not BSL.

The BSL is the Boost Software License, a perfectly legit, and (importantly) actually open source license.

@renchap so this is ES-based, rather than using the already-required Postgres instance, correct?

So "lightweight FTS" without adding ES is still an unimplemented feature.

Mood:

So, I wanna explain why #Hashi's "commercial use" restriction means a proprietary license.

Theoretically, if you were using their project to work on an OSS project that you gave away for free, it wouldn't apply to you, right?

Well, no.

Take, for example, the Kubernetes Project. Kubernetes is a free, open source project, owned by a nonprofit. We also use Terraform to support our infra in a couple places.

Should be fine, right? Nope!

...

"All non-production uses are permitted. All production uses are allowed other than hosting or embedding the software in an offering competitive with HashiCorp products or services."

Use of Terraform in Kubernetes testing infrastructure is certainly production use.

And: Hashicorp produces Nomad, which is a competitor to Kubernetes.

I think you can add this up, can't you?

@inthehands One of the "good" police departments is Medford, OR. They patrol on foot, or on bike or on horse, for parks.

It's a question of whether the police see themselves as part of the community, or at war with it. Medford, they're part of it. Minneapolis, or Portland? They're at war.

@inthehands it's not most places, though. I've mentored some CS students, and it wasn't for any of them.

@inthehands I would also love to see "how to troubleshoot/debug" be part of the core cirriculum. Right now it's not, and students get to their first piece of real-life production code and get stuck.

@inthehands I've always been amused by these because I didn't go to school for CS, and yet have 20 years of production coding experience building stuff that millions rely on. So the whiteboard coding interview has always struck me as a great way to hire exactly the wrong people.

"How would you build a linked list for this?"
"I'd look up some linked list samples on Stack Overflow and then write some code."

Like, duh.

@inthehands anyway, 100% with you on the abstractions. Lower-level programming fundamentals are still useful -- but I spend 80% of my dev time dealing with abstractions.

@inthehands but what will Google do for their infamous interviews, then?

@Polychrome Not to discount any immediate cultural causes (of which there are several), attitudes towards nudity cycle a lot over the ages. Folks were much more blase' about skin in the 20s and the 60s, for example.

@thomasfuchs Sigh.

I can remember when FireFox was 70% of the market.

Folks are treating the recent tech layoffs as something spontaneous. They were not. The current layoffs were orchestrated by a hedge fund (TCI Fund).

This hedge fund demanded that the big tech companies lay people off because they were being paid too much. Let that one sink in: a hedge fund manager saying that you're being paid too much.

Note that TCI is demanding that Google lay off more people.

... as such, we've had to fully defederate qoto. We do realize that there are many users on qoto, most of whom are probably unaware of the server's bad management -- but without defederation, they would not become aware either.

FYI: M6n.io is blocking qoto-org. Initially we were just "silencing" them. However, successive actions by the instance admins have boosted that to a full block. Qoto has always been problematic as a "free speech first" server, which means that they tolerate a lot of posts, and members, that are prohibited on other servers. The qoto admins have since launched a campaign of harassing admins of servers who block qoto, as well as trying various hacks to work around defederation ...

Hey, new folks on Mastodon!

This is a reminder to fill out your Profile before you start to follow lots of people. If we can't tell who you are, we won't follow you back.

More advice to my fellow white dudes: since you're busy rebuidling your follow network here, follow a lot of non-white-CIS-dudes. Follow women, Black folks, trans folk, Native Americans, SE Asians, etc. Not only are you helping diverse folk increase their voice, you'll find that they have tons of interesting things to say.

OK, next question: how do I follow people my mutuals follow? There doesn't seem to be any easy way.

Like, I can see who, say, Jason is following ... but I can't follow any of those people except by re-typing their IDs, manually, into my search box.