Notices by Tony Hoyle (tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk)

@evan
I wonder if the response varies by climate.. Here there's just no need.

@evan How long is a piece of string? I've worked on stuff that I could poke once a month to see if anyone had any issues.. Big projects are sometimes run like commercial entities with multiple maintainers. And all points in between.

But they're not maintaining software in a state where it works for me.. it's not about me.. They're doing it because they want to, and I (and many others) happen to benefit from that.

@evan They're unpaid volunteers, not employees.

Whether I'll continue to use unmaintained software depends on whether it still works for me (or whether I can fork it and fix issues, but that's not an option for many). Mostly I'll find an alternative, of which there are usually many.

@evan 'As long as they feel happy with' which could be any of the above.

@neil Healthiest people you can eat.. grass fed.

@evan I can't find any reference to the earlier name anywhere.. do you have sources?

@Infoseepage @maxleibman Even in this *room* I regularly flip between 3 different browsers (gaming machine, laptop, phone). So many implementations assume a single device.. it's just not thought out.

And don't get me started on the implementations that require Windows, or Chrome, or both.

@ryanc I didn't expect colour graphics.. that is insane.

@GossiTheDog TBF there is *something* going on.. this is from A&A for example:

https://aastatus.net/42782

@godpod So many leopards, so many faces..

@mpjgregoire @evan Balance of power changed in Isreal. Ben Gvir can no longer force a deal to fall through.

@mpjgregoire @evan https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-says-he-repeatedly-foiled-hostage-deals-urges-smotrich-to-help-him-stop-this-one/

@georgetakei Some people count their steps.

My watch has given up on that and periodically reminds me to move.

@cstross @anon_opin @quixoticgeek They reduce the emotional commitment to nothing.. try one person today, find another tomorrow.. like trying new shoes.

@evan web+act links are url encoded on opening eg. https://acct.swf.pub/#web%2Bacct%3Aevan%40cosocial.ca

Which just returns a blank page.

Only chrome thinks it's dangerous though.. Firefox works.

In my username it just says 'failed to fetch' but maybe I'm expecting too much of an example :p

@nerb @human3500 @pluralistic When he gets a bit older you can hit him with this..

@GossiTheDog I'm surprised.. Normally it's said if the chip is already damaged by the faulty microcode then the only solution is RMA - the updates just stop it getitng worse.

@danieldurrans @neil Every single time you interact with a company there's some bleedin' survey about it.

Why are they so needy these days? It never used to be a thing.

@ptrc @wdormann It seems you can replace an existing known printer too, which makes invocation risk higher if you know the internal network config.

But it's just a bug.. another day at the office, install the update and move on. This dramatic '9.9 world ending' shit needs to stop.

@GossiTheDog The way Microsoft are going they'll announce an xbox with an AI chatbot in it..