Notices by Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online), page 5

Here's a #fediverse tip: You don't and to choose between #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #Calckey, etc. Just like you might have had a Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook account before, you can have separate accounts on each platform. It's just that integrations between these things on the fediverse are generally easier by design.

@carlwgeorge @maxamillion Sometimes things that are in CS that aren't in RHEL end up in the dev/testing repo for AlmaLinux. For example, when OpenLDAP got abruptly pulled and reinstated in RHEL, it became available in CS first and was in the Alma testing repos ahead of the next RHEL release that added it back in.

@maxamillion Oh sure, I understand that as someone who is into contributing to open source and building stuff. It's a harder sell in a place that's just looking for a platform to run their production stuff. No one wants to risk having to explain that prod is down because of a patch in CS that broke something and the vendor no longer "supports CentOS" (even if it's eventually going to be a problem for the vendor in the next RHEL release).

@maxamillion @carlwgeorge Everyone has a test environment. Some are fortunate enough to have one that isn't their production.

@maxamillion While I agree, it's definitely not helping things that CentOS Stream still goes EOL well before RHEL, AlmaLinux, etc.

@maxamillion This is unfortunately not trivial. I've had some trouble with filing Github issues against CentOS Stream because the upstream only now "supports Rocky", etc. Having to cut through the FUD around it gets tiring, honestly, but CS is still really nice for having fast track container patches and as a CI platform. I mean, I'm still using it very much, but I understand why there's preference for the rebuilds.

@maxamillion That doesn't mean it isn't good or useful, but that it takes more intentional consideration in deploying it than CentOS Linux did.

@maxamillion I don't have the bandwidth for this right now, but sometime I'd be curious to test the differences between CS and AlmaLinux with the testing repo enabled.

@maxamillion I would also be quick to point out that CS is part of the success story for AlmaLinux as they build against CS repos ahead of their own releases, which is part of why they're so quick to have stuff out when RHEL releases (especially compared to Rocky and Oracle who tend to have significant more lag).

I noticed that #Calckey has a settings option for "Show ads" and that has me curious about its current implementation and what the future plans are for monetizing the platform. I'm not suggesting anything adverse/malicious here and I realize it costs money to host stuff like this. I'm more just curious where things are likely going with the platform.

@feld @saramg @jfred @jimgoodall Where I grew up, we'd give both, like "they're got 20 minutes away, about 5 mile how the crow flies"

(Country roads often don't take you straight to where you want to go)

@jimgoodall @saramg When the English and Aussies weigh themselves in "stone", which metric system are they using?

OK, I'm at a loss with this one. How can I make it so #Firefox for #Android stops opening any and all #Mastodon links in @apps? I don't want to disable it for all apps, but I can't seem to find the setting I need between Firefox, Fedilab, or Android to disable that specific behavior.

@RL_Dane @me You can convert them to another format with pandoc.

https://pandoc.org/

@DeveloperMemes And somewhere a cat is reading us.

@jwildeboer @libreoffice #LibreOffice user and fan since it first existed and an #OpenOffice user going back to 2005 before that here and I completely agree with @jwildeboer. The #blockchain integration with the #cryptocurrency company is a very bad idea.

Confession: Though C was one of the first languages I learned, pointers have never been intuitive for me and even though I understand them in concept, it's a major reason why I generally prefer #Python over C, #Rust, and #golang since I don't have to constantly think about them and can focus on the logic. #programming

@ewdocparris @mastohost Interesting. I sent an email to the waitlist back on November 7th and never got any response.

I'm having a very hard time finding motivation to vote tomorrow. I know I should, but it's hard to feel like my vote counts for anything and I'm tired.

Guess what I'm doing tonight?