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@cwebber Wooo, you can do it!

@thirstybear @revk @jwildeboer I like to celebrate my birthday by going snowboarding. Kind of like a dare. 😜

@revk @jwildeboer Age check: “When was the last time you bothered to celebrate your birthday?”

@b0rk I really like the git-revisions manpage.

@sanityinc It’s gonna make a line go up somewhere, sadly.

@gpcureton I think you are probably spot on.

@kbm0 Oh yes, this is a terrible idea for many reasons. But even if the bot was perfect, it would still be pointless.

@kbm0 You’re probably right about this. I just despise them because they charge for standards documents which are necessary to do basic things. Like the C++ standard.

@kbm0 I think Rust’s editions are a good way to mitigate this: the language can evolve and the compiler can support older code. And I wouldn’t trust ISO to do a good job here. But I do think your sentiment is valid.

@datarama We better add another digit to the CVE numbers.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116030177478995194

What is the point of converting this software?

Who’s gonna maintain it?

Unless you have interest from the maintainers, you have a bunch of code that no one uses and no one maintains. Good job, folks.

I see nothing on these sites that explain how they hope to drum up maintenance, or even engage the maintainers of the original code.

Once again, the critical part of FOSS is ignored. It’s the people.

@stefano @carson Raymond Chen @ Microsoft occasionally posts stories about “the other side of this airtight hatchway”, or security vulnerability reports which require escalation first, which always give me a chuckle.

I don’t think there’s an index, but you can search “site:devblogs.microsoft.com other side of the airtight hatchway” to find them.

@cwebber How am I supposed to have a parasocial relationship with you? You don’t even have a podcast!

(Wait. Do you? I would listen to that.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Stefan_S_from_H/115803400054803398

Happy “half your Java programs are confused about the year” week!

RE: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115749408454628002

There is a file called “:q”!

Proof that even before IRC, people typed vi commands in the wrong window.

I had totally forgotten about this!

This is a note to myself to never buy from them again. @ansuz https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115689341027888358

It is 2003. Black Friday sales are the Friday after Thanksgiving.

It is 2015. Black Friday sales are from Thanksgiving, to the next Monday.

It is 2025. Black Friday starts one week before Thanksgiving.

It is 2032. Black Friday starts on 1st November.

It is 2036. Black Friday ends on 24th December.

It is 2039. Black Friday starts on 5th July.

It is 2042. Black Friday starts on 15th February.

It is 2045. Black Friday starts on 27th December. All is Black Friday. Black Friday is all.

Writing a blog article about why the children are wrong and back in my day, programming was better.

I am sorry.

@glipari @oblomov Now this, I can agree with!

Small services, paid for, please.

@glipari @oblomov I would not agree with this. There are plenty of reasons not to pay (including “I made an account to raise an issue, I’m not hosting any code there”, for example). I am just asking for people to pay *if they can*.