ANYONE who thinks jq is easy to use or intuitive is at very best a liar.

and there it is. github takes all our free code, puts it in a blender, uses us for free QA on the result, and finally turns around and charges for it

Torn regarding the "big" NixOS Foundation announcement. I guess time will tell how soon we can migrate to an elected body and healthy community governance.

💚Wir suchen Verstärkung fürs Tech-Team. Und nicht nur das. Auf unserer Karriereseite findest du jede Menge Jobs mit Sinn. Jobcast in voller Länge unter👉 octopusenergy.de/karriere #JobsmitSinn #DeveloperJobs

Finally received my Librem5. Never expected it to actually arrive after them ghosting my emails. Unfortunately it looks like it is a used device. Screen protector badly applied, device initialized with unknown encryption key... I guess factory resetting it is...

A medium spicy Cargo take: build.rs was a mistake.

I feel very sorry for the hate Lena Poettering receives, especially in german forums – absolutely undeserved. The systemd suite is awesome software, both for administrators and programmers. Please don't stop your work because of this evil crowd, it is appreciated!

Everything went to shit when e-mail clients started requiring top-posted replies.

People would love email if it wasn't for this shit default!

Maximizing shareholder value is gonna get us all killed.

“It’s just summer.” 🙄

Ab und an darf man hieran erinnern: 1978 Hoimar von Ditfurth

Whitespace sensitive formats are a mistake. I am looking at Yet Another Markup Language issue...

The real missing part for CI/CD automation is a local development experience. Sounds counter-intuitive but being able to run the E2E CI/CD pipeline locally and validate failures saves engineers from the 20 minute push, coffee, failure, fix loop.

Are cloud induced mental problems a recognized thing in tech yet? I know racking servers and fighting stupid IPMIs wasn't fun either but I slept better.

Any time a YouTuber says "omg your credit card will be stolen on public wifi" they should be fined. It's a demonstrable manipulative lie. There's few things so secure as online Transactions. You can do them in untrusted networks. No problem.

How much of an outrage will I receive for saying that build systems / package managers that require absolute paths and refer to them are an antipattern?