The AL2023 release notes now document the delta from AL1 and AL2 to AL2023: docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/r…

“Use Chrome” is the new “Works in IE6”

Specifically, anyone saying the former must go and make their web site do the latter. No exceptions.

PowerShell has its own serializer. Why? Because I never trusted the .Net serializers. After 10+ years, our first major security bug (found with via a Red Team) was a serialization problem. Someone didn’t get the memo and used a .Net serializer - exactly once.

DocBook is for masochists.

BitKeeper perhaps? Its main issue for FOSS work at the time was the license. If that had changed earlier, perhaps with a BitKeeperHub… we’d be in an interesting and slightly different world.

When you’re pretty sure some of your home automation devices are affected by the same bug as Windows 95 was: cnet.com/culture/window…

Countries with the word 'girt' in their national anthem

We have released a firmware update for our Talos II and Blackbird product lines. This update adds new hardware support to the bootloader and fixes a rare checkstop bug on Talos II. Full changelog is available at wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Talos_II/… -- only the PNOR has been updated.

A “magic number” code style check is about the most stupid thing I have seen in a long time.

There really is no good reason for the continuation of C++. For a bunch of low level things you have asm, C, and unsafe Rust. The tools around C are way more complete thanks largely to work around the Linux kernel.

So, it turns out, I have opinions. A lot of them are about the utter refusal of the US to adopt the word fortnight in order to avoid the ambiguity of saying bi-weekly.

The first Vegan Cheese I ever tried had exactly this flavour profile - so it was an *incredibly* accurate recreation.