I believe S&P should only give out two ratings: Standard and Poor.

(On that note, I don’t know why people assume that the ratings of a company named Moody’s are primarily based on facts and not someone’s current emotional state.)

It wasn’t removed, it was marked as orphaned, which means anyone can take over and mess with it, lowering the bar for supply chain attacks.

If another user had said “I can take care of this long-term, gimme”, I’d had handed it over. Instead, some self-important dingbat with too many privileges decided to mass-mark all packages with an “outdated” flag beyond a certain age as orphaned, then ignored my mailing list post.

For what it’s worth, a distro package maintainer’s inability to update a package to a newer upstream version does not necessarily lead to a package being removed. Debian and Ubuntu kept shipping an ancient version of freetds sometime in the mid-2010s and the package maintainer was incommunicado.

A couple of weeks ago, some dingbat of an AUR admin orphaned a package of mine, ignoring the comment I left on it and my post to the mailing list.

Even though this package, to my knowledge, didn’t end up being attacked, I wonder if this was a potential precursor to the recent attack…

I think the poem scans better if you use the adjective “bourgeois” (two syllables) instead of the collective noun “bourgeoisie” (three).

One of the options to query for specific types of points of interest on OSM is the web app OpenStreetBrowser.

As an alternative to forcing shitdown, you may want to try laxatives.

Yup; I was referring to their implementation being dark magic, depending on calling convention, argument type, argument order and possibly other properties specific to the processor’s instruction set…

“If you think you understand va_*, you don’t.”

^ This is from glibc. Do you know what va_start and va_end are?

Does anyone? 🙃

I wouldn’t say the extension was the beginning of the downfall; that kinda implies it caused the downfall.

I would agree that it was the canary in the coal mine – management types were ramping up their “just jam X into it” attitude, techies were starting to really feel it, and this was an initial, small protest. Unfortunately, despite the techies’ well-communicated newfound capability to run applications in my butt, the management types kept focusing more and more on their hype-oriented strategy – but that would certainly have happened without the extension too.

There is the dali-interface Python library which seems to support a few PC DALI interfaces based on USB-HID and serial. I don’t know how well the translation between USB-HID/serial and DALI is standardized, so I can’t tell you how compatible this library is with DALI interfaces that are not explicitly listed in the README.

Software using this library includes dali_mon for monitoring the DALI bus and dali_cli for sending commands.

You are missing the Neuzeil at the end of the Schnur.

Well I know a guy who can change my lift in a week. And those modern elevators really are a lot more comfortable.

Sure, but the newest version of each package is four years old and riddled with dozens of Debian-specific patches that somehow only make it run worse.

To my knowledge, there has been some discussion regarding the AGPL as to whether using software through a network even creates the kind of legal relationship between provider and client such that the client has standing to request the source code. I assume similar discussions would crop up regarding the SOWPL.

Miller presented a general O(1) solution to the Traveling Salesman Problem back in 1949.

Yeah… I kinda wish he had provided it before all those devs quit, though.

Of course, he might have kept silent as a test to see if the project can remain healthy without his active stewardship, which makes sense for such a large and important project. I’m sure he’s unimpressed by the result.

I think the point is that Tim Apple is all of these things (so he need not care) except straight.

I didn’t know that Broadcom’s CEO was named Hawk Tuah.

Oculus VR maker (whatever) and Trump donor/fanboy (okay, you really have a point).

what the hell is that carpet pattern?