Possibly the worst take I've seen in Open Source, at least this Month

https://fosstodon.org/@SrEstegosaurio@mstdn.social/112421851735990906

There’s a beautiful review/eulogy by Val Nolan of Christopher Priest’s “airside” in this issue https://mastodon.online/@InterzoneMag/112372448018618408

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@fraggle I hear it’s huge in the US too? (as is Bluey, which is huge over here)

@fraggle no wait that’s daddy pig

@fraggle also (if I’m not mistaken) the overworld narrator in Dungeon Keeper

@psn wow! What’s your next adventure going to be?

An old, prescient comment re NixOS community. It’s got me thinking about how well it might apply to Debian communities (especially disconnected ones like Debian-user mailing list) https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/98#issuecomment-894473214

New blog post: Biosphere https://jmtd.net/log/biosphere/ #music

@venthur @dondelelcaro this got me thinking on the nature of "long term" or "short term" in FOSS/volunteer projects. If nobody steps up to do the WSDL work, is that still "short term"?

This morning's soundtrack: the mighty Biosphere https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/music

@venthur @dondelelcaro it would seem that adding a REST API to debbugs would be a better use of time. With lots of debbugs consumer experience, you could do a lot of the design work, even without Perl experience to implement it

this struck me as pretty thoughtful
https://pleroma.debian.social/notice/AgxNumuReyXE2AokMa

@werdahias interesting, thanks

Puzzled why this is in heavy rotation at the moment. Was it in a TV show? https://pleroma.debian.social/notice/Agwj6cuUZBACNOMkQC

What do you think about the idea of heuristically detecting passwords in log lines and sanitising them? OTOH, I worry about it making people more complacent about putting passwords in not-safe places. On the other, there are some circumstances where it's hard to avoid.

Refactoring pipelines into awk => moving things awkward

@BraveRobynArt accessing discord via Pidgin/libpurple hides much of the rubbish but I suspect that route is on borrowed time

@joeyh I mentioned the still-useful pipeline evolution grep->awk->perl in a lobsters comment recently and someone responded “why not raku”? I’d never bothered to look at Raku for full programs (where I’ve long displaced perl anyway) but for pipelines, I might give it a look.