What’s the point then?

I only wrote code for [email protected] which is so different to my usual tasks that it feels like a break.

It would be the best merch anyone ever offered.

I just looked and found this, is it you or a freeloader? https://www.redbubble.com/shop/unix_surrealism

I’m thinking of it the same way, and not having the readers be trade secrets but published specs is good for future digital archeologists.

For example, Dyson uses trade secrets instead of patents, so it would be harder to recreate their tech in the future.

Edit: patents not parents 🤦

“We are a technology licensing company”

This is good news from the point of view of being able to create devices that can read these crystals; as a comment on the linked site says:

The realistic lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

What to do with people who jump the queue?

If you read the article, you learn that the authorities never properly searched any of these freighters - that’s probably a more sensible place to start.

Still being tested in nightly atm

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422891

Firefox does seem to be clearing out their old bugs (another example is MKV support) but perhaps it’s buses arriving together and not due to some policy.

Our local wizard who casts these spells is @[email protected]

  // this is bollocks, delete it

That’s almost certainly from a Brit.

  // this looks like I'm being a fancy arsehole, but this is all because  
  // the window shows up white for some reason when first opened, and this  
  // disguises it.

Could be either.

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The article shows that that’s not what’s going on:

YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.

“Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement.

Did you read the article or just the headline?

I think a lot of sci-fi is a warning, e.g. almost every distopian setting - I don’t think that’s hopeful, unless you argue that we’re sensible enough to heed said warnings.

Is your point that this source doesn’t back up the Mary Somerville etymology or just an FYI?

Either way, the quote taught me about the word sciolist - a person who pretends to be knowledgeable and well informed so thanks.

In their opening paragraph they compare themselves to Terraform twice with explaining themselves once.

At least their docs do better:

OpenTofu is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share.