Linux since 1.2.13, here.

Yes, self-hosters can be really focused on their own complex setups, and forget that they’ve become overcomplicated through years and iterations of rebuilds.

A new bucket to stash all those crabs, though, isn’t it.

Start the noobs a little lower on the complexity scale, so it doesn’t look like a mandelbrot just to get basic stuff. App installs on a basic host is totally okay, to start.

Teach and reinforce proper patching and maintenance. Teach man-pages at every turn: promote good ones and take a second look at the bad man-pages because, really, maybe they need updates. Reinforce the “look up before asking;then ask well” routine for discussions and seeking help. Be super-welcoming for good questions, even if the pre-work is “I checked the man page and it didn’t really make sense for that option”, and gently nudge toward a cursory search when even that’s missing.

We lost a LOT of mentorship after the dotcom bust, and we’ve not been great in the Lost Boy generations that followed. We need to make it easier to get help, and we need to encourage that walk-before-fly mentality.

And if apps can’t properly package their stuff so that the secure and safe usage is the easy usage, then we steer noobs around it. I’m looking at you, docker-fixated app ‘releases’ without adequate delivery and via channels that aren’t validated normally as part of the process. We need to be so much better at that.

a software

Nope. That’s like saying “a health”.

Ah, Webster – the guy who rewrote American and the Dictionary that first equated Figurative with Literal.

It’s logically unsound.

Remembering that Dictionaries don’t tell you what’s right, only what’s popular at best, and that Webster is about the worst there, It’s not a great reference. And if we trusted the mob to decide how to spell and pronounce words, you and I would be MUCH better at the head-wobble – popularity as a mechanism for evolution would have refactored a LOT of pronunciation and spelling a while ago.

The abbreviation of “until” is " 'til ". I know this because it’s an abbreviation, and “until” doesn’t have two Ls.

MBA

I’m glad he specified it later, but dereferencing the jargon the first time it’s used - especially an initialism often linked to something else - is much better.

Hands up if you also saw “Masters of Business Administration” and were a little confused.

I worry when families from economically depressed areas do this bullshit. Like, what’s the return on cosplaying white trash at great expense?

kids till

A till is a cash drawer. What are you selling?!?

Let’s avoid systemd solutions. They’ll just lock you deeper into lennart’s cancer.

I’ve used smb with autofs. Works a treat.

Be sure you have nothing running from or accessing the mount constantly, of course – I forgot with a homedir – or it’ll never I mount.

The most successful application for Facebook’s ‘M’ agent in testing was to reach out and make restaurant reservations, book appointments and, crucially, negotiate with Comcast for better rates.

Maybe Ai can be useful in that space.

If the UN had teeth, it would embargo America for being complete assholes to its neighbours.

Then, though, the US would veto its own penalization.

Is it time for the members of the UN to rebel and throw out the ruling founder class? It would go a long way toward GDP-based troop and dues levies and the commandeering of Jerusalem as neutral space like a new Vatican city.

people that

people *who

I have type-o blood. I’m already irresistible to mosquitoes, and I’m embarrassed at how long it took me to realize my wife was counting on this when we walked in the woods.

Stereotypes are so edgy.

3ooo words and it’s all about neu-packages and the methods through which they’re all rife with supply-chain attacks anyway. Not a proper packaging or secure delivery and distribution model in sight.

The ask

That’s how I know this guy isn’t serious, and may not recognize proper packaging if it cut him off in traffic.

When app people try to be OS people, it’s a bad day. Enough of your cargo, your composer, and definitely enough NPM. No more pips. No more cpans. Deliver your shit properly - validation and caching is already established, if you do it right, and probably BitTorrent distro too - and just forget this paper ever existed.

This is a fucking solved problem. Just the Lost Boys werent paying attention before the mentors were gone.

literally

Downvote. Move on. There is no alternative if we want to kill this kid-pidgin and others like it.

So it’s not Federated yet; just “Federated”.

anymore

any more

You found a solution and you are looking for a problem.

This is not the way it goes. You identify a problem, and if the solution involves self-hosting then you solve it with self-hosting.

Everyday

There’s a goddamned space in there.

Yep. I’m gonna miss real engineering with the coming Ai-driven Idiocracy.