xahteiwi

xahteiwi, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Yesterday I had a 90-minute "meeting". I was alone, in my office, doing a video call, in which I did a normal share of the talking.

The CO₂ level in my office was 700ppm at the start and 2000ppm at the end. Just from me exhaling while talking.

Cognitive function starts getting impaired somewhere between 1200 and 1500ppm.

Please draw your own conclusions as they relate to closed-door, in-person "executive committee", "company leadership", or board meetings.

Or ministerial cabinet meetings. 🥴

xahteiwi, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

The pinnacle of "return-to-office" ("RTO") stupidity is requiring people to be in the office some number of days per week, with first-come-first-served hot-desking.¹ Leads to people ostensibly in the office "for improved collaboration" now sitting at desks spread all over the office space, and then using their remote collaboration tools from the office. Including video calls.

Managers implementing this sort of policy deserve a metaphorical bucket of ice water dumped over their heads.

xahteiwi, 1 month ago to random

Tapping the sign:

You don't take meeting notes for the people in the meeting. You take them for people who aren't in the meeting.

That includes three-months-from-now-you, who also isn't in the meeting.

xahteiwi, 1 month ago to random

Did you know? For every time a manager asserts that they're "not technical enough" to be expected to understand some part of your product or platform, you get to say you're "not managerial enough" when they want a bullshit report or some other busywork.
https://xahteiwi.eu/blog/2019/04/21/non-technical/

xahteiwi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Out of 1200 #curl contributors, 800 have contributed exactly once, and all their contributions were valuable (paraphrasing @bagder).

Think of that next time before you speak disparagingly of "drive-by contributors".

#pyconse #pyconse2023

xahteiwi, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Are any of you aware of a contemporary issue tracker system that is in reasonably widespread use, has email integration, and will

• parse an incoming message's In-Reply-To or References headers,
• check whether they contain any message IDs that are referenced in already-tracked issues, and then
• link it to that issue/those issues automatically,

even if the sender has messed with the email subject, potentially removing the issue ID?

Update: @antondollmaier pointed out Zammad and Znuny/OTRS.

xahteiwi, 1 month ago to random

Most useful write-up I've seen so far, from @eb:

Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

xahteiwi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Question for people working in an engineering role in any company, or an engineering management role in any company, or any role in a tech/engineering company (boosts appreciated).

If I say "second-system effect", you say (before checking Wikipedia):

xahteiwi, 1 month ago to random

That didn't take long.
https://codeberg.org/redict/redict

xahteiwi, 9 days ago to random

Serious question: why is it that so many people apparently have real problems adopting ISO 8601 dates and UTC, in a professional context?

As in, are those somehow fundamentally incompatible with human nature? Or do people just completely lack the cultural awareness to understand that some of their colleagues are used to a different date format than they are, or live in a different timezone, or don't use daylight saving time?

Related:
https://xahteiwi.eu/blog/2023/02/10/brown-mms/

xahteiwi, 9 months ago to random German

In eigener Sache: Was ist eigentlich #OpenedX?

Open edX ist eine Open Source (AGPLv3) Lehr- und Lernplattform auf Python-Basis, mit der ich mich seit 2015 beschäftige und die sich unter anderem auch ganz hervorragend für den Einsatz in Unternehmen eignet.

Wenn du und dein Unternehmen das Thema Fortbildung, allein und gemeinsam (und damit einen der wichtigsten Aspekte von asynchron-verteilter Arbeit) ernst nehmen, dann kannst du bei mir im #Linuxhotel was drüber lernen.

https://www.linuxhotel.de/course/openedx-de/

xahteiwi, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

If you are using a stateful, idempotent-by-design configuration facility like Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, OpenStack Heat, to what extent do you rely on that idempotence?

A: Completely. If a playbook/manifest/configuration/stack is not behaving idempotently, that's a bug and a massive POLA violation.

B: Within limits. I generally expect idempotence but I accept there are instances when it breaks, and I expect to apply workarounds in that case.

C: Not at all; idempotence is a marketing myth.

xahteiwi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

“Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization for one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.”

— Peter Drucker, "The Effective Executive", 1966.

xahteiwi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

A screw-up happened. The screw-up is ultimately due to a crucial piece of information not being relayed to the right person. Multiple levels of seniority were in the loop, all of whom could have caught the omission, but nobody did. Who bears responsibility for the screw-up?

A — Everyone, jointly.
B — The most senior person involved.
C — The person who would have normally been "most likely" to catch the omission.
D — Someone else. (You pledge to add a comment who that would be)

(Boosts fine.)

xahteiwi, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Open source contributors: how important is it to you that your employer evidently "gets" open source? Think of things such as:

• open source author rights and licenses being acknowledged in employment contracts and the code of conduct
• the company being party to corporate CLAs for open source projects it uses
• FOSS sponsorship budgets
• the legal team having quick turnaround for individual CLA approval

How much of a draw would such things be if you were interviewing?

(Boosts appreciated.)

xahteiwi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random German

Wer von euch lebt in einem Wasser-Versorgungsbereich mit großer Wasserhärte, hat eine Entkalkungsanlage im Haus und kann/möchte dazu ein paar Erfahrungen mit mir teilen?

Nachbearbeitung: im Thread wurden schon mehrfach BWT-Geräte erwähnt, daher interessieren mich auch Erfahrungen mit der Integration solcher Geräte in Home Assistant — eventuell mit der Integration im Link unten.

(Gerne weitertröten)

https://github.com/dkarv/hacs-bwt-perla

#haustodon

xahteiwi, 3 months ago to terraform

Okay, so how many of you have pivoted from #Terraform to #OpenTofu since the latter had its first release last week?

If you did: how did it go?

If you did not: are you planning to, and when?

(Boosts OK)

xahteiwi, 2 months ago to debian

An apt-cacher-ng host or some other APT proxy/mirror that sits on your corporate network and whose logs are chomped by a clever analyzer that feeds the information of which packages/versions have been downloaded by which clients into a database ... that has to have been invented in the last 20 years. Someone got a pointer for me?

#Debian #Ubuntu #FediTechSupport

xahteiwi, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

What's your personal minimal acceptable lead time for a conference talk?

If you submit a talk proposal, and it's accepted, then you'd expect to be notified of that acceptance some time prior to your talk, so you can prepare and rehearse well and sort work and travel around the conference. What's that minimum time for you?

(Boosts would be nice, thanks!)

xahteiwi, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

If you've previously been in a situation of being overwhelmed in your job and not having enough time to do what was asked of you, what describes the situation (or the majority of those situations) more accurately?

A — You had too much of your actual work to do and couldn't finish one important thing before the next important thing came in.

B — Busywork, meetings, ad-hoc "urgent" requests, and reporting kept you from doing the important things.

Boosts appreciated.

xahteiwi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

How do you personally pronounce #PyPI?

(Boosts OK. Also, this is not a question about the "correct" pronunciation.)

xahteiwi, 7 months ago to random German

Der Faschismus ist chancenlos, bis sich der Konservatismus ihm anbiedert.

xahteiwi, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Consider the following hypothetical scenario: you're interviewing with a company, who are asserting that they are a good place for being an open source contributor. (The position you're interviewing for is not a 100% upstream one.)

The interviewer, unprompted by you, starts discussing metrics about the company's open source contributions.

What are you more likely to think?

A — credit to the company; they're taking this seriously
B — oh god, they're run by bean counters

(Boosts & comments ok)

xahteiwi, 1 month ago to random

List of circumstances under which you might be able to give a reliable estimate of how long something will take:

1. You've done exactly that thing before.

xahteiwi, 1 day ago to random German

Männer in Führungspositionen sind einfach viel zu emotional.
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112440091390866379