There's been some drama around the Mac Iterm2 terminal app. The author released a "major release" with AI features - and strangely got a pile of negativity. Now he's making it a plugin but I don't think he's happy:
I should note that normally I have a lot of sympathy for open source maintainers dealing with grumpy users.
If it has been "I've listened to feedback, I don't agree that this is a huge thing but I can see how opinions differ" that'd be fine.
But insulting users with legitimate concerns? That's a huge nope for me
Since it’s a thing right now:
I am a senior career Linux sysadmin. I’ve been immersed in Linux since 1994, and a nerdy IT nerd longer than that.
I currently run Windows on both my personal and work PCs, by choice.
It’s not a simple choice and it’s definitely not a political choice. I could afford Mac hardware if I chose, and I have been All The Way down the Linux Desktop wormhole on multiple occasions.
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A few weeks ago I installed the Glendale aurora alerts app, and naturally it's now going a bit berserk.
Trouble is, I have no idea of any of the scales so it's hard to tell if these alerts are "pretty lights in the sky" or "day of the Triffids prelude" or "imminent apocalypse"...
@DavidPenington
Sadly too much light pollution here, and couldn't get out into the real countryside.
Thankfully also no signs of Triffids this morning.
@joelanman
We have an env.example, a bit in the README - but also we parse the environment with Zod so you get error messages if something doesn't fit the schema.
So the Tory candidate for Mayor of London (a lacklustre Poundshop Theresa May knockoff, the latest in a line of bellowing ignorami CCHQ had sent for the role) may have won, not on any merit of her own, but because the progressive voters who made up Khan’s 20% margin stayed home due to Gaza/TERFism/Starmer’s rightward tilt? If this turns out to have been the case, one could call this the Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner Election. #ukpol
@Edent
Theres also the problem that, even if I suspected it was a scam, I really struggle to do the sensible thing and call my bank - because all my experience with calling large institutions on the phone is long annoying call queues and difficulty getting any help.
My bank is probably better, but I've just been trained to avoid calling any businesses because so many are so bad.
That thing where both of you have read the same book/s with made up names in it, and have a discussion about it and you discover that you have both spent your lives pronouncing the names completely differently in your minds, and you know it doesn't matter in the slightest but you also know you're right and they are wrong.
@geekweevil
I spent my teenage years mispronouncing Tolkien names, then I heard Christopher Tolkien reading one of his dad's tales and I was all "doesn't he know how they should sound?"
Not entirely sure why I’m doing this, but here goes-
I need song suggestions. The general theme is:
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time”
First track is Nine Inch Nails /Every Day Is Exactly The Same/
Go. Or don’t. Your call.
I've wondered for a while now - is there any research on map routing algorithms that allow for significantly longer routes, which meet other criteria like "more peaceful" or "simpler" or "less pollution"?
The excellent #CycleStreets app (based on #OpenStreetMap data) allows for quiet/balanced/fast routes, but "quiet" isn't quite what I want.
For example part of my route from work to Euston could go via the canal around Regent's Park, but that option is never suggested as it is 10min longer:
It's definitely better for my mental health and my relationship with my kids. And my productivity didn't drop anywhere near 20% - it's a bargain for my employers too.
Also it helped me learn to delegate - when I was a team leader I had to assign deputies for my non working day - "if there's a question about data science it should go to Zehra"