Struggling to understand exactly what a ‘headless’ CMS is and why it might be useful. (It get the gist, but need more precision). Can anyone help or point me at an explanation.
when they're used internally, within a company, they're project management tools, primarily about producing metrics for management—but when they're public facing, the bug tracker is functionally a CRM tool
rather than being a tool for programmers to communicate with each other, bug trackers primarily exist as a means to communicate with people outside the team—bug trackers don't really get used to track bugs
@tef I feel sad when I see a bug / issue tracker used as a tool of control over the end user by the developer. Some amount of wrangling is fair, but there has to be empathy both ways, and the tool shouldn't serve only one party. They can be used and implemented in user hostile ways!
@baldur it's been more than one decades* and I've not forgiven Apple removing the capacity to send an SMS from my computer using AddressBook.app (or was it Contacts.app) and Bluetooth to my Sony T610 in an OSX update. That list could go back further!
(two was probably overstating, idk and details now lost to ravages of internet)
There was a fern, on an island, deep in the Tethys Sea. The fern lived only on that one small island... and the whole landmass now, every scrap of evidence is beneath the Himalayas, cooking into unrecognizable granite.
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?
I'm actually pretty surprised that brands are not jumping in on the fediverse as a way to fully control their image.
It reminds me of the early days of the web.
"In the process of doing his [1994] research, [journalist Joshua Quittner] discovered the unused address mcdonalds.com and he wisely snatched it up. But much to his surprise, this purchase didn’t interest anybody!"
In order to get a birth certificate for your newly born baby, you have to go to a birth certificate registrar. Imagine that those registrars were private companies, operating internationally, and that they could issue birth certificates to any legal "person", as well as actual human beings. People could register the birth in any country, but they had to pay one of those company every year to keep the birth certificate valid.
@strypey I guess the state can be authoritative for identity .... How do we feel about having the state host personal homepages, chat, communication et al though? I feel like that might not be where we want to go.
@jspath55 as in the lettering is doing shifting rune patterns as you read it? not surprised tbh
I'm flummoxed, don't they have tons of gov and big business domains using their service? What's the play here? Am I missing another component (the various email service names also seem to morph)?
@jspath55 yeah I see why a provider would abandon a sector/service that they foresee as a losing bet, sure ... But unless I'm missing a replacement/alternative product this is "bait and ditch"? And I can't imagine them wanting to lose the govt or big biz contracts so like... what detail am I missing here?
@jspath55 as I read it this isn't "free tier loses personalized domains", it's "Microsoft 365 loses personalized domains". Is that all Microsoft hosted email?
The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.
To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours: