Genuine question: Do you think linux would be better or worse today without that influence?

https://publicapis.io/

In the Bible they had to make a law against it

So they did about eating Pork, but Christians like the taste so eat it anyway.

“Leviticus 11:7-8 that pigs are considered unclean and should not be eaten.”

I’m pretty sure “zoophilia” is more about being into animals rather than actual sex with them

I wasn’t sure about this, due to the common link with sexuality - but it looks like - at a semantic level - you’re right.

From the original Greek via Aristotle;

philia is commonly translated as friendship or affection. Its conceptual opposite is phobia

Continued today with Bibliophilia, Dendrophilia, Thalassophilia etc (Books, trees, the sea) - all non-sexual, and there are hundreds of other examples “used in everyday language to describe completely normal, passionate hobbies and aesthetic appreciation”

You’re assuming others are all like you.

Sure, alone doesn’t == loneliness for some people. Life the life that you want to live, there’s nobody keeping score, everyone’s too busy living their own lives to care much about what you do or don’t do, within reasonable societal norms - just idle judging as you’re doing about them.

This isn’t some new thing btw, I’m 55 and only had two people I would consider good friends. I married one, and the other died in his 40s. People come into our lives and leave, but I doubt I’ll make more real friends. I’m fine with that, partly because of the reasons you mention.

Linux’s only objective is to get better.

Any commercial OS has the sole objective to make money for its owner.

Cream.

As a kid, we owned a village shop in the early 1980s that used to sell clotted cream in big open trays. We’d eat what didn’t get sold - until one day I was given some that was very off. I was violently sick and stayed well clear of it for forty years. Tried it again recently in my mid fifties and it’s quite nice.

Also fish - hated the taste when I was younger, but tried it at middle age and quite like it now. Just a change of taste.

Heh. ISWYDT

It wasn’t actually that, it’s just such a dumb question to ask, and insulting as hell.

Are you drunk?

Not so much underdog - maybe. Everyone wants to be interesting or special, perhaps.

“I’m Irish, you know.”

Gitea is great for selfhosting. Small footprint, very fast, extremely capable.

I also maintain a couple of Gitlab installations at work, but it’s a lot slower and uses more resources. I mean it’s good, but it’s very much a full fat option.

Bitbucket is very old and, eww, Atlassian - the exact opposite of a selfhost friendly company.

We’ve considered eliminating the Lifetime Plex Pass in the past, given that recurring subscriptions help us sustain long-term development, but we know it’s still a valuable option for many in our community. So instead of retiring it, we’re keeping it available at a price that reflects the real, ongoing value of the software we’re committed to building and maintaining for years to come.

Translation: We fucked up by creating a lifetime pass but now we can’t get rid of it without being sued by everyone who did what we said they should and bought one. If we honour existing passes and stop selling new ones, we’ll be reviled by everyone else, so we’ll just pick a ridiculous figure out of the air so nobody can say we killed them.

Do you genuinely think that’s going to be soon?

Seem that I’ve been hearing about mainstream RISC being “just around the corner” for around three decades.

Good question.

26 years ago I was a volunteer community manager for a (at the time) huge fps for a big online gaming community. That involved effectively recruiting and managing a group of admins, developing a system of monitoring and anticheat reporting. In hindsight I put way too much time into that but I have difficulty limiting.

It was tiring. 4/5 hours every night after work. No social life. All my choice.

I don’t regret it. I did good, I think. With the team, we stopped a lot of really nasty racism and other abuse. Really helped inform and prevent aimbotting and similar cheating (went down a whole other rabbit hole and ended up writing several guides on the subject). Generally made the servers a nicer place to play. I was offered a job with the company, but I couldn’t take it - and they’ve since closed doors.

Downsides: Death threats, doxxing attempts, a long running issue with another admin who didn’t like me firing him. The charismatic cheaters who think they can charm their way around a ban with begging and promises. The entitled players who’ve never been told “No” before and get ridiculously angry. It can be a lot.

Now I try to help around the edges rather than be the main guy. I do manage a biggish facebook group, but it doesn’t need a lot of input.

I know what you mean - although I’ve found the… receptiveness? on lemmy is generally better than reddit for most things, but yes, the scale is tiny in comparison.

A lot of the replies so far focus on fixing the problem yourself, which is awesome if you’re a coder.

But even reporting problems is a big help to all projects. Found a bug? Report it - give the right information and be cordial.

Also, contribute sensible suggestions. Some smaller projects suffer from a single owner not understanding how others might use their work because they don’t have that perspective (certainly an issue for me). Plus, getting involved and contributing this way can be a huge motivator to these small projects. It can be pretty disheartening to work hard on a passion project and not hear anything back from users.

It’s a lot of work, but if you’re feeling tired or overhwelmed and thinking negative thoughts about these releases - then don’t. It’s a good thing.

These are bugs that already exist and, in some cases, are almost certainly being actively exploited by criminals and government-backed organistions both.

Whilst we might ask that some are a little more responsible with their disclosures, overall this is a massive boost to computer security once we get over this hill of information.

It’s a positive thing, don’t be worried.

These vulns already existed. It’s possible the bad guys were already using them. This gets them out in the open and on their way to being resolved.

Just keep patches up to date with any modern and maintained distro and you’ll be grand.