Øyvind Kolås @pippin@mastodon.xyz

LGM 2021 - ctx - vectors on the wire by Øyvind Kolås https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d92e1700-d49a-4a33-9f54-7ea32633aa0b

WHY DO SO MANY COOL OPEN SOURCE WEB APPLICATIONS DEPEND ON DOCKER, HOLY SHIT LEARN HOW TO WRITE PROPER SETUP DOCUMENTATION

I refuse to run Docker containers inside of Linux Containers so my options are…
- Install manually and make upgrading a pain in the ass
- Don't use the app

As much as I would *love* to use it, the reliance on Docker for managing 100% of the stack is a *hard* no. Figuring out how the image has changed between releases would make manual maintenance absolute hell and I am unwilling to shoulder that burden.

Not everyone is *able* to use Docker and not everyone is *willing* to use Docker. By not supporting any other deployment method, you are preventing some individuals from using what could be *the* application they've spent years looking for.

Let the admin decide how to architect their own systems. They know their backend better than you do.

(reposted because jake wanted to boost)

Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate? - https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/

If Sheep.org has Wolf.com on its advisory board, it can mean one of two things, either:

1. They don’t understand the relationship between wolves and sheep, or,

2. They aren’t really sheep either.

#GIMP 2.99.6 is out ! And a cool Wilber & co. comics strip by Aryeom under CC by-sa license, as usual ! 🙂

« GIMP 2.99.6 is out with new/experimental features. Highlights: off-canvas guides, pinch zoom on touchpads, improved Paint Select tool (unstable), and more. Flatpak and Win installer available, no news on macOS builds yet (we encourage contributions!) »

/> https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/

Reinventing the Wheel https://hackaday.com/2021/05/08/reinventing-the-wheel/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1391030744097730564

@JordiGH also, if the spooks use the software in something clandestine/classified, how would the license holder even know?

See our program in progress....
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2021/en/program.html

The future

TIL that Chinese can be written both LTR and RTL (and amusingly, that they sometimes end up doing the same to English text when doing it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_text#Chinese_characters_and_other_CJK_scripts

Struggling to deal with the organisations shunning the FSF for the sake of inclusivity and equality

who are still comfortable with Google and IBM's patronage, orgs who are doing a great job ensuring that the future (w/biased AI, algos) will be very unequal and shut out minorities.

(also, the Gebru/Mitchell episode)

oh boy this is actually working!
variable fonts in shoebot!

Female researchers as a percentage of total researchers by country.

"What’s funny to think about is that if instead C had not done that and used 1-based indexing, people today would certainly be claiming how C is superior for providing both 1-based indexing with p[i] and 0-based pointer offsets with p + i."

https://hisham.hm/2021/01/18/again-on-0-based-vs-1-based-indexing/