Don’t be that guy.

While he’s right in this case, calling him a “prominent American journalist” is as inaccurate as his usual “reporting”.

While more resuable than concrete, the process is very energy intensive and requires bitumen every time. It also doesn’t last very long.

Have a look at Dutch streets. Many of them are paved with bricks. It allows rainwater to be absorbed rather than running off causing flooding.

Not Just Bikes did a great video on it a while back.

This “1000 words to conversational” sourdough sounds really good to me. Thanks for sharing!

Agreed. Despite appearances, subsidies like this don’t help the public, they’re just giving cash to energy companies with extra steps. Long-term planning on the other hand makes a lot more sense for the public, while sending less money to the energy companies.

I wonder how many of those companies are involved with that think tank.

Oh I didn’t know this was available in Codeberg! Thanks for sharing.

I know it’s supposed to be a joke how a nerd will spend six hours writing a script to automate a 30second task but… it’s not really funny.

Working with less-experienced developers, I’m amazed at how slow everything is for them:  No keyboard shortcuts, no automated scripts, just slow, plodding mouse-driven tinkering.

Automation, shortcuts, and scripting drive your ability to iterate and therefore learn.

Train your fingers, and spend those hours automating repetitive stuff.  It’s worth it.

Is there a particular reason we need another flag? What’s wrong with this one that’s been around a long time?

It’s true. They’re for-profit, so the motivations are still there. Fragmentation helps a lot though. If a third of us move to one, and another third to the other, that would cripple any party’s ability to enshittify.

That’s a worthy goal, but the problem isn’t so insurmountable that we have to wait for some theoretical new feature to be available and adopted. There are three dominant players out there, one of which has demonstrated a willingness to screw everyone and the “it’s not perfect yet” excuse is getting pretty thin.

Switch to Codeberg today and there’s a good chance that this federated login will be supported there when/if it’s ever available. GitLab could do it too, and moving there will give you a bunch of nice things you don’t even get in GitHub let alone Codeberg.

But it’s long passed time to move. Microsoft has stolen our code to feed into their slop machine and enshittified the platform. Sticking around because a perfect alternative isn’t available only serves to harden the network effect that keeps GitHub dominant.

What is it going to take to push FLOSS software out of GitHub? Everyone here can move their projects literally anywhere else today. I did it for my own (roughly 10 projects) five years ago and it only took about an hour:

1. Create an account with Codeberg, GitLab, or whatever you like.
2. Use their built-in tools to copy your repo over to your new account. In GitLab’s case, this will even migrate over some of the additional features, like issues.
3. Update the places where you publish the project: PyPI, npm, whatever, with the new project home URL.
4. Archive the old project on GitHub, with a pointing link to the new project home.
5. (Optional) announce the above in any of the social spaces where people care about your project.

Oh don’t misunderstand me. I’m an atheist and think the idea of your god is ridiculous. I just think it’s even more ridiculous that a theocracy like the US could get tripped up and torn between its two favourite things: religiosity and property rights.

It points out the absurdity of both.

I love this so much.

The aversion to using a GPL library is a red flag for me. It basically says: “we don’t want to grant our users the same rights we have”.

Clever, but as far as I know, Jesus isn’t credited with actually writing any of the bible. The actual authors, like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are all long dead.

The following don’t seem to fit any of these (and they’re all excellent):

• Radiolab
• Savage Love
• Throughline
• Climate Denier’s Playbook
• The Urbanist Agenda
• CBC Embedded

I used to get very upset by this, but I’ve taken great solace in seeing how their power and influence are waning.

Is there a more reputable source other than RT? In the age of deepfakes, it’s reasonable to require evidence from trusted sources. RT is not.

Fun! But if you’re going to post to OpenSource, you should be sharing the code too.