Something to be proud of I’m sure!

tl;dr: tankies

tl;dr:

If, for whatever reason, progress on the torvalds/linux.git repository is affected, someone has to get things moving within 72 hours. This person could either be the one who organized the most recent Maintainer Summit or the chair of the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board (TAB).

They will be tasked with pulling together the people who were invited to the last summit, along with members of the TAB.

It gets more complicated after that, but essentially that’s it.

Oh, and I’m pretty sure there already is more than one top maintainers for the kernel code anyhow.

Depends on the beholder’s POV I guess; but yeah, even to a middle-aged fart like me 2018 is not “recent” anymore.

Yet another mask coming off, right after they pulled in the Greenland deal.

I never understood why people would say JSON is superior, and why XML seemed to be getting rarer, but the author explains it:

XML was not abandoned because it was inadequate; it was abandoned because JavaScript won.

I’ve been using it ever since I started using Linux because my favorite window manager uses it, and because of a long-running pet project that is almost just as old: first I used XML tools to parse web pages, later I switched to dedicated data providers that offered both XML and JSON formats, and stuck to what I knew.

I’m guessing that another reason devs - especially web devs - prefer JSON over XML is that the latter uses more bytes to transport the same amount of raw data. One XML file will be somewhat larger than one JSON file with the same content. That advantage is of course dwarved by all the other media and helper scripts - nay, frameworks, devs use to develop websites.

BTW, XML is very readable with syntax highlighting and easily editable if your code editor has some very basic completion for it. And it has comments!

Yes. Arguably, HTML is a form of XML. Also, the ML means the same in both. XML tools can often also be used to query HTML documents.

Does this mean Terminal is installed but one can only use it when one is logged into the store?

Or maybe I don’t understand Windows logic; it’s been over a decade for me.

We’re all just beta testers.

Only one. Because he created the board so there’s no need to invite him.

Is it that thing you need to pay $1bn (one billion) to get in?

I understand that media have to report on this, but still: this is sanewashing. This person is unhinged or worse. But if all of his admin fall in line behind his smelly brainfarts, unquestioningly, we must take it seriously. It’s fucked up.

🎶 Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999 🎶

What does it do? AFAICS the code is the java(pardon,type)script framework for the webpage itself?

Of course, that too can change. From the current README:

What Can Be Changed

Everything. Including these rules.

Top PRs:

Glory to the Palestinian resistance

BMW I use

Here, in Southern Finland, the last few Januaries have been way too warm, snowing/melting all the time. Now it’s a consistent -5°C - -10°C, which is, at least historically, totally adequate for this time of year.

There were some strong winds though.

How bad is it elsewhere?

I am of course not dismissing climate change, but the tragedy here seems to be that people have forgotten how to properly prepare for a normal winter. Not that that was ever a thing in, say, Germany, where I used to live.

This is O’Rly, not O’Reilly. Somebody posted them here a while ago, had me laugh-scrolling for a long while.

Just in case it slipped your eyes when you saw “Torvalds”: this is not about the Linux kernel.

It is the prevailing idea in both Brussels and Washington: America is soaring, while Europe is falling behind.

No, it isn’t.

As I said in private elsewhere, I do not want any kernel development documentation to be some AI statement. We have enough people on both sides of the “sky is falling” and “it’s going to revolutionize software engineering”, I don’t want some kernel development docs to take either stance.

It’s why I strongly want this to be that “just a tool” statement.

And the AI slop issue is NOT going to be solved with documentation, and anybody who thinks it is either just naive, or wants to “make a statement”.

Neither of which is a good reason for documentation.