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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • https://discord.com/terms#5 is pretty permissive

    Your content is yours, but you give us a license to it when you use Discord. Your content may be protected by certain intellectual property rights. We don’t own those. But by using our services, you grant us a license—which is a form of permission—to do the following with your content, in accordance with applicable legal requirements, in connection with operating, developing, and improving our services:

    Use, copy, store, distribute, and communicate your content in manners consistent with your use of the services. (For example, so we can store and display your content.)
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    Sublicense your content, to allow our services to work as intended. (For example, so we can store your content with our cloud service providers.)
    





  • I wasn’t actively aware of this for most of my life until I recently visited a clients office. Buying someone a cup of coffee is an entire thing. There’s no free coffee. You have to purchase every single cup. And you first have to walk several minutes to the place where they sell the coffee. It blew my mind. I’m used to drinking one cup after the other without even giving it any thought. Coffee machine right next to me or around the corner. There, coffee incurs friction and cost.

    So when you invite someone for a cup of free coffee, this can open doors for you. I’m not kidding. People get all excited when you offer them a coffee break on your dime. And there’s levels to it too. There’s the regular coffee, and there’s the premium one. For the premium you have to walk longer and wait in line until the barista serves you.

    It’s a key component in office politics when coffee access is regulated.

    Why anyone would restrict access to legal stimulants in the office is unclear to me though. Put espresso machines on every desk!






  • Numbers give the wrong impression that one version follows another. Debian release channels exit alongside each other individually. Giving the release channels names helps to make that distinction. It also makes for an easy layout of packages in APT repositories.

    Sid is and always has been Sid. If you were to assign numbers, what number should replace that name? There are perfectly working labels for release channels and there is no reasonable replacement.





  • I remember this mindset in myself. Today I consider it a waste of time.

    If you rely on any tool for this, the tool will make mistakes you cannot accept. If you do it manually, you will make mistakes as well and that also does not work. Also, the information your consider worthy for removal might be key to understanding the problem.

    Like, you remove your name, but a certain character in your name is what is actually tripping up the program.

    Ultimately, don’t post your logs publicly. In the past years, I was always able to email logs to devs. I have no reason not to trust them with my log. If they want data from me, they could easily exfiltrate it through their actual application.


  • If you are already familiar with one package manager, pick a distro that also uses that package manager.

    When deciding on the release track, the harder it is to recover the system, the more stable the track should be. Stable does not imply secure.

    As you move up through virtualization layers, the less stable the track needs to be, allowing access to more recent features.

    Steer clear of distros that pride themselves on using musl. It’s historically slow and incomplete. Don’t buy into the marketing.

    Think about IaC. Remote management is a lot more comfortable if you can consider your server ephemeral. You’ll appreciate the work on the day you need to upgrade to a new major release of the distro.



  • If you own shares of a company, you literally own part of that company. To be able to sell shares of your company, you have legal obligations. By putting your shareholders capital at risk by unsafe practices, you fail to deliver on your obligations and can be held liable. Shareholders of large companies are not exclusively greedy investors. Retirement funds can also be backed by capital that is bound in stocks. If your fund holds shares that lost value due to incompetence of the company executives, it is similarly your legal obligation to take legal action in the interest of the people who paid into your fund.