A few years after a quit a job because of a terrible micromanaging blowhard, I was recounting the story to a group …including his brother.

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I respect your opinion I just think it’s a little naive.

Under isos 27002, 90003, 25000, and 9001, and their requirements for software pedigree and sustainability, it’s just best-practice.

Is it ironic that you’re calling best-practice “naive”?

Based is fetch.

Journalctl | grep -C 10 'foo' was useful for me when I needed to troubleshoot some fstab mount fuckery on boot.

Ha! Remember back when there was no fstab fuckery? Good times. But you have a massive init blob slowly eating other services and replacing them with shitty replicants like this embarrassment (ohai root NFS) and all of us Unix people are chuckling in our reduced-fuckery ‘hell’.

regularly use windows because we love modding the crap out of all of our favorite games and that’s just not feasible on Linux

Linux isn’t a game.

Policy is not decided by logic and sense, my dude. Sorry you have the same wonks dictating that as I do.

Whatever gets attention, I guess. See? We’re talking about it now.

even though my work laptop is Windows, I do most of my real work connected to a Linux server/IDE.

This has been me for my entire pro career. There we are, working to maintain at&t Unix, but it’s all (then) vandyke, winamp, Mozilla4. Here I am now, at work, corp win11, putty, radiogarden, fucking outlook/teams and all its dreck.

But look at bazzite and Nobara: if we can avoid the snaps/appimages/flatpaks in addition to the venvs and npm and other toxic cult cargo sploit vectors, we have a strong platform with still just enough windows access for fucking teams and the rest of the redmond-based data sovereignty threats.

The coasts will be wealthy and independent. The middle will be poor and warlike. Two coastal countries and a lot of warlording in the middle.

Find and watch the 2010 Jude Law movie “repo men”.

Yeah. Like JavaScript, SMTP and the web itself, lemmy will just go away.

Spending two decades of your prime on that sounds insane.

Just until your pre-frontal grows and you can make better decisions. That’s not until - reads notes - 32, apparently, based on new research published very recently. So yeah, that seems to be 2 decades for some.

This sounds like a reeeeeally bad company doing shit work. Toronto? Which (pub)cloud is Canadian, anyway?

Bill Gates spent a lot of his pro years running a bad company quite well, and exploiting a dominant position in the market that any soulless biz guy would love to have.

He seemed to get a conscience around the time he stopped running the show, and seems to be different while not regretting his behavior in that phase.

I think we can decide he was a bit of a cock back then, while still noting he’s done some good work since. We are nuanced enough, right?

The same can happen for maven, crates, gomods, and other.

Yes.

The problem is [intricate dependencies]

Nah. Dependencies are fine. The method of bringing those in and validating them is where the supply-chain risk accumulates. We knew better when we still had mentors.

Only a risk to those using npm; doesn’t matter where they exercise those bad dev procedures. Don’t quit using GitHub if you’re already okay with all the other issues it has.

Sometimes, an app can be an app and not some hosted web service mess.

Remind me of the recent source ownership issue? I thought there was a “thanks for all the community work over a decade and we want to participate; oops now we own it” story.

Appimages and flatpaks frustrate validation and thus break iso27002.

Anything else?