Arch and derivatives expect you to check the news file before upgrading, but do not integrate this into the upgrade tool. I have not personally ran into a problem this way, but it’s frustrating that pacman doesn’t have any capability to do this if you’re expected to.

I think that’s pretty good insight. In some ways, the JVM served the role that things like Docker does today. That’s a good way of looking at it

Gosh. I remember working with this back in 2019 and earlier. Our legacy products ran on it. I remember a new service we made (before Spring Boot really took off) used TomCat. It was so much easier to mess with. I asked why we don’t use that for our main product. Imagine my surprise when they said we actually used to.

I’m sure they had their reasons, I was a younger dev at the time and didn’t have insight into why they changed it. But still. Everything is so simple now. Java to run your jar. Your jar has your server built in. Done. And that’s not even including containerization.

I do miss Jenkins though. GitHub Actions seems to be the new hotness. Maybe I just don’t have the muscle memory yet, but it can be annoying.

I’ve been dabbling for years, but my old computer couldn’t run Windows 11. That delay made me wait long enough to see all the recall shit, so my new computer has been Linux since day 1, no dual boot.

To give the government a 50% stake. I know the government is the public in some sense, but still.

And as we all know, they’re going to say that not using a Genuine™ Android® Operating System is extremely suspicious.

Depends on what they’re selling. If it’s not a necessity and more of a luxury then people will buy a lot less when prices rise a lot. They’re losing it because people are buying less of their products, not because the company is paying the tariff.

There is pacman + aur and then there is flatpak.

This is sort of like asking “which fruit juice do you use, an acme apple juicer or a blamco orange juicer.” If I need a flatpak, I use flatpak. Sometimes things only have flatpaks and aren’t on the AUR.

If it’s on both, nowadays I typically prefer the non-flatpak version, but that’s just sort of vibe based, I don’t really have a good reason. I think I ran into a few (very minor) problems with flatpaks (that were probably easy to fix) that I didn’t have with the non-flatpak version and that skewed me in that direction.

Now it’s just another Chromium.

I don’t have any experience with Google Fiber, but I was bummed when Google Domains got sold off, I forgot to whom. Google Domains was so simple. No nonsense.

What’s the new instance? I must have missed it.

RIP lemmynsfw.

This is why we should use things like GPL.

We should get ahead of the curve by making Markcoin then. Let’s do halfsies on an ICO.

Yeah, in the book of Revelation in the Bible as a sign of the end times followers of Satan will have a visible mark on them. Many evangelical Christian conspiracy theorists believe that in a literal sense. Paired with many conservatives also not wanting the government to be able to track them, a national ID system (as opposed to state IDs) has never really gain traction.

You can read more about this here if you’re interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast#Mark_of_the_beast

Some fundamentalist Christian groups, as well as various Christian writers in other traditions, interpret the mark as a requirement for all commerce to mean that the mark might actually be an object in the right hand or forehead with the function of a credit card, such as RFID microchip implants.[73] Some of these groups believe the implantation of chips may be the imprinting of the mark of the beast, prophesied to be a requirement for all trade and a precursor to God’s wrath.[74][75] Similar objections were raised about barcodes upon their introduction.[76]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some groups associated COVID-19 vaccines and mask wearing with the mark of the beast, or that it was a microchip in the vaccine.[77] Some religious leaders spoke out against this as a misinterpretation of Revelation 13:16-18.[78] Medical institutions such as Hennepin County Medical Center noted this in their fact sheets about the vaccine.[79] A similar version was spread by Marjorie Taylor Greene, who referred to vaccine passports as being the mark of the beast.[80]

The same group that pushes for voter ID laws refuses to implement a national ID system because they’re afraid of the mark of the beast.

That joke is NSFW, please present facial verification and ID now or you will be banned and reported to the authorities!

One of my Discord friends has a stalker and can’t get anything but automated messages.

Guilded went to Roblox-only in 2025. I’d never heard of it until someone else mentioned it as an alternative.

☝️🤓 Discord said they’re going to delete the data!