Parisians will never stop complaining about québécois.

Because Paris French has a group keeping it consistent, whereas Quebecois has no regulation and it’s just driven by vapid famewhores making idiot memes popular (just like English).

I worked with someone in Ottawa who was from France. She went to Gatineau (Quebec), and tried to order a cheeseburger. They could not communicate effectively in French and had to both switch to English. The struggle is not imagined.

Also, My high-school French was Quebecois, but my Uni-level French was Caribbean. I cannot speak Quebecois even more than I can barely speak French.

If they kill oracle, will that kill the last Unix after IBM stole the parent OS of Solaris and put it into Novell’s oubliette to reduce competition?

That’s a little disingenuous.

Redhat markets support and professional responses in the form of adjusted builds to CVEs on an enterprise distro of Linux.

I mean, yeah, they absolutely technically profit, and open-source is the root of their classic product, so you’re not wrong there; and I’m not saying so. You’re framing it as if they do nothing but take the source, schlepp it out, and collect protection money and keep it themselves.

This kind of characterization completely sidesteps an important truth about open-source devel: everyone involved with projects like the kernel, for instance, work at a shop like redhat and are paid to do the open source work.

Let me say it again: this corp who is profiting off of open source happens to also be donating killed, paid labour to open source. Look at the leaders of the kernel dev effort and you’ll see google, arm, rh, Intel, and suse, all paying for the labour to keep it going.

Stop characterizing them with language suggesting they’re slimy leeches. They make bad decisions a-plenty, but the biggest thing their involvement provides is continuity and lifestyle security for people maintaining what you hold dear.

Condemn them for their stupid decisions - Ansible, Systemd, IBM buying redhat and accidentally speeding up their enshittification because #ibm, etc. But given how little the foundations support this project (the only one I looked at: I’m only slightly less lazy than the person who didn’t even do this) I suspect their cozy little arrangement where they make bank and you get free software to play with is benefitting you more than you’ll admit.

I love how a red hat product forgets about proper packaging. Pips? Containers? Fuck off. RHEL has an E in it, ya fuckwits.

Find and watch the 2010 Jude Law movie "repo men.

But I hope he can find the period key.

All content is upsetting to someone.

Many commenters would self-censor, at best, toward a “common man” kind of shock tolerance. This doesn’t help those people who need trigger warnings for way more.

I can’t see how to resolve that vast gulf.

discuss about

‘Discuss’ is a transitive verb, and so the ‘about’ is as redundant as saying “ATM Machine”.

And the rest of us boycott in solidarity.

I think it was just the 1980s and 1990s. #SaveTheApostrophes for when they’re required.

1. Code poorly
2. Do that more

Ta-daaaaa, skilled.

The deep water horizon did not show America too concerned about oil in the Gulf. I’m not sure they care where it goes if they can’t have it.

What, have they escalated to blockading Cuba now?

The charge was trumped after they pried into his personal life. Do we ask Donald whom he’s fellatioed, and investigate when we don’t like the answer?

Like, what 8 letters are abbreviated between those two Ns? Are we supposed to know?

People feel that way in the cinema adaptation too. Just sheer anger.

I see it’s running Ansible. That’s an obvious risk.

That may be regional. I’ve never heard those two words together in this area. Fluff used to mean padding or excess in 1970s ad-lingo, if I remember it correctly.

People have been speaking with punctuation since language was invented. If you only now realize that pause is an em-dash, that’s on your schooling. :-p

We can praise the good things while acknowledging the bad things. It’s not either-or.

Consolidating resources to be used for mutual benefit is what government is for. Clannism is not a community.