Dagon @dagon@schelling.pt

we don’t shove rationalists into lockers any more since we all read Worm

I am at least a bit suspicious of HDMI-CEC debugging instructions that begin with: "Draw a large pentagram on the floor with chaulk." On the other hand, this might be the only viable path toward getting the damned equipment running properly. No pun intended, of course.

if you're responsible for a FOSS project, it's now time to consider how you can run your project without relying on the US.

like, using GitHub is fine. Continue using it - I do, too, and there's a lot of value of having projects centralized in one place.

but you **need** to make sure you have a contingency plan. is your repo with all branches and metadata backed up somewhere else? do you own your project's website, discussion forums, or something else that allows you to point your users and contributors to a new place if you need to?

can you continue work on your project if US-big-tech decides your very existence is no longer allowed?

now is the time to take inventory and build backups.

2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware

’Tis once again the season to hold this timeless holiday message close to our hearts.

Computer programming is what happens when you wish “I want to learn something new every day” on the monkey’s paw