@djm While I agree that the Postel / RFC robustness principle, especially as widely understood today, is largely the wrong thing to do in protocols in 2023, things were different in the early Internet and early web. Then the problem was not "how do I do this networking thing really well", but "how do I and others do this at all so that it gets wide use?". The principle mattered more back then. Without it, we might not have the Internet at all today. We might only have closed gardens.

@neil @pwaring I notice that for many people, an important reason to have a blog is to earn money. Medium and Substack are based on this idea, and at least they are not surveillance based advertising.

I can sympathize with people wanting to earn some or all of their living by writing on the Internet.

As a read, I do not like the experience of having to click away popups to be able to read.

I have written something with a fountain pen and then been able to read it later. This feels like an achievement.

"Open source" has an actual definition. The definition is important. If you relax or ignore the definition, the term becomes meaningless.

A lot of people call things "open source" that aren't. Some are just lazy. When corporations do it, especially very large tech corporations like Meta, it's an attempt to make the term "open source" meaningless.

@clacke @joeyh @interpeer Yup. https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/become_ungoogleable/

@joeyh the commenters on the orange site really don't like you combating Google, do they?

The Docker corporation deleting open source organizations from their free-of-charge service, the Docker Hub, is an example of the maxim "centralized systems are evil or vulnerable".

In this case, the vulnerability is relying on a centralized system's willingness to continue to provide a service for free. Building on top of that was always risky.

What other centralized systems are you relying on, ones that might go away at any point?

@trishalynn As a Finnish native speaker...

If the choices are "no reply" and "machine translation reply", the latter is preferable.

"Machine translation" loses to "broken Finnish by human". Humans don't produce as much of an uncanny valley horror effect.

"Machine translation" also loses to "not Finnish".

Added my entire email archive to my #Obnam backups. About 1.5 million files. An incremental backup without much changes is now a little slow: 424 seconds. I foresee some performance work in my future.

@msh @o0karen0o At my previous job, we use gmail, using the employer's own domain. All mail was sent via gmail, using authentication, even if sometimes not via the web interface.

I had one co-worker whose emails usually, but not always, ended up in my spam folder, regardless of their content. Never did figure out why.

One doesn't know if one's thing works, until it's done it's thing.

Specifically, it's Saturday morning, so I trigger all my CI jobs to make sure they still work, and that my CI still works.

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2022/01/01/v-i/

4min45s from starting an install, with full disk encryption, via reboot, until I'm logged in via SSH. On a Thinkpad X220 with a SATA SSD for storage. Not bad.

Happy new year. I don't know about you, but I've been using Linux as the sole operating system on my personal desktop and laptop computers since 1992, so this promises to yet year 30 of Linux on the desktop for me.

@jgoerzen The early years were an exciting time, to be sure.