On the 6th of November, 2019, I made a comment on Twitter: People will continue to be maimed and killed by reckless development practices until such a time that regulators wake up and realise the entire IT industry is something that needs to be regulated to an inch of their lives.— 🌈 A. Wilcox 🌈 … Continue reading Reckless Software Development Must End
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Cascading failures (or, why I did nothing this weekend)
This is a fun one. To set the scene and provide information in temporal order, my Talos and WD Black NVMe device have never "gotten along" well. Frequently, the device would fail to train for whatever reason. Calling reboot from a Petitboot shell with fast-reset enabled was enough to fix this, so I didn't think … Continue reading Cascading failures (or, why I did nothing this weekend)
Libre software funding and market abuse
I've just read a troubling article from the developer of Aether. What troubles me is not so much the differences we have, which likely stems from being in vastly different segments of libre software (he's doing social media, and I'm in low-level systems). What troubles me is that he claims that it is an economic … Continue reading Libre software funding and market abuse
Mozilla finally disavows Discord
mhoye's new blog post on the future of Mozilla community chat came out last week. He notes about Discord that "their active hostility towards interoperability and alternative clients has disqualified them as a community platform." I am very thankful that the Mozilla brass have realised this, as I pointed out in an earlier installment. Kudos … Continue reading Mozilla finally disavows Discord
