archive.today and archive.ph (also .is, .md, .fo, .li, .vn) are DDOSing a blogger (pic) who investigated them. They could also be Russian assets (js from mail[.]ru).

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  • Mailing lists are used for submitting patches

    Inline? That seems wrong. Or as .patch files, i.e. attachments? Then the syntax highlighting becomes a task for whatever app opens that file.

    BTW Evolution has markdown support.

    I honestly don’t understand your complaints about the visuals. It’s plain text, sometimes HTML. It’s readable. It brings the info across. You can reply, personally or to the list. What do you want, banners? Google Fonts? Big friendly green buttons? A social-media-fication of your programming mailing list?

    The answer to what you’re asking for / complaining about boils down to “don’t use mailing lists if your community requires that amount of interactiveness and coding gamification”.

















  • I get it, esp. in a professional environment.

    But “Schrödinger’s data” rubs me the wrong way. The point OOP’s making is not a question of whether the data is there or not, it’s a question of whether you can restore a botched system with a few commands and in a realistic amount of time.

    Case in point: I (private person, private system) never needed to fully restore, knock on wood. But the data is there - I have (manually) restored single files or directories on a few occasions.


  • Yeah we’re going to see much more of this moving forward. Yesterday i installed Linux for a friend and they asked about fixing problems. I told them to always look at the date & compatibility when they search for solutions. They then volunteered: “and I guess I can always ask ChatGPT, it’s pretty good with these things”. I grunted non-committally.