CallMeAl (Not AI)

There is no such thing as maintenance free hosting. There is just saving it all up for the eventual outage.

yes but usually at the family and friends distribution level

Send them a nice card with a personal note of thanks

First off, only a subset of cursive systems connect all letters. These are called Continuous Cursive. Second, many cursive writing systems do include numbers.

I think it’s a cute way to express that what I do is pretty neat and also that I’m a real human being, not some corporate robot

Might want to be careful with that. Lately a lot of people see emoji in writing where you wouldn’t typically expect it to be a sign of ChatGPT writing.

I agree with the idea of debloating and hardening your systems.

It helps to have some context as the approach I would take depends on what kind of system I’m running. I think its also good to identify your priorities to hone your approach.

When I want stability, fast security updates, minimal install size, I usually use Alpine which indeed uses the lighter busybox bin/sh instead of bash.

When it comes to my workstation shell I’m more focused on utility than size. So bash or zsh or fish, or whatever you find the most useful, makes sense to use.

Frtiz Super Zero

I don’t think you can owe somebody for something you didn’t ask for

Yes, 100 projects from the Fat Head would make sense.

Do you have any way to establish that these 100 more often come from the Long Tail?

If an app includes 50 well-known big projects and 1000 small projects, the sum result can still be that small projects make up for a large fraction of the code.

I understand your point that this is possible. It is an assumption to assume it is most likely the case however.

I would expect the Fat Head of most used open source projects to make up the vast majority of the open source code included in apps. It is not a common practice to include 1000 small projects into a code base for an app, or even 100.

Is it not reasonable then to expect that the 77% of app code from open source is because the most popular app building blocks are open source? Aren’t the popular open source languages, frameworks, and databases are themselves big enough to exceed the number lines of internally written code for the app business logic most of the time?

For example, if I make a “small” electron app its going to be 90% or more open source because the electron base is so large already.

The insight that a majority of open source projects are small contributions by hobby developers, and that it is their summed joint effort what matters, is very interesting.

The vast majority of open source projects are by hobby developers but how much of those projects make up the 77% of the open source included in apps mentioned in the study?

The author assumes an even distribution but I challenge that.

The most popular (Top listed by Github, Gitlab, etc) open source languages (python, typescript, etc), frameworks (rails, flutter, react, etc), and databases (postgres, mongo, redis etc) are all either directly corporately funded (Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc) and/or have robust foundations and sustainability plans.

I would expect these to make up the vast majority of the open source code in modern apps.

Its a culture issue. Sadly, a lot of places have a very body shaming culture and raise people to be ashamed of their own bodies being seen. In my experience, cultures that include nude sauna do not have this kind of body shaming.

Imagine if you moved to a new country. When you got there you found that everyone in town shaves off their right eyebrow. They shame anyone who doesn’t. If you were raised from birth to feel that having a right eyebrow is shameful, then you would also feel shame at not shaving yours.

The good news is that you can get over body shame. Spend enough time around people who don’t practice such shame and eventually you get used to it and feel fine. Look at the complete chill at which that family does nude sauna. You are not different than them other than some of the ideas you were raised. You can change your mind if you want to.

My own solution is getting help from a trusted family member

What does “optimized for desktop use over Tor” mean? Please explain the optimizations.

I mostly look at people’s mouths when they speak. Is that weird?

They help me a lot but they aren’t a magic cure.

we had it back in the day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZipSlack

People want to believe because they wish badly for the money. Back in the late 90s my friends and I keep seeing papers advertising a guarenteed money making system for only $2.

Finallt one of my friends could not resist and ordered it.

He got instructions to put signs all over offering the money making system for $2.

“As you paid for it you can see that it works.”

Tipping when they visit places where it isn’t normal or expexted.

If you ask me, you are better off focusing on monitoring, fast detection, and auto-healing in a homelab rather than High Availability. I use an ancient tool called monit and newer tools like uptime kuma for this. Detection and restart is easier than having 2 of everything.