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Yet another example of why Apache needs to take OpenOffice behind the barn.

It's rare that a domain name gives me a chuckle but this one did.

> At about 06:30 UTC the following morning, the DDoS escalated and broadened its targets to include other parts of our PHL subnet. In response, our colocation provider null routed our subnet once again. This subnet has been unreachable ever since.

That, mixed with "there's a sucker born every minute".

Yup! https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/issues/374

We've had a couple of big fires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Boston_Fire

Somehow they didn't result in exchanging grids for winding streets.

The back bay, though, is newer than other parts of the city and it's a grid.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

> The product is MIT licensed up until the commit that introduced the rugpull<strike>BUSL license</strike>.

Fixed it for ya.

The Forbes article is better than the BI blogspam: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesunder30team/2023/11/28/ha...

At the same time, there's no logic that says that a good thing should cost money. A walk in the woods is good for you, should we charge for that?

Speaking of cute status codes: https://http.dog/418

> It's like he's visiting from another planet or something.

He's visiting from planet Adderall. If you have $26 in your pocket then you're a tweaker but make it $26B and you're an eccentric genius.

In Boston you speed up so you don't get stuck at the imminent red light.

I can't help but contrast this to the Kubernetes project where stalebots close issues after 90 days of inactivity.

> OpenOffice still clings to life, if barely

It's probably pining for the fjords.

Hopefully we'll be able to sign up and have them send us one for free so we can use it for things other than monitoring our local polling place.

I've recently noticed a new market which Debian is dominating: "official" Docker container images. If you "docker run golang" or "docker run ruby" or "docker run python" (or many of the images tagged as docker official images) then you're running Debian.

Their focus on high-school looks like a thinly-veiled strategy for weeding out anyone who is old enough that they no longer remember the details of their high school education.

So-called "Mother Theresa" should not be used as an example of extreme good. She's more accurately described as an example of extremely good PR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa

> Meet Jinja templates, which make our life much easier. Jinja allows us to use loops, include files (navigation bar, footer, etc.) and much more.

> no description of what Jinja - I for one don't know what either of those are, sorry if i'm an "ignorant normie"

The first mention of Jinja had both a description of what it does for them, and a link that you could have clicked to get more information about it. Guess it's easier to post snarky comments on HN.

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Sorry, this false dichotomy is one of my pet peeves. It should read "Never attribute to something that which is adequately explained by something else."

The more WASP-y an event is, the more likely it's an excuse to get smashed. For example: Princeton reunions, the Head of the Charles Regatta, country club member/guest tournaments, any polo match ever.

My rescue pup does. He lost his mother when he was a few weeks old and was bottle-fed from that point on. Now he suckles on a blanket while kneading it as he falls asleep. Just by coincidence there's a thunderstorm outside right now and he's doing it so it probably has a calming effect.

When I was 10 or 11 years old I won a mai-tai cocktail in a paper airplane contest at Club Med. I used the helicopter from this book!

httpbin is also abandoned - there hasn't been a commit in 5 years despite 50 PR's in the queue.

My boss years ago had to fire an employee when a background check indicated that they were an IRA member. He fired the guy, got in a cab to the airport, and got the next plane out of Ireland back to the US.

I built myself a small special-purpose keyboard with two parts: the main part is a 5-key board to control music players: play/pause, volume control, next/previous. The second (and more fun) part is a big blue arcade button that locks the screen. I worked for a while for a federally-funded R&D center where we could get in trouble if we left a computer unlocked and having a big blue button that I could slap as I stood up from my desk helped me stay in infosec's good graces. Now that I'm WFH I still enjoy it.

We've gone from incandescent bulbs that were shit because a cartel[1] said so, to LED bulbs that are shit because we demand that they be cheaper than they can reasonably be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

As anyone who was living in Rhode Island around 1990 can tell you, credit unions are no more or less safe than banks. It's more about ensuring proper oversight in either case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island_banking_crisis