Kevin P. Fleming @kevin@km6g.us

Do I need to have played Linux 1–5 in order to understand Linux 6

OH: “… when we started working on the data ingest pipeline, we found out he’d been keeping all his lab data in PowerPoint.”

“what”

“Years of it.”

“… I don’t even know what you do for a living, it hurt to be standing next to you when you said that.”

Finally wrote a post that's been stewing for a while: What You Miss By Only Checking GitHub

Many researchers, entrepreneurs, open source sustainability commentators, et al. assume that GitHub activity is a reasonable proxy for FLOSS as a whole. It's not.

https://harihareswara.net/posts/2022/what-you-miss-by-only-checking-github/

Goes over some examples, a marketing graphic that made my eyebrows go up, research about how unrepresentative GitHub can be, and some tools to try.

#fosdem2023

"While there are still a lot of open questions, we are aiming for a physical FOSDEM 2023. It's both exciting and scary."

https://fosdem.org/2022/news/2022-09-14-fosdem-2023-dates

I finished a 5 part series on how to run an e-mail server in 2022 with all the DKIM/SPF/DMARC stuff working. It's not a simple HOWTO series, but it does explain all the moving parts. So if you're interested to learn a bit about modern e-mail - you're welcome! Starts here: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/

Come work for OSI! We have a vacancy for someone to facilitate the ClearlyDefined project.
https://blog.opensource.org/now-hiring-community-manager-for-clearlydefined-project/

what a headline.

LUNC has "pumped 70%" from around $0.00009 to $0.00015.... after plunging to fractions of a cent from $80–90 in May

Heads up! @plex data breach. I always recommend @jellyfin for your media streaming.

A quick google search says it would take a monk about 15 months to copy the Bible, so if you could average two bibles per day with a Gutenberg press, that would be about 1.5 kilomonks.

another quick plug for those of you checking twitter as you start your week:

i've launched a patreon and a newsletter! https://patreon.com/mollywhite

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/issue-0/ has more, and some exciting things coming up.

thanks so much for your support 💙

Hot take: consumer computing devices should automatically maintain enough free space to perform updates.

Curious what other social media platforms people on the fedi use.

How do you compare to the recent Pew Research?

apple, selling a computer: “your next computer, isn’t a computer (picture of an ipad)”

yes it is, you jerks