take a look at Alpine Linux – Alpine, Void, and Gentoo all grew out of a similar “Linux plus BSD” attitude – Alpine’s package manager is as fast or faster than Void’s – Alpine is pretty under-represented (but not absent) on the desktop side of things while being rather over-represented in the container, VM, server side of things (meaning the small community tends to be rather admin heavy)

we’ll do all their work for them, they just need to sit back and take credit the next time we shoot ourselves in the foot …

https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/

weedwacking around the bottom of the fencepost

who’s Uncle Roger shouting “Haiya!” in this timeline?

• there are currently two (?) fixes
  • “You memorized your BitLocker key, right?” – physical access to the computer to boot into safe mode, delete a file, and reboot
  • “Thoughts and prayers” – let the computer keep rebooting until it manages (somehow) to grab the fix in the lag or delays between reboots

and phased rollouts …

still read “unattended updates” as “unintended updates” …

“and that the lack of discussion with the community was ‘not in line with our values.’”

GitHub has managed to conflate “git” and “GitHub” in a lot of people’s minds (including people who should know better) – git may be decentralized, but to people who think git is GitHub, it’s meaningless