Paul Wilde
Hello - @paul@notnull.space here - giving #littleFedi a go!
Husband
Dog owner
Cat owner (multiple)
FOSS Enthusiast
IT Professional
Coffee, no milk, no sugar
I use #Alpine, by the way...
(I did use #Arch, but I changed. I just still wanted the "by the way" bit
I make no apologies for using H2G2 puns. We apologise for the inconvenience.
@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online @davidgerard@circumstances.run @typhlosion@denden.world
Not bad!
I think I'd like to get away from the "un-" prefix to be honest. Otherwise it could be read as "free from the burden of humans" or to that effect.
Thought about "Unique" but that feels like limiting.
@davidgerard@circumstances.run @skjeggtroll@mastodon.online @typhlosion@denden.world
OSS is dead.
I vote for a new subsection of software - Libre and Unburdened Software by Humans, or LUSH
(Happy to replace "Unburdened" with another word... It's the only one I could fit for now 😄)
@stux@mstdn.social the best test is to say - "when you say 'AI', what is it you actually mean?"
And then see them panic as their brain searches for an answer they don't have as they're only listening to the snakeoil salesperson
@erchache2000@neopaquita.es I find the "Linux distribution" results interesting
Debian and Ubuntu being the clear winners but I'd love to see a drill down within that as I suspect there's a high chance Debian or Ubuntu is just the base system on which many containers run which are actually Alpine.
2026 Self-Host User Survey Results
https://selfh.st/survey/2026-results/?ref=self-host-weekly-newsletter
@sotolf@polymaths.social opportunity to send @robinince@mastodon.social 's poem "Not All Men"
https://thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/why-can-we-be-such-terrible-allies
(At the bottom of the page)
Videos of him performing it also exist
@sotolf@polymaths.social Well... dealing with Exchange servers is also absolute hell. I know the pain well!
Even so, they would be working right now!
Fortunately my postfix mail server is just happily holding on to messages... getting timeout and temporary server errors back from 365 when sending to them, but otherwise chugging away quite happily
@sotolf@polymaths.social I was saying to somebody today "there will be some business that has just migrated from on premises and now 365 is out" 🤣
Many clients still experiencing issues, but when I do manage to get some output from the message trace is does just appear things are very slow - an email I sent to them an 1.5 hours ago is only just showing up in their logs.
@jperkin@mastodon.social why document something succinctly in a paragraph or two when you can document it in a full 20 page very wordy short story?!
"65% would allow AI-generated documentation with human review." suggests to me that 65% of FreeBSD developers have not had to suffer AI-generated documentation.
This week has been a busy week.
I think I've dealt with a "AI coded update broke a piece of software" issue a couple of times every day.
Things are falling apart. To anybody using AI: I don't care how you justify it, you are killing software.
@coreysnipes@hachyderm.io brings back the old [supposed] "facebook employees can't enter facebook premises because facebook is down" memories
Good times, good times.
you know you've screwed up when your outage gets a live blog with
radio coverage on the BBC
(the 5 Live guys just rambling and chatting like they do)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq5y10ge3dp3t
to be clear: we don't KNOW this is a vibe outage. OTOH by crikey it
smells like one.
@davidgerard@circumstances.run @ZILtoid1991@mastodon.gamedev.place "just one more model, bro. one more model and things will work great."
@davidgerard@circumstances.run I'd love the MS one if there's evidence of vibe, but probably best to go Humble Bundle for now
MS, if it comes out in the future was vibe, we'll all remember the time they were out for hours and hours so you can just do it then
Astute:
@tomw@mastodon.social
Since LLMs became widespread, cloud outages have increased and, most tellingly, taken much longer to fix.
If you don't know the code then finding the bug must be a real needle in a haystack.
I imagine the entire public sector has ground to a halt in the UK today, because they've all bought into using the same IT provider over which they have no control. This is something we really need local control over, but as we have no IT (or even science, bar one minister) expertise in government it probably won't happen.
Also, a company from an 'allied' country has probably caused more economic disruption than any hostile state...