K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@trinsec it sounds like you're experiencing chromatic aberration. Near the edges of your lenses the front and back surfaces aren't parallel, so the lenses act like prisms around the rim, separating colours of light. Shorter (bluer) wavelengths get moved further to the centre of the lens (for nearsighted wearers at least).

It took me a long time to get used to that as my prescription increased.

@kreyren http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8106 is an Open Source Definition author's statement on the controversy.

It appears I slightly misremembered the details - the ban actually targetted companies who did business with border services in a sort of second-order boycott, not the government itself.

@kreyren There was similar controversy during the Trump presidency, regarding the use of free software by the U.S. border services. I'm not sure how deeply split the "free software" and "open source" camps are, but the open source camp concluded that the 5th criterion of the OSD would not be satisfied by any licence banning that agency's use of the software. I imagine the same reasoning applies to bans on Russia's use equally.

@Acer

"upper limit" as a noun
"set an upper limit" as a verb

So the first link says the 45min/wk rule *sets an upper limit* of 1h30 for the retrospective of a two-week sprint, and the second advocates an *upper limit* of three bugs per developer.

@lurker anything in particular I should be looking forward to with the 5.16 series?

@freemo thank you!

@freemo could you please check in on QOTO's infrastructure when you get a chance? I'm seeing symptoms of federation failing in both Mastodon (missing posts from last night) and Matrix (can't join foreign channels).

@kreyren oops, never mind. I looked more closely and I think it's actually Sweden. Bosnia's only a candidate, so it'd be surprising to see her flag there. Would be easier on all concerned if they hung the flags vertically haha

@kreyren I think that's Bosnia

@Placholdr so way back in the bad old days, there was "the IRC network" in the way we have "the fediverse". Now there are many - EFnet, Undernet, etc. Each of these comprises multiple distinct servers forwarding messages among themselves, but there's no longer a single unified network, just these smaller fragments. Something like that nearly happened to the Fediverse with the "isolate Gab" movement a couple years ago, but it didn't amount to a complete split.

@Placholdr It'd be similar to leaving Twitter for the Fediverse. IRC and XMPP have the advantage that the protocol's open, so you can use whatever client you prefer, and XMPP is also federated (originally IRC was too, but today it's fragmented) so you can join whatever instance you prefer.

They also have similar downsides. It's a communication tool, so there's little utility in it if the people with whom you want to communicate refuse to switch from Twitter/Discord. You'll also find more bugs in the software than you would with the proprietary alternative, unfortunately.

@Acer you should be aware that this was controversial until surprisingly recently!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-contact-a-verb

@realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world @realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city It sounds basically like what happened with Georgia's Abkhazia/South Ossetia regions in 2008.

@realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world @realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city sort of. Per CBC, Russia recognised Luhansk and Donetsk breakaway regions as independent countries today. So from the Russian point of view, they're not invading Ukraine itself, they're just expelling the Ukrainian military from the portions of L+D that it currently occupies.

@freemo @trinsec mainly the problem is that the alphabet of legal characters is too small, especially relative to the length of each guess. 10 digits + 4 operations = 14 characters in the alphabet, versus 7 characters in a guess not counting the mandatory equals sign, lets you cover every possible character in your first two guesses. Yeah, you have to then figure out the permutation and watch out for duplicated characters, but it's not enough to make life difficult in the face of all the information you have by that point.

Satisfaction is... finding the sweet spot in your parallelised code parameters, so that it hovers at about 95% of CPU time, and the machine stays responsive for daily use

@aral What does it mean to give individuals, not corporations, the means of communication? People own their cell phones, but corporations own the networks. Even if people own their servers, the ISPs will continue to own the infrastructure linking your server to my client. Encryption may mitigate the privacy risks but you're still paying rent to deliver your content to me.

On top of that, the idea that this URL corresponds to this IP address, corresponds to this physical machine, is oversimplified in the modern web. A practical consequence is that, if you have your own server, you're at a performance disadvantage compared to a competitor who can serve clients from a local node in a CDN, even if he has to rent that network from a corporation.

@freemo what does the temperature vs depth profile look like? You don't appear to be dressed as if you expected a steep gradient.