Unaware Mastodoners do unwittingly post to Lemmy communities sometimes, assuming they’re talking to official representatives of this, that, or the other. It’s frustrating for all parties.

However it was involved in some controversies where the dev team showed themselves biased

This is meaningless without specifying what bias.

This reminded me of the venerable (27 years young!) halfbakery.

The most reliable way to know is to run Mint on a USB stick and try it.

Whatever you want to call it, it’s distinct from what voyager is used for.

lemmy.ml is only a testbed insomuch as release candidates are deployed there. It’s not used for beta testing.

I once had a conversation with developers of the AWS platform about how it was Turing complete without using any actually billable features.

Hardly anyone but Ubuntu users use snap, because snap was created by Ubuntu, and their efforts to get other distros to adopt it never gained traction. Debian users are especially uninterested in using snap, and some people on Debian are ex-Ubuntu users who switched because they didn’t like snap.

The site has a few variant domains, unsure why

Because their domains keep getting blocked, because corporate media don’t like paywall bypasses, and they have deep pockets.

alias is for aliasing commands. If you want to “alias“ arguments, use shell/environment variables.

$ docs=/media/docs
$ cd $docs

The recent attack didn’t have to do with cryptographic signatures. It was a supply chain worm, with GitHub Actions being the vector. https://snyk.io/blog/tanstack-npm-packages-compromised/

There are ten thousand Linux distributions—some of which are shit—and only one FreeBSD.

I was just now years old when I learned that mg (AKA MicroGnuEmacs) comes with OpenBSD & MacOS.

• https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/mg
• https://github.com/hboetes/mg

Mostly no. That’s more Hollywood fantasy than real life.

My body is ready for 1.0.

How to smuggle all three volumes of Das Kapital into prison with just thirty dollars, a condom, and some lube.

I blame Sun/Java for popularizing this. I give find a pass due to its age.