Not necessarily 'lying', but always 'defending their own interests'. If your country's interests align with them, that's little more than a nice side effect. If not, well, that's that.

I used nsupdate for years and it worked just fine. I remember it being down, one time only, for like five minutes. For a project that depends entirely on donations, the service and availability they provide are just awesome.

I used MEGA for a while and was pretty happy because their free plan is (or was back then) very generous, and they had a BSD command line client. Out of the blue, my account got blocked, and when I logged in, something along these lines appeared on the screen:

'You are using the same password for MEGA and other services. This is a security risk and is not allowed'.

That's one of the shadiest fucking things a cloud company could write. First, not true, second, even if that were true, how would you know it.

On the other hand, most middle managers are unable to actually understand the fact that most employees are motivated more by non-financial stuff. You spend, if you're lucky, A FUCKING THIRD of every workday at work. The whole 'package' must be at least acceptable to the employee or she'll go. It's really that simple.

You might laugh, but the first time I made Lebanese-style yoghurt (the one with mint and cucumbers), I simply added salt in the same amount I would have added sugar for a sweet yoghurt. Needless to say, I couldn't eat it...

I'm not entirely sure that we share the same definition of 'exciting'. Good.bye.

I've been saying this for years: Just switch to Guix.

• An official GNU project;
• Herd instead of systemd;
• Uses Linux Libre and only 100% free software;
• Big, friendly, helpful community;
• Regular meetups, unconferences and other events;
• Config is done in an established language (Scheme) instead of an idiosyncratic DSL.

Reminds me of 'why do Americans eat like they have free universal health care?'

People not realising (or not caring enough about) the irony that more than 80% of open source projects are hosted in a platform which is a) not open source and b) owned by M$ has always been a mistery to me.

Well, now that y'all put it that way, I think it was pretty naive from me to think that these companies, whose business model is basically theft, would honour a lousy robots.txt file...

I had an interesting conversation today with an acquaintance. He has sent his resumé to dozens of companies now. Most of them, but not all, corporate blobs.

He wondered for a while just why the hell no one is even reaching out (he's definitely qualified for most of the positions). He then came to the idea to ask a particular commercial Artificial Stupidity software to parse it. Most of those companies use that software, or at least that's what the vendor says on its website. Turns out, that PoS software gets it all wrong. As in: everything. Positions and companies get mixed up, dates aren't correctly registered, the job descriptions it claims to have understood only remotely match what he wrote. Read: things even the most junior programmer with two weeks of experience would get right.

And it is getting used pretty much by every big firm out there.

Oh and BTW: There is ONE correct answer to the phrase 'using AI is no longer optional' : Fuck you.

Er. 'I am done with Google'. Watch the video on YouTube...