Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 25, 2023

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• Technology and Free Software

  • No Change Friday

    Sysadmins (or whatever it is they are called these days) may push for no changes to production on various days, Friday for example. There is plenty else to do meanwhile. Some developers instead push for all changes all the time. This probably depends where one is on the "change nothing, ever" to "move fast and break things" line and may also depend on who is going to be woken up at two in the morning to do triage (a sysadmin, usually). There will be variance by industry: an experimental lab may differ from a bank as to what regulations apply, when changes can be made in production, etc.

  • Whoooooo are you... who who .. who who?

    Are all of you essentially non-player characters in my dream/simulation?

    Or is it that all of you *and* "I" are essentially NPC's in <can't be said>'s dream/simulation?

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Twitter's Getting Worse and I'm Saying My Goodbyes, Again

      Yesterday, completing what felt like a weekend whim by its owner, Twitter rebranded to X. I refuse to call the new service X, in the same way that the stadium the Blue Jays play at will always be the SkyDome, and not the Rogers Centre: the people in power can change an official name, but you don't have to go along with it. You can call things whatever you want.

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