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Jonathan Corbet

For morbid reasons of my own I keep an eye on the Apache OpenOffice project's regular reports to the ASF board:

https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/OpenOffice.html

As is normal, the September report says that all is great with the project - community health is always "improving". And they are clearly on top of upcoming problems: "Python 2 is unmaintained. We have in the development tree the external python3 support. Internal python 3 support is difficult. We are checking alternatives." They plan to fix it in "the next major release". The project hasn't made a major release in ten years, so I wouldn't hold my breath...

(OK, so I'm still clearly in a snarky mode, sorry.)
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Perhaps I am the only one out there using the Python GnuCash bindings to load and manage accounting data, but just in case: the GnuCash 5.9 release has a bug that completely wipes out an accounting file when opened in a Python program. It's a good way to get an extreme adrenaline burst, but I really don't recommend it otherwise.

GnuCash fixed this upstream on October 26, but has not made a release with the fix, so my 5.9 Fedora version showed the bug in all its glory. I've submitted a bug there (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2323303), hopefully they will include the fix soon. Meanwhile, I strongly recommend that anybody with GnuCash 5.9 installed be extra careful.
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In Japan even the cannibals are polite...I guess...?
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RIP Phil Lesh

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/1227749378/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-dies

He brought a lot of joy to a lot of people and will be deeply missed.
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Filled out my ballot over the weekend — a rather time-consuming task in Colorado, as we have a lot of things to vote.

Now I just have to endure a few more weeks while the rest of the country catches up. And hope I don't find myself living in a fascist nation...
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Reply to @Greg@social.coop
@Greg The "don't F*** with paste" extension is the droid you're looking for
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So I am not quite sure what to make of this article. It is nice to see attention paid to documentation... but this is really about the man pages, and somehow the problem is Linus's fault...? The idea that we can solve it with some sort of editorial structure in the "post-Torvalds era" seems ... weird.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Linux-No-money-for-documentation-9978257.html
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Reply to @djc@hachyderm.io
@djc That's what I would recommend, yes. Thanks.
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Reply to @djc@hachyderm.io
@djc Thanks for the heads-up. We were actually approached by the person placing those links there and asked for our thoughts; for the time being, we told them they could continue. The hope, of course, is that these links will help to bring in folks from the Rust community as subscribers — time will tell.
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Nature's way of telling you you're hanging out in the wrong tree: https://coloradosun.com/2024/10/09/eagle-nest-lightning-strike-boulder-county/
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Reply to @kernellogger@fosstodon.org
@kernellogger @LWN That guy in the red sweater sure knows how to stand out in a crowd :)
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"LWN is basically what ChatGPT summarization as advertised itself to be, except it's actually good and coherent and useful."

— HN commenter saagarjha https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643325

Nice to know we haven't been overtaken quite yet :)
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So here I am in an airline lounge in Munich when suddenly everybody's phone starts simultaneously screaming bloody murder. I'm trying to decrypt the flashing red message in German, wondering if I have time to say goodbye to my family before whatever apocalypse is coming hits. Eventually I find the second version in English... It's national alert test day. I guess I can get another coffee after all.
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Reply to @vegard@mastodon.social
@vegard @kernellogger @linuxplumbersconf The role of the TAB has shifted over the years, but its purpose has *always* been to serve the community. It was originally created, all of those years ago, to try to better align OSDL with how the community worked.

The best thing the current TAB does, IMO, is to serve as a place for maintainers with a certain amount of community influence to discuss and head off problems before they explode.
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Reply to @schicho@infosec.exchange
@schicho @kernellogger The conventional wisdom since forever has been that *no* general-purpose operating-system kernel can provide realtime response (meaning that the highest-priority process is guaranteed to run within a defined maximum latency). The realtime preemption folks, after 20 years of work, have achieved that, at least if you are running on the right hardware. It is an impressive accomplishment
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@thomasmey I do try to at least glance at every comment posted to the site — my punishment for having ever implemented comments in the first place. I just put an answer to your question there.
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Reply to @ben@werd.social
@ben I, too, have a Kobo and am *mostly* happy with it. The device (a Libra) works nicely, is reasonably open (you can put apps like KOReader on it, for example), and it works well with Calibre, easily enabling all of the useful things that a suitably extended Calibre can do for you.

My biggest complaint is that, after a few years, the battery is failing, and the device was not made with repairs in mind. The new Libra they offer now claims to have addressed that, making battery repairs feasible.
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Reply to @whynothugo@fosstodon.org
@whynothugo There are plenty of developers who write documentation, don't get me wrong; some of them work quite hard at it. But that is usually not what their employers are paying them to do.
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I have often complained that, even though thousands of developers are paid to work on the Linux kernel, there is not a single person whose job it is to write documentation for the kernel. The problem is wider than that, though: Alejandro Colomar, who has been maintaining the man pages collection for the last four years, can no longer afford to do it for free.

https://lwn.net/ml/all/4d7tq6a7febsoru3wjium4ekttuw2ouocv6jstdkthnacmzr6x@f2zfbe5hs7h5
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Reply to @lina@vt.social
@lina As far as I can tell, you do have an LWN subscription. I definitely encourage you to add your point of view there.

This was one of those articles where the best I can hope for is that everybody is equally mad at me... can I go write about memory tiering now?
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