Oh, Mastodon is not by any means currently a successful competitor to Twitter.

All it has to do is not be killed off before Twitter finally implodes. Whether that takes a couple of years or a couple of decades, I don't know.

Except nothing can kill off Mastodon. It's like Linux was in the 1990s: seen as a toy, a non-serious competitor to UNIX or Windows. But because nothing could kill it off, that didn't matter, and it eventually grew to dominate the server space and the mobile device space, and is starting to get a toehold on the desktop.

And yes, Linux's desktop market share is currently small, but nothing can kill it off...

Nothing can kill it off is the secret super-power of open software.

Am I the only one who reads "Bluesky" to rhyme with "Russkiy"?

So it looks like Mastodon was the right choice for me after all.

You can wrap all of that in a downloadable shell script if you like. It's way less of a big deal than you make out; our customers never expressed any problems with installing the software.

Really? apt update && apt install the_software is too complicated?

I've stuck with Debian since ~2003. Sure, Debian has had its organizational and interpersonal dramas, but for the most part, Debian developers care about delivering a stable and useful system without any of the enshittification that comes with being a corporation trying to bring in revenue.

You can create your own apt repo, you know. Back when I ran a company distributing software, we created apt repos for various versions of Debian (stable and oldstable, I believe.)

OMG. My OCD kicks in if I have more than about 7 tabs open at once...

Our laws guarantee certain things, but they certainly do not guarantee freedom from discomfort.

If some women are uncomfortable with the thought of a transgender woman using the washroom at the same time as they do, well then... that's what single-occupant washrooms are for. You can accommodate those women by given them single-user spaces.

It'd be an awful shame if the form were to be flooded with jokes, memes, salacious images or other such tomfoolery that prevented the good leaders of Utah from addressing the most pressing problem in the state and stopped them from efficiently policing hallowed state potties.

I have a semi-smart thermostat. I can program in schedules using the built-in keypad, but I don't think it has any IP connectivity or remote control. There is, however, a USB type B port on it. I recall plugging in a laptop to see what showed up (I was hoping for a TTY or something) but it wasn't recognized.

Anyway, it's fine for my needs. I manually adjust the temperature as needed and have never once felt the need to change the temperature remotely.

I bought a book on BASIC when I was 14. I had no access to a computer, so I wrote programs with pen-and-paper and "ran" them in my head. Then at 15, I went into Grade 10 at a high school and had access to a Commodore PET. None of my programs was correct.

That started me on a 30-year career as a software developer, from which I've only recently retired. Good memories.

I'm 100% sure that would not have happened. The core of our product was in fact open-source and used by many people, but we got essentially no support revenue from it.

No, it's not. I've worked for companies that had that model and it's not easy at all. Furthermore, support is labor-intensive with a low profit margin. With proprietary software, once your costs are covered, each additional sale is just about pure profit. It is far easier to have a profitable company selling proprietary software than selling open-source software and support.

Just. Stop. Being. So. Fanatical. You are so desperate to promote run0 you didn't even read my post.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ. I don't give a fucking rat's ass if people want to use sudo or if they want to use run0. I was attempting to point out that there are security advantages to having privileged programs started by a daemon with a controlled environment that an attacker can't manipulate, vs a SUID program whose environment can be manipulated. That's all.

Then you went all ballistic with accusations of fanaticism. God dammit, take a chill pill, for fuck's sake!