At work, avoiding surprise licensing fees. If you ever have over 250 employees or over 10 million revenue, you owe a subscription.

At the home, easy orchestration with systemd

I missed this! What’s the tool folks are using instead of lutris?

It is! If you want to reduce exposure to this you really have to make sure mdm disallows installing it. The numbers trigger regardless of seats, and then you’re on the hook for the licenses for every employee using it.

So even if as a matter of policy you don’t use docker desktop, it’s possible engineers still do.

the bible foot massage story really is one of the funniest bits in there.

his friend / treasurer of his brand account sees him getting a foot massage from Mary Maggie with all the fancy oils and says “ay Jesus, we could feed a bunch of poor people with the cost of this”. Jesus exhales and says “you’ll always have the poor, I’ll only be here for a bit, let me enjoy this”

guy loved a foot massage

I’m having a (good) moment with qt atm (excluding kirigami), so that’s a relevant thing to point out!

This is still one of the best movie moments. And the image I send people on airdrop if they happen to have it on publicly

460 migrants for 80 million? What’s that, 173k per person? It would cost less money to pay for them to be set up well to, you know: help the economy, contribute to the pension of the aging population.

Hell, just give them the money directly to go somewhere else lmao.

I always find it funny to see calls to “unlearn oop”. It’s a tool, useful in some contexts and not useful in others. At some point industry treated it like a silver bullet, and now people are reacting to it by checks notes treating the hot new paradigm as a silver bullet.

learn oop, learn fp, learn logic programming, learn whatever you want. Also, learn when not to use them.

Teenagers are one of the most underserved demographics in cities. There’s very few if any third places designed for teenagers. Children and adults both have recreational areas designed for them, but teenagers are considered a nuisance almost anywhere.

This is a failure of urban design.

What a shame. I’ve subscribed to ars for years. Their response was disappointing, it doesn’t talk about what happened and what they’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Nothing about how they handled them makes me trust that they won’t do it again.

In this case I think they mean iPhone 9, which I’m still saving my money for

the one thing that made my life better in this regard is: draw/write as you think.

The “poof” still happens, but you have a save state.

Seriously: my notebook is my best tool.

They already posted their response: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

EDIT: it’s the lack of acknowledgement that they didn’t discover it but the contributor had to go in and correct it, how they locked and deleted the article, etc. I was expecting a bit more tbh

I mean, you can see it if you want, there’s MPL code and nightly builds. It’s the best shot at ending the browser monoculture and it’s progressing steadily!

This is very Oban news. Instead of arrested, this man should be studied: it doesn’t seem easy to pick up a seagull? Then attack with it and have it be unharmed?

This man is a wizard

Not really, it’s just more common!

Drop is a contronym, it means its own opposite, and its use as “disappear” or “appear” extends waaay back. Eg. Usage as in Drop a line or drop a letter go as far as the 1700s.

So just a different line in a long history of drops.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/drop_v

Same. It’s what I use, I love that you can also BUY music though. Hard to recommend because their user experience needs a lot of work. (Eg. Can’t even change the language. Since I’m in Germany I have no choice but to use German for the ui)

I’m pretty sure it lies

Scaleway is a good alternative. It’s not as comprehensive as the other clouds (yet) but it has improved a lot and has good customer service.

For most services, their serverless functions, containers, NATS, RDS stuff is enough. They also provide a hosted grafana (they call it cockpit)

Their IAM needs to get more granular, I found that to be the biggest sore point.

i think the overall sentiment of doing your bit is good, but I think this misses some nuance.

When people talk about not focusing on individual action that might not have an effect, often they mean: don’t guilt others for not doing one particular action, or don’t spend all your limited energy litigating actions with small impact.

We all have different constraints, needs and energy levels. Focusing on what the other is doing instead of the systems that cause these problems means that people with disabilities, economic disadvantage, etc. are often scolded for stuff that frankly doesn’t matter.

Oppose systems, support people.