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The way pull requests and commits work in the OpenJDK repository -- a bot squashes each pull request into one commit: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/31120#issuecomment-51378..…

> Articles for Deletion votes -- original with comments > > Summarizing it, 5/7 for delete have accounts, and 1/4 for keep have accounts. Not along after the final vote, a Wikipedi…

in addition to a relevant xkcd, there is also a Wikipedia article about the phenomenon and a behind-the-scenes list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting#On_Wikipedi..…

Git is more robust than Jira. Git log is accessible offline. Jira descriptions exist only as long as people managing the Jira instance are competent and are migrating the necessary…

if IDE supports converting them into clickable links, then scrolling through a log in its Git integration (kinda like `git log --oneline`) will be a convenient list of links to iss…

The difference is that the Jira ticket is for everyone involved in a project (business analyst, UI designer, QA, support, DBA), while commit messages are written with developers be…

archive.is is one of the domains of archive.today, which used its end users for a DDOS attack on a blog. This caused English Wikipedia to deprecate it with the end goal of blacklis…

According to the original reporter, the bug is still exploitable and that's why the issue on the bug tracker got hidden again. > OH NO I JUST REALIZED THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY PROPERLY…

original comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1rblll1/the_blog_...

Reported by several researchers on Mastodon: - https://infosec.exchange/@hovav/115731038692335809 - https://mastodon.acm.org/@tadd/115730400064282479

A 2022 Technology Connections video explores various ways to boil water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c And a 2020 video about different voltages in the US electrical …

"Uncurled" by Daniel Stenberg, maintainer of curl, is a great resource for FOSS maintainers as well: https://un.curl.dev/

Do chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) mostly banned by the Montreal Protocol count?

A different UI to the mailing list with the whole thread on one page and diff coloring, if anyone is interested: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250319-rfc2203-seqnum-cache-v...

The kernel repository has pretty extensive documentation on how to describe the code changes in the commit messages: - https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#desc.…

> In this second test, the word error rate was 43.75 percent, meaning participants identified a bit more than half of the recorded words correctly. > [...] > “We’re not at the poin…

> One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that. Judiciously using the muting features is require…

Also no search by episode titles.

It's covered a bit at the bottom of the article. Where do you find these exceedingly winnable contests? Sorry, that’s a trade secret — but it’s not any of the standard various cont…

> I remember watching a design documentary years ago Was it Map Men? They mention not forcing the London tube map onto the geographical map. It has two parts: 1. "The Tube Map near…

> We have used IPGs to specify a number of file formats including ZIP, ELF, GIF, PE, and part of PDF For PDF, that's fair. Video "Types of PDF - Computerphile" covers this: https:/…

> Their "Statement" is remarkably aloof for having brought down flights, hospitals, and 911 services. Their lawyers certainly won't allow mentioning such dramatic (is "dramatic" ap…

One of the problems possibly preventing this is that budgets for buying software aren't controlled by people administering the software. Definitely not by people using it.