Posts by spot@social.afront.org
(DIR) Post #ASNNfIfxQKNbyNLloW by spot@social.afront.org
2023-02-05T17:05:16Z
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I had a great FOSDEM, saw most (but sadly, not all) of the folks I was trying to see. Grateful for the friends I spent time with, the talks I saw, the beer I drank, and the waffles I ate. Tomorrow morning, I head home with some new ideas.The great community vibe around FOSDEM is what makes it special. I'm glad it survived.
(DIR) Post #AUIhL0DW2Ql8cXQL6u by spot@social.afront.org
2023-04-03T14:19:38Z
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The five steps for a good open source bug report:1. Is it reproducible? If yes, provide explicit steps. If no, be clear about this fact.2. Is the bug visual in any way? Take a screenshot. Heck, take several.3. Is anything unique about your system/environment? Did you install software yourself? Is there anything in /usr/local or ~ that could possibly be interacting, even if you think it is unlikely?4. Have you tried it on a completely clean installation of the OS/environment? VMs are great for this.5. Did you write all of this down AND put it in the place where the community has documented that it wants bugs reported? Hint, this is almost never discord, slack, or the personal email address of the last committer.
(DIR) Post #AUJogJPOlyll3q3AWG by spot@social.afront.org
2023-04-04T13:07:46Z
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@kuon @agateau They can be, but they should be kept small.
(DIR) Post #AUJos4KeeX8LmERAps by spot@social.afront.org
2023-04-04T19:55:14Z
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@agateau @kuon What a cool writeup (and a dedicated bug reporter)! Thank you for sharing!
(DIR) Post #AXFD4kscvCk1CDrxg0 by spot@social.afront.org
2023-06-30T02:48:03Z
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@maxamillion remember, you don't have to defend your employer, that's not a job responsibility. There are actual people who do get paid for that.
(DIR) Post #AXYoAyJWsW4YCNrHay by spot@social.afront.org
2023-07-10T18:07:29Z
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@cwebber
(DIR) Post #AXf2zxa8yVmNJGL5Tk by spot@social.afront.org
2023-07-13T19:01:59Z
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I feel this way sometimes too.
(DIR) Post #AXwe7RbvewQEYlYgc4 by spot@social.afront.org
2023-07-17T16:46:20Z
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Here's a high quality shot of the "Proprietary Software Disclaimer" from my #FOSSY presentation slides:https://spot.fedorapeople.org/FOSSY-Open_Source_Anti-Patterns.odpNote: I did not list all of the software that AWS (my employer) uses, I just listed the software that _I_ use and mentioned my employer also uses a mix of Proprietary and FOSS software.Omissions from this list:* Networking specifics beyond my laptop (no offense, but I don't want you folks crawling around my network)* Firmware for my monitors (forgot them)
(DIR) Post #AYJnhLVgjL6yhumqEi by spot@social.afront.org
2023-08-02T10:50:08Z
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Hmm, this is roughly the window of time where I updated all the texlive sub package license tags...
(DIR) Post #AZ3gucpZMVzbi06ubQ by spot@social.afront.org
2023-08-23T22:57:57Z
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It feels weird to say this, but my team at AWS (Open Source Strategy & Marketing) is hiring for a PM role!https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2429652/program-manager-for-open-source-community-outreach-and-engagement-aws-open-source-strategy-and-marketingTLDR: This is an Program Manager III (L6) role. Key responsibilities are event management, content and training development, and open source foundation & community engagement work.Plus: you get to work with me... wait come back, that's a good thing.Biggest downside: You gotta work from Seattle or Portland (in the office), but there is relocation assistance.If this is interesting to you, and we know each other, hit me up for a referral. If we don't know each other, apply directly!Reshare appreciated.#opensource #hiring #jobs
(DIR) Post #AcKjmqI2Kou4TB5TuK by spot@social.afront.org
2023-11-29T20:19:45Z
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I will not be bothered that Red Hat has abandoned their brand standards and gives away crappy Red Fedoras as swag. I will not.
(DIR) Post #AhYc84vLgnZRMIzJb6 by spot@social.afront.org
2024-05-04T15:58:47Z
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A little story from the "old days of open source": when I was a solutions architect for Red Hat, we visited a large telecommunications company, who wanted to consider moving their SMS infrastructure from UNIX to Linux, but they had a problem.1/5
(DIR) Post #AhYc86H0fkUXXm8800 by spot@social.afront.org
2024-05-04T15:58:53Z
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In their initial testing, they found Linux to be...too reliable. They didn't want customers to assume that every text message would go through, because they weren't willing to guarantee that, so they asked me if we would make them a custom kernel module.2/5
(DIR) Post #AhYc87eRY6pXok6MAC by spot@social.afront.org
2024-05-04T15:58:59Z
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What that module would do was simple: it would cause the kernel to randomly panic and halt. Not in a configurable way, just off a random seed, Russian Roulette style. They wouldn't know when it was going to happen, but it would eventually happen.3/5
(DIR) Post #AhYc89ItPCmQwU2Aqm by spot@social.afront.org
2024-05-04T15:59:04Z
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Needless to say, I was horrified. I knew that we could have written that, but ignoring the liability concerns, I knew that would be a support nightmare when all the people involved in "Project Footgun" were gone and someone in support was trying to figure out why these machines would randomly 💀4/5
(DIR) Post #AhYc8BHu1rB15zaPaK by spot@social.afront.org
2024-05-04T15:59:10Z
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I may have jokingly suggested they just use the NVIDIA driver, but we declined to build this thing. I'm quite certain that they could have found someone else to make it for them, but I never heard if they did or not.5/5
(DIR) Post #Ao4eIdzoR0KfR4vZPE by spot@social.afront.org
2024-11-15T14:59:55Z
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This is your regular reminder that GitHub stars don't mean anything useful.Celebrate them if you want to, but they're meaningless.
(DIR) Post #Ao4eIgNdZOZupY5coq by spot@social.afront.org
2024-11-15T16:56:44Z
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@brian well that's a terrible bar for entry. You can actually buy GH stars.
(DIR) Post #AqeRHJJxTwxFybKGUC by spot@social.afront.org
2025-01-29T11:35:06Z
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@brettk @timnitGebru I'm fighting a near-endless fight to ensure that my employer never calls those things "open source". Sometimes it slips past me, but I catch a lot of them.
(DIR) Post #AyKzPDEL3QhrEBz7Cq by spot@social.afront.org
2025-09-18T14:18:08Z
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#fedora friends, I'm putting out an advanced call for reviewers who are willing to help do package reviews for the newly split out texlive packages (moving from one unholy unmaintainable nightmare to 52 separate packages based mostly on collection groupings). This means it will be easier to update TeXLive and updates won't require every tex component to rebuild (just ones within the same collection/scheme).Lemme know if you're interested in helping to review.