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Classic #xkcd927 New #Zigbee switch uses "hold" instead of "long" to indicate a long press :-)

Classic #xkcd927 New #Zigbee switch uses "hold" instead of "long" to indicate a long press :-)

#SemVer! #DateVer! #MonotonicVer!

There are lots of #options, so following rule 927, I hereby propose my own #alternative.

#SpiralVer!

v. 1
v. j1
v. -1
v. -j1
v. 2
v. j2
[...]

One problem is that minor releases require doing #trigonometry.

#XKCD927 #standards #versioning #mathematics #complex #ComplexNumbers #engineering #trigonometry #sin #cosin

#SemVer! #DateVer! #MonotonicVer!

There are lots of #options, so following rule 927, I hereby propose my own #alternative.

#SpiralVer!

v. 1
v. j1
v. -1
v. -j1
v. 2
v. j2
[...]

One problem is that minor releases require doing #trigonometry.

#XKCD927 #standards #versioning #mathematics #complex #ComplexNumbers #engineering #trigonometry #sin #cosin

How about a configuration format that is actually format agnostic? Something like this:

#! /bin/env fancy-file-format
26m2zKqSa... (some binary data)

Then you just run it like that 🤯

# Print data as JSON
./config.fff --format json

# Write data from YAML
echo "so = true" | ./config.fff --format yaml

# Edit data as temporary TOML file
./config.fff --format toml --edit

#config #xkcd927

@gurubert @stdevel What's now again Longhorn storage... what an utter mess that every distribution things it needs another storage...
#xkcd927

@gurubert @stdevel What's now again Longhorn storage... what an utter mess that every distribution things it needs another storage...
#xkcd927

Installing FOSS apps on your phone sometimes certainly feels like an eternal XKCD 927 purgatory.

- Apps by GrapheneOS for some GrapheneOS apps (and assorted ✨other✨ apps.
- Obtainium for installing apps directly from source/repos.
- Neo Store for installing apps who cannot be arsed to have .apk files in their repos (#AntennaPod), yet without dealing with the typical F-Droid shenanigans.
- Accrescent, because hell, why not! The more, the merrier!
- And, of course, Google Play Store for the corporate goblins.

#FOSS #GrapheneOS #Obtainium #NeoStore #FDroid #Accrescent #GooglePlayStore #XKCD #XKCD927

Installing FOSS apps on your phone sometimes certainly feels like an eternal XKCD 927 purgatory.

- Apps by GrapheneOS for some GrapheneOS apps (and assorted ✨other✨ apps).
- Obtainium for installing apps directly from source/repos.
- Neo Store for installing apps who cannot be arsed to have .apk files in their repos (#AntennaPod), yet without dealing with the typical F-Droid shenanigans.
- Accrescent, because hell, why not! The more, the merrier!
- And, of course, Google Play Store for the corporate goblins.

#FOSS #GrapheneOS #Obtainium #NeoStore #FDroid #Accrescent #GooglePlayStore #XKCD #XKCD927

"[The standard] calls for a total of 12 scales [...]: types A, B, C, D, DO, E, M, O, OO, OOO, OOO-S, and R."

This is the kind of thing that makes non-engineers look sideways at #engineers. It even started well! A, B, C, D, E ... before it went off the rails.

#standards #xkcd927 #NormalPeople

"[The standard] calls for a total of 12 scales [...]: types A, B, C, D, DO, E, M, O, OO, OOO, OOO-S, and R."

This is the kind of thing that makes non-engineers look sideways at #engineers. It even started well! A, B, C, D, E ... before it went off the rails.

#standards #xkcd927 #NormalPeople

I don't like the general idea in #xkcd927.

Obviously biased, but I don't remember making an automation that would not _bring more benefits than what was the cost_ (note the careful wording here).

https://www.xkcd.com/974/

I don't like the general idea in #xkcd927.

Obviously biased, but I don't remember making an automation that would not _bring more benefits than what was the cost_ (note the careful wording here).

https://www.xkcd.com/974/

Delta Chat may be criticized for not being the most secure messenger in some sense or not the most feature rich. When it comes to interoperability, however, our efforts and collaborations are the biggest game in town, no? The two biggest sets of internet standards revolve and operate at massive scale around E-Mail and the Web. Our approach fully engages and takes up these extremely impactful sets of standards, and reliably rewires them into a modern UI #deltachat #webxdc #chatmail #xkcd927

Delta Chat may be criticized for not being the most secure messenger in some sense or not the most feature rich. When it comes to interoperability, however, our efforts and collaborations are the biggest game in town, no? The two biggest sets of internet standards revolve and operate at massive scale around E-Mail and the Web. Our approach fully engages and takes up these extremely impactful sets of standards, and reliably rewires them into a modern UI #deltachat #webxdc #chatmail #xkcd927

OK, hear me about, what about an AI model that asks all the other AI models the question, then uses AI to get the consensus?

Is that something? #AI #LLM #XKCD927

OK, hear me about, what about an AI model that asks all the other AI models the question, then uses AI to get the consensus?

Is that something? #AI #LLM #XKCD927

Was mich jedes mal wieder total irritiert: Dass im Fediverse User von der Domain mit »@« getrennt wird. Bei Matrix aber mit »:«. Jedes Mal, wenn ich wen bei Matrix anschreibe find ich nix, weil ich das @ verwendet habe…

Kann man da nicht einen neuen Standard einführen? Zum Beispiel sieht »‡« doch ganz hübsch aus! #xkcd927

Was mich jedes mal wieder total irritiert: Dass im Fediverse User von der Domain mit »@« getrennt wird. Bei Matrix aber mit »:«. Jedes Mal, wenn ich wen bei Matrix anschreibe find ich nix, weil ich das @ verwendet habe…

Kann man da nicht einen neuen Standard einführen? Zum Beispiel sieht »‡« doch ganz hübsch aus! #xkcd927

I think it's kind of silly to have 15-18 incompatible group implementations but  we support around a dozen of them.

I think it's kind of silly to have 15-18 incompatible group implementations but  we support around a dozen of them.

@travisr Cool! I only heard of MIMI for the first time this week. Looking forward to your talk, it sounds interesting!

I bet some of the first questions that pop into people's minds are:
1) How is MIMI not yet another XMPP
2) How is MIMI not yet another Matrix
3) In general, how does this not suffer from #xkcd927

Have you or someone else already given a talk or written a blogpost that addresses those concerns? I'd like to get a head start until February. =)

@travisr Cool! I only heard of MIMI for the first time this week. Looking forward to your talk, it sounds interesting!

I bet some of the first questions that pop into people's minds are:
1) How is MIMI not yet another XMPP
2) How is MIMI not yet another Matrix
3) In general, how does this not suffer from #xkcd927

Have you or someone else already given a talk or written a blogpost that addresses those concerns? I'd like to get a head start until February. =)

@stemid haha wow 😮😅💪

Här snackar vi war stories av rang!

IPFW verkar kapabel. Men jag gissar att pf är mer populär för den har så trevlig DSL för konfig. (Domain-specific language.)

Tyvärr verkar ju FreeBSDs pf inte vara helt kompatible med OpenBSDs. (Jfr. #Xkcd927)

You'd think product managers would have heard of #xkcd927 by now. 🤷‍♂️

https://onlykey.io/

Why do people still think #xkcd927 is a joke?