Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod

BRB, etching all my MP3s into clay tablets

True, and I keep those folks in my prayers.

But if you’re on MySQL it’s a lot less of a lift to switch to MariaDB than it is to go to Postgres, even if Postgres is better in some ways.

Oracle is such a terrible company for their customers it makes a ton of sense to try to get them to switch to a less abusive company

MariaDB tried to go public a while back and their stock price tanked immediately and never recovered. If they hadn’t gotten acquired I imagine they’d have gone out of business.

MariaDB.com is separate from MariaDB.org that does the development, so it shouldn’t be too bad.

Then again, the folks working at MariaDB.com might have a different opinion.

There were so many web apps written in the early 00s on the LAMP stack, including Facebook. And that’s not counting the tiny internal applications that so many businesses have that use MySQL/MariaDB. Because these are business critical applications, they pay Oracle/MariaDB for support.

MariaDB is actually two separate entities: The company MariaDB and the MariaDB organization. The company sells enterprise licenses and support, and the organization manages the actual development. So there’s a little separation that will at least slow the enshittification.

It’s the original water cooler talk. Probably weren’t talking about tv shows, though

scuttlebutt

Do US Navy ships even have a scuttlebutt anymore?

Comparing phones on specifications when both operating systems are different is kinda stupid. I guarantee most people don’t care about refresh rates or data transfer speeds.

Also, not a meme.

Man, things sure have changed since I was in college. The university had one /15 and three /16s so every single ethernet port everywhere on campus had a publicly routable IP.

Napster was so goddamn fast…

Step 3 of enshittification has begun

I have an idea: Mammoth burgers

It’s not that long gone. There were still mammoths around when the pyramids were built. Plus there’s still huge swaths of tundra and taiga that they could live on, with a lot of the same plants, even if it’s quite a bit warmer.

I appreciate this article for telling me how to disable amber alerts and silence the others.

It’s like people saying it can replace programmers. If they say that they have no idea how either of those things work.

There’s even a Motley Crue song about it

It’s not pride, it’s just that I know how to use it really well and that makes it easy for me to use.

But it’s really only for viewing files on another system over SSH. For local work I use Sublime Text

Yeah, I totally want a copy of the dream I had last night where someone stole my motor scooter and I was chasing them around a parking lot

Oh, I have no illusions that I’m smarter than other people at their chosen profession. Hell, I’m an idiot at my chosen profession quite often.

Though I do wish people would stop calling me a “miracle worker” and “wizard” because I can get the wifi working.