Well…

Don’t start something, won’t be something.

“Liberate”… hehe

Thunderbird and neomutt.

Watch the intro video when you first turn on the mac book. REALLY.

If you miss it, or whatever, find the current vid to watch. Before I did that, it felt like the touchpad was insane, and just doing random shit.

And get iTerm2. Its better than stock.

From there, its just a UNIX with a funny window manager.

guids like these: https://guidgenerator.com/

A huge problem are developers who lack a fundamental understanding of how the internet even works. I’ve had to explain how short, unqualified names resolve vs how fqdns resolve. Or why even you may not be able to reach another node in your proverbial cluster, because they are on different subnets. Or, why using GUIDs as hostnames is a generally bad idea, and will cause things to fail in unpredictable ways, especially with deeply nested subdomains.

Oh, yeah, I guess I kinda tossed that out there, as they do host a ton of servives. However, its very welcoming as an onboard ramp to learn about *nix stuff. Just ease yourself into that, while exploring Disroot and RiseUp :)

Tildeverse.org

Disroot.org

Riseup.net

Instead of self hosting, why not try better offerings?

Most anything you probably use Google for, you can do with a disroot account. Riseup is a great group, with many similar services (not all). The tildeverse also has myriad replacement services.

Just try to support them, financially.

The flea market I go to has none of that.

What mechanisms are there to limit bad actors on ebay and other commercial marketplaces?

Very little.

I was l33t, and signed up with Prodigy!

It did not, and it had the nickname AOLosers for people using the service.

Instead of beer or wine, stock a few bottles of liquor. Vodka, preferably. Whisky works, but not as well. Because you can use it to barter, and as an antiseptic.

Rumors (Yes, just rumors, I know) have it that MS is working on a shim to be able to just use the Linux kernel under the hood. That’s what spawned WSL. It is a side effect of the work to get the shim between the Win64 userland and Linux kernel. The shim will probably be a temporary thing, until all the ABIs are done.

Please be careful when copying anything that could be considered your employer’s intellectual property

Very unlikely $NEW_EMPLOYER will run all your ideas past $OLD_EMPLOYER to see if it’s their code…

So, not blocked, merged in, already maintaining a tree, just one maintainer isn’t sold yet on the implementation.

Im just not seeing a problem then? Aside from the person experiencing burnout, which I get. But burnout may not indicate a cultural problem, either. Especially if the person is coming off of a rough year, personally.

Then this isn’t being blocked?

If R4L authors want to use Rust so badly, then still:

Maintain your own tree! Let’s see how simple and clean these interfaces are over the longer haul.

They will get mainlined if they are technically superior.

No, he owes the community to fulfill his role in this community project

Not really. He owes nobody his labor. If people don’t like how he runs it, they can fork, and run it as they please.

He’s not a king or a monarch or whatever you think he is.

Of course he’s not. And, neither are you. Neither of you can place demands on others to perform free labor.

If he’s not ready to fulfill this role, he should step down as project lead.

Well, he thinks he is fulfilling his role. You don’t. So, its up to you to show everyone how to do it right.

I’ve found most people who claim others “aren’t doing it right” actually mean that “they aren’t doing it how I want it to be done, and therefore I demand they do the work per my spec, even though I’m not meeting any of their material needs.”