xantoxis

well, 23 years ago this graph would have had windows 2000 WAY in the lead.

This is incorrect. It's true that most (in fact, I would say almost all) forks go nowhere but that doesn't mean forking isn't incredibly valuable. Even the example you cite, "original project is dead" isn't just incidentally useful, it's critical to open source. Other examples include:

project's core team is part of a for profit org that is moving the project in a bad, profit motivated direction:
project's leader suddenly and dramatically loses respect (maybe he killed his wife or something);
project's leader dies without leaving a digital will regarding who controls the core repo;
project continues to direct effort into features while falling to address major security concerns;
project is healthy and useful in every way but there is an important use case not being addressed, and the fork would address it.

Even if 99% of forks fail, that's irrelevant because 99% of original projects fail in the same ways. Forks are critical to open source.

If you want a real answer, it's mostly advocacy, the same reason Linux enthusiasts show up to every negative-sounding Windows thread to tell you to install Linux instead. And if it is less obnoxious, it's only because there's fewer Rust enthusiasts.

There are, also, advantages to a Rust implementation that you can claim simply by virtue of something being implemented in Rust, as entire categories of problem that cause C projects to hemorrhage security vulnerabilities simply don't exist for Rust.

But mostly it's people wanting you to be excited about and interested in Rust.

With minix already available I see no reason why we need a Linux kernel

So, he admits they aren't unified?

Does that make it not a substantive complaint about nextcloud, if it can't run well in docker?

I have a dozen apps all running perfectly happy in Docker, i don't see why Nextcloud should get a pass for this

Why is it always such low windows?

Interesting. Then why would we want lemmy drowning in all that?

Facebook accounts are free, that's all ya need man

I see a cop, I'm gonna throw bricks first and ask why later

Community service. They were forced to travel out and inspect workspaces for compliance with regulations.

Source: I am an OSHA regulator.

Then go join threads.net? Nobody's stopping you from doing that. That would put you on a server friendly to your beliefs.

Server admins also have opinions, and are not required to take a democratic vote and each individual user's choice into account. They can decide for themselves, and they will, for good or ill. If you don't like where it ends up, your user decision should be to fuck off to threads.

Sorry, this is not a correct regex for an email address.

Sending using mail on a local unix system? You only need the local part.

STOP VALIDATING NAMES AND EMAIL ADDRESSES. Send a verification email. Full stop. Don't do anything else. You really want to do this anyway, because it's a defense against bots.

Ope. Hang on.

Normally this is obviously correct, but in this case, we have to consider how tall the characters are. As a DM, I would rule that if any part of the character (their actual person, not including, say, the reach of the sword they're holding) is within the 30' circle, or could be if they actively collaborated with the cleric using free actions, then the bless would affect them.

There's also a few definitions we need to talk about:

if the cleric (we'll call them Carl) is 30' in the air, that is understood to mean that if the spell holding them up there fails, they will fall 30'. By the same token, a character 0' feet in the air can only fall 0'. We can infer that Carl's feet (or the bottom part of the PC, at any rate) are 30 feet in air.
we consider Carl to be in the center of the 5x5 grid square in the plane A formed 30' above the flat terrain.
the "allies are 20ft away" part is a bit too fuzzy for this to work (how many allies? which ones? they can't all occupy the same grid square unless they're tiny), so we'll have to make some calls here. Let's just consider one ally, Alice, who is 20' away.
We consider Alice to be in the center of her grid square, in the plane T formed by the flat terrain.
When we say Alice is "20ft away" from Carl, we mean that a perpendicular line drawn through the cleric intersects with T at the center of a grid square in A--we'll call this square C(T) and Carl's square at current altitude C(A), and the center of C(T) is 20' from the center of Alice's square A(T). Visualized as a battle grid you would have C ◻◻◻ A in plane T, with 3 empty squares separating them. On a physical table, Carl would also probably be standing on a little platform or a d6 to indicate altitude.
"Range: 30ft" 30 feet from what? Definitely not Carl's god, they're probably not even in the room. Maybe we mean 30ft from Carl's 3rd chakra, or maybe it's just 30ft from any part of Carl's person. That seems easier, let's go with that one.

Based on some anthropometric data I found very quickly, the average human woman has a vertical reach of about 77 inches or 6' 5". That's naked, and she's probably wearing boots, let's add another inch for the soles so 6' 6".

We can give her a little bit more of an advantage as well; the shortest path between Alice and Carl is a straight line following the radius of the sphere, so she could "lean in" a bit with her arm to get closer. She can't go a full 45 degrees without falling prone though, so this only adds a little. Without a posable figure and a 3d model of the space in front of me I couldn't tell you how much she could reasonably add by pointing her body and hand at an angle, so let's just call it 2 more inches and keep measuring vertically.

We'll call the apex of her fingertips at 80 inches above T a new plane F, and A(F) is the point where she touches that plane with her fingers.

Now we get to actually apply the Pythagorean theorem. It's a triangle formed by the points (C(A) -> A(A) = 240") as leg 1 and (A(A) -> A(F) = 280") as leg 2. The hypotenuse, then, is 368 inches.

30ft is 360 inches. Is 80 inches of Alice enough to put a fingertip through any part of a 30ft sphere around Carl's feet?

No it isn't. So no +d4 for you Alice, piss off.

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You can't convince people to do their job with logic when they just don't want to do their job. After minorities, the thing cops hate most is doing their job.

There's a surprising number of situations where an airhorn is justifiable

Proxmox VE is a packaging of Linux as an operating system. It is a distribution. Straight from the wikipedia page:

It is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel[7] and allows deployment and management of virtual machines and containers.[8][9]

Cool way to respond to a comment btw:

Am I taking crazy pills?

The VMs I'm running in Proxmox are also Linux, but that's less interesting to me.

I installed Slackware in 1994 or so. Floppy. Disks.

Fast forward almost 30 years and I'm still trying new (to me) distros. Proxmox VE this time.

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Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex...

Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex...

TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism

Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust.

Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust.

Xi says China will ‘surely be reunified’ with self-ruled Taiwan in New Year’s address

Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times

Putin Ally Found Dead After Falling From Third-Floor Window

Reuters has taken down -- globally -- an important hacking-for-profit investigation that included details about an Indian hacking entrepreneur -- because he got a court in that country to say so.

Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.

Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.

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I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help:

It comes up more often than you'd think

Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

rule

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