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Carl George @carlwgeorge.bsky.social · 21d

Great advice, I usually forget to do this. Another presenter suggested I build it into my talks right after the title slide to help remember.

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CentOS @centos.org · Sep 22

Big news! Our friends at Universal Blue have released an LTS of their Bluefin OS, built with the power of bootc on top of CentOS Stream base images. If you love Bluefin but want CentOS stability, check it out.

docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin...

#uBlue #Bluefin #CentOS #bootc

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Carl George @carlwgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 31

Software is much more complicated so the default assumption is someone worked hard on it. And in the case of OSS, usually given away for free.

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Carl George @carlwgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hehe, yeah I guess there is some grey area there based on how much effort people are putting into the thing. Like I doubt a fast food employee gives one iota of a shit if you criticize their intentionally paint-by-numbers meals.

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Carl George @carlwgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 31

Same thing with meals. If someone cooks me a meal I don't like, I don't say it's shit, I just politely say I didn't like it. Or I make suggestions about what would make me like it more.

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Carl George @carlwgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 31

That said, feel free to apply the same standard everywhere. Instead of saying a movie sucked, just don't recommend it. If asked you can merely say you didn't like it, or give specific details instead of a lazy dismissal. Both are better than going out of your way to publicly shame the work.

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Carl George @carlwgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 31

More so than the rest of those examples, software is expected to have revisions and improvements. And with open source software it almost certainly has an issue tracker for constructive feedback to facilitate those improvements. Simply saying it sucks or calling it shit is both lazy and cruel.

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Carl George @carlwgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 30

I enjoyed the first one, haven't seen this one yet but looking forward to it.

Would you say it's good for a sequel, good outright, or even achieved the rare feat of being better than the first?

Carl George @carlwgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 30

Maybe you're OK with people trashing things you create because you vibecoded them, but that's not the case for most people. You can be a better person by having just the smallest amount of empathy here. Or don't, I won't keep trying to convince you, muting and moving on. I hope your day gets better.

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Carl George @carlwgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 30

Software is made by people. Trashing software is trashing other people's work. It's fine to have negative opinions about a piece of software, but you can just not use it instead of trying to publicly shame it.

aly @aly.ruffruff.party · Aug 29

just tried bazaar. it sucks. it is bad.

almost let weird hype people and the bazzite gang convince me it might be better than gnome-software. no idea why, these people have the worst taste on planet earth.

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CentOS @centos.org · Aug 26

From #CentOSShowcase: @carlwgeorge.bsky.social talked about how minor versions work in everybody's favorite extra package repo, EPEL.

youtu.be/xXdsTD7Oo-0

#CentOS #FedoraEPEL #EPEL

EPEL 10 for the Discerning Packager

Carl George presented at CentOS Showcase. EPEL 10 introduces the concept of minor versions for EPEL. While intuitive to some, this change has tripped up even experienced maintainers who haven't kept…

youtu.be

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