The terms of the licenses have legal bearing. The definitions of open source are a historical accident that mostly traces back to "well GPLv2 already exists".

The headline status doesn't have to be "worst of all systems". Pick a key indicator, and as long as it doesn't look like it's all green regardless of whether you're up or down, users will imagine that "green headline, red subsystems" means whatever they're observing, even if that makes the status display utterly uninterpretable from an outside perspective.

"Coward" is really not the kind of word that admits "very simple definitions" that people can agree on, no.

One of the dirty secrets is that you don't need to back up confidence to sell it if you don't plan to be around when it falls apart.

Canonical has been around for 20+ years. It's not 150 years, but it's still something.

1357 (2014-04-18) is pretty bad.

(Bonus points for the alt-text argument being isomorphic to nothing-to-hide.)

He was effectively years early to the “if you don’t like how twitter is run, build your own <smug face>” interesting how that argument isn’t used anymore.

You're right, "journalists don't have a world model and can't compare what they're saying to anything" explains a lot.

All of them, pretty much.

Your program can be executed with fds 0-1023 already open.

A stark reminder that all operations on strings are wrong.

And all code is operations on strings. (The code starts out as a string).

Or that strings are not human texts.

Kotlin is not for humans.

4 instalments spaced by 2 weeks with the first up-front averages out to about a 3-week float, which is less than the grace period on ordinary consumer credit cards in the US. And Klarna charges merchants more for this!