Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod

And jazz music.

And waltzing.

And books.

If I had a million dollars I’d start a company that sets up and manages federated software like Mastodon and Peertube.

There are far, far better examples of the undemocratic nature of US elections than having deadlines for filing paperwork.

And if a party can’t even get paperwork filed on time, how are they going to do anything more significant?

I don’t disagree that it’s not democratic and full of bullshit rules. But don’t complain you can’t win a shitty game if you don’t play by its rules.

And if you want a different game you need to kick the table over.

If you want to win the game you gotta play by the rules.

If you want to kick the table over then get on with it.

Yeah, they’re totally being shut out by… checks notes not filing their paperwork on time.

I’m surprised Kid Rock and The Nuge haven’t already worked together. Sounds like a solid platinum record for the lifted truck and Skoal crowd.

Yep! You can have multiple named screens, log them all individually, and they’ll keep processes running even if you disconnect. Never used tmux but screen is usually installed on the systems I’m working on.

My choice is screen on the CLI. It’s an old one, but I just learned about it this year and it’s been amazing helpful doing complex, long-running tasks via SSH.

Means-testing any program is more expensive than not means-testing it. Change my mind.

BRB, etching all my MP3s into clay tablets

“We invited him but he was too… busy to show up.” - Kamala Harris, hopefully

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.

Exactly. I get that they can’t win everywhere, and that there’s actually quite a few of them in office all over, but if they can’t put up credible opposition to the Democrats at a multi-state level how the hell are they going to get elected to a national position?

I’m gonna make a deal with the Green Party: If you can get a Senator elected, I’ll vote for you for president.

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.

As much as I’d love to have a legitimate third party to disappoint me, they’re not going to get anywhere if they can’t win outside of random local elections.

Show me a Green House rep, Senator, or Governor and then we’ll talk about how you’ll inevitably let me down after I vote for you. Until then I’m going to vote for the disappointments who can actually win office.