It’s powerfulness IS the problem. Some parts of systemd are great. Some are meh! Some really suck. But because it’s monolithic, you can’t take the good bits and replace the bad. You have to take it all or nothing.

That’s the problem. Its architecture is offensively bad.

It’s crazy crazy sort order that I can’t stand. They deliberately go in and remove certain characters from the filename, specifically to make the sorting behave weirdly.

It treats desktop clients as first-class citizens. That’s a huge, huge advantage over Whatsapp, for me.

They missed my personal favourite:

SHIFT + INSERT … paste the content of the PRIMARY select buffer (currently selected text).

I fucking love Cory Doctorow

Just wait. Some asshole Google employee will read his blog, and unapprove him.

This is behind a paywall. Please post the article text.

If I need a visualisation, then gitk is there for me.

If you can’t remember commands, then get yourself a cheat-sheet.

I’m usually a bit scornful of “bling” commands, but bat seems genuinely useful.

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

Made my day.

LOL. They list Digg as a Reddit alternative.

Someone had a giggle when they wrote that.

It’s pretty user-hostile to require a Google account for sign-up. I’d love to have a look at your site, but not at the cost of giving Google a cookie.

Better pricing will make electricity cheaper for everyone.

I’m in the UK, and I use Telegram. It’s far superior to WhatsApp, and has somewhat better ethics (for now).

I attended a talk by Rasmus Lerdorf. He broadly said that he didn’t care about making good tools, and thought that anyone who was concerned about PHP’s byzantine mess of an API was, in essence, just a drama queen.

That was the day I decided to stop putting any of my time and effort into PHP.