Test date 2019, and it only lands now. No wonder it's being labeled a catastrophic failure. /s

is bricking systems really an issue/a common issue for common mutable Linux distros?

3bitswalkintoabarandoneflips

Neo4j provided database software under the AGPLv3, then tweaked the license, leading to legal battles over forks of the software. The AGPLv3 includes language that says any added restrictions or requirements are removable, meaning someone could just file off Neo4j's changes to the usage and distribution license, reverting it back to the standard AGPLv3, which the biz has argued and successfully fought against in that California district court.

The issue before the appeals court boils down to the right to remove contractual restrictions added to the terms of the APGL. This right is spelled out in AGPLv3, section 7, paragraph 4: "If the program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this license along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term." Other GPLs contain similar terms.

"Licensed under AGPL but not AGPL"? It's a named license that people have expectations on. I assume if they had said "licensed under aa modified AGPL license" it would have been fine? Seems reasonable/makes sense.

How does that become "may kill a GPL license"? Key word "a"? (When it's not one.)

These scrollbars with issue indicators are becoming more and more fancy

A rare case of a topic text opening with providing context on what it is talking about. Thank you! I love it.

I don't use one. I don't feel like I have conflicting keybindings, or a need for additional keys. When I do, I customize my bindings through settings.

Does the Linux Kernel use simple C though?

I think and assume they use enforced guidelines, custom types and tooling to make it workable. By that point C is no longer simple. You extended the language to make it safe, and ended up with the same complexity.

DRM panic support

I'm already panicking

Is that the case at CrowdStrike?

Sounds like you had the wrong indent after they shifted you around.

The term engineering is not about problem-solving, especially when differentiated from development. Engineering is about deliberate understanding and decision-making, about giving it an architecture, a structure.

You can develop without any structure, solving an issue, without understanding a bigger context or picture or behavior. But that's not engineering.

I hate popovers. This one not only covers the whole screen, it opens the virtual keyboard because of auto focus. So people actually subscribe like that? I don't. I leave.