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Werner Vogels introduced in his closing speech at re:Invent this year the term "Verification Debt" and my stomach sank, knowing that term is going to define our roles in the future. The tool (AI) isn't going to get the blame in the future, you are. You are going to spend so much time verifying what it has generated is correct, the gains of using an AI, may start to be less beneficial than we think.

There was a bit of controversy about them a couple of years back that put me off.

• They used to disable Wayland and force X11 - that was a pain.
• They didn't fully open source all components I think.
• There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it's entirely Chinese devs.

That's really interestng. I assume it's the left photo from above and the right photo from below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynandromorphism

Genuinely an interesting mutation, it's weird that it's listed as happening in Rodents but not other mammals? Is that just a numbers thing I wonder?

Oracle Linux (up until 9.3 I think?) is a direct clone of RHEL. After 9.3 (or maybe it's 9.2) it's a best attempt clone of RHEL (similar to Alma Linux or Rocky Linux). If you want to learn RHEL then it's a fairly decent equivalent with a couple of their own quirks thrown in (ULN, ksplice and the UEK).

Also, I don't bother with certs or care if people have them. I have yet to find someone who knows a product better having got the cert than someone who's used the product without a cert.

Aren’t these the guys who disallow the term “Taiwan is a country” and “Free Tibet” in their chat system?

This used to be IT in the early 2000s

Beige as far as the eye could see (in a data centre)

Well, let's see...my work laptop experience (so far).

• Lenovo: Worked there for 14 years
• HP: Worked there for 6 months
• Apple: Worked there for 6 months
• HP: Worked there for 2.5 years
• Apple: Worked there for a year
• Dell: Worked there for 2.5 years--

Worse how? Jellyfin was forked from Emby, and since then has continued to improve in my eyes.

Wait a sec, I was told American's don't use the metric system...

Wasn't there some controversy about this that it wasn't entirely open-source?

I mean, I get it, but that's also not a thing of git, right? Just because GitHub does something doesn't mean every other hosting provider needs to. If your code review process is to comment upon specific commits, maybe it's the code review process that's wrong?