Hi everyone! Long ago Lobsters used to run [interviews on active users](https://lobste.rs/t/interview). I thought that was a great idea but noticed it hadn't happened for some time. I thought about which lobster I'd most like to see interviewed and immediately thought of [David Chisnall](https://lob...
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Lately I've been a bit put off by the abrasive tone in a decent part of the comments, both towards submission content and in reply to other comments. It seems wrong to downvote such comments as "troll", since they often have a sensible core message, even though that comes closest. So, in the spirit ...
Context: I wrote the Apple Silicon (M1/M2) GPU kernel driver (the first real/production Rust Linux driver) for Asahi Linux. I left the project due to Luna's abuse and manipulation of the Linux GPU maintainer, who went out of her way to DM my fiancee to express support for Luna. It seems this now ext...
Hello fellow crustaceans,
About five years ago, I left a good job at a good company because I did not believe in the things we were making, and could not bring myself to make them. I called my manager (I'm in the UK, he was in the USA), crying because I had spent two days opening my IDE at 9am, s...
Talk from Maciej (from pinboard.in) on advertising
As I prepare to go on vacation, was thinking about where I am with my side-projects. I know I have a predisposition to [yak shaving](http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gsb2000-02-11.html), but just now realized I'm in six levels deep. My current stack is:
1. __Make a color ...
After two years of using my company-issued MacBook for personal things, I'm setting up a personal laptop for personal things, which I hope to be able to do more of during lockdown.
Now faced with the choice of distro, I noticed I've never been very deliberate with this. My personal history:
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I feel like this is such a common pattern at this point that there should be a *much* clearer go-to solution than there is. OCI containers are the lingua franca of software distribution now -- why does it seem like the only option for deploying them that claims to be "production ready" is Kubernetes...