Tootfinder

We’re not up to the interesting part yet.
My part in Minnebar is helping to create the schedule. We don’t hand-place talks in timeslots, or create “tracks” by topic. Instead, all the attendees vote, indicating •all• the sessions they’d like to see (as many or as few as they want to check off), and we generate a schedule from the votes. The schedule attempts to minimize attendee time conflict regret. That’s it.
(That process is interesting, but it’s not what this thread is about!)
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While working through another last rites slew, I was thinking that back in the day there were a number of developers who believed they should add a lot of packages to #Gentoo, in the name of giving users a choice. Like, they were projects whose sole purpose of existence seemed to be to find every piece of software that roughly fit a specific topic, get it to build and package it for Gentoo.
Of course, the long-term effect of that is that there's a lot of unmaintained, often broken packages. "The choice" doesn't really work. Sure, users have a lot of packages to choose from — but they have to actually figure out which of these packages are actually useful (if any).
A few years ago attempting to remove packages also faced some verbal opposition. You shouldn't remove unmaintained or outdated packages, because they still work. You shouldn't remove packages that sometimes fail to build, because some flag combinations still work. You shouldn't remove packages that don't build at all, because the user can visit Forums and find some workaround to make them build 🤦. Or they'll have an ebuild handy to start working on it. And anyway, you shouldn't be removing stuff at all, but fixing it instead.
Sometimes the arguments were straight dishonest too: people literally said we need more packages to lure new users in. Like, it didn't matter to them that the packages didn't really work and that the people trying to use them will get a nasty surprise. They wanted people to say "hey, Gentoo has this software we need, let's start using Gentoo".

Why would anyone bother stealing KitKat:
(It wasn't me)
https://www.dw.com/en/nestle-praises-thieves-exceptional-taste-after-12-tons-of-kitkat-bars-stolen/a-76579815

Nestle says thieves stole 12 tons of KitKat chocolate bars
"We've always encouraged people to have a break with KitKat," the company said, "but it seems thieves have taken the message too literally."

There are some fascinating topics in the 'Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference' CALC26 programme https://sites.google.com/view/calcconference/calc2026

@… @… I just looked at the first subset (the ledger), and I think you’re right. I read the paper over breakfast, so that’s my excuse ;-)
I still think that the idea is clever (in every sense), and also typica…

@… @… I just looked at the first subset (the ledger), and I think you’re right. I read the paper over breakfast, so that’s my excuse ;-)
I still think that the idea is clever (in every sense), and also typica…

I guess fossil fuel companies follow tobacco industry playbook: first deny and discredit the science, later deny responsibility. It'll work until a big case is won and a precedent it established. But by then most of the current management will be retired, so sadly it'll likely pay off...

Brent oil tops $107 per barrel after Iran peace talks stall
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/26/oil-price-iran-war-strait-hormuz.html

from my link log —
Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16

Why Covid-19 will never become endemic
For most of the pandemic Australia has worked to contain the virus through evidence-based public health measures such as border closures, case finding, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing, vaccines and, at times, lockdown. Sadly, the weaponisation of lockdown as a pointscoring issue and emotional trigger has led to a conflation of lockdown with all other public health measures, most of which do not impinge on freedoms. Denial is a major theme during the pandemic.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/116458442461704301
Almost as if there’s a pattern here or something: liars lie, murderers murder, thieves stealing people’s land and homes steal people’s land and homes, monsters committing genoc…