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Karsten Schmidt

Reading about Google keeping their long tradition of discontinuing products/services, often after just a few years[1]. On the other hand, the minimal "bus factor"[2] of my open source offerings is one of the stated reasons for people to not use them, even though the vast majority of the 200+ thi.ng/ libraries & tools has been actively maintained for much longer than many Google projects (99% by this single person)... Even many of my older projects which are defunkt by now have had an active period which outlasted many Google services, and — crucially — they're are stable, still available and can still be used now (e.g. my Java library collection developed between 2005-2013 still has regular users)...

Maybe internal politics, re-orgs and layoffs in BigTech are an equal/bigger risk factor for users (aside from other differences in design philosophy and resulting coupling and tech debt, e.g. massive all-in frameworks vs. lightweight composable pick-n-mix toolkits)? 🤔

[1] killedbygoogle.com/
[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_fact

thi.ngOpen source building blocks for computational design. Est. 2006thi.ng is a set of ~350 complementing code libraries & projects, a long-term effort devoted to Computational Design in its many forms.
#OpenSource#BusFactor#Maintenance
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Bobbing Boat

A stoppage is where a canal is impassable because something broke, burst or breached.

Some stoppages you can see coming. It's a gamble for Canal & River Trust: fix now or postpone? (See photo ALT text for examples.)

The UK's 1790s canals transported heavy or fragile goods. Now, canals mean leisure, recreation, fitness, mental health, beauty, waterside property value (tax), wildlife, eco-diversity, tourism.

Two photos. Left photo: At a lock, a repair to the cope stones—the upper row of stone that tops the brick side walls of a lock chamber. Pink cement has been added in large wedges formed between the broken corners of the copes. Each cope stone originally was 18 inches (45 centimeters) wide and deep, with variable lengths of over 2 feet (about ¾ meters). The pink cement doesn't match the darker grey stone. Right photo: An unrepaired lock chamber wall that has 2 issues. First, below the cope stones a course (row) of brick is gone—about 10 or 11 bricks. Steel boats weighing many tonnes smash the bricks, which crack and wear away over time. Second, from the cope stones down over meter (over a yard) is a crack, caused by subsidence, possibly from a slow leak. Mortar has washed out of the jagged crack, which is easily wide enough to insert the fingers of a hand, all down the vertical length of the crack.
#CanalLife#canals#boating
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Bobbing Boat

Just passed through a lock full of large, floating branches—the size that sticks (pun) in lock paddles and prevents them from closing, so the lock leaks and cannot refill (serious issue).

Five minutes with a pole and hook cleared the lock chamber. The wood went into the hedgerow to close a gap.

Happy to do casual preventative maintenance so Canal & River Trust can do the more serious stuff.

#CanalLife#canal#volunteer
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Peter N. M. Hansteen

You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.

Despite some persistent rumors, installing OpenBSD is both quick and easy on most not too exotic hardware. But once the thing is installed, what is daily life with the most secure free operating system like?

More at nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_ins #openbsd #development #devops #security #sysadmin #maintenance #freesoftware #libresoftware #bsd #unix #unixlike (from 2024)

nxdomain.noYou Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.
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Bobbing Boat

The Macclesfield Canal has broken through its bank. This is called a breech. Or is it spelled breach?

It's pants either way.

(That's a pun only Brits and Aussies will understand. Breeches are a type of trousers. The expression "it's pants" means "it's unpleasant". A breach is a rupture.)

For comparison, last year's Lancaster breach cost £1,600,000 to repair.

CRT will update us today:
canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices

canalrivertrust.org.ukNavigation and Towpath Closure: Between Crowholt Bridge 52 and Locketts Bridge 53, Macclesfield CanlDue to a leak in the canal bed, we have closed navigation and the towpath between Bridge 52 Crowholt Bridge and Bridge 53 Locketts Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal.Our teams are currently on-site installing stop planks to enable a thorough inspection of the leak. We are also contacting customers moored in the affected area.We will provide a further update on Monday, 31st March.
#CanalLife#canal#breach
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Bobbing Boat

I removed an electrical part for cleaning.

A wire sparked⚡ and later I noticed my battery monitor was dark. It stayed that way after I cleaned and reconnected the part.

I traced the wire from the back of the monitor in the control panel, through the bulkhead to the engine compartment, and into an electric box. And there it was: a blown fuse.

Fuse replaced (2 for £1.09). Battery monitor works. It says: 14.40.

#CanalLife#canals#boating
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Heather Evans

Mastodon or maybe it’s aus.social is playing up for me today. Every time I open the app a msg pops up saying *request timed out*. Things seem slow to load, like people’s replies, or my notifications. I hope it resolves soon as it’s annoying.
Bathroom sink is all fixed. The plumber was lovely, so tall he wouldn’t want to get under my ceiling fans 😂. There was a big blockage in the pipe but he said after nearly 14yrs it wasn’t surprising & that a plunger would be a better option for the future rather than draino. Also said it should be years before I had any problems though. I’m happy. #Maintenance

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