Great writeup, good argumentation, and excellent sourcing, linking to external resources

Typo on “Free, Open Source Software does not a social movement make.” Presumably “does not make a”?

Yes, forks remain as they are. Yes, the fork network has a shared data repository on GitHub.

Consequently, rewritten history will break history compatibility, possibly requiring manual fixups on forks or work based on it.

Looks like it’s just random commenters taking random guesses because those have happened before.

What is a “repository reset”? One commenter writes:

There was a temporary similar “outage” back in July with rewritten history, apparently something inappropriate was recorded in the repo history they wanted cleaned out. The repo came back after that. I have no idea if this is the same thing, or if they just got tired of maintaining it.

Seems strange to me. You can prep locally and then force-push. I don’t see why rewriting history would require taking the repository down.

“Vibe” coders produce code though, right? This is about analysis and issue reports. They didn’t produce code.

In what way did they “gamify” their unit tests? You mean through presentation of test state/successes?

On AniDB I can enter dd.MM.yyyy or yyyy-MM-dd (text input), which I like a lot. I often prefer reading and writing yyyy-MM-dd.

Some time ago I changed my Windows number format settings to show me yyyy-MM-dd formats. Unfortunately, that broke my webbrowsers date input / datepicker. :( So I had to go back to the standard culture format (de in my case).

The worst is when you work with dates and don’t know what is what, or when the behavior is unexpected.

Probably everyone knows about the Excel shitshow of implicitly converted values.

In SQL Server, what do you think 0000-00-00 is when converted to a date, explicitly or implicitly? Well, unfortunately, yyyyMMdd is a safer format than yyyy-MM-dd.

SET LANGUAGE 'us_english'
SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-12-13')
--SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-13-12') -- err
SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-12-13 07:00:00')
--SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-13-12 07:00:00') -- err

SET LANGUAGE 'Deutsch'
SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-12-13')
--SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-13-12') --err
--SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-12-13 07:00:00') --err !!
SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-13-12 07:00:00')

No, yyyy-dd-MM is not a common or valid German date format. That’s usually dd.MM.yyyy.

But worst of all, it changes behavior of the date parsing between date only and date + time types.

Your question was very unspecific and broad, and despite that, now it goes into a direction I have not foreseen. Your question would have been much more useful and you would have received a lot better answers if you had provided some context, established a premise, been more specific about what you’re asking.

You asked about PC. Given that Windows is the prevalent PC operating system, I’ll answer for that.

While Windows has a Microsoft Store app store now, traditionally and still prevalent, most software and applications is installed and managed not through this “app store”, but manually or with other non-OS-integrated software.

I feel like the premise of the question is from a very different understanding of how things work or are.

Microsoft pushes cloud and AI with increasingly negative side-effects. Eventually, EU regulation steps in to require offline-capable OS with fair and obvious choice. Microsoft tries to argue security, but ultimately fails.

Microsoft continues to push and connect their services as one, with synergy effects. Eventually EU regulation and prosecution steps in, requiring a neutral OS that must not pre-install software or point to other products in OS settings and apps, etc. Integrations must be openly standardized first, before implementing their own.

Despite all this, and despite a move from EU and EU-national institutions to sovereignty through shared open source solutions, Microsoft retains their strong/prevalent market position because the market as a whole is not as strategic and concerned, and Microsoft products like office, onedrive, Teams, and their other business software and services remain a predominant and grab-first choice, and the security promise of big enterprise software, battle-tested, with strong established auth etc remains a big selling point for them.

Yes, living without any PC at all is possible.

At work, I set up convco for automated commit checks and changelog generation with custom/slightly adjusted configuration of conventional commits (types) and changelog template.

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How does JPlus handle compile time null checks against Java library interfaces? Does it consider them all nullable and to be handled as nullable?

If nullability information is a type metadata extension for compile-time checking, does that inevitably break on library interfaces when I create both library and consuming app with JPlus?

Why are you talking about AI? They said nothing about AI.

I prefer round[ed].

Think of it as a rounded square with a unique, pleasant shape.

I don’t find them pleasant. I find them irritating.

Rounded square makes use of the space it reserves/square-fills. Squircles seem wasteful and confusing. They do not represent any common physical shapes, and waste/discard space they could use. They look like an old CRT.

I use GitLab diffs in single-file-view mode, TortoiseGit Merge when it exceeds what GitLab can reasonably display (including block indent changes I can ignore in TortoiseGit Merge or moves I can better track), and WinMerge (previously I used KDiff) for manual copy-paste text diffing (like copying blocks from the code change diff to compare similar, categorically similar code, or code moves, etc)

https://play.typeracer.com/

How viable is shifting from app to the web platform? Installable PWAs or PWA without installs.

Seems like it could be an alternative for most(?) things.

I prefer this one from two months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgV_-nJOuE

Can I interest you in learning Brainfuck?