… and this is why we use YYYY-MM-DD as the date format.

100.4°F = 38°C

So … you are basing you hypothesis on an article about Pedophile hunters written in German (or Swiss if you want to get frisky) that you linked using an English headline and summary in a software development community?

I’m surprised that your post wasn’t removed.

I’m mentioning this because it hardly seems like a genuine attempt to learn anything and any assertions you make about voting behaviour has to be suspect at best, not to mention that it’s based on a single example, hardly ever the hallmark of solid statistical analysis.

Let’s move on to the attempted “fix”.

You’re attempting to achieve what exactly?

A relationship between votes and comments?

How do you know how the users decide what to read, vote or comment on? You see a relationship with ordering by votes, I read whatever comes past on my “All feed” and vote when I think the pod warrants it. The two are not the same.

In other words, your proposal seems based on a very poor foundation and I’m voting accordingly.

The open-source alternative to Mailchimp, Brevo, Mailjet, Listmonk, Mailerlite, and Klaviyo, Loop.so, etc.

That’s the first paragraph of the project page.

Not to rain on the parade, but in my experience, having had to email customers in bulk … sending tickets and logistics requirements for large events … I can tell you that self hosting this is a complete and utter waste of time.

You’ll get blocked before the first batch of emails leave your mailer.

Not even paid MailChimp or Campaign Monitor could guarantee delivery.

The problem is not the platform for sending email, it’s the centralised nature of email hosting, much of it is behind Google and Microsoft hosted services.

But imagine the commit log.

If you exclude the billionaires and everyone else manages their footprint, we’d still go to hell in a hand basket because of just how much influence the billionaires club has on the climate.

Regulate the billionaires before telling the rest of us to doing sustainable activities.

Docker is not virtualisation, although it’s a common misconception.

A better way to think of it is a security wrapper around untrusted processes.

You can prove this for yourself by looking at all the processes running in a Docker host while one or more containers are running, you’ll see all the processes listed.

In other words, you don’t need a CPU capable of virtualisation to run Docker.

Use a bash command line:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6250698/how-to-decode-url-encoded-string-in-shell

This is what that looks like in real life:

https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/34892

I’ve used the node.js version of argparse, which as I understand it, is a clone of the python implementation and I’ve not seen how to do mutually exclusive flags. Mind you, at the time I didn’t need them, so it wasn’t an issue, but I don’t recall seeing any way to do it either.

Did I miss something?

Oh boy … very cool.

Now how do I do this in bash?

Except that this is just not true. If it were, there’d be only one car, one bike, one house, one pair of underpants and one type of food.

Humans love to find something that’s unique, it’s why Starbucks makes a gazillion types of coffee and people choose to buy it there, customised to their level of “uniqueness”, or elsewhere.

There is no one Linux distro and that’s it’s strength.

I’m not a fan of this characterisation of the level of accessibility, but the single largest accessible example of Linux is Android.

After that, most modern TVs run some form of Linux, then there’s embedded Linux in routers and network attached storage devices. IoT hardware is mostly running Linux too, as are most websites and databases for that matter.

In other words, Linux is a hidden operating system that pretty much runs the world without most people ever thinking about it.

If that’s not accessible, then I don’t know what is.

In my opinion, the contributions to open source by Google and Microsoft are insignificant when compared with the sheer volume of software that has, and is being developed by the open source community.

The level of diversity exhibited by the endless variety of Linux distributions is a very good thing. It mirrors a diverse society with many different needs and requirements. This ecosystem provides robustness and flexibility, it gives society resilience against the increasing threats posed by malicious actors and demonstrated stupidity by corporate ICT incompetence that keeps occurring.

The level of compatibility within Linux distributions is breathtaking when you actually start looking at the details, mainly because they’re all running the same kernel. Frankly, I’d like to see more kernel design and development, not less.

More Bazaar, less Cathedral please!

You are conflating the meanings of the word “free”.

The intended freedom for open source software is not related to finance, it’s related to legal rights.

This is fundamentally why open source struggles with a broader acceptance and why corporate interests continue to exploit the open source community.

Ultimately, the notion that software can be developed without money is both absurd and unsustainable.

I’m not blaming you for this common misunderstanding.

In my opinion, Open Source was envisioned as a common good for the benefit of all. This was true for the internet and its governing protocols at birth.

Then the Green Card spam hit Usenet and the commercial potential for the internet became apparent and exploitation began.

There are moves to attempt to put the genie back in the bottle, but the reality is, regardless of licensing, that this is only likely to occur due to people standing up for their rights in a courtroom, something that takes obscene amounts of money.

Having a patent or trademark is meaningless unless you defend them. The same is true for open source licensing.

Drastic levels of change have been attempted by unilaterally making something suddenly closed, but anyone can fork the code at that point and carry on. Anyone dependent on the product can choose to pay the fee for the newly licensed product, or choose to migrate to the fork.

The only thing I can see that might change this is governments deciding that anyone using public funding for any reason is required to make the product open source (or open data). I don’t see this happening (yet) in the vast majority of democracies around the world.

That said, the current USA administration is doing an admirable job at encouraging people to stop trading with them and in the process discovering that there are plenty of open source options for traditional closed source offerings. More and more governments are evaluating open source as a result.

The link between Open Source and money has a long and in my professional opinion troubled history. Driven by the desire to create free, as in unencumbered by special interest, the messaging has been diluted to include free, as in no financial cost. This discrepancy has been exploited by big companies who use this to their advantage and take without giving back.

As a result licencing has been stretched and massaged to combat this exploitation. Several organisations have attempted to find ways of funding this to more and lesser degree.

Many software developers have contributed for decades to this endeavour for free as a way to contribute to society, but ultimately this is not sustainable and more and more developers are getting disillusioned with the whole thing.

Quality is generally speaking much better, despite ignorant commentary from the sidelines. Just look at the quality and level of response to CVE issues as they become known.

I use Linux as my primary desktop and have done so since the turn of the century. I’ve been writing software for over 40 years, much of the last 25 years that has been open source.

There are moves to improve things, Bruce Perens is for example working on some called Post Open.

The alternative, a world run by Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft is not one that’s in the interest of planet Earth and if you look closely, you’ll discover that much of their software stack is based on open source software.

USA only

When I last played with this a decade or so ago, there were several map tiling solutions in the geosciences that are self hosted.

From memory, “World Wind” is a good search term, but there’s others.