Yesterday's announcement from last.fm staff tells us users outside US, UK and Germany will soon have to pay 3€ per month for being able to listen to their radio.

From one of the comments:
it was pretty cool being a part of this, but being in a country like Venezuela and having to pay for something that is free in the US, UK and Germany doesn’t feel quite right.
Amen.

Thanks to bad_opcode for the news.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. ©
Python's been up to their ankles in shit with the inter-version compatibility since the name became recognized, and all they care for is the pi sign as a unicode character. Seriously.

And the Mental Disability of the Week award goes to mr. Alexander E. Ustinov.

This is just a reminder that XXXXX has sent you an invitation
to join Dopplr, the online tool for frequent business travellers.

The following link will take you to your exclusive signup page:

Yes, I've seen the first mail and thanks, but no thanks. Get off.
I wonder if the stupid bot is going to mail me till I blacklist the whole dopplr thing. Morons.

This developer has been contributing to this project since December 2006, with a total of 17 person-months of code development. He or she made a total of 461 commits and the main programming language used was Autoconf.
Original.

Morons. I'm surrounded by morons. ©

Стоил ли переезд в Финляндию того, чтобы услышать от начальника "с сегодняшнего дня дверь в проектную комнату должна быть постоянно закрыта, потому что из-под моего носа куда-то исчез лаптоп" в терминах "хуйня" и "выебу" (нет, я работаю не на лесопилке)? Ни одного даже отдаленно похожего случая с предыдущих работ не вспоминается. Это я не риторики ради, а по причине недостатка жизненного опыта.

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The message from uclibc development mailing list should by all means have started with "Dear Sirs". Since when is it ok to use future tense in an if-clause?
Oh yeah, and teaching uclibc developers about mobile opensource is another great idea.

What I came to like about netbsd is that there's still so many things to be done there. Another thing is that is absolutely never fails to amaze me with what miracles might lie under the surface.

tema не только почти придумал touchscreen, но и собирается его запатентовать.

In reference to this.
If a build tool is required to access configuration variables for any reason, it must be an API-conforming tool since non-API conforming tools cannot access configuration variables.
© TET Programming Guide

we have a dust problem!

Just found out that one of our (slind) recent night builds failed to the point of destroying the repository on the main server (that is, rsyncing up an empty repository). Which in itself is not much of a problem, but still sets it several days back and not to mention the bandwidth. This, however is not why we're here.

Investigation of the problem that caused said failure was much shorter than I dreaded and the problem itself turned out to be pretty simple. Each time the build starts, one of the scripts involved downloads a database file, which is most important for the build infrastructure. It used to do so by issuing 'curl $URL'. Pretty simple, but not safe against network and/or server failures. Then, one of our engineers decided to make it safer by patching it like this (these snippets are simplified, see below for original code):

- curl $URL
+ curl $URL || die "Failed to download a very important file!"

...which is a nice try, except that curl will always exit with 0 code regardless of HTTP response code, unless given -f/--fail option. IOW, we still have incorrect code, but this one gives us false sense of security.
And of course, if -f was there the night before, the repository wouldn't have been destroyed at all.

P.S. And the commit in question is here.

dear sir:
I built my own filesystems with busybox ,use nfs to boot,and copy "group passwd shadow"to /myrootfs/etc.but I can't login with my user name,when I type my login name,:zhu.I get"
Process '/sbin/getty 115200 ttyS0' (pid 12) exited. Scheduling it for restart.",it enve didn't ask me for password.,thank you for your help.
best regards
zhudq
from busybox mailing list

Tomorrow's embedded developers, these are.

It turns out so that in OSS projects of small to medium size (in terms of contributors involved), a developer working alone in a certain area might feel abandoned and lonely and sometimes might even resort to using bugzilla to attract others' attention.
Slind bug #62. Note the 'reporter', 'assignee' and me in carbon list.

Pretty much expresses my feeling towards slind.
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
© W. H. Auden

...we have no sympathy whatsoever.
via dreik

I absolutely positively hate user interface designers, especially those of modern online social networks, especially those of FaceBook. The more banners, plugs, icons, userpics, stupid wall messages, user's favourite movies and books, groups, friends, groups of friends, friends of groups, colleagues, groups of colleagues, their favourite movies and books I can pull onto a single screen the better UI designer I am. Morons.
On the matter of online social networks I'll talk the next time.

...go see a doctor as soon as you can!
No, seriously, all these little brave freedom fighters deserve no bandwidth. And they should be also considered a potential social threat.
via silpol

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thanks to paada_pa