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@HannahVernon Can I ask your advice - I put in answer here (which, ahem..., he says modestly, I thought rather good), and then the f***-witted community (person/bot?) came back with the wankology you can see underneath (also, see comments under OP). What, if anything, is wrong with my answer? TIA and rgs...

@HannahVernon but not a line dance! :-)

Is there a badge for questions that are unbelievably light-years beyond scope for this forum? If so, this question would win it, hands-down!

A chairde - Morning all!

@HannahVernon It's a good one here for us shiftless Irish - long, thanks to St. Brigid! of Kildare!

A chairde -Morning all!

Rats... started off well enough!

A chairde - Morning all!

@Zikato Separated at birth?

@I'll look out for it la prochaine fois que je suis en France! Did you taste it? C'était bon?

"Groin" is also the French for "oink" - which I did know!

Fromage de tête - this is very unsettling - the word "groin" in French apparently means(1) "snout" - one wouldn't want to mix up one's languages! (1) I did not know this before today! I knew that the French for groin is "aine" (nf - pron. "nnnn" - long "n") - unfortunate for Irish girls whose name is "Áine" - (pron. Awh-ñeh).

A chairde - Morning all!

A chairde - Morning all!

The manual for emacs?

@Yano_of_Queenscastle Oh - when I search for "Queenscastle" I get some obscure place in Missouri (or Wyoming... or somewhere else I may have flown over... ). :-) Oops, just checked - it's even worse than I thought - it's in Indiana - saw it once (Gary) from the viewing gallery of the John Hancock building in Chicago!

@Charlieface Its population is less that of Lisburn - that's *obscure!! :-)

@Yano_of_Queenscastle From here, only some obscure archipelagoes use that time zone!

@Yano_of_Queenscastle Me too - the grumbling's already started!

@Yano_of_Queenscastle My sleeping isn't so good at the moment - I had snoozed for a while but awoke at 02:30 (2:30 AM in freedom units) - where is it 4AM when the UTC time is 02:48? Assuming that the Heap uses UTC in it's display? It appears to do so here.

A chairde - Morning all!

A chairde - Morning all!

I'm not accusing AWS of doing anything illegal, but I do think that authors of code have to right to use it to make a crust and I do prefer open source software given a choice, but the GPL is broken thanks to the cloud and therefore I laud those who release their code under SA/AGPL licences.

@SeanGallardy Of course - if you release your software under the GPL licence, you are implicitly accepting that people can host your creation on the cloud and not be obliged to give you a red cent - which I consider to be wrong if you're in the business of hosting it yourself and can't compete with the likes of AWS who can provide your service proposition cheaper than you can. Ok, you say "tough" and I say so also - to an extent...

Powered by potatoes no doubt!

Where's your trolley with an old server in it?

@ErikReasonableRatesDarling A bit like this? Is this your photo? It's all in the beard!

... If I choose to release my software under a permissive licence, that's my issue, but if A/M/G/&c. start taking the bread from my table, that's another kettle of fish - I change my licence to AGPL and A/... can whistle for my code! The GPL has been snookered by the cloud... SA/AGPL is good enough for me as an end-user! PostgreSQL has, so far, been able to keep its head above water - I just hope that continues!

@SeanGallardy Redis was trying to make money from their code - AWS blew that out of the water - I would just point out (shouldn't really be necessary) that "opensource" and/or "free" (in the sense of the Open Source Initiative and/or the GPL) does not mean "non-licensed"! Source Available and/or the AGPL (or similar) licences mean that AWS/Microsoft/Google/&c. can't take other people's software and host it and give nothing back in the form of fees/whatever...

...Given what he's done in his first week, I think that the odds are looking pretty good in my favour...

Re fact-checking - it's not a criticism or anything negative - you pointed out an error that I made and I'm only too happy to retract! I'm actually grateful to have errors pointed out to me - means that I learn - so, if you spot another error, please feel free to let me know. Re the error in question, you said that the only thing you would find was Project 2025 - it's my belief (not stating this as a fact! :-)) that Trump is implementing it - time will tell...

@SeanGallardy - but their revenue stream was licencing the software - without revenue, I presume that messed up their development... anyway, that's not the point - more generally, cloud providers generally don't "pay forward" to the projects they host - source available licences oblige them to do so and this is good thing (tm) for innovation and the devs who drive it!

...a large %-age of our network is above ground and therefore vulnerable. As a city-boy, I sometimes become annoyed by those from "de country" who appear to want cheap housing while, at the same time, wanting world-class hospitals and schools on their doorsteps! Whew, glad I got all that off my chest...

And, lest I be accused of anti-Americanism, I welcome criticisms of the Irish Government/State and its institutions, policies and personalities, but like you, I will require facts. One that is particularly pertinent at the moment is planning - we have people all over the country complaining that they have no power - no wonder - due to the appalling planning process whereby we allow one-off dispersed housing in rural areas...

@SeanGallardy As for our mutual friend, Donald J., I'd like to thank you for fact-checking me the other day re my error that he planned to abolish the NOAA - he has made no such statement.

... Amazon's cynical establishment of rival open source projects is nothing short of disgusting and I, for one, am glad to see the rise of Source Available cloud-provider-interdicting licences. Elastic has just gone with the AGPL, and good for them!

@SeanGallardy Indeed, I'm well aware of this (and also Amazon's (ab)-use of Open Source software) - depriving those who produce it of a livelihood - Redis being a case in point - also Elastic Search - Amazon is making money off their backs and depriving them of income (this fitted with the Open Source licences they used to operate under). Unfortunately, the GPL (and similar) didn't/couldn't predict the rise of the cloud and providers like Amazon/Microsoft/GCS/...

Interesting news Microsoft re PostgreSQL?

A chairde - Morning all!

V. annoyed about Wordle today - fluffed it - could have done it in 3 if I'd had my wits about me - must be some syndrome kicking in... Ah well, I had a good run!

Hmmm... Boeings - not all they were cracked up to be!