Despite being a "power user" of macOS (and having had been for close to 25 years now), I only tried Shortcuts for the first time last week, to try to automate opening any of the live TV streaming apps (YouTube TV, Fubo etc) to a specified channel in one button click. Unfortunately none of the TV apps on the platform have bothered to expose such basic functionality, so I ended up cancelling my subscription to each one I tried.

If anyone knows of an app that gives access to live TV and actually cares about the basic functionality of the platform they run on, I'd love to hear about it and they can have my money.

> it often seems to be 20 people taking 6 months to do something that should take 5 people 6 weeks

Sounds just like "enterprise" IT to me, tbh.

Leadership can reform enterprise IT, sometimes including staffing cuts while also improving productivity. I have personally seen this happen. It can actually get better.

This is why some people are optimistic about recent efforts at doing the same in government bureaucracy. It's possible to trend upwards.

Sure, it's possible, but unlikely. And nobody ever notices or appreciates the efficient and effective goverment agencies.

Honestly the main problem is the fed gov has terrible pr.

Leadership needs to be seen as both competent and trustworthy by employees to pull this off. Otherwise it’s the death spiral.

I’ve seen that happen in government too: GDS. As a rule it does not though.

NSNotificationCenter predates the iPhone by 13 years, though…

> it already became very fashionable to call GitHub "ShitHub"

You’ve said this a few times, without stating which circles? I assume mostly among four-year-olds given the level of wit involved?

They are attributing it "in some circles", like when a news actor says, "some people say". They are only trying to making shithub catch on like M$.

Although, given how lax they have been at removing Golang infected malware, it might just have legs.

Wikipedia calls those "weasel words".

On the face of it, that sounds healthy. But dig in further, and you discover that only the top 10 or so contributors have enough activity to make their personal contribution graph anything other than a flat line on zero.

The vast majority of the work here is being done by a very small group of people - likely those paid by the commercial sponsor (a random sample of the top few suggest that well over half of those top contributors fall into that category).

If those people aren't paid to work on the project any more, it will likely die very quickly.

> On the face of it, that sounds healthy. But dig in further, and you discover that only the top 10 or so contributors have enough activity to make their personal contribution graph anything other than a flat line on zero.

This is something I always do manually and it is annoying. The number of contributors we see on the front page of a project on Github is misleading and can easily be faked by a malicious actor because a user who corrected a typo 5 years ago is counted as a contributor.

Github should really improve that.

Standard US Mail forwarding is 12 months and may be extended for a further 18 months.

The thing you want then is `fink`, which literally uses dpkg and apt.

That sounds like what I want. Seems to only have "wip" support for the newer macOSes though. I also remember using the Debian packager on iPhone back in the golden age of jailbreaking.

Yeah, I thought I had edited my post to say it doesn't look to still be alive (apparently I did not!) - that's a shame, having diversity in this space is good.

> Why would a license like this be considered non-free when the GPL is free?

Do you consider the SSPL to be free? If so, this would be. If not, it probably would not be. Why does SSPL require unsatisfiable numbers of dependencies by the way? It seems pretty clear to me (though, clearly, not free).

> if you can just launder code through a LLM and magically remove any licensing for it.

If you can actually do this, I look forward to unencumbered Windows-compatible source code having run variously leaked source through copilot.

It’s been a while since I’ve used one, but I’m fairly sure the common debuggers for C#, F#, Rust and Java would all behave correctly when breakpointed like this.