Ephera

Yeah, why only worry about things that happen, when you can also worry things that don't happen?

Man, at $DAYJOB, if we open-source something, they tell us to check for checked-in passwords and whatnot, and force us to throw away the commit history, which always feels stupid when we've known upfront that we're going to open-source it and so kept things clean from the start.

But then, yeah, you see a post like that and just think that it really wouldn't have been too difficult to search for swear words before publishing.
I mean, I also don't really care, since it's code rather than an official communication channel, but I can understand why management might care.

The description in the ticket isn't too bad:

allows users to make a window disappear and keep only its title bar visible.

It really just hides the window contents. In effect, it is similar to minimizing a window, except that it doesn't spring into your panel and rather stays in place as just the window title bar without the contents.

It is a niche feature, if you couldn't tell. But it isn't some KDE specialty feature; various other desktops and window managers also support it. I think, it was more popular in the early days of graphical user interfaces, when we were still working out, how we want to do panels and such.

And conversely, I do think it makes more sense as a feature on big screens like you can have today, where your panel might be quite a bit away.
Don't think, window shading will make a big comeback just yet, but yeah, probably enough existing users that use it, so that it would be cool to support that workflow.

Man, I keep having that problem, that some car or motorcycle sounds like it needs a repair to me, only for me to realize that, no-no, they want it to sound like that.

Just yesterday evening, I heard someone revving before accelerating again after a stop at a crossing, and if they would've gotten out of their car at that point, I might've shouted over that, damn, sounds like they need to get their clutch looked at.
Genuinely thought they failed to engage a gear multiple times. Meanwhile, they would've probably punched my face in, if I insulted their car like that. 🙃

In German, we call it a "toe of garlic", so I was just wondering, if "cloves" is a different word for "toe" and they somehow added toes into their food.

For others wondering what "cloves" is, I'm guess this is what they put in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clove

There's a store in the next town, which has only organic foods. Rather expensive to shop there, but I still go there more often than I need to, just because everyone's friendly and relaxed.

Yeah, if I ever catch a calm hour in the store, I'll actually look through the aisles and check out products I wouldn't normally buy. If the store is busy, I grab the usual and flee as quickly as possible.

German seems to build compound words for things.

Well, not in this case:

Black pepper = Pfeffer
Bell pepper = Paprika
Chili pepper = Chili (although you do rarely also see the compound word "Chilischoten")

I thought about creating something like that and the major problem that I see is that lots of meme templates do have copyright and the font that's typically used for memes, Impact, isn't free either. Well, and it isn't done by merely developing a software and offering it for download. You would need to host the meme templates or some editor webpage, which is a whole 'nother skillset.

If we say that users bring their own meme template, and it can be a free font that looks similar to Impact, and it's not to be hosted as a webpage, then it would be quite doable.
You would "just" need to call the ImageMagick library with the right parameters. Still not trivial, but the path to get there is fairly straightforward. I could imagine that something like that already exists as an open-source project...

It's mostly about ease of use. You don't really want to spend more than a few minutes on a silly meme. As such, having a database with meme templates, the right kind of font and easy text placement, can make the difference, whether you'll bother creating a meme or not...

I mean, modern package managers generally now come with lock files, which effectively auto-pin your dependencies, until you trigger a dependency update.

And while it isn't bullet-proof, it does result in you effectively having a dependency cooldown most of the time. You're only vulnerable, if you trigger the dependency update while the compromised dependency release is public.

Obviously, this can be bad enough, but it does also mean that an ecosystem with lock files is far less attractive to target with a supply-chain attack, since far fewer hosts will get compromised on average.

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