Yeah, and then it probably isn't the developers job to fix that but rather the DevOps engineer's one.

Also saying "the developer has to fix this" is something we tried to abolish when talking about DevOps. What about shared responsibility? Bridging the knowledge gap.

That's the good thing with open source. You can theoretically fork it and remove what prevents you from using Kate as root.

Sure. But the malaise of smug people taking decisions that are outside of the scope of the software is creeping into linux too. It is up to me decide what is secure, not them.

It's smug people telling other people what to do all the way down!

AFAIK because "act", the tool to run github actions locally, was there and there was no need to create something else. Also makes it easier for people to switch from github.

Also see https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/design

Well, yes. In this project where I needed to do this, we thought about removing the pipeline completely and replace it with something custom made. But as always: gitlab worked and there was no immediate need to replace it.

I guess you're in the minority here. In Germany, everything Remotely large will be measured in football fields or "Saarlands".

I'm also European and don't get these olympic swimming pool or whatever comparisons. I'd have to look up how many m3 of water they contain or what's the length/depth in meters are to make sense of it.

Newspapers in my country don't make these silly comparisons.

But yeah, to be fair, when hearing about Starship I had to look up our TV tower height to identify whether Starship is taller or not. It disappointed me that it's not.

Yeah, height is easier to grasp when correlating in terms of x story apartment buildings.

Don't forget to mention the inofficial units for fluid volumes being "Badewannen" and "Schubkarren".

Can’t forget the Olympic sized swimming pools!

Whats the speed of light in football field terms?

Approximately 7 708 937 142 soccer fields per half time.

When using football fields as a unit of length you should use American football fields rather than soccer fields because American football field sizes are more standardized.

For American football professional, college, and high school games are all played on the same sized field, which is 100 years long.

Compare to soccer, where they can even have different sized fields in the same professional league. The English Premier League wants to standardize on 105 m x 68 m but several clubs are still using other sizes: Brentford (105 x 65), Chelsea (103 x 67), Crystal Palace (100 x 67), Everton (103 x 70), Fullham (100 x 65), Liverpool (101 x 68), and Nottingham Forest (105 x 70).

For international play FIFA has a standard, but it is a range: 100-110 m x 64-70 m.

There are parts of a soccer field that are precisely specified and so could be used as a standard of length.

Some examples are the radius of the circle around the center mark (9.144 m), the penalty area (40.23 x 16.46 m), distance from penalty mark to goal (10.97 m), goal area (18.29 m x 5.47 m), distance between goal posts (7.32 m), and the height of the crossbar (2.44 m).

The reason none of them are nice integers is that they were actually originally standardized in Imperial units. In those the aforementioned measurements are 10 yards, 44 yards x 18 yards, 12 yards, 20 yards x 6 yards, 8 yards, and 8 feet, respectively.

I don't know the first thing about football, only that it has the words "foot" and "ball", none of which apply to the American variant who is played with hands and a (geometric) lemon[1] :p

I figured FIFA/UEFA who both standardised on 105m, sensibly factored ±5m to account for Heisenberg uncertainty when approaching relativistic speeds. This is very well depicted - complete with curvature of space, train paradox, spooky action at a distance, time dilation, and other relativistic oddities - in a documentary I watched when I was young; if only I could recall the original name...

EDIT: I think it was キャプテン翼.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(geometry)

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5AZhJCPSg

Are we including stoppage time?

> Weaker than standard physical store consumer protections (no playtime restriction on returns, obviously)

Depends on the jurisdiction. In Germany you have no right to returns on things bought in a physical store.

You just install it. It works everywhere.

Do you know https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr? They did something similar.

Flattr was a micro-donation subscription service where users set a monthly budget that was allocated to creators.

Small Transfers is for usage-based billing of online services and APIs. There is no monthly budget, wallet, or pre-funding. Customers are charged only for actual usage.

Sending cash via snail mail to buy stuff online exists. While Anna's archive does not support it, it certainly exists.

This is also forbidden by several post offices. In my country it's against the law to send money by mail.

Ok, but now you're not comparing bitcoin to cash but rather to cash+mail, which has many more tracking opportunities.

Because someone gifts them to you. Or because your SO likes to look at other sheets once in a while. Or because you have no dryer and the sheets do not dry fast enough in winter.