While I generally think constructive criticism is usually the right choice, I suspect Github will never get the message unless there are some very strongly worded criticisms. In Andrew's defense, he did post some constructive evidence of things he considered problematic.
A high-profile repository like Zig moving off of Github is as loud a message as one can give. Tossing in "losers" and "monkeys" only muddies the delivery.
The most effective message GitHub can receive is when they don’t get to invoice you.
GHA in particular is a hot mess, I’m as surprised as a decade ago that anybody is using this crap. IMHO it’s bugs as a service kind of product, and the bugs start at the core design with the ‘pretend yaml but actually an unholy mix of shell, js and json’ language.
That was true before the 3.0 release. Why didn't the people offended by "master" just change the branch name? Because it was never about their own branch names. It was about everyone else's.
I run a dedicated firewall/dns box with netfilter rules to rate limit new connections per IP. It looks like I may need to change that to rate limit per /16 subnet...
I tried KDE on several different occasions this year, and each time the bottom panel froze on me when trying to configure it, usually within the first minute or two. It felt a bit like I was still using KDE4 when it was first released.
I think I've had some panel hangs up until a couple of months ago. It was usually some tray plugin (happened after particular changes in the network or sound system configuration) or multi-screen configuration change related. In any case, the workaround for a hanging or spazzed out desktop shell is: open krunner (it's a different process, should still work) and run plasmashell --replace.
I've used a lot of Rust and Haskell over the past few years (I consider OCaml to be similar), and I think the benefits go beyond just user preference. But I think it's something that requires experience with "must not fail" systems failing in production, and then seeing how these languages make that failure impossible. The level of freedom and confidence that brings is amazing. And yes, that also makes them more fun to use.
