Same. What’s even worse is that there is no visibility into it.

Became so bad for us that we switched to an external merge queue provider (trunk.io, not affiliated)

P90 of merge queue entry _started_ dropped from up to 40! minutes to 16 seconds. And it’s the same underlying mechanism, creating a branch and running CI on it.

Medieval rhyming stuff. Robert -> Rob. Richard -> Dick. Edward -> Ned.

Actually “only” Germany voted back then. Like 3.79% of Germans voted. So that comes out to ~3.18M of 4.6M votes cast by Germans.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_18_...

A vote was held and a conclusion reached. Voting is not mandatory, but generally the outcome of a vote should be followed.

I voted to permanently abolish daylight saving time/summer time and am very unhappy that it isn't gone already.

So much confusion about this. There was never a "vote" about it. It was more like a poll, which wasn't advertised across the EU, and on top of it was severely plagued by server failures. To have a binding vote:

- it needs to be properly announced to all eligible voters

- be declared as binding, you can't tell people it isn't a vote and later on declare it is

- the platform for voting needs to work

Who cares? On 26 March 2019 the European Parliament voted 410 to 192 in favor of dropping the DST requirement in the EU by 2021.

Nothing happend. All talk, no action, as I wrote above.

Unfortunately, they left open what happens after dropping DST. If they had clearly written that the EU would return to the standard time, it would have been active back then.

Well. It’s synced paper. If I am on the go, i cannot check the paper on the fridge.

And I literally cannot log in to cancel my subscription. Caught in some redirect loop.

I don’t have enough spare time to waste 5% of “content time” for ads.

If you have time to 'consume' the 'content' on Netflix you have time for a few ads.

At the movies I can grab popcorn while the ads play. And usually the ads are for other movies, often enough topical. Watching an action movie, get ads for more action movies.

If ads are playing on the TV, they inject themselves into your home. Especially kids now wanting to buy or watch that you didn’t get to vet.

Switching cards in Apple Pay on iOS is easier in apps. Just swiping in a carousel.

GitLab is MIT licensed, but also has also parts which are source available but not MIT licensed. Contributions to both are possible.

It was introduced in iOS 18, which is installable back to iPhone Xs (2018). So 8 years of devices have that setting.

I commented because my father has an iPhone 8 and vision/cognitive issues. He could very much benefit from this accessibility feature, but he hasn’t been eligible for iOS upgrades for years.

Yes, actually.

I got an iPad 2 found in a drawer that would be perfectly good if the software could at least be easily unlocked so you could only hope to install an alternative OS since they don't want to update it themselves. Or if they allowed installing stuff from outside their store.

But no, the thing runs an ancient WebKit and that's pretty much your only way to run custom code on this stuff.

I can't even create an apple account from this stuff anymore, and apple won't let me create an apple account from any other device I have. Which could possibly help with jail breaking it. And it would already be a pain to be able to create an apple account because they require a name, a birth date, a phone number, an email address... All this to access a store from which nothing would work anyway for an old device like this.

So, fuck them.

And android increasingly becomes like this too.

Meanwhile, you can still run an up to date Linux on a laptop from the 90s.