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the courts don’t care if the license is “as-is”.

There isn't any case law to show that. Certainly not in the age of AI. On the criminal side, the CFAA requires "intentionally causes damage" and that's entirely impossible to prove in the age of AI. On the civil side, liability waivers and warranty disclaimers generally cannot shield intentional or willful misconduct or gross negligence.

Yeah I think I've finally had enough. I need to start seriously advocating for alternatives since this is starting to impact our business. It's clearly not getting any better.

There was another really bad incident today: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zsg1lk7w13cf

We have resolved a regression present when using merge queue with either squash merges or rebases. If you use merge queue in this configuration, some pull requests may have been merged incorrectly between 2026-04-23 16:05-20:43 UTC.

We had ~8 commits get entirely reverted on our default branch during this time. I've never seen a github incident quite this bad.

I guess it was only a matter of time...

Part of this is fair since there is a cost to operating the control plane.

One way around this is to go back to using check runs. I imagine a third party could handle webhooks, parse the .github/workflows/example.yml, then execute the action via https://github.com/nektos/act (or similar), then post the result.

Yeah just typical Debian stuff. jwz has been ranting about this for years. It's not worth spending any time on it.

Some suggestions:

- Only "supporting" the latest mainline kernel and latest tools. I prefer to point to CI system configurations to show exactly what it "supported"

- Make this clear via your website and a pinned issue on Github.

- Force users to report the versions they use via an issue template: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-en.... Immediately close any issues not meeting your version/system requirements without further discussion or thought.

I've been patiently waiting to convert my ZFS array to bcachefs. I'm very excited about better SSD promotion logic. But I'm not willing to spend any time on an experimental filesystem on my main systems.

But you can expect to get flamed about running Debian, or perhaps more accurately, not being willing to spearhead Kent's crusade against Debian's Rust packaging policies.

It is quite unfortunate that Kent couldn't have just said "Debian isn't supported, we will revisit this when bcachefs is more stable" and stopped talking after that. Debian and experimental software just don't work well together.

There are attestations that the binaries were built via CI:

https://userdocs.github.io/qbittorrent-nox-static/artifact-a...

Here's a verification of the latest build:

  gh attestation verify x86_64-qbittorrent-nox -o userdocs
  Loaded digest sha256:af9ceace3fea1418ebd98cd7a8a7b6e06c3d8d768f4d9c9ce0d3e9a3256f40d9 for file://x86_64-qbittorrent-nox
  Loaded 1 attestation from GitHub API
   Verification succeeded!

  sha256:af9ceace3fea1418ebd98cd7a8a7b6e06c3d8d768f4d9c9ce0d3e9a3256f40d9 was attested by:
  REPO                             PREDICATE_TYPE                  WORKFLOW
  userdocs/qbittorrent-nox-static  https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1  .github/workflows/matrix_multi_build_and_release_qbt_workflow_files.yml@refs/heads/master

I personally just blocked all the lg domains in AdGuard. That way I can keep using the apps.

With full internet access the tv takes significantly longer to load and navigate.

LXC vs. Docker 4 years ago

We blocked the annoying snapd autoupdate behavior by setting a http proxy to a nonexistent server. Whenever we had a maintenance window we would unset the proxy, allow the update, then set the set the nonexistent proxy server again.

Very annoying.