Dear OSS community on Mastodon, Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like: > “First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available" or > “Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!” or > “Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out” … and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician. Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have **no idea** what three quarters of these projects actually **do**. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum? So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a **tiny** bit of context.<li>Tell us what your software does.</li><li>Tell us why this release is cool.</li><li>Tell us what it requires to work.</li> Example: > We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably. Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”. Yours truly, *Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements*
You should think of this prize as the **Nobel Prize in Corruption**
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Trump awarded new peace prize from FIFA during 2026 World Cup draw
Trump, who has openly campaigned for and long coveted the Nobel Peace Prize, had been heavily favoured to win the newly created FIFA prize.
 The FIFA is absolutely a top tier organization when it comes to corruption. They could even give Tamany Hall and the legendary„Boss“ Tweed a run for their money. And they, the most renowned experts in that field, clearly recognized Trump’s talent for enriching himself and gave him a golden trophy for it.
Der hocheffektivste Verbrenner Deutschlands sitzt im Kanzleramt 🤬
**It's a Sunday** *The Legacy of WW2* The year is 2025, 80 years after World War 2 ended. About 7.000 people of my hometown will spend today Sunday being evacuated from their home, waiting in a school, gym or elsewhere and coming back in the afternoon. As already several time this year, a dud bomb from WW2 is the reason. As a submarine harbor, the town was bombed quite extensively. In 90 attacks about 44.000 explosive bombs, 900 block busters and half a million incendiary bombs were dropped. About 10% of those were duds. The obvious ones were deposed immediately after, but thousands buried themselves deep into the ground. You can find unexploded bombs up to 10m deep into the ground. Even after decades of intense searching, there are still many left. Nobody knows exactly how many are still to be found. A rough estimate is, that there are still about 100 in my hometown alone. Whenever you want to build something here, you have to ask for an analysis for unexploded ordnance first. This is a major delay and in complicated areas can take weeks or months. If areal photography hints on possible duds, an exploratory digging starts. If they find something, the disposal team comes on a Sunday. Why on a Sunday? To keep the economic impact low, they do it on a non-business day. They need to clear a lot of area. And it is good they do, because not always a disposal is possible and the bomb has to be blown up. And sometimes the disposal team never comes home ever again. Whenever you read: "The war has ended" **that is a lie.** The killing may stop but the dying and suffering doesn't. That part of the war will drag on for at least some decades. Some areas from World War One (110 years past) are still unsafe. **War is hell...**
How do I notice that I get old? I am annoyed that most tutorials come as videos and not a document with screenshots 😏.