Community Radar newsletter - Vol. 1 Issue 1
UPD: As of June 18, 2022, we updated this article to fix some grammar errors with LanguageTool (not sponsored).
Hi everyone, and this is Community Radar newsletter vol. 1 issue 1! This issue covers everything happened in January and February 2022, and then some picks by the squad, with sprinkles and spices in between. If you want to contribute, submit your suggestions to our issue tracker and even help us write future issues, either by joining the newsletter crew or contributing to our Newsletter Issues Archive repo.
CONTENT WARNING: There are some links and mentions whatâs happening in the current global pandemic, among other things, so if in doubt, please dive deeper and do your own research. What the mainstream media is saying might lie to you, so please proceed with caution. The legalese parts will usually follow US laws for simplicity, please consult a legal expert for help on your local laws.
We handpick some technology and open-source news and related content first, including legalese stuff surrounding the tech industry and even some content from the community.
Microsoft avoided the latest antitrust round, but then brought a company for $69 billion. This might not go smoothly for antitrust enforcers, but assuming that the company learned its lessons on past antitrust roasts, we think this largest acquisition in its history might be fine.
Itâs tax season, at least in the US, but the Great Resignation has been arrived to public accountants. If everybody isnât here, is this busy season a learning opportunity for you, or you chose to leave the chat AKA press the rage-quitting button, anyone?
If you didnât know, thereâs a hidden egg on Golangâs Git commit history on a commit over 20+ years ago. By the way, thereâs more other than your regular Subversion stuff on their switching-between-VCS process. We donât know then if they're going to switch again, if something will be going to replace Git in the distant future.
ICYMI: Akamai acquired Linode on February 15, but having the word metaverse on the press release make us doubt even more on whatâs Meta Platforms is doing.
Legalese ahead: If you pulled the wrong crypto to promote, you could get hit by a class action lawsuit as per US laws, especially if you have been promoting $TON publicly.
From January 2022 and February 2022 Release Radar by GitHub: Some open-source software that reached their v1 milestone for January 2022 are tfsec and Another Pomodoro, plus ToolJet, jSON Visivo, Xata Screenshot, Buf CLI and Python-TUF for February 2022. Honorable mentions include an #StandWithUkraine README banner, GitLens, nut.js, and HTTPie. Head over to the linked Release Radar articles mentioned earlier for the full picture.
Meanwhile in Bullshit HQ, carbon capture tech is still far off track from reaching its goal of decarbonizing the heavy industry.
This is where we pick the content ourselves from our thrones of articles from that dump in Telegram (link is available below).
Speaking of that busy tax season, Joe Schroederâs research has shown that accountantsâ pay has direct effects on the quality of audits. The worst case scenario for accountants with poor work-life balance and totally burnt out are worse audits means more restatements.
Considering switching your servers to FreeBSD from Linux? Learn from an FreeBSD sysadmin on how he manages to do that with some backend pain.
We donât talk about the pandemic narrative collapse (and how Trudeau abused the emergency powers against protesters for terrorist financing) here due to mainstream media calling it as disinformation and more gatekeeping $#!tf**kery (even through there are research papers uncovering the truth, they may censor), but hereâs how Facebook twisted Canadaâs trucker convoy into an international movement, and itâs been a mess here ever since.
Updates on Community Updates Radio
We have a hooks server deployed on Deta.sh for things like handling sending requests to different APIs, but weâre still ironing out on how we pull context and the format yet and also resolving issues on deployments side of things.
Youâll expect to get fresh feeds by later this year as the earliest and/or December if things go into its chaotic state, once weâre done with the testing part of the things. Right now, you can follow Community Updates Radio on Discord, Telegram, Guilded and on Matrix to get the feed pretty soon.
Thanks for opening this newsletter issue! You can find us elsewhere at https://communityradar.bio.link, including the link to the Revue newsletter if you prefer email and everything in between, plus Community Updates Radio for a more frequent feed of tech news and then some. See you in next issue!
Not enough content? We usually stash articles for curation in future issues on our official Telegram article links dump chat, just in case you want to see stuff we have in store. Sometimes, they maybe not included here due to time constraints, but Just a quick note, there are some articles that may be not indexed in our dump chat that may add in the future with tag #LateSubmissions and replied to an issueâs checkpoint or to original entry for additional context.
