Joost here (FreeSewing maintainer)

Bless you for submitting this, but I doubt much of the people here are into sewing

That being said, they might care more about this FOSDEM talk about FreeSewing:https://youtu.be/ec7vgHoHwqQ?si=IPDEW4s9Q1oS18wl

Hi Joost, FreeSewing is a great idea! I personally don't know anything about sewing, but I got interested in it after visiting the website. However, what attracts me to it is its software modeling.

There's also this GitLab instance: https://code.europa.eu/

When it's a meeting I run/control my rule is that I will wait 150 seconds for people who are late, after which I start the meeting.

You can join later, that's fine, but I'm not waiting longer than 150 seconds.

Waiting 150 seconds feels like waiting a long time. Whereas being 2.5 minutes late feels like being on time.

So I find that phrasing it this way is more impactful.

(by now you probably figured out that I am not very popular ar work)

> (by now you probably figured out that I am not very popular ar work)

I bet your colleagues appreciate it if you’re similarly strict about ending meetings on time.

No matter how hard I try, I cannot make two pairs of jeans that are identical.

Same pattern, same denim, same person making them (me), they don't fit/feel the same.

Consistent results when using fabric is hard. Also keep in mind that good denim is practically sheet metal in comparison to most fabrics, so on one hand easier to get consistent results, but on the other hand, even small differences are more noticeable than something lighter or (god forbid) stretchy.

You cannot just engineer your way out of some of the challenges inherit in garment construction (trust me, Ive tried).

Kudos for trying to make clothes for yourself. I feel everyone should do that at some point.

I am not here de defend politicians, but...

The title says "France rejects backdoor mandate" but TFA makes it clear that France is not a hive-mind:

- The rejection was by the French National Assembly (think parliament/congres) - Ths happened despite pressure from the internal ministry (the government)

I find it interesting that it is often a similar story at the EU level where the European Parliament puts a stop to the worst impulses of the European Commission.

Yes, it's our backing database for Morio [1], an open source observability plumbing tool.

We're still building it but we're dogfooding it and run it in production ourselves.

Can't recommend it enough

[1] https://morio.it/

> some interesting stuff on MR

I'm drawing a blank for MR. What does it stand for?

For a real-worl use case, look towards the 'script' processor in Elastic' Beats family of data shippers [1] (example is from Metricbeat but it exists in other Beats too)

They can be configured to mutate the data with some basic DSL syntax, but if you have more advanced needs, you can break out to JavaScript and transform the JSON any way you want.

This is very useful because now any transformation becomes possible. And because this is the user of your product who writes that JavaScript more as configuration than code. And since there's no build step, it is just part if the configuration loaded at startup.

[1] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/pro...

I've been working on something to handle the "plumbing for your observability". It's a way to collect, stream, and route observability data that can get it from and into a wide variety of systems.

It's not targeted at the 'cloud native' crowd, but rather more at traditional on-prem infra.

It is all manageable via an API and provides a Kafka API for streaming data (RedPanda under the hood).

Name: Morio Documentation: https://morio.it/ Code: https://github.com/certeu/morio

Note: here is no commercial angle here. This is an open source project of (the CERT of) the EU (license: EUPL).