Peter Tribble

"It looks like you're using an unsupported browser" No, sorry, what you meant to say was: "It looks like we've written an unsupported website"

If you're running Solaris 11.4 on Intel, and want to try out the latest jdk27 release candidate, here you are: https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/intel-solaris/ #openjdk #solaris

Having to suffer websites that have replaced simple search with AI. It now takes orders of magnitude longer, and fails to return anything useful. Companies are - again - spending an absolute fortune to make their customer experience worse. #enshittification

Went to see the England Women play West Indies at Lord's in the T20 World Cup yesterday evening. A good game, the quality of the women's game keeps improving. Getting there and back was interesting. I was prepared not to go, given a 'do not travel unless absolutely necessary', but in the end it worked out fine. Had to miss the last few overs to make sure I got the train home, which was a shame.

Something that came out of the Resilient Cambridge series was the importance of grass-roots community effort. Right on cue, the UK government agree: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/putting-people-at-the-centre-of-uk-climate-adaptation-and-resilience

@flameshot@fosstodon.org Tribblix (an illumos distribution)

And a current openjdk 17.0.19 for Linux/SPARC. (This one was built using my previous jdk17 build, which is a lot quicker than using the Zero build as the bootstrap.) https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/sparc-linux/