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A cute systemd feature to get the system clock roughly correct: if the system time is before the compilation time of the systemd binary, it moves the clock forward to that time!

The Stack Overflow moderator strike has come to some agreements! https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/391847/moderation-strike-results-of-negotiations This seems like a good outcome, and it should help communication going forward. I can't think of any other cases where volunteers have successfully run strikes in tech before.

If reverse engineering is black box analysis of how something works, the original development is apparently 'forward engineering'!