Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Suddenly remembering that I saved more than one dial-up customer from meeting the same fate with the "as seen on TV" MagicJack devices sold at the nearby Walley World, shortly after Vonage faded from TV screens.

Suddenly remembering that time I had to explain to a customer why their dial-up Internet access quit working.

It wasn't because they got Vonage. Not per se.

Remember those woo-hoo "people do stupid things" commercials? Yeah, them. Vonage is a VoIP service which, like all VoIPs, needs high-speed Internet access to work.

It was because they canceled their expensive telco/DSL bundle in favor of the cheaper Vonage for phone calls and dial-up Internet.

Related forum thread: https://users.bitkeeper.org/t/experimental-bazel-branch/1213

So it turns out BitKeeper is still a thing (yes, Linux greyhairs, _that_ BitKeeper), and Open Slopware lists it as an alternative VCS:
https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#user-content-version-control

Even more amazingly, it's still being updated. However, I regret to inform that its lead dev was slop-shotted, its only side branch was slopified last Friday, and PR#15 is open to pull it into main:
https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/commit/0b292334aa83fdb434d84f3e8715a0a43e1fdac1

Some pre-slop forks already exist:
https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/forks?include=active&page=1&period=5y&sort_by=last_updated

Travel Oregon (via YouTube), "Only Slightly Exaggerated" [1:30]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doVV1a7XgyQ

EDS (via CBS, via YouTube), "Cat Herders" [1:00]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE

With the green chiles reaching seasonal maturity, the cheeseburger herds begin their annual grazing migration down the New Mexico Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail to become green chile cheeseburgers.

(The story is fiction unless you are what you eat, but the trail, the cheeseburgers, the green chile, and even #NewMexico are real.)
https://www.newmexico.org/things-to-do/cuisine/culinary-trails/green-chile-cheeseburger-trail/

LBs: If the thing you lead or steward absolutely depends on community contributions in order to be useful, then the quickest, simplest, and easiest way to destroy your community's trust in your stewardship is to insult your community's worth with AI slop.