CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@cxiao @kouhai I can understand the negative reaction; telling a well-respected and very open source project “you have serious issues but I’m not going to tell you what they actually are” without any attempt to actually flag the issues to them is… not great? it’s not like this is a company that can bring in someone to audit the code, it’s an open source project that would love to fix the issues but is resource constrained by virtue of being an open source project

it’s an inherently aggressive approach to disclosure and it doesn’t come off as “helpful” nearly as much as “condescending”, and while that’s one thing to direct at a corporation…

@gsuberland ;~;

@mattblaze I quite like the names we use here in Toronto, which are… quite descriptive. “Engines” are Pumpers, “trucks” are Aerials, and then we have Rescue Pumpers, Hazmat, Heavy Rescue Squads, and two High Rise units as the other primary apparatus (plus some variants like Tower and Platform). Then all the secondary apparatus like the Air/Lights, the giant “Tower One” (which is support, not primary; the other Towers are primary I think), and all the chiefs are just called “car” over the radio.

They also have a pretty cool foam pumper I’ve seen around once or twice, and I’m not sure if it would be primary or secondary (not sure how it’s crewed). It is, fittingly, assigned the unit number FP121.

@wallmask3 cute

@wallmask3 “the gray cat is gray cat, a gray cat” excellent, i love it