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If everyone == developers, sure there's people using it. Are the trillions in investment and debt, social and environmental impact, fear inducing marketing worth it for a handful of startup developers?

Don't forget that large enterprise developers rarely see cutting edge technology in their workplaces.

Because hype. That's all that is to it.

Investors putting money in something doesn't translate to demand, success, or zeitgeist. See dotcom bubble.

How about no? The benefits are not really benefits, are they really? Can't seem to find a benefit out of it, so, no. I don't need to accept any of it.

A friend of mine who's all in on Musk told me a few months ago that Tesla's business hasn't been cars for a while. It's all Optimus and Cybertaxi, where demand will be infinite and we'll all be paid by our governments to stop working since Optimus will do everything and Cybertaxi will take us anywhere. Not today, of course, but in the future. Future being explained in the exact same elastic terms as Musk does.

The fact that he was serious and thinks that Musk is the only tech CEO not in this for his own benefit and enrichment is what makes me believe that this is more of a cult than anything else.

As a contractor sysadmin at the time, managing both Exchange and Notes/Domino, I loved Notes for the simplicity of dealing with backups, to tape and over the VPN.

You mark the database as read only, copy the .nsf file over, unmark the database as read only, done. Brightstor had a plugin for Notes that did that automatically and could do incremental backups with ease.

Move to Exchange and it's horrible single file mail storage solution which was inconceivable when hard drives weren't that big. 10,000 users? It's 100MB of mail so it can fit nicely in a single storage volume. Backups? Well, only at night because you have to unmount the file from Exchange, copy it over, and mount it again, which took a good couple of hours.

I miss Notes "simplicity".

I don't buy the argument that it was an accident or mistake.

If you decide to let things run haywire, then unexpected outcomes will definitely happen.

We do not need more datacenters as well.

As you don't _need_ a datacenter as well

I'm pretty sure it'll be an AI dump fest with barely any humans except the long term maintainers having to cope with it all.

We need more activism like this.

This might be the move that cements BYD in western markets.

If you want to create a new systemd unit file you can run:

   $ sudo systemctl edit --force --full my-scheduled-work@.timer

or

   $ systemctl edit --user --force --full my-scheduled-work@.timer

As long as we don't see the damaged areas around data centers than all is fine, right?

Where have I heard this before?

Don’t let facts get in the way of a catchy headline

I'll keep not connecting my TV to the Internet and keep using a Fire TV stick for now.

I think this comes from this Mastodon thread, https://snac.lx.oliva.nom.br/lxo/p/1771789687.181567

I wish more projects would take the same stance.

Only those with no understanding of how multi-nationals compliance work think that replacing Salesforce or Monday with internal development systems, even with AI assistance tooling, is a reasonable use of their engineering's time.

Salesforce, SAP, etc exist for a reason.

What does it mean "...the competition is still not there at all..."?

What are these features that tie people to Teslas that the competition is unable to deliver on?

Excessive regulation to blame? How so?

Jaecoo and Omoda are starting to show up in the UK

So the plan is to increase unemployment rates?

I wonder how Daniel Stenberg from cURL handles these sort of pressures and what lessons can be learnt from how he deals with it.

That seems to be the current narrative.

Have Fastmail moved their servers outside the US?

Yup. Have been with them for a couple years now and it has been really stable.

Website announcement, https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicursacine..., doesn't even mention the Vision Pro and refers to Apple once.

Because you don't own it, you licence it. That's the whole issue with digital distribution.

https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/internet-services/itunes/uk/t...

"""

- Purchased Content will generally remain available for you to download, redownload, or otherwise access from Apple. Though it is unlikely, subsequent to your purchase, Content may be removed from the Services and become unavailable for further download or access from Apple (for instance, because Apple loses its right from the Content provider to make it available). To ensure your ability to continue enjoying Content, we encourage you to download all purchased Content to a device in your possession and to back it up.

"""

The Linux kernel, probably one of the most critically important pieces of software nowadays, is licenced mainly under the GPL version 2.0[0], and other compatible licenses, and provides a section and 2 paragraphs on how there is no warranty for those who decide to use it.

"""

NO WARRANTY

11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

"""

No Linux kernel engineer is obliged to fix any bugs, even security vulnerabilities, if one decides to, but since there's so much at stake, kernel engineers will end up fixing at their own timeframes, as they see fit.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

Will anyone notice a difference?