LambdaComplex

Yeah, it always confuses me when people release something under e.g. the BSD or MIT license and then complain about "freeloaders."

It's totally understandable to not want companies to profit off of proprietary, closed-source forks of your software. I get it! But there are licenses that you can use to stop that from ever happening (namely [A]GPL). Why not use one of those?

Based on multiple previous employers of mine, it seems like software companies start noticeably going downhill about 1.5 years after they go public. Let's check Wikipedia and see how I did:

> On 29 November 2021, HashiCorp set terms for its IPO

...I'm starting to think I'm onto something. (I do welcome anecdata that either helps or hurts my hypothesis)

My understanding is that he tried renaming PayPal to X, and that's actually the event that led to him being replaced (because there were actually people around then to tell him that it was a terrible idea).

He's been trying to have something named X for a long time.

> "The rebrand represented really a liberation from Twitter," she said.

Yeah, a liberation from a household name into something that sounds like a porn app. Genius move.

Yeah, Elon Musk is currently CEO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla, owner/CTO of Twitter, and owner of The Boring Company. It is incredibly hard to believe that the C-Suite works hard when someone is able to multitask like that. Tesla is even a public company--the shareholders could have him removed if he was doing a bad job!

My gut reaction was "Why would I use this instead of Debian Sid?" but the article actually answered that for me:

> further differentiating it from upstream Ubuntu is that it uses Pacstall as an AUR-like package manager for Ubuntu. Rhino Linux also uses the "Unicorn Desktop" as its blend of the Xfce desktop environment. Rhino Linux also prides itself in using "sane default" and strives for a better user experience.

I really think Discord could pivot themselves to the SMB space if they wanted. Their audio/video call quality is better than anything else I've used, including both Zoom and Skype.

Hurd is over 30 years old. It didn't get support for SATA drives until 2013. It still does not support USB devices, at all. Working on such an OS doesn't seem like it would be a good use of my time, especially when that time could be spent working on Linux, or a BSD.

Valuing my time doesn't make me a capitalist.

I'm glad someone gets it. I've been using Linux as my daily driver for about a decade at this point. I can understand the desire to hack on that for fun, because doing so would actually bring about a tangible improvement to my life.

I find the desire to work on a 30 year old operating system that still lacks USB support much more confusing.

> It's a project that's being built by and for people that care about it.

Okay, then tell us why we should care about it when more popular operating systems fit our needs better anyways.

I've been trying Sidebery since about 2 minutes after I made my last comment, and I think I like Sidebery more--and I've been using Tree Style Tab for _years_

Sidebery responds noticeably faster, and the panels are a great feature.

How does Sidebery compare to Tree Style Tab?

"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison"

Anyone who's interested in this topic should consider reading The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Sidney Dekker.

Martian traffic is a common term among network engineers (or at least among the ones who work at/with ISPs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_packet

> in the 2010s, it was MongoDB because non-durable writes made it “webscale“

I think this is the best video on that topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

> Once AI systems can outperform CEOs, investors and boards will insist they be in charge.

I doubt it. You know who sits on those boards? The executives of other companies.

And Sidney Dekker will tell you that blaming things on "human error" won't actually help you find the root cause of the problem.

> There are often several different phonetic ways you could spell a world, only one of which is right (to, too, two).

And "two" isn't even a phonetic spelling!

> Them being firefighters in California wildfires comes to mind too

Those are the ones that aren't allowed to work as firefighters once they're out of prison due to their criminal records, right?

> OSI essentially means only "corporate friendly" licenses are allowed

The GPL and AGPL are both on the list that you're replying to.

> What if all similar jobs were automated?

Hopefully, we would reach a Star Trek-like utopia where people aren't required to work in order to live.

More realistically, the middle class just disappears, and we have nothing but the super-rich and the destitute left.

Sounds like you'd like Mazda.

> Have one for your volume knob: pressing it down toggles muting.

Check.

> Have one for the main controls: twisting moves the cursor, swiping changes which app is selected.

Check.

> Good ones can also be pressed down like a button, and moved in cardinal directions like a d-pad.

Check.

Someone has read their Dekker :)

Looks like stuff that Jake Sisko would wear

So, pretty much exactly what happened with Google+?

I looked into her company. It seems to be some sort of personal assistant service for $600/mo, $1500/quarter, or $5,900/year. And there's a page trying to convince employers to get the service for their employees so that they can be more productive at work.

Small company from Ohio? Sure. But their target demographic is definitely not small town Ohioans.

I wish more companies thought that way. It seems like most of them are just cargo culting Google's hiring methods with the expectation that it will turn them into the next Google.

> They were slow in ways I did not realize terminal emulators even could be

When I type in a normal terminal emulator (xterm, alacritty, anything!) it feels "fast." There is no perceptible lag whatsoever between pressing a key and the character showing up on the screen.

Then I switch to a tty, and realize there's somehow even less perceptible lag.

I'm afraid to try one that uses Electron.

Paramount Plus generally (exclusively?) shows me ads for...other shows on Paramount Plus. Which I'm obviously already paying for.

Most recently, it showed me an advertisement for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I've already seen every episode of that series, and at least one their systems is well aware of this fact. In fact, Star Trek shows are the ONLY things I've watched on Paramount Plus.

There is clearly no thought going into their ad selection whatsoever.