> the killer Kagi feature is being able to uprank/downrank/pin/block domains
Yes! This alone is worth the subscription to me.
And I despise and avoid software subscriptions, Kagi is my third.
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Yes! This alone is worth the subscription to me.
And I despise and avoid software subscriptions, Kagi is my third.
I use different machines differently. The laptop I'm typing this on is my "main" browser, I have lots of bookmarks set up in a specific structure. I only use my phone browser when I have to, and it is rarely the same thing I've done before. It has a couple stale bookmarks, I don't care. I use the browser on my iPad even less. My big desktop is where I play with recreational software development, it has lots of bookmarks, but a very different set than my laptop. And my work phone/work laptop are their own things.
It just seems like making every closet door in your house open the same closet, if that where physically possible. There are reasons different things go in different buckets.
Funny how the sales pitch and reality collide, eh?
The sad part is that stupid sales pitches like that are required to get movement. Internet access is 21st century dial tone, the vast majority of people need it to function in normal society. Universal Service was the sort of socialism a fast-growing capitalist society needed; internet service is the same now.
People seem to think of it as a luxury. They're wrong: it is a control mechanism that comes with access to videos of naked people. To the extent you want the machinery of society to keep working, you should want everyone attached, including those smut-loving poor people you seem to want to judge.
You must agree that getting more of these good and useful tools in play would be positive, right?
So who was it?
If contrarians really wanted to be helpful, they'd not downplay risks inherent in the utter lack of basic privacy legislation in the US and pretend this is all fine and normal. But instead they shill for car manufacturers, pretend adtech is harmless and try to portray anyone who has a problem with these things as weirdos.
The best thing about it is that it is boring, completely predictable outside of hardware faults, and dependable. If you know how to competently manage it, which isn't hard, it is a rock.
Also nice is that FreeBSD isn't involved in vendor tugs-of-war that result in the constant stream of bullshit changes* - the network config format doesn't change every version, people aren't playing political games with init, etc. All of which mean far fewer goofy make-work surprises.
And the quality of their releases is still very high. I consider them one of top open source projects, period, in terms of qualities others should emulate for better results.
As with anything, it isn't for everything. If you need the latest version of whatever is trendy this month, you should run Linux. But if your use case benefits from stability and ease of administration, FreeBSD rocks.
* What is bullshit in my environment may not be in yours, etc.
Journalists are going to write nonsense, hype-filled science articles. PR flacks are going to hype puff newswire blurbs. Why? Because that's what they're paid to do.
You can curse the existence of bad incentives, if you want annoying ideologues to call you a communist.
Or you can hire your own PR flacks. Because worrying about how people will react to what you're doing is PR, and going up against professionals without your own is like going to court without a lawyer.
Or you can just, you know, do science, accept that people suck sometimes, and get on with your life.
On the trip side, the car rental selector is something special. You can't check multiple vendors at once, so if cars are in demand, expect to spend a while discovering you can't get one.
It seems pretty self-evident that they wish to exchange something of value for something else of value. This is a pretty common activity among humans.
Unfortunately, as we see here, "instead, why don't you do even more work to change it to my specifications and then give it to me for free" is a common counteroffer.
I care far less about the feature set than I do getting the whatever written down and out of my head.
If you make we wait while you load a website's worth of js or phone home with surveillance data or whatever, I'm just going to delete you. I'd rather use a 1995-era Textedit or Notepad - they're instantly functional.
Just to make sure I maintain my curmudgeon's rep, I'll add - advertise AI and I'm also gone. I have zero need for assistance from a tripping robot to type in my work life.
I can think of all sorts of ways to do more of this. Protest meat by disrupting homeless shelters. Or protest racism by attacking the Red Cross. Do you believe those are ethically defensible actions?
I think we both know the reason museums are targets is that they know most museum employees are sympathetic to the cause and unlikely to get violent. Try the same stunt in a refinery and I don't think you'll glue your hand to the wall twice.
It is opportunistic and shitty, and I also believe counterproductive.
> "we can't enjoy nature cause you're blowing it up, so you can't enjoy your precious art safe space."
What I hear is, "I'm a selfish, naive attention seeker who needs a decent spell in jail to think about my choices."
My day job takes credit for my work, but compensates me in money. Pretty much the only "pay" for the vast majority of open source work is credit.
> it's hard to argue that Massimo did wrong to the community by popularizing Arduino
So who made that argument? I haven't seen anyone claim his marketing efforts were unethical.
But let's say you wrote a significant part of a book. I took your work, completed it, and published it as solely my work. It becomes wildly successful. Have I done anything wrong?
The revolutionary rightwingers are endlessly fragmentary - the militia, white supremacy and various theocratic movements each have a ton of complicated history of fragmentation and infighting.
I suspect the phenomenon is partly a function of relative powerlessness combined with the emotional high-stakes of being marginalized combined with the personalities attracted to such groups.
In this case, never run Oracle software. Not only will it vastly improve your mood during budget season; your developers will be less likely to stab you in your sleep and you will never worry about their primary line of business: lawsuits.
And you don't care how they benchmark.
Welcome to Microsoft!
Who took ~$5 billion and counting from the government...
But it all gets better in your 40s. That's when you and your peers start to have enough power and money to be catered to. And when the 20-somethings start bitching about you.
> Older generations who think they know exactly what the younger generations
This is frequently called 'society'. Keep breathing long enough, you'll find yourself on the other side of that behavior.
I got in the habit of at least gesturing towards POSIX back when it was more common to run a bunch of different unixes. And I still run both FreeBSD and Linux at home, so there's value there for me.
Mostly, I still do it because I'm always surprised by which artifacts I create end up being long-lived, and you never know what will be valuable in the future. One of the things I'm technically proudest of ended up only being useful for less than a year, whereas I know a dumb 4 line hack I wrote on a contract in 2002 is still running via cron every night, now on a VM in AWS.
Only the ones who don't travel enough to understand how weird US culture is.
> is impossible in principle
Not in principle. I suspect it is impossible in the US without a significant cultural shift, somehow. A disturbing fraction of the country seems to consider the commonweal to be an old-fashioned concept or the domain of suckers.
It sounds like that works for you at your company. Congrats!
But if you're lucky enough never to have had an overbearing boss, you're not familiar with all the nifty ways they will try to control or coerce labor while not paying you.
In US low-wage jobs, they know they can get away with violating labor law with impunity until it gets bad enough to attract media attention. Even if workers had the money to sue, it wouldn't be worth it.
I got to see texts from a younger relative's boss at a national chain restaurant leading up to quitting. She had been working 6-7 days a week for over a month, but wage theft was keeping her under 40 hours a week paid. Multiple demands she come in on her day off with less than a couple hours notice to "support the team" or "do her part", with escalating threats in response to anything less deferential than "yes boss".
She finally responded by quitting. That solicited a remarkable fit of rage, calling her a loser who can't hold down a real job and so on.
The thing that kills me is I know most people don't want to be abusive shitheads. It is absolutely learned behavior from an abusive top-down system. The only way to win is not to play.
And I think that's driving a lot of the job churn our sanctified "job creators" are bitching about. Fuck 'em. If you can't build a company without abusing people, you don't deserve a company. Go get a real job, whiners.
At their request, we built a method to flag accounts for data poisoning. Once flagged, those accounts would start getting plausible-ish looking garbage data.
It was pretty effective. One competitor went offline for a few days about a week after that started, and had a more limited offering when they came back up.
Why do you think it has the odd server-client architecture in the first place?
This being, IMO, the most important part. Holmes is not a Martian; she's a product of SV culture. While her scam was particularly brazen, I saw a ton of small things in _Bad Blood_ that I also saw in various founders and execs in startups I've worked for.
The disturbing thing is that her behavior, while extreme, is just that - an extreme on a fairly smooth gradient. A lot of successful firms have people who have done some nasty, gross stuff to get there.
In terms of right wing PR/propaganda, it is another example of them following a specific playbook to redefine a term to mean what they want it to mean. 'Critical Race Theory' is the current example of this; 'political correctness' was another. Remember when they were shouting about Saul Alinsky? Well, that was because the playbook is largely derived from his writings - specifically, the tactic described as 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.'
So there you are. Depending on your politics, it was a strain of Marxist intellectual thought in the 1930s, or just another cudgel in the culture wars.
Given that the professor appears to be a frequent flyer with this, the kernel folks banning him and the university prohibiting him from using Uni resources for anything kernel related seems reasonable and gets the point across.