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Making the generous assumption that there is a gap in your cultural knowledge and sharing the source of these two lines with background context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_Forever

For the union makes us strong

I'm still mulling how to go about porting my tiling window manager for Windows[1] to another platform, or even if I'll do it at all. There is some demand, but I don't know if there is _enough_ demand

Regardless of if I target macOS or Linux first, this would be a pretty full time endeavour on my part. I could wait until the commercial use licenses of the Windows version sustain me enough to be able to work on this full time, or try to raise a Kickstarter for $X00,000 to be able to quit my 9-5 and work on porting full time for a year or so

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

> That doesn't make what I said about China any less true.

Just in case we meet again in another comment thread, I wasn't suggesting this; I was hoping that quoting a specific part of your comment would communicate that I was replying directly to that part without questioning the veracity of the rest of your comment

> Even if they're not paid, you have to be careful what you post if you're building a life in China.

This is the case in most western countries now, especially if you post anything related to Palestine. Besides the US, the situation in France, Germany and the UK is quite concerning these days.

As an immigrant to the US I now have to fear being abducted on the street by ICE "officers" who present no identification and conceal their identities, being arbitrarily detailed and tortured at airports[1], being held incommunicado without due process, and being shipped off to CECOT for the rest of my life.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/germany-inve...

There is a very interesting and fast-growing (video) niche of African Americans who have moved to China sharing their experiences of daily life in different Chinese areas ranging from these megacities to rural towns and villages.

The common thread throughout these videos is how much safer it feels to be black in China vs. America, and more generally how welcoming and friendly China is to foreigners (in stark contrast to the expectations that were set for them by non-Chinese people repeating comments like the parent comment here)

> And that's also where the magic lies because it's that very process of engaging with content and deciding whether or not it has value to you that makes using an RSS reader a better experience and one where you own your attention.

Back when RSS was more popular, the tyranny of never-ending backlogs was a topic that was discussed somewhat regularly, but it gets glossed over a little these days since RSS talk is naturally enclosed within a layer of nostalgia

For a few years now my approach has basically been "read it now or read it never" - this means that my RSS feeds are typically empty and I never save anything to "read it later" queues

If it's something I'm supposed to read, it'll probably be resurfaced one way or another (or maybe it won't, and that's fine too) at a later time when I'm immediately ready to pick up what is being put down

There are many - but FSF, OSI and their proponents typically advocate quite strongly against their use.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> sucked up in corporate interests

"The purpose of a system is what it does"

I guess I must have imagined all the licenses which treat individual and corporate use as distinct.

Edit: I'll simplify the above to "the statement in the parent comment is demonstrably not true"

> The GPL and AGPL are some of the only licenses not to get totally sucked up in corporate interests

Neither of these licenses address the gigantic "internal use" loophole

FSF is also just as dogmatic as OSI in it's refusal to distinguish corporations from individuals

> but the flip side of this attitude is it disqualifies you from the best, most satisfying teams to work on

Speaking for myself, I'm just not interested in this anymore - work is just a single (and not even particularly important) part of a much more vast and rich life I have now

There will also never be anything the best and brightest teams will be working on that will be even half as interesting, engaging or satisfying as the projects I work on in my own time

Switch flip after I was unceremoniously laid off from a Series C (now D) company (along with 25% of my fellow comrade workers) that I went many extra miles, many times, to stop from going under between Seed - Series C.

I'm still what people refer to as a "10xer" (though I don't like this term) when it comes to my own projects[1], but at this point if an employer wants this kind of quality from me, they'd need to x10 whatever initial salary offer they present me with.

Besides my own software projects, I now put the extra brain power into music, dance, videography, editing etc., and life is good.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

> What does loyalty have to do with the quality of your work?

For me? Everything

Maybe this won't be the case anymore when I get assigned to the severed floor, but until then...

> but my “best” work tends to come out unpredictably when the conditions are right

I get this, but the moment this "feeling" comes up during my 9-5 I nip it in the bud

Others have already written in their comments on this post about how silly the idea of loyalty to a company is.

I think all I'll add to that is that I have ended up at the point where I doubt I'll ever give my "best" work to an employer again - I'm just there to put the JIRA tickets in the bag, so to speak.

My best work is now exclusively reserved for things in my free time that I have a personal interest in.

Yep, the humiliating decline that the whole world is now watching is indeed the consequences of America's own actions

It's morbidly fascinating to watch the wanton cruelty of a society in such rapid decline.

I feel for this person. I stopped using open source licenses a while ago, and I've recently started writing about how I've ended up where I am. One of my pieces got shared here last month and predictably didn't land with the readership.

Nevertheless, I'm going to keep writing (latest piece [1]) about my post-open source journey in the hopes of clicking with a handful of people in the next generation.

[1]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/on-evils-in-software-licensing/ - feel free to hit me up off-platform if you want to discuss

I hadn't heard of it back in 2019, and even now that I look at it for the first time, I still think I'd rather maintain a separate sync service than maintain a Postgres instance with custom extensions and write HTTP requests in SQL.

It's a bookmarking service so people rarely search - they just throw stuff into a bucket that they'll probably never go back to for the rest of their lives :)

I picked MS primarily because I was impressed with the quality of search results across multiple languages - even if this were a more search-heavy service, I would probably still pick MS because high quality multilingual search results will always have the highest importance for me as a multilingual person.

Been a happy user of MS in production for https://notado.app for many years, and someone from MS even reached out to me a few years ago thanking me for my write-up of syncing Postgres records to MS[1], saying they used it as a reference for something they later shipped.

I haven't kept up with the latest updates, all these new AI references don't inspire confidence at all, but the older version I'm running is chugging along and doing a great job.

[1]: https://notado.substack.com/p/how-notado-syncs-data-from-pos...

Explanation makes a lot of sense. Good to see the next generation opting out of thankless work early.

I knew there had to be a fallacy for this line of argument, thanks for sharing this!

I've been putting a lot of my energy into side projects for the last five years, and while I've considered them all successful (i.e. they have filled a concrete need I had, and having addressed that need the workflow of my life has improved significantly), it's only this year that one of them has really started to take off financially.

I started selling commercial use licenses for one of my side projects in January, and in 3 months I've had more people sign up for license subscriptions than I've had people sign up to be sponsors on GitHub in 3 years.

I'm very cautiously optimistic that if I keep working at it, within a year or two I might be able to have enough license revenue to pick up part-time shift work somewhere that offers healthcare, and then spend the rest of my time in the blissful Zen of my good side project (will it still be a side project at that point??)

I think the only company I know which spends more time than Anduril getting embroiled in completely unnecessary drama is Automattic.

This still remains the absolute pinnacle of cohesive desktop environment design in my books.

I have had some positive interactions with the author in the past and did a little Lilly / NixOS / V crossover video a while ago.[1] It's nice to see this project posted here and that it's still making steady progress!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR0C76I59AI

Does Liberapay provide the various tax forms a receiver needs to file their yearly returns in the US?