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At this point "Cryptocurrencies" are only a small, even substantial part of the "Crypto Industry".

The moment general population became aware of "bitcoin" as "something you can buy that'll get more expensive", the whole technology and ideals behind it were overshadowed by speculative investors.

What keeps Twitter up as a major social network is not %99.99 uptime. It's strong network effects in play.

What will sink Twitter is not %99.8 uptime. It's those network effects fading away.

For example, if people stopped using MySpace, Facebook, etc it was not because of their availability.

Again, I'm not saying this is cool. Im just saying if that extra %0.2 downtime (in short term) costs you 80% of your work force costs, a business manager may consider that acceptable.

4. Something in between? In short term we'll see some issues but overall nothing important will change and these downtimes and small issues are a justifiable cost for letting such massive cut in the payroll.

Asahi Linux is amazing and pretty usable at this point. However, last I tried I couldn't get stuff like Slack and Spotify to work on it because there are no Arm packages for those. Has anyone found a way around that?

First time I installed Linux, I was trying to Gaim on it.

I managed to compile Gaim before I managed to install it from RPM packages.

Using Debian was a moment of pure epiphany.

Good times.

> features that actually work

Like which one? Seriously I've tried Teams on Linux and Mac and Browser and I don't think anything works there.

If there was any justice, there would be an investigation around Republicans' treason around this. Watch HBO's documentary about the matter but basically republicans negotiate with Iran behind US government's knowledge to not release the hostages until Raegan becomes president. Had it not been for this literal treason for party gain, Carter would've managed to get them released much earlier.

I don't really have a good answer for that. I'm happy with what have at Heroku. My pain points on it would be:

1. The annoying 30 second timeout they have (Which is not there in other platforms)

2. Steep pricing (Which I'm not really aware how comparable it is with Fly)

3. Lack of HTTP/2 support (Which is coming soon to Heroku I think)

4. The feeling of stagnation around Heroku

And Im not sure if resolving all of these would be enough of a incentive for me to make a move.

We are not. As a matter of fact we just renewed our annual contract with Heroku.

As disappointing as it is that Heroku is basically stalling, the fact is that it was light-years ahead of competition in terms of developer ergonomics. Even to this day, it's still super convenient and reliable-enough for us.

If anyone wants us to switch to their service they can't be as good as Heroku or slightly better. They need to be _much better_ to justify the costs of a switch.

There were many alpha and beta releases. The point was about finalizing API changes of kdelibs.

The reason is that KDE is mostly developed by volunteers. Many of whom had branches that have been developed and ready for several years but not released. They were losing interest. KDE had to move the train to keep those volunteers around.

If you don't ship it and some point it's gonna die.

And all the post is saying is that it doesn't apply to everyone. It applies to Google and many other companies including your's, but not all. As a matter of fact, it applies to a very small subset of use cases. If your software handles millions of transactions distributed all over the world, there's a good chance it's within that sweet spot. But most software written in the world doesn't fit that category.

Pardoning him would be very costly. I cannot imagine Biden doing it.

I don't understand what you mean.

The guy ~destroyed~ stole billions of dollars worth of other people's money. Yet, he is freely hanging out on twitter and podcasts. When people interview him they ask questions about him politely and give him complete benefit of the doubt.

He has his complete freedom and everyone is just speculating that he'll be arrested and judged.

What else do you want? People not to even be angry?

The problem was, even in peaceful cities, if you failed in economy and borrowed money from Caesar and not pay back for a long time or failed to send him his “gifts” he would send an army to destroy you.

In peaceful cities that was game over. In combat cities you could potentially defeat his army once or twice and buy yourself some time to pay up his debt.

Oh it seems that people accepted that and thought Blockchain is the new technology and here we are...

> What's not clear to me is what they gambled on that lost money.

My guess would be other crypto ventures. All these crypto companies pumped each other with no products/assets (Stadium names and soccer team sponsorships with no products to sell!) and invested in each other. The economy had so much excess money and they got pumped and they thought this is what "investing" is. Economy's bubble burst and suddenly their valuations goes to 0.

When economy goes bad everyone is hurt but these companies had nothing but vaporware and are vaporizing as a result.

Just a guess though.

Absolutely agreed. However, the parent comment is still not wrong.

Crypto _has_ legit use cases (like you mentioned) and I hope it stays. But those use cases will never justify billions of dollars and this much resource, talent and energy poured to it (Usually to the benefit of a few, while costing clueless people their money)

Crypto could've been Bitcoin/Eth with a much smaller valuation and a healthy community and I'm sure most "anti crypto" people would've not been "anti crypto". It didn't have to be this big to have people against it. It could've been a technology we use like Venmo or IMAP. Something that solves some use cases.

I have a lot of activist friends in Iran who has been previously arrested. It is well known amongst all Iran activists that media attention helps bringing more transparency and due process.

Yes. Media attention does bring a level of accountability and pressure to the system and in cases has pressed them into a little more transparent due process.

This is not true. These protests are unique because:

1. For the first time, people are also willing to be violent against the regime.

2. This is more geographically distributed than previous ones.

3. It's distributed among all classes now.

4. It has been going the longest, despite the violence of the regime.

I think this is definitely the first time since the Green Movement that the regime is really sensing existential threats.

One thing to people watching the news:

This is probably the biggest woman's rights movement in middle east history (or the world). I don't think Woman fought this hard for their freedoms anytime (Could be wrong though). Also probably the biggest secular movement in ME history.

Source: Iranian, used to be part of the green movement, nowadays living in the US only with friends and family in Iran.

Iran is a semi dictatorship. People have _some_ agency but not much.

The _election_ in which you can choose between 2 people who have already been filtered out by the regime is not really a democratic election.

As someone voted for Rouhani (and would do so again), in a democratic situation he would've been my last choice.

This is actually a very clever hack. What are the gotchas?

Btw, for anyone interested, `Koh-I-Noor` means `Mountain of Light`.

This is FUD. No it doesn't speak volumes _at all_. The telemtry is opt-in, with various levels of settings, and doesn't collect _anything personal_. Even it's most invasive setting collects very very basic information. And again, is opt-in.

Also, it's open source. You can see the code and what it does. Which is close to 0.

Well, the reason KDE 4.0 was to buggy was exactly "because" KDE had contributors. Porting from Qt3 to Qt4 was a lot of work. Some volunteers completed that much much earlier than others but had to wait for others parts of the project to ship. More complex parts weren't ready yet, and as such, some contributors were losing interest. So KDE had to ship it at some point to make sure the train keeps moving.

It was a combination of the massive, massive hype train that was generated by KDE + distro's not listening to KDE's ask for 4.0 and earlier versions not being shipped that caused a massive backlash. KDE learned from the mistakes and the 4 to 5 transition and 5 to 6 transition which is in the works now are both avoiding those mistakes. But KDE did fix those bugs. Within a few releases, KDE 4 was quite usable and stable, but the damage was done.

In my opinion KDE hasn't really recovered the bad image caused by that despite the fact that its in a much better position now.

KDE was a big monorepo but SVN allowed partial checkouts.

> money was being thrown around

Im not really educated about the GNOME world, but I was involved on KDE side of things (very minor contributor). Money was _never_ thrown around. At best, a handful of engineers from a few different companies (TrollTech/Nokia, Novell/SUSE, Red Hat, Canonical) were hired to work full time and that was pretty much it. I don't think more than 10-15 engineers have done paid worked on KDE at any given time. Most of the contributions were volunteers.

There was a few attempts on KDE side to get paid by Intel to develop an office suite for mobile but it was also pretty small.

And to this date that is still the case with KDE. Very few engineers paid to work on it hired by entirely different set of companies like Blue Systems or Krita trying to make a living with very modest donations and contributions.

KDE is one of the biggest softwares out there. It was the first SVN repository to reach 1 million commits, etc etc and most of it has been volunteer work. Any claim that money was thrown at KDE really upsets me because it would be a complete mischaracterization of the nature of the project and motivations of people behind it.

Your main point is valid though. FAT and SMB patents were more serious threats.

> Social media seems to be filling the gaps,

It's like we went from having town hall meetings/debates to bar fights.

Well if you are a fan, that is _not_ the least important bit in your comment ;)