outsomnia

That's what the role is, say what nobody else will say, make people uncomfortable when apathy is comfortable, and when nobody else will act, take action and rally others against things that are bad. It's not a role that will inspire universal love whomever takes it.

If instead FSF stops with that and tries not to upset anyone it will be dead, not just in decline.

Meanwhile The Man's using your code to make money replacing you.

Post-Covid, work from home, internet deliveries the trend is arguably things have to distribute to people now rather than people distribute to things.

FM radios have all but gone from modern cellphones and vanishingly few people are carrying around discrete ones. BT serves this physically local radio purpose now and is pretty much everyone has it on their person.

So it might have had a past but it doesn't seem to have a future.

It sounds from other posts changing his gmail away from "essentials" will let him solve that and then his domain.

Qualcomm have been involved in many IP right bustups over the years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm#Patents_and_patent_di...

I wonder if they will find that doesn't help them argue against getting some of their own medicine.

There's nothing that brings a group with some power over others together more than being able to agree that someone outside the group should be sidelined or punished.

If you are truly dependent on specifically them, eg for visa reasons, that can only lead to a "partially managed decline".

If not, it's better to make your own decision to switch tracks in a controlled way and leave their bullshit and your need to care at all about it behind. You only have so many days on the planet, you will regret wasting them with people that make you feel like this.

... the author means that the latency between the UK and the remote offices was HIGH.

Name Server: NS-CLOUD-D1.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM ... Domain Status: serverHold https://icann.org/epp#serverHold

"If you provided delegation information (name servers), this status may indicate an issue with your domain that needs resolution. If so, you should contact your registrar to request more information. If your domain does not have any issues, but you need it to resolve in the DNS, you must first contact your registrar in order to provide the necessary delegation information."

OP seems to be partway through some scales-falling-from-eyes event.

In this business, in code and in management, Async is god. If it can be done async, it will be better done async plus or minus the social considerations.

It varies but doesn't be surprised if you don't really feel much about the new arrival until after a few months when it becomes clear there is actually a person in there. It doesn't mean there's something wrong with you.

Proprietary companies are going to lean on copilot and stick "All rights reserved" on the results. Copilot creates this "unpleasant ... extension of copyright".

The author is not in a position to call whether Github infringes anyone's copyright or creates derivative works, the courts will do it perhaps differently in different juristictions.

Look for a role that might pay a bit less, but won't eat all your time and make you think you need a therapist.

Your kids, your spouse, and your career all compete for all of your attention and it is a zero-sum game.

Because then they won't need a 5-man team to handle the fallout any more.

Ansible, Puppet, etc. don’t have intermediate stores of the hosts’ configuration, but then again they are used for different things.

The tools are not comparable in what they do.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-septe...

under some conditions older devices that have not been updated neither accept the expired root CA, nor have a copy of the replacement cert.

You should ask the user about his system, when he last updated it etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

There were more people wanting to sell the pound for Euros at the rate mandated by the ERM than resources the UK had to maintain the arbitrary exchange rate and "it did not end well".