I still just use Winamp classic.
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Other programming languages than Erlang exist for a reason, they're not just fun toy languages for low IQ folks. There are tons of reasons why Erlang may not be a good fit for some project, and one of these other lesser languages would be a better fit, and he doesn't want to work with people who wouldn't even consider something like that.
https://sports.yahoo.com/twitter-locks-hundreds-content-mode...
I probably have 15 voicemails right now I never knew came through because they're junk and auto-blocked.
https://twitter.com/CMacCaba/status/1585914462951047168
> Musk has dumped $13bn of debt onto Twitter's company account, increasing the interest repayments from $51m to $1bn a year. Its entire gross income is c. $700m a year. Its net income is negative & it doesn't receive gov. subsidies that kept similarly loss-making Telsa alive
A longer thread informative thread here too: https://twitter.com/aidanpobrien/status/1587450510549852160
https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/1587381512500125699
> If one in five current blue ticks paid $20 a month that would raise just under $15 million a year for Twitter…Twitter’s current revenues (mostly from ads) are $5 billion a year. Musk’s apparent plan would generate about 30 hours’ worth of annual revenue.
https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1587509202401927168
> Absolutely no one should pay $8 or $20 a month to support Elton Murk's latest scam. Asking low-income Twitter users to pay $92 a year so their tweets don't get hidden and deprioritized alongside bots is not giving "power to the people."
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitt...
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1587091085288947712...
Chris Murphy at least thinks it is an issue, as do I.
This doesn't bode will for Twitter spying which has already involved the Saudi government.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/twitter-saud...
It was a move from the plastics industry to push a feel-good policy, but is likely not doing as much good as many of us think.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/plastic-wars/
> In conclusion, Elon Musk's Twitter purchase will have to be heavily financed by someone else in order for him to complete it.
> In May, according to an SEC filing, Musk's Twitter buy was most heavily subsidized by Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud
Not a great sign for activists using Twitter speaking out against the Saudi government, just based on what has happened already in the past.
https://qz.com/2077384/why-is-walgreens-really-closing-its-s...
Most folks here don't seem to grasp the cost of most enterprise software, Oracle has been charging 10x this for decades now.
https://www.oracle.com/assets/technology-price-list-070617.p...
> Akka requires significant investment in order to maintain its position as a preeminent distributed systems runtime. Many organizations have adopted Akka and are seeing significant benefits for their organizations.
> However, in recent years an increasing number of those organizations have elected to self-support without either contributing back to the community or by investing in annual subscriptions. We have an ambitious roadmap for the future of Akka and require a way to fund and sustain that development.
> We believe that larger organizations that are seeing business benefits from Akka should contribute to the ongoing health and evolution of the project.
They need money to continue development, and the current model isn't generating enough revenue for them to stay in business.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/15657972205318144...