I hate that they even say this shit.
Me too. It’s overwhhelming on the face of it, but now with the added bonus that they are provenly quite capable and willing to put such brainfarts into action.
Sometimes I think: “don’t fall for it, the outrage is the point!” but then I think: “that just makes it easier for them to get away with it!”
I had a hard time putting my reaction into words… thank you.
yet the stock goes up 10% today.
Potus selling Teslas on the White House lawn will do that.
What made the story so captivating for me is how dystopian yet extremely close to present day reality it is.
Of course that’s what he does: takes already existing situations and weaves them into something eye-opening.
That’s horrible.
One more time I’m reminded of Unlicensed Bread (C. Doctorow).
BTW the title made me think of car parts. Bosch sell all sorts of stuff.
Now you understand what it means to flee your country. It’s never an easy decision.
Ah, OK. No, of course not. I was thinking more about hobby developers.
But somebody else already pointed it out: MIT makes a project more attractive for investors. Follow the $£€
That tripped me up too. What a weird way to miss the point by more than half.
Maybe there could be another reason why people choose MIT to begin with:
When you start a new repo on github it makes suggestions which license to use, and I bet many people can’t be arsed to think about it and just accept what they’re offered. [My memory is a little patchy since I very rarely use github anymore, but I definitely remember something like this.] And maybe github tends to suggest MIT.
That said, please undestand that many, many git platforms exist and there is no reason at all to choose one of the two that actually have the word git in them.
getting rid of the gpl is the motivation behind e.g. companies sponsoring clang/llvm so hard right now
And there it is. Follow the money.
I don’t like sanewashing Trumplon’s words, even if it’s to criticize him. He’s mad as a hatter and everything he says is a mixture of bragging to his constituency, enjoying being an asshole without consequences, and simple stupidity.
At the same time these topics need to be talken seriously and written about. This time around, the madness has method.
I guess these are contradicting desires on my part.
But so far words are all I can see. If they had any (global) effect in the real world it’s that a) they backfired but also b) they push an overall fear/hatemongering strategy. No actual expansioning has happened so far (to my knowledge).
Also, as another user pointed out, the USA has been practicing colonialism* almost forever. Trumplon, once again, just say the quiet part out loud.
But none of this is meant to downplay the actual real dangers the USA’s current regime poses. I just don’t like sanewashing Trump.
Marvel at the social media influencer’s bullshit strategy: exagerate your opponents argument to the point that you can ridicule it as nonsensical.
Also: sure. If Putin said it it must be true. 😐
The headline annoys me, it makes it sound like a hapless tourist was attacked by vicious indigens.
I can well imagine how they told him not to do it, and eventually had to resort to physically getting him back down when he just didn’t listen. Maybe technically an attack, but at the very least it should’ve read:
“Tourist violating ancient artefacts attacked and restrained by locals” or some such.
I went in the late 70s and was even allowed to pick up antique shards (and take them with me all the way back to Germany … oh wait
Working Class Jesus, save us all!
AI against AI “spinning their wheels” i.e. costing us all insane amounts of energy/money/resources/
Plus, you know “(whether this approach effectively prevents misinformation, however, remains unproven)”.
Also, they seem to have forgotten that their AI also needs to gather learning data from somewhere?
One of these days SkyNet will gain self-awareness!
Having bought screws just the other day, I was exasperated at how I could not figure out how long the screw actually is between my thumb and finger cause they’re in a sealed box.
But I knew exactly which material they have been plated/hardened with. 🤷
So, I understand why you posted this.
And the info about the (pre) drilling is just 😙👌
I’m talking about the rude awakening of Jan 2025
Avatar checks out.
Right. Not in my case anyhow, my blog is even a top ten search result for a specific topic.
FWIW every user gets a unique IP address.
It would be the nice thing to do to inform those keeping up these blacklists whenever the owner changes. Maybe they do. Or maybe they’ll do it on your behalf if you ask.
Yeah me too but it’s been a long time coming. Ubuntu started it decades ago by replacing the altruism* with a warm and fuzzy “sense of community” while exploiting the enthusiasm of largely unpaid coders, Google certainly has done this for a long while, and by now it’s just how you do your basic FOSS Kickstarter campaign.
All that really brings is “more customers”, and doG knows that’s not what the whole of GNU/Linux needs.
Over the years I have developed a sense for how projects present themselves before choosing one that suits my needs. Because the sane ones, both feet on the ground types, that do GPL and accept donations (or sometimes offer paid support), those still exist, old and new.
* a form of altruism btw that does not exclude egoism!