I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS?
And you know what? It makes sense. A big part of making a moment of a media launch is to get like-minded people talking about it. It's harder now that media is largely on-demand, so it's great to have a place to go for the discussion afterwards.
Which is why staggered, inconsistent launches make no damn sense in the 21st century. When pirates can deliver a way to join that hype moment and you can't, for the content you're creating on the service your followers are already paying for you have entirely missed the point.
Hah. Not even. Between Youtube and Mastodon it was doing the job just fine.
Not like I don't see all those posts anyway, this place isn't THAT big yet.
Eh... what the hell is that link? The recommended videos on that place are WILD.
I had heard some rumblings about Rossmann being on some weird alt-right focused service, but I had honestly forgotten and I wasn't expecting to get a faceful of it by accident. Yikes.
Pricing doesn't hurt.
But yeah, people will pay for convenience. Nobody wants to dig around for pirated links if a simpler option is available.
But yeah, I hear you on international licensing. I try to keep up with Star Trek content and man, I don't know how you can bungle up a licensig deal that much.
The latest bit of genius includes Amazon Prime listing three seasons of Lower Decks, but the third season consisting on a page that tells you they don't have that season available, despite having had it before.
There is a fourth season. It's not available anywhere.
I gave up and pirated it, knowing it will eventually show up in a service I do own. It was all getting spoiled for me in social media anyway.
But it is, is the point.
Like, here it is.
Whatsapp (and Telegram, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Line... whatever is your local poison) have absorbed texting entirely. Whatsapp drives all texting, a significant chunk of voice calls, a lot of non-work videoconferencing and it serves as a Discord-like group chat platform for a lot of people. That's how your grandma got radicalized over here, not Facebook proper.
Again, social media is more regional than people think, and it often doesn't look like Twitter, Instagram or even Facebook.
Look, I know it's nonsense and I know it'd be a disaster and a threat and it'd imply they are in power and that's bad. So please, please, I don't get to vote, so go vote against these idiots if you can.
But I'm not gonna stand here and say I wouldn't like to see them try.
Just... maybe with access to a time machine so I can reboot the timeline after. But come on.
Oh, man, I switched from Samsung to Sony because they still do all those midrange phone features in a flagship container.
I'd have gone full midrange, but I hang around mobile developers a lot and I was already getting crap for being on a four year old flagship (that was still in working order and I still use for other stuff). Now my Xperia is a conversation starter in those circles, for some reason and I still get to add storage and use my headphones and my screen has no holes in it.
I actually fully agree that scale is a big part of the disconnect here. Even where I'm from, people in rural areas from the north and south are talking about wildly different scales when they talk about "farming". Hell, for my standards, the scope you describe doesn't count as "farming" at all, it's a full-on industrial exploitation. May as well call an Ikea factory an "atelier".
This isn't news to me, in that I've been around all those places enough to understand the difference between their respective scales, but I've crucially not actively done work in the others. I have no idea of the kind of use cases that would justify a fleet of pickup trucks rather than specialized vehicles. I know that no size of exploitation chooses to go that way locally, nationally or eeven continentally, so there are definintely alternatives. I don't know that I'd say I'm "contemptuous", though. More "amusedly snarky", perhaps.
Also worth noting that the post I was originally responding to was specifically bemoaning that they couldn't find smaller pickup truck options, so I doubt they were worrying about that type of haul.
But you and I don't seem to be in the same society.
This is a heavily regional issue, which is my entire point. There is no iMessage alternative, we aren't in a WeChat area, or a Telegram area. Here it's overwhelmingly Whatsapp.
This is not the same everywhere. Social media is global, but the mix of it is far from universal.
I don't know how many ways I can rephrase "the guy literally said he didn't have any options beyond pickup trucks".
I wonder if I can link a thread to itself here.
I mean, it'd still be a more accurate Death Note adaptation than what Netflix made, to be honest.
The guy. I was responding to. Explicitly said. He didn't want a huge pickup truck.
My "arrogance" here comes down to responding to "what other options do I have?" with "here's an option".
Man, I know I'm not the most charismatic guy on the Internet, but holy crap.
So you... agree with me? I'm extra confused now, but hey, suit yourself. Congratulations on your sensible vehicle choice, I guess.
Oh, man, it's an endless loop.
Again, you can absolutely carry those things in a van, but if you don't want to do that you can just hitch a bed to something else. There are billions of people in territories where pickup trucks are not commonplace, I promise you we move those things around just fine.
It's not even a superiority thing, the presumably American OP said he didn't want a pickup but thought he didn't have alternatives, I mentioned vans.
It's not like anybody outside the... pickupsphere? ever felt superior about driving around in a van. I promise you there isn't a bunch of people buying Kangoos and Ford Transits as a status symbol.
I sometimes don't know how to not appear to be feeling superior when talking to Americans. If driving around on a rickety cheap van with holes on the floor now counts as a show of arrogance against people driving cars that need ladders to climb inside I don't know what level of humility is adequate here. Should I just praise baseball or something? Embrace pounds and ounces? I have a measuring tape that lists inches, if that helps.
Are we talking about that? Because what seems to happen up there is that the OP said they "want to purchase a ToddlerKiller4000. Short of inventing a time machine and traveling back to an era of car-sized rather than tank-sized pickups, my options are pretty slim"
And I suggested a van instead and apparently hit the secret trap card of culture clash for today, which I wasn't expecting at all. I thought we'd just joke around about how Americans like their work vehicles to look huge and rugged and maybe feel all superior for a bit about sensible white vans. I didn't think that the concept of a truck bed having a roof would be the great Atlantic rift.
I'm still a weirdo, but I can't afford to be a weirdo performatively these days.
So yeah, I can default to Firefox or keep the MS tools I have to use for work on its own contained browser instance, or refuse to use Samsung or Apple phones or whatever other act of technological petty rebellion that I want. But the point I'm making is that cutting the cord on Whatsapp is not practical for daily use in this region. It's very different in the US and in some other territories, but here it's definitely not.
It's far easier to step away from Twitter, Instagram and even Facebook than it is to do the same with Whatsapp here. That's the big takeaway that I want to convey here.
I mean, I responded to somebody being annoyed by only having pickup options for farm work. I merely proposed the alternative.
But it's more than just preference, considering the OP was concerned about the lack of alternatives and I have never seen a person living in a rural area who owns a US-style pickup. There's clearly a regional divide here, and from what I'm hearing from both sides none of us seem to be particularly aware of why. Beyond "American like big truck" or whatever.
Oh, it's my choice to approach every potential client with a long-winded pitch about why I'm off the grid and don't believe in telephones.
It's just terrible for business, and since I do like to consume food to keep this sack of meat running, I don't do that.
Look, there are two things happening here:
One, you don't seem to get to what extent Meta has entirely replaced key parts of the communications infrastructure in several parts of the world. You may as well be advocating communication via carrier pigeon.
Two, you get a kick out of being the difficult contrarian weirdo that refuses to submit to the mainstream of modern tech because you work for some boss that thinks it's worth getting your skills despite that song and dance, so there is no immediate downside. I know. Been there, done that. When you freelance you get way less precious about that, by necessity.
And yes, by the way, I do keep separate hardware and software environments to isolate some predatory applications to work hardware. That is viable. Just... not for Whatsapp. Because EVERYBODY uses it and I like my friends and family to keep talking to me, too.
My employer is me.
I'm doing what my clients tell me, because it's generally considered to be a good business practice to not argue with one's clients unless you have a good reason to do so.
I mean, at the risk of being obvious, take your contract to a lawyer or two and ask them.