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If my two options are a fascist who will end the US and a conservative who will continue favoring the rich, is that really a choice? How is one a success vs the other? Neither one of them or their supporters care about the world I want to live in and both will materially harm me and mine (albeit in different ways). Why should I perpetuate either when I could vote a different way and, at worst, perpetuate the shitty system that has given me no choice?

What about infrastructure costs? Are you comfortable making someone else pay for your access? What about the design and implementation of the API? Should all software be free?

Please note that I’m not trying to support this decision at all. I personally feel like API access is similar to SSO for enterprise stuff (check out sso.tax). I also feel like there should be some level of compensation and even profit so people can focus on building stuff like this. It’s really hard to define what that is, especially without transparent costs, which I don’t believe OpenSubtitles shares? Also they use super predatory ads so I don’t think they have any high ground to even suggest what I’m talking about.

I’m trying to figure out how this gets monetized. It doesn’t look like it actually phones home. The only interesting dependency is Fig, which another commenter calls out. Since this basically just wraps Fig, I wonder if this is Microsoft’s first pass at getting into shells before they reimplement Fig themselves.

Note I didn’t look to see what kind of telemetry Fig collects. I skimmed the dep from this package but didn’t feel like chasing down the tree of Fig deps that get pulled into that one.

I didn’t really have any trouble with raw Arch a few years ago so use that as a baseline. I’ve really enjoyed EndeavourOS because it made everything about Arch easier.

This was a huge reason I played Payday 2 for so long pre-2015. One person in the crew could buy the DLC and everyone could run it.

That’s a very naive take on business practices that have made a lot of people a lot of money (which is why they continue). I really don’t see anything happening to any Gamurs Group execs beyond, say, their golden parachute deploying on their way to their next raider role. Companies don’t care about their holdings, they care about their balance sheet. Losing a company can make a ton on a balance sheet.

Again, I’m not saying any of this is right. It’s just how huge businesses work and all of it happens at the expense of employees first and customers second.

I’m speaking from the perspective of how it will be spun. Why would Gamurs Group take a loss on this?

This was a win for whomever bought it. They cut costs and killed an underperforming unit. Assuming it’s part of a larger entity, they’re able to strip this parts or shutter it completely to post a loss they’ll get tax credit for or can use to offset gains elsewhere. Modern US capitalism only cares about short term shareholder value increases and this story, when viewed through that lens, is just another day in the world of investment banks, venture capital, and corporate sharks.

Note I’m not saying it’s a win for people. In the 70s and 80s when the US markets moved shareholder value above customers and employees, life got fucked. It’s just naive to think any of this actually matters beyond dollars on a balance sheet. Gamurs Group can spin the shutdown of The Escapist as a net win or can rebuild the publication at a loss, also as a net win. They don’t fucking care.

Moving to AGPL means enterprises stop using your software and improving it in-house with the possibility of patches “leaking” out when there isn’t a clear OSS contribution model. Going AGPL does prevent AWS from turning Matrix into Opentrix, but it also just focuses the major hosts on platforming your community product instead of improving your product. Their inspiration is Grafana. Time will tell if that’s going to pan out. The enterprises I’ve consulted for use hosted Grafana like Amazon Managed Grafana, not Grafana Cloud.

I personally am very wary of any AGPL project in any corporate setting. I’ve convinced companies to move the other way, from AGPL to Apache, because I also warn companies AGPL poses a compliance risk.

While I primarily use streaming services, I almost always still buy albums on Bandcamp for the day when I need to go back to running my own music. You can save up for a Bandcamp Friday when more goes to the artist. Bandcamp has been the best place for music for awhile. Best to get in before Songtradr continues the destruction Epic started.

This sounds like a bunch of drivel.

AI can better analyze the relationship between cycle time, code review time, and code churn... It can determine if longer code review times are actually leading to less code churn… Or, it may find that longer review times are simply delaying the development process without any significant reduction in churn.

This is not something that the numbers tell you. This is something an understanding of the code reviews tells you. The author runs a metrics platform so he’s pushing this hype train that’s going nowhere. Blind faith in metrics without context, ie all an AI can generate, leads to great decisions like the Nova.

Yeah, that’s fair. I was wondering if you’d call that out. Popen is rather opaque. I don’t know that I’d go so far as to try to remember yet another language to avoid it. I respect the decision though, especially with the portability of modern PowerShell.

I’m trying to understand where you’d want to use PowerShell over Python. What’s something that’s in-between bash and Python?

The Independent was that trigger for me in 2016. I kept seeing headlines that were outrageous and fit my perspective. I’d get called on it and have to read the article only to find out it was pure clickbait. Often the article supported the opposite perspective, especially if you followed its sources. I wasn’t used to that, especially from papers of record. Usually blog posts that get big in the tech space don’t make outrageous claims they can’t back up.

I had The Independent filtered on Reddit for years. It’s the only QoL feature I regularly miss from Reddit clients. Once Lemmy apps add domain filters I’ll be back at Reddit client levels of functionality.

The article and the events it covers are from the UK. You should probably read the article before commenting on it. I also highly recommend never trusting an Independent headline at face value; they’re infrequently backed up by the body of the article. This is a rare exception.

It worked well enough that I didn’t notice pre-17/17.1. It really disappointed me. I reset all my contacts and did a ton of stuff to try to fix it. I send most things to my partner; my partner no longer appears in the bar even after resets.

17 was my first major OS update and 17.1 was the first patch I got for it. All of my share sheet suggestions got fucked. The people I send things to multiple times per day in almost every app no longer appear as Messages suggestions. I get random people I haven’t texted in forever. I also can’t search group chats when sharing to Messages any more unless I do a very specific ordering and that only works some of the time. I can’t find anything about similar problems anywhere and doing resets hasn’t solved the problem for me. What used to take under a second now takes multiple seconds and infuriates me at least once a day.

All of your alternatives require specific lifestyles, personalities, and paradigms. Car camping (of all varieties) presents a bunch of new risks. Moving elsewhere has the potential for incredible startup costs unless you’re able to start over and move with nothing. Traveling makes a lot of skill sets unusable for primary income.