CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]

I’ve been a developer for decades. I’ve contributed to FOSS code and do a lot of my own development.

I just want a desktop that works. No fuss.

Yes I could compile my own x11 (and have) but I would rather spend my time doing my own shit than trying to stand up a new VM for some edge issue I’m having.

Just…just give me a UI I can use.

It’s why I use Ubuntu.

This is key. And it shows all along the rules are meant for peasants like us.

Not for the ruling class.

I feel like you’re just here to piss into the wind.

Do you hear people screaming to disable the extension frame work or devtools?

No?

If you don’t want those features you can compile your own version of Firefox and remove them.

But lots of people are anti-AI. And there are people willing to provide a browser that keeps it out.

If you want it, have at it. But don’t piss on people just because they don’t.

The last time this was discussed, my understanding is that Article 5 of NATO would activate, with the US being the aggressor.

Whether the rest of NATO would actually attack US forces would be the question.

Democracy is very fickle, especially since all it takes for democracy to fail is a minority of people to allow fascism to take hold.

Trump’s lack of ability to control the US doesn’t mean he can’t bring instability to the EU. Quite the opposite. If he can bring doubt into the coalition, then it will become easier for him to get what he wants, which is a smaller voting bloc.

Iirc correctly, Amazon actually doesn’t resell their returns. At least not through their storefront.

They have “return auctions” where returns are put onto a pallet and then people bid on them to purchase. Apparently this is cheaper than having a workflow for their returns, checking them to make sure they are resellable, and then stocking them back into their warehouse.

It was the exact same. the math of this is that verizon makes enough money on the contract that they can pay for a phone within your 3 year contract.

When I left my company, I had to get a new phone. When I talked to the rep, the phone cost was essentially free with a contract.

The offer was that Verizon would pay for the phone over the course of three years.

So it’s not financing so much as it was free with a contract. When I asked why this was, he said that it was due to how the market was. Everyone has a phone at this point so now cell service provides have to compete to keep people. So they are willing to pay for your phone so long as you are locked in with them.

I’m sorry, but it’s not going to be. Mozilla set the stage of this when they changed from FOSS to source available.

I made this prediction right when this was announced.

This was always to the goal of “age verification”. The government wants a way to know who is behind every “subversive” comment so that they can chill speech. “For the children” is just the most convenient excuse.

If that doesn’t work, it will be “to fight terrorism”.

Line must go up.

Legit question: why didn’t you take the domain before trademark was issued?

If you already had the name registered (but not issued), couldn’t you essentially cybersquat yourself and then buy it from yourself after it’s been issued?

tbf IAM is the bastard child of many cloud providers.

It exists to provide CISOs and BROs a level of security that no one person has access to their infrastructure. So if a company decides that system A should no longer have access to system B, they can do that quickly.

IAM is so complex now that it’s a field all in itself.

Tell me you don’t understand how GPL works without telling me how GPL works.

GPL has been battle tested in court and has the most precedence than any other license. Hell I’d even include proprietary licenses.

Core Android and ChromeOS are FOSS because they have to be. But because Linus Torvalds didn’t want to move Linux to GPL3, we have proprietary bootloaders with free software.

THAT’S how we have corporations profiting from GPL. Not because GPL allows anyone to use it.

“Do Not Split”

Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast

But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.

And when they are, that’s going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it’s going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we’re not going to criticize them openly, and they’re not going to criticize us openly.

If we’re the pacifists, we’re not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don’t know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we’re not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.

It’s not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.

Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what’s going to work. But if everybody’s pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody’s really on the same side.

You say that…like that changes anything.

He’s already declared martial law by sending in military units to cities. He’s already done it.

What the fuck do we have to lose?

The fact that police officers can lie but people can’t shows you the terrible power imbalance in our law enforcement.

Remember: Shut the Fuck Up

Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.

Do you think he fucking cares? He just wants the gold shiny so he can be like Obama.

In case folks aren’t aware, AWS status page is not live. It is a human-driven page that is updated manually.

The fortune 100 company I used to work for would be notified prior to the status page being updated for an issue before the status page is updated.

Do not rely on their status page to tell you there is a problem.