How to smuggle all three volumes of Das Kapital into prison with just thirty dollars, a condom, and some lube.

I blame Sun/Java for popularizing this. I give find a pass due to its age.

[the linux kernel developers group] bent over backwards to comply with the american government’s overreach when they kicked out russian developers.

I though that was mostly due to Linus being a typical Russia-hating Finn, but I never investigated.

That’s a poor analogy, because nobody is lying, saying things are on fire that aren’t.

We weren’t born yesterday—or at least I wasn’t. We know where this is going, and it’s folly to wait until almost the end before pushing back.

There are fascist governments demanding genital inspection for playing highschool sports

• That is already going on in the very same country we’re discussing.
• “Things could be even worse, so until things are just as bad as that, don’t complain or try to stop it from getting worse.”

🤷

In a few years, we may be smuggling in contraband Chinese RISC-V computers.

Unless it is fought, this corporate-driven rot will burrow all the way down to the sub-processor TEE/TPM and all the way up to the web browser/app.

Debian is 32 years old. Arch is 24 years old. Gentoo is 23 years old. Alpine is 20 years old.

Fortunately this quixotic proposal is just some guy’s blog post.

christ i should just pin all my packages to the last pre-vibe era release for the rest of my life

Locking post. I wish someone had reported this rage-bait^[1] post sooner.

Hah. What are the changes of this coincidence.

https://mega.nz/file/K7BnBIob#TmFn8axPIJ2h1d8b3dGqmrr_0wTN8VCkUiB9LtoqOPQ

I stopped reading because I wasn’t sure how much smoke he might have been blowing up my ass at the time, and I don’t remember enough to say now without reading it again.

It’s a very good piece. I read about half of his book, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making, though I remember almost none of it now.

I read this when it first came out in 2009.

Vao makes his money as a c-suite coach, so I doubt that he’s a fellow traveler.

I mistakenly thought it was more restrictive, thanks.

It seems you’re right. I may be confusing it with another license.

It is intended for software designed to be run over a network, adding a provision requiring that the corresponding source code of modified versions of the software be prominently offered to all users who interact with the software over a network.

Note that Zed has an Affero GPL, which limits others from competing with Zed Industries in the service space.