Sounds like it may be time for some creative licensing

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Personal emails, messaging, anything

This afternoon: Password has been set to “Password123”

I’ve thought about this, an open recommendation/review system that could be based on your fediverse profile. Anyone could use their existing account to review things, but the reviews could be ranked based on how trustworthy you are on the fediverse, so bots/spam accounts wouldn’t be taken seriously. Just haven’t had any time to make it…

Can someone ELI5? He’s admitting it was never truly open? Or they were wrong for thinking open was good at all?

“wow, what director level ass pushed them so hard that they had to leave that bug in?”

I think of the T-pose all the time in cyberpunk, that was a bug that was horrible but obviously it was tracked somewhere, and some director was like “it’s fine, ship it”

Email is kind of hard. There’s usually only one API key to the email client, and there’s no real safe way to call it. Personally over the years my approach is to have an internal library that reads what environment it is in, and then if it doesn’t explicitly tell that it’s in prod, it reroutes everything to safe email addresses.

Oh man, I did that at a midsize company as a jr. That’s a right of passage. Informing millions of people that you’re shit at testing. That was a fun conversation with my boss

Yup, just one of those posts that could of course work in either

checks the community to make sure I’m in programmer humor

Yeah that checks out

"7z-wasm": "^1.0.2",

Ah, knew we were looking at a wrapper of my faithful companion here

Just remember when choosing a license - are you okay with Amazon taking it and using it in their latest billion dollar show on prime video without giving you any credit or money? If so, full on open source away. Otherwise there are licenses you can grant that will allow others to use it for free, but not large corporations. Shop around the licenses

Have used it, it works well

I think they might be thinking of something like thin clients, if I were to guess, and a server they would connect to. But yes good call out for the XY problem.

Connecting multiple users to Ubuntu is probably pretty difficult. Setting up a server for thin clients is pretty easy

It’s probably the number one reason I can’t convince friends to move over, I know they would bawk at how it makes them do that on every device

Oh don’t worry, you can just pay <<cloud provider>> 30x what you were your infra team before, or if that’s too expensive just pay a consulting form 10x what you would have before. Then they can go dine on steaks while they have the same infra guy you had hired before doing the same stuff just now in “teh cloud”, but making less money

I feel like there is a lost art of DBAs, where in their mystical knowledge rests how to make perfect cheap and scalable databases, and business cast them away because “Why not pay Google twice that amount?”

It’s happened a few times in my career where people tell me I’ll be obsolete, but it’s always been some company hyping their new product and suits frothing at the prospect of not having to pay me anymore.

So far they’re like 0 for 8 or so.

Now I will say the goalposts move. What I’m doing now is for sure not what I was doing 10 years ago. I’m definitely heavier in devops and infra than where I was before (ironic because they said we’d never have to worry about that stuff again if we moved to the cloud). AI is still basically machine learning, just in a while loop, so I’ve spent time learning that. So, in a way, yes we’re obsolete in the sense that if I was the same engineer I was 10 years ago I wouldn’t be worth nearly this much, I had to grow and evolve with technology.

there’s a really good OSS app that looks comparable… I can’t remember the name though. Too bad if it’s not hosted for thousands a month that companies don’t see value in it.