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What's wrong is the config file moved. If a sysadmin is used to a config file being somewhere they know, and then it disappears that can be extremely frustrating. Especially on a production system.
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Apparently Gurgeh is Ian McShane, and lives at Fallingwater 2.0...
Presumably in the context of medical testing. It's a common point made in journals to this day:

- https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/why-drugs-tested-in-...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/science/testing-of-some-d...

- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/20/mice-clinica...

and a humorous take:

- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/01/scientists-ask...
Quite a lot has changed in the past decade. Li-ion Battery energy density has roughly doubled, solar tech has come a long way (both in efficiency, but also production scale/costs for commercial silicon cells), and there’s been a wave of improvements for miniaturized drone/UAS hardware. On top of that, there’s 50 years of existing research into solar flight - we’re lucky that we can learn from that!
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You appear to think that there is One Way to write applications and that anyone who disagrees with you doesn't know what they are talking about or has never had any experience with them.

Perhaps you should be open to the possibility that you're wrong in assuming that? Perhaps there are people who dislike these kinds of designs precisely because they have experience with them?

(hint: I wrote my first IoC container/framework about 20 years ago)
Would like to think i wouldn't sell, but if someone massive company is offering my money, the worry is always they'll build their own later and stomp me anyway.
That is the interesting part indeed. Perhaps there is a place for another type of license in between gpl/mit and full proprietary.

I wonder what that would look like. Perhaps it’s time. But the grey area is just so vast.
Drew misses a huge cause of misunderstandings about the AGPL, which is that some of the companies that use AGPL would love for AGPL to be more complicated than Drew's simple version. For example, iText PDF's entire business relies on interpreting the AGPL as being as viral as possible [0]:

> You may not deploy it on a network without disclosing the full source code of your own applications under the AGPL license. You must distribute all source code, including your own product and web-based applications.

> It’s a legal violation to use iText Core/Community and our open source add-ons in a non-AGPL environment.

Rather than interpret Google's page[1] as some sort of psy-op, a simpler explanation is that there are many companies who use the AGPL license and want it to be totally viral even over network calls, and since the license has yet to be tested in court it's safest to just assume it has the strongest virality possible.

[0] https://itextpdf.com/how-buy/AGPLv3-license

[1] https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
One advantage of UBI is govts can streamline their social services division, as in eliminate them entirely. No means-testing and administration equals less bureaucrats needed to manage the money. You simply distribute it to ALL citizens regardless. Less pension obligations too. So in a sense UBI pays for itself. This why when they had a pilot project in Finland, govt workers were opposed to it. They saw the writing on the wall that they would be redundant.
>It is much harder in Hollywood than in the NBA

Can you expand on this, what is "harder" exactly? They don't enjoy the benefits of the union or they cannot get high paying roles? Also, are you implying Jon Voight is not a SAG member, if so, I'd like to see your sources because from what I can find he is a member while being in dispute with it (also shows how great the unions are).

And as far as NBA goes, not being a member is irrelevant as you are still paying dues and obey union regulations, fun fact I've found looking for this: Michael Jordan was not a member of the union and does seem to do better than LeBron James, e.g. there are those "Jordan" shoes which seem to do much stronger than "LeBrons".
On the other side, I love every time I see a Spanish ad (I know only elementary school and restaurant menu-level Spanish) because it means I'm seeing fewer badly targeted English ads just because I do sometimes love watching Spanish language content with English subtitles. Spanish ads seem frequently less toxic to me. It's a bit of useful misinformation I'm happy to feed the ad targeting algorithms because I want them to have garbage about me. They are garbage-in/garbage-out in general anyway, but the more garbage I intentionally feed them, the happier I feel, because I'm still somewhat in control.

I don't use an ad blocker, I'm okay with generic, untargeted ads. I do block a lot of advertising cookies and I am isolating them from each other in a cat and mouse game. Intentional misinformation is a fun part of that, too.
What's worse - my worst-case or those kids you mention who didn't make it? I fully agree with you that the country is brutal to the uneducated, forced as they are into low status (and yet often surprisingly socially important) jobs which provide marginal incomes. I'm not willing to use "Shame, guilt, social pressure, and beatings if necessary" (as a sibling commenter of mine suggested) on a child to enforce this system in which we reside. Are you?

There was actually a recent article on this subject in The Cut

https://www.thecut.com/2023/09/do-kids-need-ambition.html

The author's son seems to already be experiencing the existential dread of this system in kindergarten. Meanwhile rates of teenage depression and suicide increase while life expectancy in the US decreases. I'll never understand this place.
> The scenarios you listed can even make HTTPS insecure.

You don't understand what HTTPS does, then.

HTTPS is specifically designed to counter MITM attacks, so it is, in fact, not insecure in the scenarios listed by the parent comment.

> If you were visit that page on an network that is not MiTM the website is still secure. There is no requirement for SSL.

That is really only relevant when you and your sever are on the same LAN, behind a firewall, and you are reasonably sure that you don't have an intruder (like I mentioned upthread).

When you are browsing a server across the public internet, you should assume you are being MITM'd. With HTTP (not S), the MITM attacker does not need to be between you and the server. If they can guess the TCP sequence number and when you are browsing, the MITM can inject (or replace) arbitrary content into the pages you load.
I don’t see it. You’ve pointed to a thing the government did before a UBI and say now it’ll be a thing they’ll do after a UBI but don’t really connect the dots in a way that seems reasonable. Just my 2 cents.
> wikipedia says agpl was brought in 2002. so around 21 years of people using this license and no one knows clearly what it does?

Not commenting on the rest of the article but “usage” does not equal “understanding”. Plenty of people use computers without an understanding of what they’re doing or capable of. Plenty of people use AI models today without understanding what they’re actually doing. Heck a huge chunk of modern medicine is stuff we have no understanding of how it actually works, we just know that it does and have a small amount of empirical evidence to give use some fuzzy boundaries.
> Soft updates (softdep) have been disabled for future VFS work [See earlier report].

Hopefully some acceptable filesystem will be added in the near future.
It depends on the client but several of mine have wanted me to use a separate account with an email for their domain. I suppose this is so they can take over the account rather than just removing my main account.
How that is supposed to prove your point? You could argue using similar numbers that GNU coreutils is dead.

My company is doing commercial linux and i spent most of my worktime today debugging some XRDP related issue. Everything still Xorg. No idea what you are talking of.
As a user who absolutely hates un-requested change being shoved down my throat: I can actually see it from both sides.

Innovation almost always looks like throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. You have to "break" things to figure out what can be improved.

The problem is that we've gone all in on SaaS and pushed updates. Pushed updates were a huge win for security, and SaaS has some pros for some users and certain niches.

But long gone are the days where a company would invest time and money into beta test periods where they'd try out new features on focus groups who would give feedback and then the rest of us would wait for reviews from the early adopters before deciding if the upgrade costs and risks were worth it.

These days we get "upgraded" whether we opted in or not. And we're all the beta testers 100% of the time.

That has been the real plague on the software industry IMO. At least, it has ruined my enjoyment of computers and tech for the most part, and further driven to me towards native open source software (which I already used anyway, I just cling to it harder now because I feel like it is under threat). Now get off my lawn.
I think the key point here is actually from the first paragraph.

> HashiCorp’s CEO predicted there would be “no more open source companies in Silicon Valley” unless the community rethinks how it protects innovation.

Open source is literally a license to give the power to the people, the community, such that we allow anyone to contribute and give back. It is not a tool to "protect (your) innovation". It is a very self oriented move built on the greed inherent in capitalism. Basically the opposite of open source and tangentially copyleft.

I think a lot of people forget, especially the newer generations, that open source is not some "good boy points" or graceful gesture you do to others. It's not about you doing a "kind gesture" to the community, open source is a political move to use copyright law against itself to give the ownership right to anyone. Many seem to look past that, and try to seek out a middle ground between "my innovation" and getting the usage/praise from having the code be labelled as open-source. You can even see the Hashicorp CEO misuse the open-source label pretty regularly.
Yes, so fix the C standard... But the compiler guys won't let the anyone fix it, because optimizations.

So either A) the optimizations using UB are important, and therefore C is/will-always-be faster than Rust which doesn't have them. Or B) the optimizations using UB are not important and the compiler writers for gcc and clang are wrong.

You pick.

And of course some insane people advocate for adding undefined behavior to Rust in the name of optimizations. Gross.
Handy, didn't know about that, thanks for sharing!

The reason for doing it by location is probably because my directory structure for projects look something like this:

/home/user/projects/organization/project

so github.com/victorb/neat-project would go into /home/user/projects/victor/neat-project

So my solution is tailored to that structure I suppose :)
ehhh kinda. a lot of "kings" were first among equals, and had shaky loyalty from their underlings at best.

the difference between a "fair and just tax levied by the local lord" and "thugs beating you until you cough up the gold, then giving a cut to their mafia boss" is small. feudalism makes a lot more sense if you think about it as loose groups of warlords and mafia dons stabbing each other and leaning on The Church for clout.
Recently I tried to work on two projects that required different git credentials for push/pull. I ended up using basic auth with HTTPS with one repo, and the other on SSH.
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A house from 2020 is different than once from 2000, is different than one from 1980. I used to live in a house that was originally constructed in 1890: it not only had residual disconnected knob-and-tube electrical wiring, but piping for gas lamp lighting. Some homes in the neighbourhood had small doors for milk deliveries and also coal chutes.
In my experience (admittedly from some years ago), you have to be pretty careful about using the terminal when NFS fails, since you can pretty easily lock up your terminal, of which you only have a "fixed" supply. If you're using NFS, chances are good your home directory is on NFS so you need to make sure you don't accidentally stat() something in the current path (which is probably in your home directory). Obviously, starting new terminal sessions once you've locked one up isn't going to happen. But you'll probably waste a couple trying to figure out what's going on. You'll also want to have that mount command written on a piece of paper somewhere (and remember that you have it), since you can't read your notes.txt file in your home directory. You probably can't do a web search, since the browser reads/writes a cache to your home directory. (Maybe lynx or links would work?) Hopefully you didn't add ~/bin or an NFS-mounted /opt or something before the system paths or you'll need to do run everything with the full path. But... a bunch of tool installers like to prepend their directory to your path if you let them fix everything automatically. I have a ~/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/bin early in my path right now, completely didn't realize.
It’s a loss to musicians to have a monopoly like Spotify (who likes to recreate popular songs with their own artists and label) be the gatekeeper to what is good music.

From a service perspective, it’s great. I have the worlds music at my fingertips. From a music perspective it’s horrible. I have one company dictating streaming payments and terms on an entire industry and you’re f&$ked if you don’t play nice. Ask Taylor Swift.
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> RedHat

This is now IBM.

Also donations =/= support contracts from a revenue generation standpoint (mostly looking at Canonical in this case).

Companies like Hashicorp are better compared with other OSS core companies like Confluent, Kong, Sysdig, and Hortonworks (talk about a throwback).
One can stream on bandcamp, through an app or the browser
So you are insinuating something but have no actual evidence. Just another baseless conspiracy theory.
I'd imagine it looks a lot like BUSL: source is available, and fine for use in non-competing ways, but using it to compete against the commercialisation efforts that pay for primary development is not allowed. Basically every successful open source company other than Red Hat at this point has the model in one way or another.
A non peer reviewed white paper by an “independent” author written in first person. And horribly written.

Looking more into it the independent author is this person (Joshua Miller)

“Joshua's research focuses on macroeconomic impacts of universal basic income. He also hosts the ThinkCritical Podcast and runs a blog called InTheAggregate. Joshua is a high school senior in New York.”

https://www.ubicenter.org/about/our-team/

Good for him for being a motivated high schooler. However, posting his essay as some kind of authoritative proof with Alaska as a generalizable example is absurd. There’s not enough data for stratification or identifying confounders. Alaska is not a typical American state in any way.

UBI supporters, especially on that website, look like young academics living in wealthy urban areas in England and the US. That’s nice and all but maybe they should get out of their bubble. They’re just a bunch of stereotypes.
I'd say you're very much in the minority then. Spotify is notorious for its weak recommendation system.
Meanwhile, as someone who sells copies of AGPL software, my customers have told me they wouldn't have even considered paying for a non-free solution. I wouldn't have nearly as far of reach if I restricted how people could use or share the program -- sharing software is the highest recommendation, and leads to new customers.
That starts off with "I'm not a lawyer". So as much as people think they understand it, lawyers have to read the actual text of the entire license and interpret what could happen in a court case. With the vagueness of the license, it isn't unreasonable for lawyers to read it and say "there is risk here. if this goes in front of the wrong judge, we could be in trouble"
> Anyone got a strong, concise argument for or against BSD over Linux for desktop use?

Let me try.

First up, it is extremely possible that OpenBSD is not for you. If you require something that is Linux specific, or you absolutely need Bluetooth or one of the other few things that you don't get with OpenBSD, and you are unable to refactor your life to not need those things anymore, then OpenBSD is a no go.

If that is not a concern, the strongest argument I can make for OpenBSD is that it's an operating system that wants you to trust it. It's written by people who understand system correctness matters above all else (and security just happens to be a nice side effect). Most of the time, this has only small and subtle user facing effects: good documentation, sensible defaults etc. But it really shows when you use it for a long period of time and see how over and over again, a decision made 10 years ago made OpenBSD somehow immune to the burning zero-day crisis of the day.
Totally agree, but it's a bit outside C. The C execution model is essentially built around the idea of a single-thread computer with a flat memory space, with very minor considerations for exceptions hidden in UB throughout the standard. Most of the difficult and expensive consistency stuff is punted outside the language or to other standards like Cilk and UPC, though recent versions have at least recognized that threads and parallel processors exist.
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Power companies on the West Coast might be a great market for this. The downside is that the plane might have to operate in poor weather. Not sure if imaging can make it through the clouds etc.

This might also be great for coastal/fisheries monitoring. Not sure how that would work exactly or who the customer would be.

Definitely coast guards for the third world, who are resource-constrained when it comes to coastal patrols. Again, no idea who the customer contacts would be.

Are you building a backend for telemetry/etc? If not I'd be interested to talk.
Yet another reason companies are fleeing California
Making their plane military-approved would be extremely costly and frankly it probably wouldn't work. There have been a lot of people commenting about the military clearly wanting this and taking over the project, but what makes a plane like this possible is not having the same requirements as military aircraft.

My biggest concern would be weight & power. This plane only works if it stays light and doesn't use a lot of power. If the military wanted this for live video or EO/IR, how would that communicate with ground sensors? KU satcom, UHF? Will it have IFF onboard, will it meet all the no-single-point-of-failure requirements? Everything the military requires will start using up a ton of power and adding a ton of weight. I get people always think these things will be used for evil, but it isn't exactly easy to take something civilian and suddenly ship it off to some USAF squadron.
As mentionned by two other people in the comments, this is spreading false propaganda against AGPL which only serves the interest of internet-based companies that want to benefit from FOSS code without having to share their own creations[1]: "Google wants to be able to incorporate FOSS software into their products and sell it to users without the obligation to release their derivative works."

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html
This is non-sense article, AGPL is a great license to offer your code, specially if you plan to offer some alternative license through paid contracts for the ones that don’t want it.
I imagine their AI model isn't off the ground becuase it hasn't integrated with ads yet. They ruined search and youtube for more ad impressions, and likely have the same strategy with AI.
AGPL-like licenses are explicitly banned at Google and Meta.
Those gestures that have to be memorized allow you to efficiently navigate your phone. I don't want a phone that sacrifices efficiency for ease of use.
If you're actually struggling to use your phone please just turn on assistive access.

https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/welc...
The title is editorialized

> there would be “no more open source companies in Silicon Valley” unless the community rethinks how it protects innovation

This is a sentiment I've heard from VC friends of mine for the past year now after their experience seeing the inability of Confluent, Sysdig, and even Hashicorp fail to successfully monetize their core offerings by undervaluing them.
> I'm actually not even totally clear on what they are even for.

The same way you can pick a point on amap, measure a certain distance away on the map and "automatically" know how far away to locations are in really life - you can pick a number on a side rule, move a certain distance away and it will "automatically" multiply or divide two numbers.

It will have a small amount of error in it, the same way measuring distance on a map will have a small amount of error in it.
No you don't need a browser engine. You just need a basic HTML parser that understands OG meta tags.
“HashiCorp’s technology was critical to the modern cloud”

I would challenge that. Their tech gained a stronghold because it had a liberal OSS license and thus a community formed around it.

Their technology itself isn’t critical, it was just popular to such a degree that it was almost standard in a lot of settings.

Now they’ve upset that community we see they’re not as critical as they think they are - OpenTofu exists and people are shunning Vault and the rest of their offerings.

If I was starting a software business today I simply wouldn’t open source on day one. I might lose some of the crowd that only uses OSS but I’d just have to focus on others for a while.
No, I'm saying that if you want to sell to both operators you should want to satisfy both criteria:

1) easy to say yes to and 2) easy and quick to deliver a win after the yes.

The cowboys would need solutions that work without having to change human processes much (if any). They have a hierarchical command of their subordinates akin to a police department or army, not a normal leadership command; they don't give them much trust or room to think. Getting them to say yes requires something that is pretty brain dead to implement and delivers results quickly.

The subordinates are going to trust the warehouse manager more than the business owner. There are often competing interests between those parties. If you satisfy the above, you can satisfy the owner and the warehouse manager and get a yes and get results. If you don't, you could have a great solution, get a yes from owner and a disastrous time wasting experience with the implementation. If you don't understand the human processes involved, your solution will fail.

The good operators are more likely to be open to trying things that require some change to their operation. Example: putting massive barcodes on pallets for the drones to easily detect nightly for inventory and installing power for drone stations or modifying human processes for efficiency. But good operators get pitched all the time and are more sophisticated so you still need to make it easy to yes and easy to win. If your solution needs a lot of human intervention and takes time to get the win, you can get sucked into that implementation vortex which is hard to scale.