You would understand a one-time fee for an active, ongoing service? I’m a fucking communist, please don’t make me stan capitalism.

See also: FUTO, and also the Linux Foundation.

This is why I have mixed feelings at best about the common sentiment that corporations use our work all the time and ought to pay for it. Sure, that's like saying the sky is blue - it's such a true observation that it's unchallenging. But the tricky part is achieving that without it becoming a problem of creative control. This is something that proprietary software companies often have much more leverage about, though they misuse the power. When was the last time Microsoft cared about the opinion of a paying customer?

Non-profit orgs are a consistently safer bet, if still something you should probably vet before just taking money.

@geekysteven probably took transporter physics at highschool

[CLIP] Screwed up food | Scrandle 2

Full video:
https://youtu.be/BcmYwO3mZYo

#MonzMont #MonzClips #PHVTuber #ENVTuber #VTuber #PNGTuber #Scrandle #Scran #Food #FoodAndDrink

Achieved:
* early morning ice skating session
* put washing out on line
* planted out sweet corn and "good mother stallard" beans which I'd germinated indoors
* gave them and everything around them All The Water
* replaced mulch
* straightened up, retained consciousness and balance as my head swam for gold, and came back inside for a banana and giant glass of water
* engaged smart home aircon system (muslin curtains hanging in front of open windows)

I think I'm winning. The only problem is, I do have to go to Bin Inn today, and I don't think it's going to get any cooler outside if I wait.....

it's the FlutterBug Halloween special! I've been really into Halloween animatronics this year, so I made a video showing off what I found!

https://youtu.be/WHA4gsWByPM

if anyone feels like calling this number I’m not gonna stop you

#lol #safeway #sign

@icculus for me, the most beautiful thing about software are the moments when by reading code I learn something about the author.

Whether it's a beautifully simple solution to a complex problem, a very wise handling of a hard-to-anticipate edge case, an ugly hack, or a frustrating compromise - it tells a story of a human who cared.

And IMO that's worth more than a mountain of code nobody has looked at.

This attitude is why the internet is full of ads. Doing shit for free doesn’t happen on an empty stomach. I’d rather pay a fair price for software and services I use. I’m not saying anyone’s pricing is fair, just pointing out I don’t agree with this behavior.

@adam @dave Interesting show. First, ad strippers are my favorite kind of stripper.

@james and I once had a back-and-forth on the ethics of ad stripping. One high-impact insight was "don't let the ad stripping modify the file as delivered by the host" and create a TiVo experience vs. zeroads.ai (rehosting on a non-podcaster feed).

The question: is it more ethical to have your robot chop up a file and serve it up to yourself, or stream from host with option of auto-skip ads?

Not to totally harp, of course, but this is why I've drifted to a position of intense skepticism and caution when it comes to for-profit corporate funding.

Plenty of projects think they need that money, when actually they need architectural hygeine. And if you think corpo money is the thing you need to meet those hygeine goals, you're being naive about the strings attached to those finances.

Hunger is not a valid reason to eat rat poison unless you want to die faster.

Honestly not everyone will agree, but personally I can’t see any flaw in using AI to read through your code and point out security flaws. It’s going to happen regardless of whether you initiate it. It’s not like us sys admins are going “well I’m not going to patch the dirtyfrag vulnerability because it was discovered with AI”. I’d say knowing if AI can find a vulnerability in your code, is just a requirement right now.

BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG

@curiousicae
I wanted to do it on the device a long time ago, but it added more than 100 MB just for that feature.
But yes, it might need a disclaimer, even though everything is handled on our side without any data collection.

Some marketplaces are mass-ruined.
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From our magazine: “These plays were speaking to the experiences that we had … and yet it was a universal story that was being told. There were stories that dealt with families, communities, human beings, and all of the dynamics that are rolled into who we are.” https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-historic-black-theater-at-50/

#Houston #Texas #history #GulfCoast #culture #art

Hey! Great post! I realized that you are linking to the wrong Hackers’ Pub in your post, though… Hackers’ Pub seems to be in <hackers.pub>, not in hackerspub[.]org.

@arstechnica
“So…you’re going to regulate them like…you know…actual gambling, right?”
“Why would we do that?”
“The risk.”
“Not following you.”
“It’s dangerous.”
“Not for us it’s not.”
“Huh?”
“We just don’t want the soldiers using it.”
“Because it might help their enemies.”
“Because it screws up the odds for the government officials…sheesh.”

He didn't even get any special training on the transporters, he just likes them and thinks they're cool

Two weeks until Election Day and the closing arguments are something. Ramaswamy exploited his opponent’s childhood trauma in an ad Trump unsurprisingly praised. Big names hit the trail for Democrats. And in a gross display of groveling, Steve Witkoff called Putin a humanitarian hours before Russia bombed Kyiv. Let's unpack it all. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/october-23-weekly-news-roundup