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by jzb 3y ago
It’s popular compared to 20-30 years ago. I have a number of friends who are poly, one of my siblings was for a few years before meeting a partner who wasn’t. But folks may not mention it to you until you’re at a certain level of friendship
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by jzb 3y ago
I think they’re just called functional?
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by jzb 3y ago
Big mono Corp can obsolete things and forbid anyone from picking it up to maintain. Nobody is preventing a group from picking up the old stuff and maintaining it - it’s just a bunch of people shouting at those doing the work (or paying for
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by jzb 3y ago
“So perhaps the onus should be on the people who decided to do that” They’re doing, you’re complaining. All the X.org software is there for all the detractors to pick up and maintain. That is what happened when the XFree maintainers didn’t
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by jzb 3y ago
Because they wanted to? Why should they have to justify providing free software?
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by jzb 3y ago
When the powers that be decide to block a merger, they have to make the case. There's looking at the proposed merger and being able to say "this is bad and may be antitrust," and then there's actually making the case w
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by jzb 3y ago
"I have to assume" -- you do? Why? The DOJ already signaled it wanted to block this on antitrust grounds almost a year ago. If "regulators" had immediately rejected the deal, there'd be a similar "oh, this will
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by jzb 3y ago
Vulnerable. Not begging, vulnerable. This is prime blaming the victim. People who have an innate drive to make music or art are vulnerable to be exploited, but place the blame where it belongs: on those who would exploit them. Most humans e
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by jzb 3y ago
Nothing says "unmaintained," or inertia, quite still like having a project hosted on Sourceforge. I'm sure there's a few exceptions that are thriving on Sourceforge, but... it's kind of a relic at this point. It&#x2
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by jzb 3y ago
I started using Linux in 1996 and it was years before I met another Linux user, so I didn't run into other peoples' interpretation for quite some time. And missed out initially on the cultural stuff. I've always pronounced th
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by jzb 3y ago
“Just because they left a comment saying the explanation was suspicious, nobody would reasonably infer they feel entitled to an explanation.” Uh-huh
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by jzb 3y ago
You’re not entitled to see the skeletons. The people shutting down their business owe their customers a notice. They don’t owe the world an exposé of their (possible) flaws. A business can fail just because it’s the wrong time or they were
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by jzb 3y ago
What if? I mean, we need better labor laws right now just to be able to form unions (if folks wanted to) and about half the country (or more) thinks things like regulation or unions are Evil Communist Socialism(TM). That is to say, you&#x
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by jzb 3y ago
Will not, possibly. Cannot is inaccurate -- they could, but they choose not to. IIRC Microsoft and AWS do use AGPLv3 code, at least in the form of offering hosted Grafana. Seems to me that if MSFT can make peace with the license, then there
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by jzb 3y ago
I mean, it was time to support the fork from the day it was forked, but now is good too...
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by jzb 3y ago
I have Spectrum and AT&T because I work from home and need redundancy. Spectrum recently pushed my $100-ish a month package up to 2.5 Gbps for the same price I signed up with at 1 Gbps. What's interesting is the arm-twisting I got
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by jzb 3y ago
Many states have laws blocking municipal broadband [1] -- basically regulatory capture in its most blatant. [1] https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
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by jzb 3y ago
99%? Really? I’ve noticed that nano has replaced vi/Vim in a lot of cases. I’m not a nano fan, but I also don’t feel the need to rant about it. It’s a default, it’s easy to change. Big Vim isn’t plotting to keep a monopoly.
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by jzb 3y ago
Vim isn’t for you, and that’s fine. Statements like “all Vim users…” aren’t really a great contribution to the discussion. I’ve used Vim for 20+ years. I like it, you don’t have to. I don’t try to shove it down anyone’s throat - nor do I tr
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by jzb 3y ago
“The vast majority of users were, and are, completely unaffected by the licence changes.” Only true if you believe that the new license is safe to use, and that HC can be trusted to stop with this change. The license they adopted isn’t well
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by jzb 3y ago
If they can't secure loans for it, I suppose it would. Do I think the loss of the ability of extremely successful businessperson to independently launch a business that needs $250m up-front is a huge loss to society? No.
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by jzb 3y ago
"Most of the American super-wealthy got that way by providing value to others." The super-wealthy don't get that way by providing value, they get that way by keeping as much profit from business for themselves and leveraging
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by jzb 3y ago
Fair enough - raise it to anything over $100M then. Absolutely nobody needs more than that, and it's a policy failure that people are able to amass that kind of money - especially when it's often then deployed to help shape public
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by jzb 3y ago
"everyone has access to" If you don't have money to put into an ETF, you don't have access to it. "Just invest your money" is not a helpful response to people who live paycheck to paycheck.
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by jzb 3y ago
“Eating out isn't uncomfortable.” For you. If a person says they don’t like eating out because it’s uncomfortable, you can trust they know whether they are uncomfortable or not. I don’t like loud, busy places. It’s great when I can hav
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by jzb 3y ago
I grew up in a small town in Missouri in the 70s and 80s. I literally had never had any form of Chinese food until I was about 17, and I loved it . So a friend and I would go into "the city" on the regular for a Chinese buffet
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by jzb 3y ago
The funding FAQ gives general guidance of $2500 at the high end and still discusses virtual events. I suspect some of the problem is the process is for very low budget meetups, and virtual things, not six-day real world events.
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by jzb 3y ago
I’ve organized a lot of events, and I’ve been in the position of holding funding for community events. I’ve never put an event in motion with uncertain funding like this, ever. If I can’t do it without funding from a single entity and they
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by jzb 3y ago
I'd want to see a plan, for sure. I would, in the place of the PSF folks, not want to be handed a "this is already in motion, and we are depending on funding so you better say yes."
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by jzb 3y ago
Yeah, just dug that up myself. I still feel that you ask for funding and then plan the event, if the funding is crucial, but clearly the PSF set an expectation that it didn't live up to. Note the same FAQ, though, says this: "Th

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