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by jzb 4y ago
I've been saying this for years and years. [1] The FSF / GNU folks are only preaching to the choir and don't really have any positive solutions. They're happy to tell you what not to do, what software not to use (and wha
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by jzb 4y ago
IBM did not create that industry, though they certainly helped it along. Red Hat didn't create the industry single-handed, either. They deserve a lot of credit but Linux succeeded because it was a group effort where there was a chanc
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by jzb 4y ago
What’s amazing to me is that they didn’t just use a phone call or video chat.
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by jzb 4y ago
Have… have they never heard of phones?
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by jzb 4y ago
I never realized how much I'd miss AIM, but here we are.
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by jzb 4y ago
"The alternative is to start your own business." Or, you know, for employees to push back on a policy that's bad for a majority of employees rather than "look at me, I'm a rugged individual who can start my own busi
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by jzb 4y ago
One hopes the Google/Oracle relationship is such that Google would sell Android to any company except Oracle.
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by jzb 4y ago
They have a history of pulling projects that people like, and seem capricious / chaotic about it. How many different chat / messaging platforms has Google put out in the last ten years, for example? Other companies cancel things,
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by jzb 4y ago
I keep seeing things that suggest recruiters are keeping active to look active but not much going on beyond that. That is, people may be getting hit up for things that aren't going to pan out for any of the people they touch - they jus
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by jzb 4y ago
Heh. Fair point. It would, indeed, be an uphill climb. I sometimes wonder, though, if a masterful person could author a book that the intended audience would read and sow seeds of doubt that would lead to questioning belief. (Or perhaps suc
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by jzb 4y ago
It's true in some cases, not in others. I have family members who are religious and it (as far as I can tell) does provide value for them, in a positive way. My MIL, for example, is religious and it seems really positive for her. She a
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by jzb 4y ago
Interesting topic but only skims the surface the tiniest bit, and I'd challenge the idea that this is the first time layoffs have become routine in tech. They seemed routine when I first started in tech in the early 2000s, certainly th
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by jzb 4y ago
The thing that turned me off against Dawkins' book, which I thought I would love, was that it just read as <em>mean</em> to me. It's been ages since I read it so I can't summon specific quotes, but here I was
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by jzb 4y ago
Funny enough, my musical tastes have skewed hard towards instrumental music the past seven years or so. I got back into some instrumental stuff I was into in the 90s (Material, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson) and started discovering new stuff l
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by jzb 4y ago
I logged into Godaddy with Firefox on Fedora yesterday with no issue. Maybe it’s a glitch? If it’s deliberate it’s a very new issue, or at least something I haven’t encountered. Maybe it’s an extension or something?
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by jzb 4y ago
“Ultimately I'm sure I'm going to be sorry I weighed into this” Maybe you wouldn’t be if you didn’t use phrases like “tire fire” at other people’s work? It sounds like Ignition isn’t your cup of tea, which is perfectly fine and fe
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by jzb 4y ago
From Fedora CoreOS docs: “ When an update is complete, the previous OS deployment remains on disk. If an update causes issues, you can use it as a fallback.” IIRC RHEL now has tooling for automatic rebooting into the old version when checks
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by jzb 4y ago
That would be great. It’s also not going to happen without a massive uprising. The people profiting off automation have zero intent of sharing the wealth and every intent of hoarding it.
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by jzb 4y ago
ChatGPT doesn’t just misidentify the guy - it entirely fabricates a crime and attaches it to a suspect. I tried to get ChatGPT to summarize a music video today. (Sugar’s “If I Can’t Change Your Mind”) I expected it might give a bland summar
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by jzb 4y ago
MySQL sold to Sun in 2008, which was then gobbled up by Oracle in 2009. MariaDB is the fork, technically speaking. The distro switch took some time, probably in part because they wanted to wait and see if MariaDB would be suitable / su
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by jzb 4y ago
If you like an artist/band, buy their music as directly from the artist as you can. A lot of artists lose money touring. It’s difficult as hell for the majority of working musicians to make a living. If you appreciate them, buy their m
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by jzb 4y ago
Nope. I have about 1TB of music, FLAC mostly, on a NAS with Plex serving it up. I started seriously curating my digital collection whenever the Creative Nomad media player came out. Haven’t ditched physical media, though - I like to have a
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by jzb 4y ago
Why’s this relevant now?
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by jzb 4y ago
I have lots to gripe about with Twitter these days, but I don’t see anything non-transparent about a corporate release not being signed by a specific person. It is most likely a product of a group, not a specific person. Attaching a name to
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by jzb 4y ago
Isn’t that what the gig economy is basically already?
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by jzb 4y ago
I’ve always taken fired to mean someone was let go individually for cause. Laid off means they’ve lost their job for reasons other than performance or individual actions.
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by jzb 4y ago
Ah, yes. Thank you - sorry for assuming on that one. I tend to get lazy when replying on my phone...
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by jzb 4y ago
Upstart’s CLA was a non-starter. Canonical has quite a history of the behavior you're dinging Red Hat for: Mir, Unity, LXD, Juju/Charms, Launchpad, and I'm sure I'm forgetting several. Also it’s Orwellianly named “Harmon
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by jzb 4y ago
Are there start ups that you’re thinking of this competes with directly?
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by jzb 4y ago
"Any profit-driven company would literally feed its employees into a meat grinder if it were not illegal and it made the stock price or valuation go up." This is uncomfortably true, at least for too many companies. Unfortunately,

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