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by jzb 4y ago
This is a curious attitude. No, the license doesn’t enforce itself. But usually when someone violates copyright companies tend to complain about it. Often that complaint is accompanied by a lawsuit, but I’ve heard a lot of complaints out of
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by jzb 4y ago
This attitude needs to stop. We have normalized treating people like machines that can just be turned off and on at a whim. Sometimes a layoff is necessary, but we have gotten to a point where it’s just a normalized no foul action that actu
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by jzb 4y ago
Yeah, but that’s not going to prevent someone from feeling lonely on a long-term basis. Especially not somebody who is single, while all their friends are partnered and/or have children.
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by jzb 4y ago
I think it depends a lot on whether they’re upset because they failed to license the software in a way that would prevent behavior they don’t like, or because someone doesn’t seem to be complying with the license in the first place. If you
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by jzb 4y ago
If you read the minio blog, they give very detailed instructions on how to check that they are using the software. It shouldn’t be super difficult to figure out if any of the software being distributed today is post license switch. So what
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by jzb 4y ago
Having a friend does it mean that you have access to that friend all of the time or even most of the time. Adult friendships are usually held by people who have very busy lives with their family and other friends. There are a lot of popular
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by jzb 4y ago
To further elaborate, a big part of running a sustainable business is the leadership. I keep seeing this idea that people need to work harder and you’ve got the Mark Zuckerberg‘s of the world pushing this idea that the Meta employees aren’t
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by jzb 4y ago
Wow. This is the most amazing take I have seen. It is truly boggling to see somebody trying to lay this at the feet of the employees. It’s not that activist billionaire, shareholders are demanding layoffs. It’s the workers fault for wanting
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by jzb 4y ago
That’s a really specific and minor gripe. It doesn’t really reflect the way that I’ve used a desktop for, well, ever. Are there other examples that you have?
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This is what I would call toxic positivity. Maybe with a side of survivor bias. Lots of people don’t get awesome new jobs. They struggle, they fall out of the workforce. People don’t want to “accept” that’s some thing they have trained to d
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by jzb 4y ago
Getting involved locally is a very non-specific guidance. Part of the problem with “local involvement” is that a lot of folks are in very very gerrymandered areas. Either you’re hopelessly outvoted or preaching to the choir when trying to a
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by jzb 4y ago
I'm saying that people deserve a living wage, etc. If that can happen organically without unions, great. Unions / collective bargaining is a path to achieving good wages and working conditions, because employers (public and otherw
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Oh good. The “they should have picked better jobs“ argument. Hopefully, we all agree that we need public employees for these jobs. I have no idea why we think that they are less deserving of good conditions and good pay if we can acknowledg
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by jzb 4y ago
Those are massively different scenarios. Off the top of my head: - Mozilla doesn't derive its revenue directly from users. - Mozilla is/was competing with a corporation with vastly more resources on every level. More engineering r
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I think influencers, sorry, “the enthusiastic” tend to vastly overestimate the value of word of mouth recommendations vs recurring revenue.
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Serious question, if you have to sacrifice personal freedom, what does the great society look like you are willing to sacrifice it for? What freedoms are you willing to give up for what societal benefit? I’m genuinely curious because every
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by jzb 4y ago
It’s “data gravity,” as Dave McCrory put it a long time ago. Make it easy to put your data and workloads on a cloud, the “gravity” makes it hard to escape. The more you have the harder (more expensive) it is to break the pull.
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by jzb 4y ago
If you have an understanding of what leads to mandatory reporting, etc., and you think something you say is going to put you in jeopardy during a therapy session, it's absolutely a red flag. Just what in the Hell do you think you'
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by jzb 4y ago
I don’t think I said anything about possible or impossible. But their revenue is only one part of the equation. If you don’t know the other numbers, it’s not particularly useful to say here’s a big number they must be profitable.
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If I knew you and you said that to me, I would consider that a huge red flag. What is it that you think you were going to say to a therapist that is going to wind up triggering any of the things you just mentioned? Therapists aren’t just ru
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If you have an older Kindle, you can download the older format, I believe. I still have a Kindle DX for this.
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But what’s their debt and running costs?
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by jzb 4y ago
Indeed. Docker should've been plumbing. They could've had a really nice business with developer tools on top of the core bits, but they decided to try to jump straight to enterprise and did a number of things to alienate partners
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You realize that the "sophisticated actors" here are by and large employers, right? Depending on how much and how fast they get their money back, it isn't just those folks who are going to pay the price. It's the people
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Who’s demanding? Pleading might be more appropriate for many businesses.
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Some of the depositors, not all. My employer didn’t conspire about anything. When and how much money is returned is going to make the difference between life and death for some of these companies. And the difference between having a job and
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The government should “rescue” people who have money in a failing bank. Banking should not be an adventure people seem to be conflating the people who invested in SVB and the people and businesses, who had money there, because they have to
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I think it’s really important to distinguish between bailing out the people who invested in the bank, and the people who have deposits at the bank. Those are not the same thing at all we should have a system where people can put their money
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I think it’s fair. They went out of their way to make the license incompatible so it couldn’t be mixed with GPL’ed code. Had they moved sooner to open source, and embraced it instead of trying to create a moat around their stuff, they proba
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by jzb 4y ago
Caldera’s big trick IIRC was its installer. You could play Tetris in the installer while it copied packages onto the hard drive. It was also a better installer for new users than a lot of others. I think the desktop experience was pretty po

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