I don’t think it’s blind devotion - most of us would acknowledge the guy can be a bit of a dick sometimes.

But we’re also grateful. Without his silly idea in the 90s, linux wouldn’t exist. Computing today would be massively different - big, commercial, massively expensive unixes like Sco and Solaris dominating the industry. My main hobby for 20 years would be very different. My career for six years wouldn’t exist.

That Linus has stayed an actively contributing member whilst not selling out in any way at all for 34 years is… wow. Could you do it? I’m certain i couldn’t. I have neither the ethical strength nor moral compass to do it. And I’m certain if he dropped out, some of the massive egos that satellite around Linux, or the monetizing businesses would seek to take over and twist it to their needs.

And, y’know, on the matter of technical detail like this. He’s nearly always right. Seriously, look it up. He’s not polite, he’s not diplomatic, but he’s nearly always right. And when he’s not, he’ll admit it. Again, not your normal human.

So yeah, that’s why we respect him and, when he talks, we listen. Even if it’s not something we’re involved with, it’s usually an interesting ride.

That milk forms such a big part of western diets considering where it comes from.

Yeah. Facebook has a long history of supporting open source software, including some key linux kernel development. There’s plenty to be mad at them for, but their track record on this one thing is pretty good.

Sometimes questions like this are tests to see how you’ll react when asked to deliver the impossible.

(I mean, it’s not in this case, but if that’s totally how I’d answer if I’d posted it and was challenged)

Love what these guys are doing.

There’s also a mainboard case, so you don’t need the whole laptoppy thing at all if you don’t want to

https://frame.work/gb/en/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case

Medusa rules apply - just grab a shiny shield.

Spez was a total musk fanboy during the early Twitter changes and said that he used him as an inspiration when changing Reddit’s api, breaking all the decent phone clients. I don’t doubt he’ll do anything to join the big boys club.

Surely it’s up to the advertisers to choose where who they pay money to use?

Centralised social media did, and is, doing extremely well by most metrics.

Such as censorship (everywhere). shadowbanning (X), ownership by an egomaniac slyster (X), blue badges (X), and being ganged up on (reddit). i’m ignoring platforms for addicts such as tiktok, youtube, and instagram.

You seem to be under the misapprehension that these large social media companies are operating for your benefit.

A strange notion to hold.

Guessing this wasn’t in Europe. Consumer protection laws actually do stuff over here. Goods must be fit for purpose, and there’s no fixed limit for how long that is. A refund after two years wouldn’t be unreasonable for a hard drive and likely to succeed.

We tried centralization and doesn’t go well.

Well, no. Centralised social media did, and is, doing extremely well by most metrics.

We can build our ivory towers and feel happy and safe within them, but it doesn’t change the fact that we’re not missed and the above probably like that we’re not there pointing out its flaws.

s/reminder/warning/

It’s not that we “hate them” - it’s that they can entirely overwhelm a low volume site and cause a DDOS.

I ran a few very low visit websites for local interests on a rural. residential line. It wasn’t fast but was cheap and as these sites made no money it was good enough Before AI they’d get the odd badly behaved scraper that ignored robots.txt and specifically the rate limits.

But since? I’ve had to spend a lot of time trying to filter them out upstream. Like, hours and hours. Claudebot was the first - coming from hundreds of AWS IPs and dozens of countries, thousands of times an hour, repeatedly trying to download the same urls - some that didn’t exist. Since then it’s happened a lot. Some of these tools are just so ridiculously stupid, far more so than a dumb script that cycles through a list. But because it’s AI and they’re desperate to satisfy the “need for it”, they’re quite happy to spend millions on AWS costs for negligable gain and screw up other people.

Eventually I gave up and redesigned the sites to be static and they’re now on cloudflare pages. Arguably better, but a chunk of my life I’d rather not have lost.

Atlassian is shit for forcing us into the expensive cloud for a shit product.

I feel your pain. Or rather, I felt it once and am now freed!

We were big into Atalassian when they announced they were going cloud only. We had on-prem versions of Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket

We pretty quickly said “Fuck that”, mostly because we have an on-prem policy for IP protection.

I was pretty happy to spend some time searching for replacements, mostly because it was my job to apply upgrades to these steaming, tottering piles of badly written java horseshit. They looked pretty, but the upgrade process was convoluted and quite often failed terminally. I still think that the difficulty of upgrading the hosted versions was a driver towards cloud only, mostly because it exposed how shite the things were and how many complaints they must have got for offering an on-prem product that was so hard to maintain, despite looking pretty.

I take some pleasure that the Atlassian share price is now half what it was before they did this.

(If anyone was interested; Confluence and Jira were replaced by Youtrack. Bitbucket by Teamcity. Both by Jetbrains, both much easier to upgrade (Teamcity is web-based one-click), and our licencing costs are about half what we paid to Atlassian)

And that despite charging for it, they fill many versions of it with adverts, install without asking bloatware and crap paid for by other companies to shove down your throat, and also sells your personal information to (checks) at least 801 third parties.

You’re absolutely right.

As a European, gotta say I trust China’s intentions more than the US’ right now.

Not such a lad for learning from history, is he?

Oh look, a speedbump.

I’m beginning to think this term is more about Vance more than Trump. At least, that’s the plan by those behind Trump.

Let Trump go mad and do everything evil at a hundred miles an hour, which is what’s underway. Create utter chaos and make it impossible for anyone to draw breath and structure a defence. Then when the country finally pushes back (Maybe after about year) and he’s impeached, slip in JD Vance as a more moderate leader and everyone will be so grateful the Republicans secure several terms by turning against and blaming everything on Trump.

I could be wrong. Anyone making predictions in this chaos is guessing.