Whilst this is nice. I’ve had a color ebook reader for maybe four years. It’s not a new technology.

Anything is better than nothing. This is true. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t wasting your time on something that does the bare minimum.

How?

Duolingo keeps doing mass layoffs, so the bird is overworked. You can help him out by switching to a language learning app that actually helps you learn a language instead of endlessly throwing flash cards at you without teaching you anything! Win win.

This is a good example of how most of the performance improvements during a rewrite into a new language come from the learnings and new codebase, over the languages strengths.

Lol, no, it isn’t. Anyone can set up an apt repository and ask you to use it. Many providers do… You might mean the walled garden of an official singular apt repository is safe.

🤷‍♀️ the snap works absolutely fine with no issues, the flatpak doesn’t exist and the apt is two years out of date.

I’m not on the outrage boat myself tho

I sometimes use a snap

They only have to comply while the device is within the EEA

I don’t want to be a “where’s your source” person. But is this something you actually know to be true, or are you assuming? From what inunderstand a lot of this is vaguely defined

Yes, this is the

do the things the way I like because I can think of three reasons it’s technically superior but not practically useful to do so" people.

Camp I was talking about. You’ve your reasons, you’ll bikeshed about it for months and no one gets anywhere and no one is happy aside from the people that enjoy the arguments

Irc was never searchable, but that was never an issue before.

Clean git histories are fun for the people who care, but they are also mostly useless.

I’ve been around a lot of arguments about the commit standards in teams and it’s always boiled down to the “I don’t care, but I don’t want to spend time doing anything special” people vs the “do the things the way I like because I can think of three reasons it’s technically superior but not practically useful to do so” people.

Bikeshedding at its finest

The answer that the status service websites will tell you: we automatically detect outages by performing http requests and checking responses for errors

the actual answer: some overworked developer gets woken up at 3am via pagerduty and manually set the status website to an outage state

No. But not because of AI. There’s currently hundreds of thousands of out of work people surrounding tech. You’re competing with them for every job.

Even then, most of engineering isn’t in the nuts and bolts of putting it together. It’s in the endless discussions and decisions that lead to the nuts and bolts.

I feel like this is a very modern problem with the community. I’ve been in open source for a long time, I’ve been employed by some of these companies to write open source things.

Most open source stuff was created by someone who was employed to write that open source thing. There are exceptions, of course, but most things came about because of a need, and that need is often related to work. Companies used to be a lot better with allowing open sourcing of components.

Then, there are all the community contributions that come from commercial reasons. If someone working at a company fixes a bug they encounter, that’s someone being paid to write open source software.

I do not understand the reaction people are having to this now. The open source ecosystem was built on this.

At the very least I don’t feel like I need more out of Firefox than it has today. If it all goes to shit, then a free Firefox Ala chromium would do fine.

I’ve been around open source for 20+ years and can tell you right now that it don’t work that way. An issue tracker and a wiki is not a community.

Most older open source communities were built on irl connections and irc, with some mailing lists thrown in. Hell, we even funded conferences just around the software, not to sell a product but just because it’s good for everyone to be talking to each other.

The issue tracker tracks the status of things, the wiki is generally user focused. It’s not where development happens or thinks get built.

I’m making a point, I’m not actually asking you to answer those questions…

what benefits do you get from that painting being blue? what benefits do you get from eating an orange vs an banana? explain yourself.

It’s weird to ask “what the point of open sourcing this product”, do you ask what the point of keeping the source closed is?