bilb

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[–] bilb@lem.monster 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't think they're pretending. Open source software is a valuable resource for basically all major tech companies, and a lot of it is driven by major tech companies. Some kind of combination of open source and proprietary software will always be a thing for them. This isn't some major contradiction, they use either model based on the specific needs of the project.

This is why some think "Open Source" is too permissive since they see it as free/cheap labor to be exploited by huge corporations.

I'm not sure that I see it that way, but I can see their point.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think it fits, because it looks like it would feel exactly like Super Mario World.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 35 points 1 year ago (8 children)

No selection pressure after the age at which our adult teeth fail

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 1 year ago

I remember him being pro-union, but that's about it.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 2 points 1 year ago

Almost 30 years and still basically useless.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The last time I tried that getting google play services working was a long, annoying process and did not work. I don't expect google to make any of that easy for us.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you're just a stupid asshole. No need to overthink this.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd stick with Windows in your case. No shame in using what works. I had a laptop with hybrid Nvidia graphics and never could get it working satisfactorily with Linux.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 1 year ago

It becomes a “to each according to his need” scenario where “his need” is being determined by the central committee

This happens at the health insurance company now, and they are profit driven. They need to deny coverage in order to make their investors money.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I honestly don't get the outage over that. I feel like I'm in the minority on that, though. I don't care if linguistic statics are gathered from my public comments. Knock yourself out.

This story is about "private" messages on a free hosted service, and I think their users are just being naive if they think this is beyond the pale. But I get the feeling of violation at least a little.

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