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 You know what promotes innovation? No, "intellectual" "property" laws, and the promise of passive income. Not the pressure of the shareholders to deliver growth forever. Not even the investment of capital. It's quality free time. It's when people have the time to experiment and try things. It's when they have access to tools and resources not being fully used. It's when they are not stressed and can freely explore on their own. And when they can do things that don't bring immediate profit. "Contains political flags" is such a funny game review. I mean, are there non-political flags? Automatic washing machines changed what clothes we wear. Automatic dish washers changed what we eat from and what we cook with. Automatic vacuum cleaners are changing what furniture we have and how we design our floors. Automatic lawnmowers are changing how our front yards look like. Automobiles changed how we build cities and use the outdoors. Just imagine what automatic education can do to our heads. With the recent backdoor drama we have another wave of "corporations should pay independent developers to maintain their shit". No, they should not. Or rather, yes, of course they should, but they should also pay their insurance, vacation, retirement fund and all the other stuff. They should not get a way of hiring developers without actually hiring them and dodging all the obligations that come with employment. They they should definitely not be allowed to gang press hobbyists. The license clearly states: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS"[...] That's not good enough for your super-important corporate project? Well, too bad, maybe you should find a library with a different license, or get your developers to review it and give you the warranties you need. You could even outsource the task to a company that employs people with the right knowledge and experience for that. The way we teach people in the open source development feels wrong to me. We mostly show them how they can assemble toy projects out of ready libraries and frameworks, how to submit bug fixes, and maybe how to package a new library. But nobody ever teaches how to choose the libraries, how to review the code of all dependencies, and decide to reimplement them yourself, how to switch from one framework to another in the same project without breaking it, etc. It's perfectly fine to learn to play an instrument and never give a public performance. It's perfectly fine to learn to draw and never have your work displayed in an art gallery. It's perfectly fine to learn to program and never publish a single open source project. It's not a competition. You know how media companies are getting tax cuts for killing franchises for which they own the copyrights? Those should become public domain automatically. What if software companies could do the same thing for their software? Not planning to maintain and release it anymore? Release it as open source! (Not that they need any more ways to get tax cuts, but if they are getting them anyways, the society at large could at least benefit.)  inhumanism (n.) β discrimination against corporations, recommendation algorithms, chat bots, surveillance devices disguised as home appliances, and repositories of remixed stolen data with delusions of grandeur, that try to capitalize on being treated like persons they pretend to be. In our modern world of mass-produced commodities, stickers are the easiest way of personalizing your things. It initially spread with laptops, probably because those conferences with hundreds of people keeping identical things on their knees looked pretty ridiculous, but it works pretty well with any electronic device or really any appliance. And it's great for the children, to teach them they can shape the world around them and make it theirs, even if it's full of soulless identical things. If you are looking for a nice text-only tutorial on a topic, and all you are getting are useless to you videos, or vice versa, you look for a good video-tutorial, but all you get is some text copy-pasted from a man page, in either case it's not the fault of the people who make those things or the people who prefer something else than you expected. It's your search engine that has failed you, desperately trying to push you towards content that brings most ads. Complain accordingly. 8th Swiss Mechanical Keyboard Enthusiasts Meetup Sunday, 10th of December 2023, 12:00 at ZΓΌrcher Kantonalbank Offices, Neue Hard 7, ZΓΌrich Bring your keyboards and pointing devices! You see, the problem with the climate change is basically a vendor lock-in due to monopoly. We only have one weather provider, and it's to be expected that their offer sucks. We need an open market, then the invisible hand will take care of the rest. It always feels very bad for me to do any kind of help with diversity in conference schedules, because in practical terms it involves tricking people who don't want to do a talk, and who have nothing to gain from doing a talk, to do a talk. I'm not doing them a favor, and I don't feel like it's helping with the overall situation. You see, it's not that only white males are invited to speak. It's that only white males feel like they are gaining anything from it. |
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