There is no I in TEAM but there is an M and an E

Users didn't want Apple to remove the headphone jack. Since when has apple ever listened to users?

I have had countless conversations with people where the basic idea of "inalienable rights" is a foreign concept. The US is unique in the world about this very thing. Rights are not given by the state, as most countries are. In the US, all rights are assumed, unless otherwise limited. Most other nations, rights are NOT assumed, unless otherwise granted. For example, the first amendment says: "Congress shall make no law..." It does NOT say: "Congress grants the right..." It is a list of things the government CANNOT do, not what things that citizens CAN do. It's a subtle difference due to the fact that the end results can be somewhat similar. But the mechanism is really different and very powerful.

They are following the Google model of releasing everything as BETA so they have to provide no warranty, and push testing on the unwashed masses. Only after it is deemed successful will they remove the "BETA" moniker. Saves them the trouble.

The issue with this mentality is the last mile problem. Communities have monopoly agreements with ISPs (comcast/att/etc) that restrict the ability to get a new ISP to the home. Radio based internet is still a possibility perhaps since it avoids much physical infrastructure. I think another good option is community provided (aka utility) internet service. Comcast/Centurylink caused a law to be passed in Colorado that disallows municipal internet unless a community votes to allow it again. In Colorado alone, it has happened MANY times.

They figured Denver to be the best spot https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

Yeah, okay. Keep telling yourself that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The problem with this mentality is it defeats the entire purpose of decentralization and non-censorship. If you want a fully free and uncensored internet, you will always have to put up with sites/opinions/ideas you don't like. That is part of FULLY free speech. The left and the right both cry foul about censorship when their ideas are being squashed, but are very will to squash others ideas they don't agree with. If you want an open internet, you get 4chan (and worse) in the mix.

https://freenetproject.org/ Those guys are already trying to do it. It is fully decentralized and private. It is very slow, and consumes huge bandwidth, but it works. The real concern here is the lack of choice when it comes to ISPs. They control the last mile, which almost everyone MUST lean on if they want to be on the internet. Break up the monopolies/duopolies and most the problems Mozilla wants to solve evaporates.

Besides the question of vendor lockin (a big problem for sure), AmazonLinux is indeed based on Centos, but differs in a few ways, the biggest being that it is a rolling release distro, as opposed to versioned distro (like centos 6, centos 7, etc). AmazonLinux also has a different package source for YUM/RPM with different package versions than Centos has (partly due to the rolling release, partly due to trying to appease the masses and offer more versions of more things).

I just bought a new desktop from System76, which makes awesome machines fully linux compatible (I'm not a shill, I'm just impressed with them).

What about "Libre University" then?

I have no problem writing non-shitty code in PHP. I keep hearing that exact same line, but it doens't make any sense. If php actively makes you write bad code, I say javascript is worse.

Everybody hates PHP, I get it. I don't. I understand all complaints to PHP, but I have learned to deal with them (I keep a php.net tab open so I can get the paramters in order). I currently maintian a PHP codebase that is just over 1 million lines of code. It is hosted on a cluster of servers that number about 30 (databases, sessions, application, static content, etc). The beautiy of PHP is the tight integration with Apache. When you do Apache right with PHP, you can make a website scale to no end (reverse proxy, load balancing, hot-standby, etc).

A budy of mine used to have this awesome quote: "It's not the language, it's the people". You can write shitty code in any language. You can write elegent code in any language. Shitty devs will write shitty code. It matters not what the language is.

Don't get me started on Node.js. It seems neat on the surface, but I'll be damned if I let my front end devs ever touch server side code. It is a completely different world with massivly differnet mind sets. It is dangerous to think you can unleash people well on both front and back sides of the coin.

Seriously, in the last few months I have increasingly heard about the awesome work the EFF keeps doing. Where would be be today without them? They really could be one of the most important charities/non-profits out there right now. Please do support them in any way you can.

(note, I am not affiliated with the EFF)