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Comment Oh, the hubris (Score 1) 35

You have to forget things.. it's matter of priorities, all things cannot vie for your attention at the same time. Not many people want to have total recall, it causes psychological problems. Like the promise of extended lifespans, a lot of people will admit the are bored and won't know how to use infinite time. They'll kill themselves . See Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein

Comment Re: everything has been bloated for a while (Score 1) 114

Bump.
Just discovered Alpine for use as a virtual machine at my proxmox datacenter... got jabber, iptables, wireguard, bash, installed in no time. Total install, os + application + DNS utils < 300 MB. Wickedly fast ... and I love how slim she looks .... no bloat, all the familiar tools ... I love it

Looks like it will run xfce too for desktop use.. could be the new devuan.

Comment We are gathered here to today .. (Score 1) 49

To venerate the givers of our digital sustenance .. to count the pantheon of the blessed ... like the ArchAngels of technology who surrounded the most holy Steve, and the wretched who jailbreak the sacred trust of those who know best ...

Accidentally published on Easter Sunday? I think not.

You may rise now and bring the good tidings to the vast unwashed Androids.

Comment Re:Wozniak - the real reason for Apple (Score 1) 55

No, you're right.
Complete assholes run the world.

It's not about brains, obviously, it's about aggressively bullying people into doing what you want. It's never been different and it's never been a secret.
Only difference between now and back in the days of Saddam Hussein, is that they used to just blow your head off if you failed to do their bidding, but now even Trump and Musk just fires you and you end up selling your real estate to pay your legal bills. So much more civilized.

Comment Re: We're not getting paid for this (Score 1) 97

Yeah, but I'm gonna say nobody asked Joe to write code for free .. he has his reasons .. example rosegarden midi sequencer .. I do some testing for it, the lead programmer and I go back and forth ... we're musicians .. it's driven by "passion".. for sure no money is involved .

But I think the larger issue , if opensource was somehow administered by an oversight body, how would it not turn into a shitshow like Mozilla, for instance? Or look how systemd was planted into good sw, Debian, and now the most popular Linux distros are embraced, extended, and extinguished by corporate overlords. I can't see that model being able to exist untainted.

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