I'm a little surprised no one has tried to bring Manifest v2 back in a Chromium fork. It's supposedly open source after all. If it's too complicated to do practically, then really what's the point in Chromium being open source at all.
See also: Android and the ever-increasing difficulty, impracticality, and necessity of getting root access.
I dont use GPL if I can avoid it, even if it means I have to pay. My software is all OSS as in OPEN for anyone to use, via BSD or MIT licenses, and none of it will ever be GPL or any of the derivatives that are designed to intentionally make software have 0 monetary value.
I dont prevent GPL software from using my code, but GPL prevents me from using theirs.
GPL isnt about freedom, its about ensuring no one can make money
Thats not actually the point of OSS. And RMS is not god and does not define it
The point of OSS is to not get fucked by the vendor. The point is not getting locked out of your shit because the vendor was taken over by some shitbag company like Broadcom and completely changes the rules and then holds your existing use of it hostage because they can. Or refuses to spend their time dealing with your scenario for your business. Or a thousand other reasons that have 0 to do with paying for it.
GPL nutjobs have this silly fantasy about never paying for it, but they have corrupted the actual meaning for that purpose, not what was intended.
The GPL virus has always been problematic for business, which is why the smart ones use MIT/Apache/BSD software in their products and why ACTUAL OPEN SOURCE advocates dont use GPL for their stuff, its more restrictive than pretty much any source license Ive ever seen.
Open source means the source is available for you to use under clear guidelines that apply to EVERYONE equally
GPL is just a fetish for those who refuse to understand how the real world works. Which is why no one can name a successful company that ONLY uses GPL software. Every one you want to name sells proprietary software to make money while piggy backing on GPL software. I challenge you to name one that doesnt.
Yes, Linus and Linux are successful
If you want Open, GPL ain't it, its restrictive as shit. Microsoft has licenses that arent nearly as restrictive... for a fee. Microsoft will hand you the windows source code - for a fee, under terms that meet the OSS definition but not in a way that let's you sell/steal/copy theft it.
GPL itself isnt evil, its goals are honorable. But 99.9999% of GPL nutjobs only like it cause they can use it without compensation. For them it has nothing to do with 'open' and everything to do with being cheap assholes who dont think people should be compensated for their work. They cant use it themselves, someone else has to make the binaries they goon over, or build system for them.
GPL is almost always used as a weapon.
FUCK YOU
How about the phone companies stop allowing spoofing of numbers you dont own as already required by law?
Its not even a little bit hard, the infrastructure is in place, SOME phone companies block from numbers not registered to the caller already, but plenty claim exceptions because it'll interrupt legit traffic
GOOD.
If you bring your own number and cant prove ownership, fuck off. In the US we already have databases for this that every phone company uses for call routing and number portability between carriers. We KNOW where its anchored, if you arent calling from there, you need to register additionally and this should NOT be done by easy to use APIs that spammed can exploit.
If you legit need to spoof a from number from a different carrier (plenty of legit reasons), it needs to be registered with a 1 month waiting period before allowed and $10/number fee paid before use, monthly.
Watch how quick that shit ends. Call centers can still use different inbound and outbound carriers - but they gotta wait a month and pay for it. That would utterly destroy almost every illegitimate spoof and do basically nothing against legit ones.
And no call center needs large swaths of numbers to fake, so cost us minimal.
DACs are a dime a dozen and you aren't able to tell the difference on between whatever silly expensive headphones you use and my $30 pair with a 3.5mm port and good drivers. DACs were a solved problem more than 20 years ago, support circuitry at this point is also a pretty well solved problem for the most part - you have to go out of your way to fuck up a reference design to make it bad enough for your claim to be true.
A mac neo is certainly producing a quality signal that I'd bet a paycheck on that you can not tell the difference with audio equipment to help you, certainly not with your ears. I'm fairly confident you couldn't tell the difference between your choice digital headphones and my $30 3.5mm set.
And my 3.5mm device works all the time, never goes dead - which is pretty much what is constantly the state of wireless devices. Its absolutely silly to think like we're in 1992 and you're arguing a gravis ultrasound vs sb16 DAC.
A 3.5mm port is cheaper and smaller than any other port your are going to use in its place, including USB-C. If your device is so short on real estate place that it can't afford the space for a 3.5mm port - it better be a foldable phone or something that fits in your pocket cause pretty much every laptop has room to spare something like a 3.5mm port
I can tell by your comment that you own lots of monster cables so you get that warm sound out of your digital signal.
Because if it doesn't, its not a rival, its just another PC clone knock off wannabe.
I don't want a neo for the hardware - I want one so my kid can have OSX and not have to deal with half assed operating systems.
Almost no one buys a macbook because of the hardware. Don't get me wrong, its quality stuff - but its not the most cost effective unless you buy immediately after a good hardware refresh, otherwise its over priced and not worth running any other OS on.
People by Macs for OS X.
Open source does need to embrace AI coding otherwise it will become irrelevant
I think open source does not need to embrace AI coding, it needs to apply extra scrutiny to it otherwise it will become slop.
So Meta == a tobacco company
Even if that happened, absolutely nothing of consequence would happen to the people that actually did it.
No more fines. No more sanctions against organizations.
Criminal charges, multiple years of very punitive jail time - against the people that ACTUALLY did it - from Zuckerberg right on down to the SRE that deployed the changes. Every single one of them made an active decision to be a complete shitbag and they should be treated as such. I don't really care if the SRE was ignorant or just doing his job - if you don't expect people to put effort into it, they won't - AND ALL OF THEM could have spoke up and done something to stop it. But they didn't. It was easiest FOR THEM to just do what their boss said, and screw everyone else
No legal protection of any sort for any of them.
Theres a reason the only people on the planet that speak out against Luigi are CEOs and politicians - not the rest of us who are all basically like 'Yea, that was wrong, murder is never the solution - but he deserved it for being a pile of shit who profited from letting others die with 0 compassion, we aren't really going to punish Luigi'
I guess we can add a whole new category to the Darwin Awards.
They actually do both, they're known to use their Manna-clone system that orders warehouse workers around to "find problems" with the performance of anyone involved in unionizing and fire them as an early line of defense. They've done this with unionization attempts in the US before (at least one of those warehouses did successfully unionize despite that). Shutting down the FC and moving out of town is their nuke-it-from-orbit option when all else has failed.
Penalties are light and unlikely enough in many jurisdictions for employers to consider it a cost of doing business though. See what Amazon's been doing in their warehouses in Quebec and BC for examples. Coincidentally, guess which Canadian provinces have the most videogame dev studios...
The only way out of this is to have a society that lets people who are effectively useless due to automation have food and shelter and healthcare and transportation and entertainment and it all has to be at least pretty nice. No you can't just shove them all into ghettos like we do with Palestine.
The problem is that doesn't feel fair or right. Why does your ass have to get up at 6:00 in the morning and drag your ass into work. It's especially bad because the people who are going to get to stay home and play Xbox get to do that specifically because they are unskilled, stupid and useless.
Maybe a system where everyone gets a share of collective productivity but has to take a turn at work could make those people feel better. So everyone gets their lifetime supply of food/shelter/healthcare/transportation/entertainment in return for their 5-10 years working or whatever the economy actually needs, so there's no shortage of human labor and nobody feels that there's an unfair division of labor either.
Of course the problem with that is another problem contributing to the current situation, there are people who seek maximally unequal shares of wealth for themselves and would fight an egalitarian utopia tooth and nail. Rich and powerful people who can contribute to the 10,000 year old effort of tricking the proles into propping up the aristocracy.
It's not the worst idea ever but it's worse than better options the billionaires want to distract us from with discussion of UBI, like universal basic services and democratic socialism, ideas where they don't retain as much of their wealth and power as they might with UBI.
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