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Comment "Poor me, I'm under-funded" (Score 0, Flamebait) 31

Let's keep in mind who Elizabeth Barron is: she's the prior Community Manager at GitHub who was best known for DEI initiatives. Before that, she was a Community Manager at Pivotal. Before that, she was the PHP Community Organizer at Engine Yard. Geeknet (of SourceForge and prior Slashdot relation)? You'll never guess! (OK, yes, it's, Community Organizer, er, no, "Development Manager".)

Her only personal github anything is an "about me" blog. She has no repos of "scripts I find useful" or "little cool thing I did". She has no forks for things she's contributed to or features she's working on. Judging by her commits, comments, etc. she's still basically just doing that: it's just her, the marketeer. She doesn't have any code contributions anywhere.

She also appears to be a current, touring professional photographer (though, not frequent) and to have done web development before "the Internet".

She is wearing PHP like a digital marketing meatsuit, and while the project starves for technical direction and purpose, she's manually doing PRs about *checks notes* bunny.net. Seriously.

This is a language which should have died years and years ago but has been kept publicly alive by a bunch of low-tech-skill web developers who likely survive almost solely on inertia and having a corner people with both "Grandma, we told you to stop clicking on the links in your email" energy and entirely too much money.

Comment Insightful use of protest as self-promotion (Score 1) 119

Not jumping ship until a politically fashionable trigger event offers itself is a fine way to profit from a system to which one expediently objects. That's an admirably shrewd career move, not rage against anyones machine.

Bailing out "in protest" when you're making phat bank to go make even phatter bank is great self-promotion with no downside. Seriously capable people don't stay unemployed long. The departing will be easily replaced which reinforces corporate policies they object to. No one loses anything because nothing is sacrificed.

Comment Proprietary tech has its price long after purchase (Score 2) 41

https://www.pcmag.com/news/bos...

"In addition, the SoundTouch app will no longer function after Feb. 18, 2026, though it will still be available for download until then in markets outside of Japan. Users' My Bose accounts will remain active.

As for why itâ(TM)s cutting support now, Bose says technology has evolved since the speakers first launched in 2013 and that itâ(TM)s âoeno longer able to sustain the development and support of the cloud infrastructure that powers this older generation of products.â

This likely isnâ(TM)t welcome news for audiophiles who have spent large sums of money on the SoundTouch rangeâ"particularly as units such as the SoundTouch 30 retailed for north of $1,000. One Reddit user claims heâ(TM)s now sitting on âoe$4,000 worth of bricks" following the move. Meanwhile, others called the ending of support "exploitative,â shared links to a petition calling on Bose to renew support for the SoundTouch range, and asked their fellow users to send emails to Bose's management team."

Comment What crowd control options SHOULD be used? (Score 1) 139

There are few options for low-damage area denial. Which ARE acceptable and why?

A heat ray beats tear "gas" (which is really a cloud or spray of particulates) whose misery lasts after the target quits the area.

Even if you wear a CBRN mask the rest of you often gets smegged and that IME is not pleasant.

A heat ray does not require physical combat with attendant injuries.

 

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