Yes exactly this. Even without intentional malice, greed is sufficient to make companies like Meta incredibly neglectful even as they are being used to promote genocide in Myanmar. All the while supporters spout the doublethink that it’s in the name of free speech and access to information, but it’s really about penetrating markets and generating engagement from users at any cost..

It’s too bad Meta did more for stolen bicycles than an actual genocide in Myanmar.

I agree with the sentiment that we could do better than Snap or Flatpak, and Nix is a technical inspiration. But Nix is 20 years old and has minimal adoption, whereas Flatpak has added a small city’s worth of users in the last year through the Steam Deck alone.

I think it’s useful to compare with a category where “good” package managers have already lost: servers. When I look at r/selfhosted almost everyone is using Docker. Developers love using Docker for their own server application development and serving. No one uses tried and true and arguably better technologies like Nix or apt.

Yes, Docker is incredibly bloated. There are issues managing updates that may compromise security. The tooling is overcomplicated and underpowered at the same time.

But it’s also allowed a whole swathe of people to just run something easily without having to RTFM. The package selection dwarfs decades worth of accumulation by Linux distros, especially for newer software.

I wish there was more happening with better package managers (yes, including Nix). But remember, worse is better.

Yes according to the article.

It appears that only the base model 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 chip has a slower SSD. As noted in the MacRumors forums, Aaron Zollo ran the Disk Speed Test app on the 512GB model and the SSD's read/write speeds were similar to all M1 models, but getting these speeds will require spending at least $1,499. This likely means that the 512GB model remains equipped with two 256GB flash storage chips.

Free software is usually understood to mean "free as in speech" and not "free as in beer." Most free software doesn't cost anything, but that doesn't need to be the case. For example, the very first release of BSD cost $400 to acquire. However because of its famously permissive license, once one person paid (usually institutions like universities) they could redistribute it free of cost.

That codebase went on to become the underpinning of the modern network stack and the rest is history!

Sorry you didn't like the video! I wish you had responded to its content instead of ad hominem critiques though.

For those who didn't watch, the point is that democratic societies influence behavior by persuasion. How else should influence happen? Advertising is commercialized persuasion. It sucks, but banning advertising is basically censorship.

Regulating it is totally reasonable though! That covers the example of disallowing advertising illegal services.

I think you are describing censorship. Like democracy, advertising is the least worst option we have.

I like the explanation in this video (3 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cool. This is known as Peano arithmetic.