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Perhaps next time you should consult with legal before asserting co-authorship on end users’ code. The appended comment was not “edited with VS code” or “sent from VS code”, it was “co-authored by Copilot”. You do understand that there are legal implications to claims of authorship, right?
I would also really like to see answers to these questions. This change explicitly claims that MS co-authored the commit.
What is the use-case where you expect users would be happy that you modify their commit messages with MS marketing? Do you think it would be ok to edit every commit to append “written with VS Code”?
For people suffering from tinnitus, here is a technique that greatly helped me:
1. Place your hands over your ears such that your fingers are on the back of your skull - thumbs should be on your neck and middle fingers at the base of your skull.
2. Tap your middle fingers on the base of your skull repeatedly for ~30 seconds
It apparently doesn’t work for everyone, and it’s not permanent, but for me it greatly reduces the “volume” or stops it entirely.
I have no idea what the explanation is, but it’s free, safe, and you can try it right now.
Hope that helps! Tinnitus sucks.
The timeline of the campaign makes it pretty clear that either:
1) they knew they were insolvent, and wouldn’t be able to continue
or
2) the campaign was used to demonstrate market demand to enable their sale to Fitbit
Edit: also, they sold for $23 million [1], total pledges were for about $13 million, and not everyone got a refund [2]
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/fitbit-bought-pebble-for-23-...
[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-2-time...
I'm not shocked - Pebble showed their true colors years ago when they ran the kickstarter campaign for the Time 2, which they cancelled and sold out to Fitbit. They never cared about their community.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-2-time...
This seems like outright fraud - how can they charge a cleaning fee and then perform no cleaning?
What if all the houses are following the “standard industry practice” of chaining anyone who asks for water? What if refusing to follow this practice means that you can’t obtain funding to build a house?
Also, take a look at the permissions required for the app - why does my dishwasher need access to my search history and location?
That's fair, and I'm not "blaming" meta for anything here. They're well within their rights to EEE ActivityPub, but I think it's naive to complain about people calling it out. This new is only really relevant to people who care about Fediverse content, and I see two potential responses from that group:
1) Yay! That's great that meta is helping popularize Fediverse!
2) It's a trap.
I'm in camp (2) - just trying to show people the trap before they step in it. It doesn't matter anyway, these kind of warnings have never, ever worked. Just let the old man shake his fist at the clouds FFS :) Where else am I supposed to do it? Threads?
It just occurred to me - post your fediverse content via thread and get preferred placement in the "neutral" feed. Boom.
This ^. Gravity isn't a cliche, it's just how the world works.
I'm quite sure they'll think of something. I don't think most people could have predicted that apple using an "ugly" color to represent non-iOS messages would have such a strong effect. But apple knew, and they were right.
Edit:
To be fair - "extinguish" is not entirely accurate..RSS, IRC, etc still exist - they're just ghost towns.
Extinguish comes after extend -- eg, the goal is to make their client the preferred client for fediverse feeds for a large number of people by adding some kind of feature that they can prevent fediverse projects from also adding. Then extinguish.
(Edit) Examples:
- Google and RSS
- Slack and IRC
- Google (chrome) and web standards
- Apple (iMessage) and SMS
I agree that decriminalization in Oregon didn't go well, but it's more complicated that "decriminalization doesn't work". I lived in Portland at the time (and yes, I voted for decriminalization). What I observed:
- The rehab programs were never properly available
- The general culture in Portland made it very difficult for the city to form any coherent response to homelessness. Most people in Portland really want to be "compassionate" to the homeless/drug addicted/mentally ill, so there was strong pushback on any effort to clear homeless encampments (literally to the point that people were advocating for changes in building code that would force commercial buildings to *enable* homeless people to sleep in front of them by building sleeping platforms.)
- This time period overlaps the BLM protests (which were absolutely massive in Portland), with all the "Defund the Police" / "ACAB". Indeed, the majority of Portland has been very anti-police since the late '90s. The police, obviously, didn't like this. From anec-data, it seemed to me that the street cops just stopped even bothering arresting people. (Here's an anecdote - a friend of mine was riding mass transit, with homeless men both behind him and in front of him, who got in to a conflict that resulted in one man brandishing a knife. The police were called and showed up at the next stop, no arrests were made.)
To make the point abundantly clear, the brandishing of knives in public was never decriminalized, but the police absolutely stopped enforcing *any* laws on the homeless.
- Oregon is generally terrible at implementing anything, even well-supported, popular programs fail to achieve even basic milestones of success. There's also a general lack of funding for most everything.
- COVID
- Fenatnyl use rose massively, nationwide, in spite of local drug policy. The negative effects have definitely been more pronounced in far-left cities, but it's disingenuous to assume that decriminalization increased usage.
Many psych meds diminish/block psychedelic effects.
Please post the link when it’s ready - I’m very interested
There are a couple methods - I use Working Copy to manage the git stuff on iOS. Far from perfect, but it works.
I’m actually interested in your product, but the total lack of pricing information or samples without giving you my email is a big turnoff. Dark patterns + AI generated makes me assume that you are far more interested in sales than in your product, and it’s a product for my kid, so.. hard pass.
It’s crazy that it only costs $240k to buy control of tax filing policy and fuck over the entire nation.
This is a valid question -- any response from mods?
You might want to check again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
For works still under copyright, Google scanned and entered the whole work into their searchable database, but only provided "snippet views" of the scanned pages in search results to users.
Question to folks with good workflows: Are you using tools like DSPy to generate prompts? Any other tools/tips about managing prompts?
Very well said.
I loved my pebble and pebble time, but they really lost my trust with the “Pebble Time 2” kickstarter - it really felt like the kickstarter was just a ploy to enable their sale to Fitbit. Now they are hoping for some free dev work so that they can do it again? Pass.
Edit: Want community trust? Give some guarantee (eg open hardware) that you’re not going to just kill the hardware (again) for another big buyout. I would be more excited about new pebble hardware that did NOT involve the original founder/team.
But it seems like this move incentivizes you to not improve the open source server, at least such that the open source server is always inferior to the pro version.
If someone makes a new, more performant, open-source server, and it touches your bottom line then you're strongly motivated to "embrace, extend, extinguish".
The thing is, we've all heard this before, and it always ends up the same. I hope you prove me wrong, but I wouldn't bet on it.
I'm not triggered by crypto/web3 - I think there are a lot of good use-cases. I'm trying to explain to you that the README and website introducing your product/framework/platform (whichever it is, I'm still not sure):
1) Doesn't explain to the target market (developers) why they should use your product
2) Throws up a bunch of red flags to developers who actually bother to read it all, namely that your business model seems to be either/both of selling devleoper support (is that why there aren't any good developer docs?), or locking developers into a token with no published tokenomics or even a contract address (as you noted, the token doesn't exist!). Anyone with any experience in crypto knows that there is risk adopting an ERC20 token, you *need* to address the risk points (eg the potential for rugpull, available liquidity) if you want anyone to take you seriously.
My point is, this is why you are getting no traction from developers. People aren't ignoring your completely free awesome code because of apathy, it's because you're not doing a good job showing them any benefits to using your product. Your marketing needs work.
Also, you should really consider if you actually have a product that fits your market. It sucks to spend a lot of time developing a product that the market doesn't want, but you might be in that position. If so, no amount of marketing will help you.
Ironically, I went to the effort to parse through all your docs because I wanted to help you understand why your Show HN failed, but now I kind of feel like I wasted my time, making it harder for me to care in the same way for the next person in a similar position.
Anyhow, take the critique or not -- I wish you luck either way!