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"The problem with quotes on the internet is you never know if they are genuine." -- Benjamin Franklin

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9to5mac.com 12d ago

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

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katamari64.se 19d ago

Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming

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www.youtube.com 1mo ago

But It Happened [video]

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jdx.dev 2mo ago

Going Full Time on Open Source

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www.defined.net 3mo ago

Year of the IPv6 Overlay Network

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caio.ca 3mo ago

The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026

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rakhim.exotext.com 4mo ago

Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful

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www.daemonology.net 10mo ago

Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership

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www.ntietz.com 1y ago

First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges

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blog.cloudflare.com 1y ago

Application Security 2024 Update

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borgo-lang.github.io 2y ago

Borgo is a programming language that compiles to Go

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objective-see.org 2y ago

Apple Gets an 'F' for Slicing Apples

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blog.boot.dev 2y ago

The One Thing I’d Change About Go

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www.theverge.com 2y ago

Verizon is shutting down the videoconferencing app it bought for $400M

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alpinelinux.org 3y ago

Alpine Linux 3.18.0 with musl TCP DNS fallback

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fortune.com 3y ago

OCC says Crypto bank Protego missed requirements for national trust charter

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objective-see.org 3y ago

Mac Malware of 2022

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www.getrevue.co 4y ago

Moiré No More

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openwrt.org 4y ago

OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released

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www.getrevue.co 4y ago

Moiré No More

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annehelen.substack.com 5y ago

The 'Capitalism Is Broken' Economy

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www.techdirt.com 5y ago

Bizarre Reaction to Facebook's Decision to Leave News Business in Australia

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www.inquirer.com 5y ago

Pa GOP senators refused to seat Democrat, removed LtGov Fetterman from presiding

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medium.com 5y ago

Pulumi vs. Terraform – Hypergrowth in the Valley

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forum.palemoon.org 5y ago

Open Usage Commons: A Warning

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kristoff.it 6y ago

The Upcoming Future of Online Meetups

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appleinsider.com 6y ago

End-to-end encryption threatened by new proposed bill

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kristoff.it 6y ago

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Standup

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blog.powerdns.com 6y ago

DoH: Anti-Competitive and Network Neutrality Aspects

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twitter.com 6y ago

Zen project forks Zig, relicenses, and “moves” original license to separate file

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And the really insidious thing about this, is the fundamental asymmetry of effort between creation and deletion. Creating a Wikipedia article can take hours, days, or longer, of effort. Tagging an article as AfD takes a few seconds. The actual deletion (once whatever discussion happens) probably takes even less time.

Not really relevant in this case (that the article talks about), but I don't think that it is so cut and dry as "someone spent time on this so we have to keep it". Consider AI spam, or a company (or government!) paying, or forcing!, people to write articles with whatever focus/leaning/slant they desire. It seems like a hard problem!

Maybe people forget how things were before wikipedia existed? Like many things run primarily by volunteers, it is messy and imperfect. It's arguably still pretty great, and I'm glad it is around.

Fox to buy Roku 1 month ago

Ah. I think I figured it out.

FOX is acquiring Roku in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $160.00 per ROKU share. FOX will pay $96.00 in cash and 0.9693 shares of FOX Class A common stock for each Roku Class A and Class B share outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the merger.

So not a straight $160/share cash, but $96/share cash and some FOX shares. Roku trading below 160 means the fox stock is not considered worth (160-96) by the market.

Fox to buy Roku 1 month ago

I've always wondered.. Why would a stock (roku in this case) trade below the acquisition price (currently showing around 141)? (160 in this case)

Does the market think this sale won't be approved by the current administration for some reason?

Unfortunately a lot of fiction (sci-fi/fantasy) ebooks are effectively kindle exclusive these days (amazon publisher deals exclusivity), due to the near monopoly amazon has… and since they have locked things down even harder lately, it is much more difficult to export purchases to other readers.

My servers/VMs typically run either FreeBSD or Alpine. A Debian here or there where needed (proxmox, VPS that doesn't support Alpine, corp stuff, etc).

I've also got a couple of test systems running Chimera - going to wait until it hits stable before relying on it too much though. Experimenting a bit with AerynOS too.

running all performance-sensitive workloads in The Clown now

I really hope "The Clown" isn't just a typod "The Cloud".

If not, tell us more!

I'm inspired/tempted by this to rename my external "higher grunt offload" machine to "clowntown".

Strongly agree. And not only that, but time has _already_ shown the continued degradation of the github experience even with users ostensibly sticking around trying to "make it better".

  > My version of your post reads differently:  
  > "GitHub only gets better if people who give a shit stick around to make it better"
  > Walking away would be easy.
Yeah, be careful not to gaslight yourself into trying to "tough it out" with bad vendor relationships. Sometimes you do need to know when things aren't good/healthy and it is time to walk away, as sticking around just ends up being needlessly flagellent.

Especially with corporate owned software or SaaS ecosystems!

Sounds like you made the right choice with Heroku back in the day. I feel like this is Github's Heroku moment.