myliltoehurts
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- Comment on Immich x FUTO Q&A 5 days ago:
I have never seen contributors get anything for open source contributions.
In larger, more established projects, they explicitly make you sign an agreement that your contributions are theirs for free (in the form of a github bot that tells you this when you open a PR). Sometimes you get as much as being mentioned in a readme or changelog, but that’s pretty much it.
I’m sure there may be some examples of the opposite, I just… Wouldn’t hold my breath for it in general.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 1 month ago:
I’ve started seeing private health insurance on job adverts as a benefit more and more as well recently… Which feels alarmingly US-like as well.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 1 month ago:
That could be part of the reason, but the NHS has rapidly deteriorated over the course of the last 5ish years. It used to be pretty decent not so long ago, and our taxes didn’t exactly drop. So while most public healthcare systems get strained over time due to the aging population problem, it shouldn’t be this drastic.
The pandemic has surely strained it, but it doesn’t feel like it’s on the path to recovery, more like circling the drain.
The 2 more obvious things (to me) as far as the reasons go: an absolutely malicious government - who would sell us all for meat if they could - with little competition and brexit (courtesy of said government)
- Comment on Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel 1 month ago:
I have already forgotten about the copilot key thing and had to search it as from the article it was being mentioned together with requiring an NPU, so I was worried it was something like the CPUs having to include some copilot license key shit… It’s just the new key on the keyboard if anyone else forgot about it too.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 1 month ago:
Agree that it’s misleading, but to add there is another significant concern given how glassdoor is already “pay to win” from the companies perspective: they could just offer identifying the users as a paid service.
It would be digging their own grave if that starts happening, but that doesn’t seem to be stopping many companies…
- Comment on Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply 2 months ago:
Maybe it’s me but the tone of the article reads to me like “the issue is solar pumps, they’re depleting groundwater reserves” whereas the point seems to be more that pumping groundwater is ungoverned and access to it is now easier than ever, thanks to solar powered pumps.
Unfortunately, doesn’t change that the issue exists.
- Comment on UK law that could ban Apple security updates worldwide is an unprecedented overreach 3 months ago:
If they forced the maintainer of some FOSS software to merge in some code, even if the maintainer isn’t even allowed to speak about it eventually someone would notice (since open source), fork the project and just cherry pick out their crap. Then it’s whack-a-mole of trying to keep people from multiplying it.
Or they could claim the software is illegal and have no way to enforce that either.
So basically as long as said software is useful for more than a handful of people, it’s infeasible to try to enforce it (e.g. see how it goes every time some software gets a cease and desist, they end up even more popular than before)