moonshadow
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- Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung 1 day ago:
I’m in the exact opposite position… hoarding bits on the cheap, all I need is ram and psu but ram now costs more than I paid for everything else put together and scavenging sources have dried up completely
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 1 day ago:
Only if you want it to be! This feels like a breakthrough :)
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 1 day ago:
“you find what you look for”
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 1 day ago:
“all a pissing contest gets you is covered in piss”
- Comment on Bread mold 1 day ago:
The nose knows, I’m pretty sure this is what it’s for
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 1 day ago:
“petty sure” is right, try another round of edits if you really can’t find anything better to do. The day I start to care how many internet points I’m getting hopefully there’s a friend nearby to log me off. Need to quit engaging with you before I do work up some “hatred” to turn on someone. Zero beef with the guy I was actually talking to, but you kinda suck
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 days ago:
I guess I’m just a little more pessimistic at this point, don’t actually know the specifics of their financials but assumed github had been operating at a loss the whole time. That’s pretty typical for startup stuff in general and especially so for “free” services, if it seems too good to be true it probably is type thing. I see forgejo’s transparency and ideological commitment to open source as a defense against that type of behaviour cropping up in the future, hence “feature not bug”. Like you said, it’d be trivial to host your private repositories elsewhere or for someone to spin up their own paid instance for commercial use. I’d be a little suspicious of what was keeping the lights on if someone directly replicated github’s model because, well… look how it’s going!
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 days ago:
Pretty sure I was having a normal conversation with someone and you splashed in to call me out for something without a whole lot of thought. There’s no “threat”, none of this is that serious, I wish you peace and introspection
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 days ago:
Someone might spin that up, but it feels unlikely. Github was always kinda subsidized as a power play on MS’s part, and now that it’s well established enough they’re squeezing it for ROI. An instance that doesn’t need your donations still needs resources to perpetuate itself from somewhere, I’d personally rather depend on infrastructure that was transparent about that (whether paid or donation based) than be treated as the product
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 days ago:
My brother in christ that’s the exact line I was referring to, what else in the wide world of reading comprehension do you think I was talking about?
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 2 days ago:
Where’d my other comment go? Editorial censorship takes this from “a really bad idea” to a super fucked up attempt at poisoning this beautiful place with the worship of wealth
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 days ago:
What I have considered, though, is making parts of it open source, and keeping only the “secret sauce” proprietary. The open source parts would be stuff that could be used to build similar software for other niches of the same target industry, whereas the super specific niche stuff and all the regulation compliance stuff (much of which is just for that one niche anyway - other niches have different regulations) would be proprietary.
This seems perfectly reasonable and I wish you the best of luck. Just don’t expect anyone to provide the infrastructure for your proprietary secret sauce for free!
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 days ago:
That was somewhat facetious and self-aggrandizing, “cracking” something isn’t always possible or necessary. If your service was unique/useful enough, I would contribute to reverse engineering enough of that backend to replicate its functionality. More likely I’d just refuse to use it and support open alternatives
Unsolicited advice though, giving stuff away generates a huge amount of goodwill that can be way more useful and rewarding than revenue. Contributors instead of employees, love instead of money, place and purpose instead of points in your bank account. I’m not wealthy by any means, but I’m comfortable enough and haven’t had to buy a laptop since high school
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 days ago:
Forge-ayo
Think hispanic
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 days ago:
I see this as a feature not bug, and tbh kinda resent those who hoard information and try to extract wealth from it. Extremely rude to the giants whose shoulders your work is built on. I’m the person who’s going to crack and redistribute your shit as soon as you publish it, nice to meet you :)
- Comment on What if I told you that refusing to trade your life time for money is a good and respectable choice 3 days ago:
“if you don’t want to work, then that becomes your job”
I genuinely enjoy working to directly better my situation. It’s completely different from being exploited to keep enough points in a bank account to survive
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 6 days ago:
This guy thinks he’s a “customer”
- Comment on Why are non-binary and asexual flags Wario and Waluigi colored, respectively? 6 days ago:
Great question op. Waluigi definitely fucks, makes zero sense
- Comment on GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica 6 days ago:
Zip it, snitch!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I don’t know the science and have never heard those claims, but I do know critters and they sure are friendly. I would say the single easiest critter to pet, right up there with deer. They are absolutely aware that no one wants to eat them and being cute gets em fed
- Comment on 1 week ago:
All it takes to do your own research is some cat food, they very much are lol. They’re smart and adaptable and fun to be around, great lil buddies
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
15 years ago you were naive enough to believe their bullshit and public perception was still important to their success. “Embrace, extend, extinguish” isn’t healthy participation in open source. Think M$ was the one who actually stated things that way, but google was absolutely playing the same game
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 2 weeks ago:
Jesus was a dirty homeless activist with no love for the institutions of his time. Would genuinely fit in better in under any overpass than in any church. Cool dude.
- Comment on hot-wired a fridge mystery component. Nothing happened. What is it? 3 weeks ago:
The only exception I’m aware of to all fridges having a compressor is propane models. There’s a vessel they heat to build pressure in its place, and sometimes an (incredibly inefficient) electric mode where a resistive heater acts on that vessel. They’re very uncommon, pretty much exclusively used off-grid, and in no way specific to the US.