mholiv
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- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 weeks ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 weeks ago:
No problem. I just thought I had covered that when I said:
That’s some incredible stuff. Now days you can use things like XCP-ng to do the same but VMware was ahead of the pack for a decade.
They started dying when they were squeezed between cloud hyper scalars and the cheaper alternative hypervisors that finally had caught up.
This being said I don’t think even in 2025 proxmox and things like vsphere are comparable. XCP-ng I do think is though. It’s open source and matches features.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 4 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong in 2025. But VMware was able do it in 2003.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 4 weeks ago:
There is a major difference between running a vm on your desktop and orchestrating a fleet of highly available virtual machines. Just one example might be vmotion. You can move a virtual machine from one physical host to another in real time with 0 interruption to services running on that host.
That’s some incredible stuff. Now days you can use things like XCP-ng to do the same but VMware was ahead of the pack for a decade.
They started dying when they were squeezed between cloud hyper scalars and the cheaper alternative hypervisors that finally had caught up.
Then the corpse was bought by Broadcom who is currently trying to milk it before the body completely rots.
- Comment on Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’ 1 month ago:
I don’t think he’s a troll. And he’s not doxing you. I don’t think you know what doxing means.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
I mean if you use the Marxist/Leninist definition of left then obviously not. But I mean left leaning in terms of the societal understanding.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
But the fact that the majority (or perhaps less than half now) of the responses literally prove the point I am trying to make proves my point downvotes or not.
You have to remember the people who would literally unironically make such a post that proves my post are the densest of the dense.
Most sexists, while dense, are less dense than a black hole and would not prove my point for me under my post.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
You are extremely dense.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
Alas I have been show to be wrong! If not for my womanly ways I would have been the wiser!
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
Sooooppp you’re giving me old school internet sexism nostalgia. 😂 That 2008 energy.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
THIS. EXACTY THIS RIGHT HERE. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN.
Me: talks about issue disproportionately affecting women.
Lemmy User: It’s not really about women. Everyone suffers from this.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
100%
It’s really bad and lemmy is really in denial.
Sexism here is much worse than it was on Reddit.
It feels like 2008 Reddit here sexism wise, except instead of Ron Paul libertarians tooting their horns everywhere we have heavy teacher vehicle enthusiasts.
I did hope lemmy having a left leaning culture would help but it does not.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 1 month ago:
Secular person who was formally catholic, so I will come from that perspective, and will for this post assume that the Christian view is correct. (In reality I do t think it is)
Theologians have realized that people, even before Jesus have been good and have shown wisdom. Even those who were way outside of the Jewish tradition. For example, Aristotle showed prudence, wisdom, and ethics that are in accordance with the will of God.
The question at hand is how and why, if they did not know God?
The answer is that they acted in accordance with the natural law as given by god. Even without knowing god via the sacrifice of Jesus, they approached god in the best way they knew how, by doing their best to realize the natural law which was written by god.
More information on this at this link. I would read the section on Aquinas’ natural law theory.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-law-ethics/#Na…
How does this apply to watching content about historic godly figures? The answer is that in so much as the content approaches those divine values through seeking to understand and act in accordance with the natural law it is good and just to watch.
This being said these historic figures did not have the true understanding of god brought through the sacrifice of Jesus so that must be kept in mind. So as long as you understand this and the content does not draw you from god it should be good to go.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 1 month ago:
Yah. Like I said. Lack of prudence with plenty of unpredictability on top.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 1 month ago:
That was more than a day ago though. Trump’s lack of prudence ensures that companies can’t plan ahead. That includes the Taiwan based framework.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
It matters though. Like in Germany telegram is associated with hard right wings groups. Telling someone you use telegram makes them assume that you are a part of hard right ideologies.
It’s a shame as the telegram app is really snappy. You always have to say that you are on telegram but are not right wing. Even the. People can be suspicious.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Text speak mostly came from typing on dumb phone number pads to enter text. Like if you wanted to type “hi” you would have to enter “4-4 pause 4-4-4” As you might expect 5 putting presses with a pause between some of them just to say “hi” got painful. Thus the shortening.
Text messages were always charged per message. But each message was limited to 160 ascii characters or less if you were using other encodings. You could send 1 character or 160 characters but it cost 20 cents (at least where I grew up) either way.
This is all separate from l33t speak which is a whole different thing.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 2 months ago:
Very much so.
They are paying for the service and expect appropriate treatment.
Companies generally frown upon their data being taken. It’s only consumers who use “free” services that really suffer from this. After all, if you’re not paying you are the product.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 months ago:
This is literally better in every way.
This being said, better in every way does not mean good. It’s just hard to be worse than a crypto bro run, literal ad company, who’s browser is a reskin of chrome.
- Comment on Judge rejects Musk's attempt to block OpenAI's for-profit transition 2 months ago:
Probably not. Anthropic is a direct competitor.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 months ago:
I mean if you are already ok with using a browser from a crypto ad company your standards are already set.
People who use Firefox are concerned that Forefox is slowly shifting into what brace is now. Aka an ad company.
- Comment on Prusa Mk4 or Mk4s first layer issues 3 months ago:
It’s true it could be better. They used to be more open source. Like they used to just publish their firmware source as they released it. Now days they hold back the current generation till the next gen is out. They mentioned this was so they could be more competitive with companies that do less R&D and more cloning.
Like even their slicer was just reskinned etc. it’s in peoples rights to reskin an open source slicer but I see why they did it.
Maybe “was” is the better word. Still better than things like Bamboo though.
- Comment on Prusa Mk4 or Mk4s first layer issues 3 months ago:
Interesting that people might think this. Prusa was/is THE open source printer company.
- Comment on Church of England refuses call for gluten-free wafers and non-alcoholic wine 3 months ago:
I imagine you might be thinking of making the sign of the cross. Basicly people touch their heads, their chest of their heart, then the left and right shoulders. All with the tips of two fingers.
- Comment on Church of England refuses call for gluten-free wafers and non-alcoholic wine 3 months ago:
As an ex catholic (now secular) you had me in the first half. I’ve never seen any chest beating though. That seems more of a Protestant thing to do.
- Comment on Proton 2024 Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom | Ends on January 5th 4 months ago:
I think you need to relax a little here. Proton is a literal privacy focused non profit that follows the laws of where they are based. You can’t get much better than that.
Even in an ideal post scarcity would a non profit privacy focused organization that follows the laws of where it’s based is pretty ideal.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 6 months ago:
Probably all of them. Germany is really not ideal for solar in terms of weather, yet they are installed by many people all over the place, even today. With the cheaper prices things will get even better.