Don’t give me that ‘hindsight is 20/20’, it was the first thought I had when I heard about this.
‘How are they going to monetize this?’
Either they sell your data, or they go under and… sell your data.
There was no other option from the inception.
None of this is new, and private companies gobbling up any data they can hasn’t been new since at least 2005.
Gentoo is the best platform for this.
You can decrypt old messages on Matrix, in some cases.
I have my own server, which everyone I know uses, including the WUI.
Fuck central servers.
Sort of harsh approach, but I get it.
Though I did learn the most while having a lot of data and had issues with performance.
Studying Postgres in that job was the absolute best part, I learned so much, and now I can’t find a problem Postgres can’t fix.
There was a running joke in my last office that I was paid to promote Pg because every time MySQL fucked something up, I would bring up how Postgres would solve it. I even did several presentations.
Then we migrated to Postgres and suddenly everything is stable as a rock, even under worse conditions and way more data.
I just love Postgres so much.
Wow, do I have some stories for you.
But in short, there’s a lot of FOSS software that people use every day without knowing about it.
And it gets no funding, because why it should.
Companies making 9+ figures have issues sending even a $1000 to an open project that they depend heavily on.
But Microsoft/Oracle/VMWare/Google licenses? That money just shoots out like from a cannon.
Even if those products are not 100% needed and can be replaced.
Can your Linux do that?
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Yes, of couse it can, all of that and even more!
llvm, clang are packages I give 0 fucks about, but take a significant part of my updates. I never really got around to it, but I will try to make them binary downloads instead of building that shit. Like I understand gcc, but have 0 interest in llvm, and can’t have firefox without it… smh
It’s from a game called Dwarf Fortress - where you play in a simulated world trying to keep your dwarves alive.
They get bored of eating the same food, so with farming and hunting there’s also fishing.
In the past, carps were added with some default settings, which made them overpowered. They would wipe entire squads of Dwarves that would approach any body of water with a carp in them.
(They were nerfed later on.)
The game has a very complex fighting system, so when creatures fight, sometimes they fall down, after a big hit with a hammer, or getting knocked unconscious. If they are not fatally wounded, they will get back up. There’s a lot of actions that happen inside the game, but not always in the ‘correct’ context, as the game is still in development.
And somewhere on the internet, there was a screenshot with combat log showing:
The Carp attacks the Miner but She jumps away! The Carp stands up.
So carps were already a challenge, and then you read they can stand up!? Imagine the terror of an army of strong beasts marching down to your fort from a nearby river.
There were many bugs in the game, if you like rabbitholes, this is a good one.
There’s like 2 people who will get the reference, but fuck it, here it comes.
I will just say:
WHAT THE FUCK are we doing? Alpine has been used in Docker, and Docker is now run everywhere.
WHY are these necessary tools underfunded? They barely even need anything. Why do companies not support them?
Can we start giving at least 0.000001% of net profit to the basic tools used? Can we globally force companies to give the smallest pittance to the open-source projects they make trillions off of?
You want to tell me that Postman/whatever is a replacement for feature tests or Swagger?
Oh hell naw
Like what?
I make backends, very complex, yet curl does it all, headers, files, any data, whatever.
Need to test an API? Swagger will help everyone.
You need reproducible tests? Write feature tests.
Need to do many requests to achieve a business goal? Put it into a script. Shell is sufficient for basic needs, use anything that can be interpreted for anything more complex. Though at that point you should have an app to handle distributed states, which is never a fun time.
Which, funnily enough, I never got into.
Bought the game like 3 weeks before going F2P, yet it never clicked as much as LoL.
Thank god for Dota 2.
LoL is a terrible game, a shallow copy of the original concept.
I will die on this hill.
Yes, Joe!
Do more shit for the next admin to immediately dismantle. At least to keep them busy for a few weeks.
They will burn the plastic, duh
What? No…
My whole life has been a lie
I fully support promoting CSS to be Turing complete if I never have to touch JS for the UI elements ever again.