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just when I think maybe I should give emacs another shot@mattly whoa! an emacs crash!
I distinctly remember the last two times this happened to me, once in 2022 and once in 2014
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submitting a talk to the Clojure Conj titled: "Reading from the Clock is I/O and Clojure Programmers are Too Cowardly to Admit It"submitting a talk to the Clojure Conj titled: "Reading from the Clock is I/O and Clojure Programmers are Too Cowardly to Admit It"
the abstract is just "You heard me."
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According to Experian, I have four distinct social security numbers found on the dark web@mattly I blame floating point error
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ublock origin is great and so don't take this the wrong way but I've never understood why it doesn't have a they-live mode where instead of removing the ads altogether they get rendered as greyscale messages like "OBEY" / "CONSUME" / "DO NOT QUESTION A...ublock origin is great and so don't take this the wrong way but I've never understood why it doesn't have a they-live mode where instead of removing the ads altogether they get rendered as greyscale messages like "OBEY" / "CONSUME" / "DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY"
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once again learning the hard way that the only way I can win at emacs is not to play@mattly sure sure; move the goalposts why don't you =D
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once again learning the hard way that the only way I can win at emacs is not to play@mattly that's not true! (the other way is to allow it to dominate your life completely)
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there are several ways in which the free software foundation needs to get their shit together but the one that's on my mind right now is that they aren't talking about the freedom to not use a piece of software, which I think is pretty dang importantthere are several ways in which the free software foundation needs to get their shit together but the one that's on my mind right now is that they aren't talking about the freedom to not use a piece of software, which I think is pretty dang important
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reading "The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus" and I mostly agree with it, except for this tiny aside at the top which turns out to be important@artemis sure so like ... free software is like "what if software could be a liberatory project that could empower users?" and open source is like "what if developing software in the open could allow companies to become more profitable because they're more efficient"
there's also an unspoken "...and what if by using open licenses you can exploit labor better by appropriating the good vibes of the free software movement without actually doing anything to further its aims?" scam that a lot of dumbass politically-naive hackers fell for in the 00s and early 10s, including yours truly
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reading "The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus" and I mostly agree with it, except for this tiny aside at the top which turns out to be importantarguably this part could also apply to free software:
Burnout. Very few FOSS projects are lucky enough to have grown a sustainable and supportive community. Most of the time, it seems to be a never-ending parade of angry demands with very little reward. When the software labour market was growing steadily, burned out maintainers often got replaced by fresh-eyed graduates or coders who relied on the project at work.
I hear a lot of discussion from maintainers dealing with burnout, mostly due to rude, demanding users, but I haven't actually experienced it firsthand despite maintaining several different programs, including one with with tens of thousands of users
I have been thinking a lot about why this happens, and my best theory is that you're a lot more likely to get rude users in OSS than free software because free software users usually benefit directly from your work, while OSS users are usually using it because their boss told them to
it's easy to see why attitudes would be different in that light
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reading "The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus" and I mostly agree with it, except for this tiny aside at the top which turns out to be importantreading "The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus" and I mostly agree with it, except for this tiny aside at the top which turns out to be important
Free/open source has been on my mind lately – more than usual. (FOSS or OSS for short, the distinction matters, a lot, but for the purposes of this post the two are similar enough to lump together.)
often it's fine to lump together free software and open source, but this article talks about the intersection of FOSS and industry, which means it's almost all about open source and hardly about free software at all because The Industry is ... almost entirely unconcerned with free software
the only point raised in the article that actually affects FS is how more coders becoming unemployed means less free time to hack; beyond that it seems that FS will roll on mostly unaffected, because FS (programs that put the end user first) has always been at the margins
The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
Free/open source has been on my mind lately – more than usual. (FOSS or OSS for short, the distinction matters, a lot, but for the purposes of this post the two are similar enough to lump together.
Baldur Bjarnason (www.baldurbjarnason.com)
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if mozilla is really serious about privacy they should hire the ublock origin creator and make him ceoif mozilla is really serious about privacy they should hire the ublock origin creator and make him ceo