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On the one hand this makes a lot of sense.

On the other hand I get oogy about humans deferring their passionate feelings in favor of cold machine logic.

I mean, wouldn't be the first time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center

Except networkization was inevitable and I'm sure the smart people in the room saw it coming.

>_>

I can't believe you'd impugn the high moral standards of "gizmoweek dot com".

Not if the software complies, which is in discussion.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Undecided-Age-Laws

I mean, kill everyone else and you can be sure your genes are the only one propagating. Makes sense to me.

However there must have been some opposite instinct that prevented monkeys from just wiping themselves out. I hope so, for our sake.

Let me introduce you to the concept of submarine patents...

> Oleo is a GNU spreadsheet going back absolutely donkey years.

Third line of README:

> As of this writing (February 1999)

Whoah, you weren't kidding!

This story is the typical "got banned, complained on HN, only then did Google see fit to actually help me" however I'm surprised that before this was posted he WAS able to actually talk to someone from Google on the phone.

I legitimately thought that was impossible, so, uh, baby steps?

Yes. Parent comment lacks context for why induced labor and c-sections are supposedly bad.

Being a (very) young script kiddie I was so confused it had nothing to do with the TLD. None of the sites were even hosted on a .net domain! "Wtf?"

Corporate dollars are zero sum, is why. It is in fact a real competition in that space.

I feel seen...

Thought experiment: a language that enforces dependencies to be 2 levels deep or less.

I wonder if dependencies would flatten out with this limitation in mind.

I just rewatched that scene last night on YouTube. Maybe this is the universe telling me to watch the whole movie again...

It's cool to see Noah Wyle getting his due these days (The Pitt).

The social features were GH's early secret sauce that contributed heavily to its stickiness and why it eventually dominated. IMO.

I should have said "will dent whatever profitability." I'm not sure it exists either. From the outside, it would seem crazy that it wouldn't be profitable with all the Enterprise stuff (and it's not like you can throw 10k engineers at whatever GH is doing).

Microsoft: "We're EMBRACING open source!"

Everyone who remembered Microsoft in the 90s: "Uhhhhh... :concerned_face:"

I really like the end-user experience when I stumble on Gitea repos online, too.

I've been thinking about this. If you have any kind of home network with attached storage at all, setting your local Git to just use that seems like a logical step.

And then if you're still paranoid do a daily backup to like Dropbox or something.

They can have the new users pushing out sloppy projects.

The serious users leaving will definitely dent profitability. And GitHub being a social network, could start a death spiral.

Embrace, Extend, Enshittify?

You could argue this is in keeping with consumer trends, unfortunately.

"Endorsing products is the American way to express individuality."

Calvin noticed it 30+ years ago.

I've always wondered how many people know about this. As someone who had to persist on Chromebooks for a bit (before Linux support), it was a godsend for quick fixes.

Oh God, Juno Mail, my first email host. Thanks for unlocking that memory.

The attractiveness of a spreadsheet comes in the display and the charts, etc.

For a serious database doing actual transactions, I'm not sure about the utility.

Biases will always be endemic to any human system.

*has been for 20+ years

Meanwhile editions of Gnome come with Gnome Builder and Flatpak has solved the distribution problem. Things are so much better today on Linux than most people who have used Windows will even remember.

TBH it is a little surprising, because one option available to Google was staying the course and hiding behind their Epic court loss.

"Everyone can still access F-Droid, it just has to live in the Play Store. We're bound by law to support alternative app stores now anyways. Everyone wins!"

Supported Android since the beta m3 SDK in 2008 (ok, I was in high school, but I still downloaded it!) Never considered abandoning it before now.

It's time to leave Android.

Call me naive, but despite the feeling in my gut I was holding out for Google's answer. Reading what it is, this is still going way too far. You essentially need to be a developer in order to sideload, which brings Android down to parity with iOS.

No, being able to sideload (on my phones, AND friends and family as-needed) is a fundamental computing right. This is my personal belief. And this move by Google is a step too far.

The search begins...