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He's taken an okay performing social network, laden it with debt, absolutely obliterated its reputation and value by screwing around with it like a coke-addled toddler (with some kind of fascination for fascist-adjacent politics), and now he's destroying a globally-recognised brand to play out a decades-old fantasy that he should've grown out of the first time it blew up in his face.

All of Canonical's most hilarious (and sad) mistakes came directly from the top. But in fairness, so did the initial insight (the gap in the distro market).

But do they represent the Intel brand?

Did Papyrus represent the Avatar brand?

DID PAPYRUS?!

One factor is that licensing fonts can be extremely expensive. So, make one: pay a higher upfront cost, create something unique to represent your brand, and never pay another cent.

I work in streaming video, specialise on AWS, and have enjoyed using Step Functions for certain (non-video) projects. I am _astonished_ that Step Functions + S3 was even considered as a starting point for defect detection in streaming video. Astonished.

What the article describes is a compiled Go binary that will run on any* Linux system without using any form of libc, dynamically or statically.

So it's not just relevant to musl or musl-based distributions (perhaps especially because musl is almost always linked statically anyway, so the distribution doesn't really matter in that case either).

* albeit with a minimum kernel version

It is very difficult to describe anything Elon has done to Twitter since (and including) buying it as "rational".

WAP (which I hasten to say meant something else in the 90s, probably to its detriment)

The OSI definition hasn't changed. It barely changed what it borrowed from the Debian Free Software Guidelines before that.

("Open Source" itself isn't a trademark, but the OSI bits are, so I removed it to avoid confusion.)

(There's no indication that the legal construction of a trademark is "going the way of the bandaid", or that bandaids are "going the way of the bandaid" for that matter.)

Software Freedom is an ideology. Open Source is a definition.

Take all the answers to your question. Then consider that they're not just the reasons you'll have trouble competing, they're the reasons you won't bother starting.

The return.

That's astonishingly optimistic given the current state of both.

And if one of those boxes fails for any reason, hardware or software, I should be able to replace it 100% extremely quickly. Cattle, not pets.

While I love SQL, there's something deeply twisted in the mind that combines SQL with M4.

It should still not be administered as a pet. In fact, it's even more important when you have a single instance of some importance to make it entirely rebuildable and replaceable.

The whole point of dbt is to bring software engineering principles to the handling of data for analytics. It's still SQL (as are all the modern data warehouses) because nothing else has beaten it.

The productiveness, safety, and beauty (seriously!) of the surprisingly numerous Rust kernel and embedded projects suggests otherwise. That use case took off very quickly in Rust world.

You're projecting your selfish, zero-sum view of the world on other people.

They're not "bitching about" more people being verified, they're "bitching about" the wanton, clueless vandalism of the verification system.

But even they didn't view it as a status symbol. A bunch of weird, ignorant, mostly right-leaning jerks did.

Firing key executives and teams, telling employees to print code for review and then shred it, making employees crunch on a feature they all know is a bad idea, his usual extremely bad personal comms strategy (posting like a child), losing advertisers, mass layoffs, posting cruel misinformation, wall-to-wall press coverage of his idiocy...

in the first week.

That's chaos whatever your benchmark.

No one who understood verification thought it was a status symbol.

Musk doesn't understand the platform he bought, so he promised to change the existing identify verification system – part of a strategy to combat impersonation and misinformation – to a pay-for-play subscription feature.

But Twitter already has a subscription offering! He's just ruining the verification system out of ignorance and spite.

Twitter was already under a cloud while Musk was grandstanding his acquisition stunt. Once he was forced to go through with it, his immediate actions and communication confirmed how much chaos we (users, staff, customers) were in for. Then after one week, awfully mishandled mass layoffs, demands to massively reduce infrastructure costs, etc.

Nothing's changed? Sure it has. Trust and confidence are hard to build, easy to torch.

One week.

So you're saying you don't really know what you're talking about?

So you're saying you followed some real jerks.

Musk is capricious, cruel, and clueless. Whether or not you liked Twitter, it's a culturally significant platform, and Musk has almost certainly destroyed any hope it had of surviving. In barely a week. Hopefully it destroys him, too.

Dell had a way to make money and didn't have a halfwit with zero domain experience in charge.

It almost certainly won't be relevant to you, as a Linux kernel user, for a while anyway. So, it will be a little later.

Lots of reasons:

- everyone has better things to do than compile software they didn't write

- a good distro has probably tested it on a bunch of hardware, and hopefully signed it (or at least the packaging), so you know it was securely acquired and built

- you won't learn much at all about the Linux kernel by compiling it... you may learn a tiny introductory about about it by configuring it, but that's still not very much at all, really (it may seem like a lot when you don't know how to measure what you're learning)

- what you should learn from configuring and compiling a Linux kernel is that you don't ever want to be in a situation where you have to do it again (without a really spectacular reason, or being paid)

- if you're compiling a kernel because your boot partition is small... make it bigger, or don't have one at all. come on.