mikro2nd

"free use of Gmail" but only if you're using Google's email client. If you're using the POP (and, presumably, IMAP) API, you're not going to see any ads, amiright?

The issue, though, is not the code I personally upload to my own public repositories, but the code that someone else uploads to Github by cloning my repository held somewhere else than Github.

Personally I have eschewed any personal use of Github since the MS aquisition and only ever use it where that's mandated by a client (so not my code). If you clone my code from elsewhere into a Github repo, that's just rude and contrary to me every intent and wish.

I think it's time to add a "No GitHub" clause as an optional add-on to the various open-source licenses.

I presume you're referring to KDE Activities. I use Activities all the time, but they're still far too much of a static thing, and way too High Ceremony to create/curate/maintain.

Sounds more like MBAspeak for, "We farm VCs".

Not the original commenter, but I guess they were referring to the fact that closed (indoor) grow environments universally suffer from fungal (and algal) disease problems.

A lovely example of this is the germination rooms/tanks of malting plants where Barley gets germinated over a few days (2-3) before being dried/kilned to make brewing malt: they all have an on-going battle against fungi and algae, much of which battle takes the form of fungicides/algacides, chlorine washes, strong acids, etc. and they never "win" a permanent victory.

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind...

"No" is not confrontational. It's simply an answer to their quesion.

But do you know this? What does it look like if you're losing 10 annoyed visitors for every 1 signup?

Depends where you are (jurisdiction)... in some countries the law requires an open offer.

As a long time customer of Gandi, I've never seen "extra services Heissenberged into [my] cart" when buying domains from them. Would be an instant red-flag, but here we are...

What gives you reason to believe so? (Not that I disagree, just wondering at the thinking behind your rather terse assertion.)

I was under the impression that the messaging apps (WA, Messenger) use end-to-end encryption for the conversations, in which case how does Meta have "access to 70% of all human chat conversations in the last 10 years"?

My own understanding has always been that Facebook cares not one jot about the content of the messages; it's the metadata (i.e. the social network and its patterns of interaction) that's valuable. (Of course that may change, now.)

Agreed that that's the tactic, it still doesn't make it legal.

"funds may be permanently held"

How is this at all legal?

eta: As a non-US person, I honestly find this incomprehensible. If you've taken the customers' money and the goods have been supplied, then the middleman hanging on to that money is called theft in most parts of the world.

OK, now do quadraphonic...

Very true. I'd not thought about the "pre-installation" steps/prep. I take it all back.

I don't know why they wouldn't be able to install it themselves, tbh. The last n times I've installed (various distros) the install process went something like: select keyboard layout, select locale/timzone, go away while it installs, reboot. There was nothing there to do unless you want to get into customising disk partitions or something.

They don't want to emulate Apple. They want to emulate Google. Hence "trash in every corner".

"I don' know... I just do eyes!"

Elon Musk an expert?

I have questions...

On the first point, do any law geeks know whether it would be possible to craft a new CC license along the lines of "CC-BY-NOAI" although, given that companies profit from their LLMs, I'd have thought a NoCommercial CC license ought to cover it, but evidently not, under US law.

How does any of this help me, a non-US person?

Thanks for posting this. When I looked at the linked page, my immediate complaint was, "Just show me a small example!" I don't really have the time or inclination to dig into all those links to see the syntax for code-blocks, comments (for gods' sake!) or expressions, none of which will give me a feel for the language anyway. (My interest is very casual, prompted only by my interest in improving software tooling (languages particularly) and it's a fairly low priority for me in the first place.)

So mcbrit's quick snippet to the rescue! :D

eta: I do wish programming language pages would all just put a small code sample right there on their landing page, at least as a supplement to whatever else they want to say. Mostly it's going to be experienced developers who look, and we don't want/need a lot of fluff; we're reasonably likely to fairly quickly grok most of what's interesting about a language from a well-crafted example, and that's more likely than anything else to prompt us to dig deeper if it tickles something inside us.

Factory-farming dairy. Nothing at all unusual. If you have some bucolic vision of cows peacefully grazing all day, being led to a milking shed twice a day, flies buzzing in the sunshine... disabuse yourself of the illusion. When people say "factory-farming" they mean something far closer to "factory" than "farm". To keep cows at maximum productivity, dairy farmers (others farmers, too, I'm certain!) are squeezing the maximum productivity out of their pastures, and that means working them intensively; constant management = plenty of machinery.

I can't for the life of me imagine how these operations are going to continue to produce at these levels without the fossil-fuel subsidy they depend on completely.

Pastures used for grazing are managed intensively using big machines. (Source: I live next door to a large dairy farm. Pastures irrigated with centre-pivot systems.) Pastures get replanted/supplemental sowing every so often, weeds get sprayed with herbicides, fields get mowed to maintain uniform growth after they've been grazed...

Early systems were driven by water pressure. Modern systems have an electric motor for each pair of wheels.

From the description in the article, I'd be more inclined to describe this tool as a "Browser Scrapbooking Tool". I saw nothing that would allow me to link clips to each other, tag, group into interest areas, keep detailed provenance or extend. I do agree with the article author on the question of API, and additionally would demand a way to script the tool so that it can ping other tools in my chain. So, as it is, I'd not really think of this as a "Tool for Thought", just a fancy scrapbook. So!...

Thanks for a really helpful review. (Seriously!) After reading it I don't need to kick the tyres on this one. That's exactly what a good review should be able to do -- give me enough info to make a decision. We need more like this.

Exactly this! Lie through your teeth if you have to, but leave with everyone smiling. I wouldn't even go with "job/co no longer aligns with my goals/values" because that just opens the door to a conversation you don't really want to have if you've made up your mind you're out of there. Lie. Tell them its a family issue, an education opportunity, you're moving to another town/country,... anything. But don't burn any bridges, no matter how strongly you feel about it.

(I speak from having taken the other route.)

Could also be for IP reasons. There are legal technicalities that I don't pretend to understand: One contract I worked on required the work to be performed in a specific Canton in Switzerland. Once the work laptops had IP on them, the machines were not allowed out of that Canton. Had something to do with international IP law that was never clear to me.

My own[*] contribution in this area: A calendar with 12 months, each of exactly 30 days. Then the days between xmas and New Year (5 days most years, 6 in leap years) are struck off as "intercalary days"... they simply don't exist on the calendar, but just "happen". (I know, I know, people will name/number/label them anyway because some things still have to happen on those days, but conceptually they're non-working, non-accountable days.) Almost everybody takes a time-out during those days anyway (though maybe not so much in middle-eastern countries and a few other places -- I'd love to hear more about how those days work out in those parts of the world).

[*] Not my invention at all really, but that of the Maya people as one of their 3 interlocking calendar systems. Intercalary days were (iirc) counted as particularly ill-omened and unlucky and were faced with fear and trepidation.

What's to stop them? A wallet is just a keypair.

How long would it take, do you suppose, for ~~Disney~~ $ProductionCompany to simply get rid of the voice actor altogether. Now there's another person without work.