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If I was running a company of any meaningful size, I would hesitate to allow any 3rd party to become the OS of my company.

The OS of my company should be at the very core of my company - highly customized to give me an edge rather than to level the playing field with my competitors.

And that means becoming very good at creating and maintaining the internal IT vision and expertise to make that possible.

And that in turn means that I better have amazing IT capability in my leadership.

The corollary of that is: Without amazing IT leadership, my company is living on borrowed time, eventually to be crushed by dependencies on one or more 3rd parties like Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and their ilk.

So the only way I’d accept strategic 3rd party software into my company, would be, if I have the ability to fully fork it and take it in-house at any time of my choosing, with at most a very manageable and finite remaining financial obligation after the fork.

If Twenty.com has a business model, that can accommodate that, it might be onto something special.

Thanks for the link and wow! A very worthwile read. And this paragraph raised the alarm level even more for me:

> Things could be about to get even worse. Artificial intelligence might help detect duplicated data in research, but it can also be used to generate fake data. It is easy nowadays to produce fabricated photos or videos of events that never happened, and A.I.-generated images might have already started to poison the scientific literature. As A.I. technology develops, it will become significantly harder to distinguish fake from real.

> While not good for people's career prospects, having a single reporter [maybe rotating each year] write once and disseminate to all (AP style) feels more optimal.

I find that having a single source of information too often leads to very sub optimal outcomes.

Agreed. But also understandable? i.e. If you don’t get attention any other way, being surprising isn’t entirely irrational.

The Estonia font looks useful for designing fluorescent lighting, though. :-)

First of all: Thank you for taking considerable time to compose your thoughtful in-depth response.

I honestly didn’t think, that my first point had ignored anything in your first post about trust, but I see now that I misinterpreted your intent in that post. And so I happily concede that I inadvertently “ghosted” that intent (I’m glad you appreciated the weird sense of enjoyment I had in appropriating that term into an uncommon context - and that you ran with it in your response!).

Your point about mentioning the less charitable route in my thoughts is valid, yet in my defence, I typed up that post articulating why I had deleted the other post. So I shared what were originally intended to remain private thoughts, not to attack, but to explain the post deletion. In my mind, deleting that post had been the more charitable thing to do. But when you took it upon yourself to resurrect it in some way, I thought it would be more charitable to explain the deletion very honestly - including my up to then private thoughts - rather than to stay silent and making the ghosting permanent.

Sharing those previously private thoughts was intended as an act of charity, much in the sense that spouses or friends explain to each other why they were angry, rather than keeping it to themselves. And since this forum doesn’t have private chatting, our exchange is now ingestible by all of those present and future ML/AI bots for better and worse :-)

Human (and pretty much any) communication is indeed a long and deep topic that much smarter minds than mine have not “solved”. Suffice it to say, that it’s a miracle that it ever works at all.

And in this specific case - somewhat counterintuitively - our disagreement also unearthed underlying common ground in carrying the conversation into philosophical meta-topics far removed from the original RH/IBM and Oracle.

On the old Slashdot we probably would have been buried in off-topic ratings. Here on HN (for unrelated reasons) we’re buried under a long flagged and dead post. Douglas Adams would have been able to spin that fact into an entire chapter, if not into a full book!

Thanks again for your investment of time and emotional energy. I appreciate that very much and also look forward to future exchanges! Warmest regards from this anonymous coward!

I deleted my first response, because on further reflection it seemed you were more intent on defending your position, than having a friendly dialog.

In friendly dialog, it's quite common to make agreements equally clear to disagreements.

In addition, ghosting your conversation partner's agreed to points is indistinguishable from ignoring points you simply don't have a good retort to. If you were profusely nodding in agreement while reading parts of my comment, that was unfortunately invisible to me.

In addition, my original post had the phrase "particular appeal for trust", followed by the very relevant sentence "Not mentioning anything about non association would have seemed weirder." You also ghosted that in your response.

So you simply ignored my entire larger implication that it's not worth talking about the trustworthiness of the author of the OP, since there's no tangible evidence one way or the other.

That's why I gave up and deleted my prior post.

I didn’t see a particular appeal for trust in the OP. Not mentioning anything about non association would have seemed weirder.

Sometimes it’s interesting to read or hear from someone with a high trust score.

Other times it’s interesting to read or hear a line of reasoning without - or even negative - trust score.

Only going by trust arguably is one of the fundamental problems with tribalism and echo chambers.

Off-topic, but I have to admit enjoying the liberally mixed metaphors of things leaving and entering barns, bags and buildings.

And the music maker side of me thinks your post has the beginnings of a promising blues lyric. :-)

But arguably, there's also a pretty large world that wants enterprise type of solutions (for some use cases) without being actual enterprises.

Or am I the only one?

Arguably, tribal knowledge and the dependence on it need to be managed as much as anything else.

There used to be a meme about "have your people call my people and ..."[0]

The new one will be "have your AI call my AI and ..."

[0] https://essaywriteronline.co/what-does-have-your-people-call...

additional threads:

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/AlmaLinux/comments/14yyg3i/the_futu...

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/14yyf6y/the_future_o...

>> Sorry, you can no longer watch OTA TV. > And nothing of value was lost.

Except radio spectrum was lost

> What bothers me is the author of this video seems to think the internet can exist without ads.

I thought he said the exact opposite: Without ads, the current Internet ceases to exist and he will likely have to get another job.

> For more than a decade, VC has spoiled people to expect internet to just work for free.

For more than a decade the fed has spoiled VC to expect that money could just be borrowed for nearly free.

As a music maker, I’m very hesitant to upload my songs to a new cloud service until after they’re published.

This doesn’t invalidate this new service, but it might limit its competitiveness compared to self hosted apps.

> User managed or curated indices …

Do you mean self-managed?

Everything else is effectively the influencer scene. Which is increasingly deplorable as well.

Anything with wide enough reach becomes cost-effective for gaming.

So one would have to return to a highly fragmented world to make gaming the system cost prohibitive.

And that would get us to a pre-Internet world. But then again, it’s not entirely unthinkable that we’re headed towards increasing Internet fragmentation if various governments get their way.

In the history of humanity, intellectual property is a relatively recent phenomenon.

A lot of technology and culture was built without such “protection”.

I sometimes wonder how recent history would have played out without copyrights and patents.

> The whole point is to essentially freeload off the money Red Hat is investing instead.

With bug for bug compatibility, that’s indeed an accusation that will linger.

A fork would arguably re-establish moral high ground.

I for one would enjoy a Debian stable alternative in the rpm/dnf eco-system.

I wish Alma, Rocky - or preferably both — would just fork. i.e. create a roughly parallel stable distribution in the approximate style of RHEL.

For my use case, I’d just be interested in the server side stuff, but I don’t know how important desktops are for the RHEL styled distros.

But just in case, I’ve started practicing on Debian 12.

Less public sharing of pictures over the Internet has been possible ever since email with attachments became common.

But it’s definitely less work to make a deal with the social network devil.

Some parents do and others don’t.

Some kids may later resent that. Others won’t.

Maybe because OP is from 2018?

If the blog footer is intended to contain links to identity, I'd make that whole footer dynamic and then I'd just keep a single source for that.

Alternatively, arguably better: Keep a master domain for each identity and update social media accounts for that identity on a page in the master domain.

I’m not sure if it’s true that there’s less amazing written content than music content - I wouldn’t even know how to measure that.

The Spotify, Apple Music, etc model simply does not work for music content creators.[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/gDfNRWsMRsU

… and the article footer being constructed, so that it can become outdated would seem to imply a somewhat limited understanding of technology

> I don't think artificial turnover is the solution.

I didn’t see this being suggested in the parent post.

It’s good for everyone that different individuals have different likes and resulting priorities. Good that you found the one that makes you happier. And with any luck your preferred niche isn’t too overcrowded, so you don’t suffer from those negative side effects.

Business models break, when money is no longer almost free. Interest rates near zero created a historically rather unique environment. That’s now apparently ending.

There’s a fantastic free collection of samples recorded from real Mellotrons, which is worth knowing about for anyone desiring to experiment with creating their own virtual Mellotron.

“Tajiguy mellotron samples” in your favourite search engine, should hopefully get you to the right place.